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Re: Keeping Larry Amused
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Mon, 31 Jan 2000 04:29:20 GMT
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HMMM curious question...
Maybe one that Todd can answer
Does Lugnet benefit if we link to e-Toys form Lugnet... I am alomost
convinced that the e-Toys server would have a way of knowing that you just
left lugnet to get to their site... Should be all when purchasing something
get to e-Toys from Lugnet??
Dave
"Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
news:3894F9C2.19E9E968@voyager.net...
> FUT .market.shopping as this is a shopping-ish question
>
> J.W.Hummer wrote:
> >
> > http://www.ebates.com
> > Larry,
> > Is this a new on-line store?
>
> No, it's not a store. Rather, it's a way to get rebates.
>
> Many e-commerce websites have so called "affinity programs" where they
> pay a rebate/kickback (1) to the site that gave them the traffic. Most
> of the time, this rebate or spiff goes to the site. For instance, I
> think if you follow the link from here:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=6332-1
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> that says "you may be able to buy this only from eToys"... LUGNET itself
> is the affinity site and eToys pays a rebate direct to Todd. At least I
> THINK that's true, or was.
>
> Now, eBates kind of gets in the middle of that. If you go to their site
> instead of directly where you normally go, and you follow THEIR link to
> the merchant, eBates is getting the merchant's affinity payment. eBates
> gives all (most?) of that directly to you. Further, it's a bit MLM in
> that if you for example named my eBates ID "lar" off when you sign up,
> in addition to your rebate, I get 10% of the rebate YOU get. Further,
> Mark Harrison, who referred ME, gets I think 10% of my 10%. That's it,
> it only goes 2 levels of indirection, but as an incentive to use ME as
> your referral instead of somebody else, I give 1/2 of all the referrals
> I get to LUGNET. That can be a lot of money or not much at all, it
> depends on whether people sign up and whether they remember to use
> eBates.
>
> Now, since eToys isn't giving money to eBates any more, going to it
> through LUGNET is a better deal for LUGNET and no worse a deal for you.
>
> > & another questions. I it any good?
>
> Well, that's a good question. eBates pays me reliably. But it's hard to
> use, it slows things down a lot putting the other site inside their
> frame. Also it's hard to remember to use it. In the recent WB flap, I
> could have gotten close to 70 bucks back on the parts of my orders that
> weren't cancelled, but I just plain forgot to go to eBates first to get
> to the WB site. (I got ALL of my orders except the 4561s, that was over
> 1K worth of stuff)
>
> So as far as viral marketing programs go, I'd say X and paypal work
> better. Those seem to be taking off like mad. Both of those give you a
> direct 10 buck cash payment for everyone you refer. I signed up for
> both, and I rebate 5 of the payment back to YOU if you sign up through
> me. X gives you 20 free and paypal gives you 10 free, so if you go to
> both, sign up via lar@voyager.net you end up 40 richer and I end up 10
> richer. Note, X is a bank and paypal uses your credit card, so if you're
> underage, you may not be able to qualify for either. But then, you
> probably can't shop online at all if you're underage unless you have
> approval from your parents.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> 1 - I do NOT mean this in a pejorative way
> --
> Larry Pieniazek - larryp@novera.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
> http://www.mercator.com. Mercator, the e-business transformation company
> fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet.
>
> Note: this is a family forum!
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| (...) Well I can speculate, although I don't play Todd on TV, even... If you view the page source for the page I refed, the phrase: "You may be able to buy this set online from *eToys*" (where eToys is the hyper link expands to: <UL TYPE=SQUARE> (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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