Erm... (EWA)
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I have a cool story about an EWA affiliate
One time I was looking for apartment's on Craigslist and I saw one that looked like a pretty sweet deal (but not so underpriced that it looked to be a scam). I got a reply from a realtor using the e-mail pkilburn@century21apartments.com - but I was out so I only had my telephone. I browsed to the URL, seemed legit (301'd to century21.com) and tried to call the realtor back (got a voicemail, "Hi this is Peter Kilburn with Century 21 Realty...").
E-mail asked for a printed credit report to be brought to the apartment showing, which was that evening. I knew it was a CPA offer and I figured realtors are just scumbags and he was trying to make a few extra bucks, since everything else appeared to check out. Turns out some faggot was tricking people into going to non-existent apartments to make cash on credit report rebills. After more research (and reporting his residential home IP address which was in e-mail headers to his ISP, and reporting his domain to real Century 21 for fraud) I realized he was promoting EWA offers. I e-mailed Ryan Eagle with the affiliate ID and all the other info I had, and he said "thanks for the heads up, I'll govern accordingly".
Ryan Eagle, if you didn't ban this affiliate I don't like you very much.
One time I was looking for apartment's on Craigslist and I saw one that looked like a pretty sweet deal (but not so underpriced that it looked to be a scam). I got a reply from a realtor using the e-mail pkilburn@century21apartments.com - but I was out so I only had my telephone. I browsed to the URL, seemed legit (301'd to century21.com) and tried to call the realtor back (got a voicemail, "Hi this is Peter Kilburn with Century 21 Realty...").
E-mail asked for a printed credit report to be brought to the apartment showing, which was that evening. I knew it was a CPA offer and I figured realtors are just scumbags and he was trying to make a few extra bucks, since everything else appeared to check out. Turns out some faggot was tricking people into going to non-existent apartments to make cash on credit report rebills. After more research (and reporting his residential home IP address which was in e-mail headers to his ISP, and reporting his domain to real Century 21 for fraud) I realized he was promoting EWA offers. I e-mailed Ryan Eagle with the affiliate ID and all the other info I had, and he said "thanks for the heads up, I'll govern accordingly".
Ryan Eagle, if you didn't ban this affiliate I don't like you very much.
You bumped a 10 month dead thread and have the audacity to wear the WIA badge as your avatar?!?!
I think you need to change your avatar to something more appropriate.
Mike, I hear you, but this thread is pretty relevant right now. I think people need to be aware of the risks of running with certain networks.
My bad. I've been resisting posting in all the EWA threads for a while, I think today was the first one since this thread.
The bump was worth it for this little gem... Look at the accuracy on dat genitalia.
Thank you. I believe those are dog penises, if my memory serves me correctly.
Good point. Even if the campaigns aren't the same, the internal marketing department should be fully separated from the affiliates and affiliate managers.
inb4 more people don't read the thread then tell -joe- what 1.2k divided by 4 is.
Some advice I got a while ago from my AM at A4D that I should have heeded sooner, on AMs that help past a certain level with your campaigns:
(Paraphrasing, since I'm quoting from memory)
"If I told you what techniques worked well for my other affs, then I'd be the kind of person that would leak what's working for you when you start doing well"
(Paraphrasing, since I'm quoting from memory)
"If I told you what techniques worked well for my other affs, then I'd be the kind of person that would leak what's working for you when you start doing well"
