Clix Galore - Stats/Reporting

[mabaker]

Hi Craig,
Had definitely noticed your even-handed comments, and it is greatly appreciated, sorry should have specified in the 1st post where I was from - bad manners on my part.


cheers
m

[newbie]

Originally Posted by bcl

Jim, I asked you several days ago to remove this comment - it is quite misleading.

I will not have time to participate in the usual to and fro as we are rolling out a new site that will take weeks to get right. However, please feel free to paste your usual rebuttal in full and I will respond as soon as I am able.

You may remember that we shared concerns about low EPC rates around two years ago but did not know why. I would have to check my inbox for the exact dates but at that time you left CM completely and we decided to stay. On or around October of 2006 I convinced you to rejoin CM but you were on the CM network only a short time after you discovered the cookie ( 1 hour 30 minutes and 32 seconds) time difference thing.

We left CM, you left CM. You left CM before us, twice. I said "As usual, Gayle was about six months ahead of us. =))". I did not say or suggest you left because of adware. You are the only person I know who can take a compliment and turn it into a problem. You will remember that is was you who called me in 2007 (January?) to alert me to new adware affiliate activity in Australia.

Split hairs if you like but saying my statement was misleading was petty in my opinion.

In this news article you said "Certainly we have lost some of our commissions," says Gayle Dallaston, publisher of a Brisbane website developer, BCL, which employs six people to earn "affiliate" commissions by generating traffic and sales for online merchants and news and entertainment portals. "The last 18 months has been a huge learning curve. I'm seeing a lot less of it now because we are watching."

AND

"BCL's Gayle Dallaston says it is convenient for the bigger internet groups to blame rogue affiliates when it is "a small part of the story". Dubious activity is more widespread, she says."

What did you mean by that?

[bcl]

I was bothered by your message because the context suggested that the reason CM & I went our separate ways was because of adware - which wasn't even the topic of the thread until you introduced it.

Given your criticism of me for saying that I think brand-bidding is just as bad for merchants as adware and creams off far more commission, it's a bit much that you should drag me into your argument.

Before you make a heated response, check out the affiliate who is bidding on the url of the site you manage. If you want to discuss it, you know my phone number.