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Old January 24th, 2010, 12:01 PM
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Found every one of my exclusive codes on their site, and I see the exclusive codes of many other ABW member on there.
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Old January 24th, 2010, 03:37 PM
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How and where do you finds these codes? How do you know that they are yours?
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Old January 24th, 2010, 03:40 PM
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Yeah, they got like 7 of mine.

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How and where do you finds these codes? How do you know that they are yours?
The codes are usually your site name. For example if your site was mailman.com and you went to that site and they had 10% off with code mailman.
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Old January 24th, 2010, 05:39 PM
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Yep. have mine too. And let me guess, they will claim innocence, they are "user submitted". Yeah right, they are scraping.
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Old January 24th, 2010, 06:03 PM
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Found them listing exclusive coupons and direct to customer coupons for one of my merchants, which is not allowed. Removing them from that program now and reporting to Shareasale for TOS violations.
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Old January 24th, 2010, 06:09 PM
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Correction: They actually are listing the coupons and are *not* an affiliate in that program. Will be contacting them through their site contact info to get them to remove. Will also be looking into this further. Thanks for the heads up!
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Old January 24th, 2010, 06:42 PM
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I don't have a coupon site so maybe I just am missing something, but how do they benefit from using a coupon code with a merchant that they are not an affiliate of?

Not that I don't think that it is wrong, because I do, but what is their reason for doing it?
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Old January 24th, 2010, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by bettylou
I don't have a coupon site so maybe I just am missing something, but how do they benefit from using a coupon code with a merchant that they are not an affiliate of?

Not that I don't think that it is wrong, because I do, but what is their reason for doing it?
Traffic, then they sell advertising based on their traffic, or they get people to sign up for a newsletter, or suggest other merchants where they do have an affiliate program.

Coupons are content.
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Old February 4th, 2010, 03:04 AM
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i don't have time to update all merchant released coupons,

they must have lots of time bothering other coupons, or automate way.
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Old February 4th, 2010, 06:24 AM
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ohcoupon.net
ohcoupon.com
..look like they belong to the same person.
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