Comments on: Affiliate Marketing What Are The Benefits To Consumers

By: AffiliateX

AffiliateX — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:09:42 +0000

Hi Steve…

Yes you are right the days of writing a review to simply deceive the consumer and make a sale as an affiliate are coming to an end. With so many more avenues for assistance in retrieving your money you would be foolish now to write such reviews. However there are always those that are very slow in learning this and will pay a heavy price when they are caught.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:21:53 +0000

Dishonest affiliate reviews have been around since day one..
Luckily, for the honest affiliate marketer consumers are now starting to develop a keen eye for dishonest review type sites and can see right passed dishonesty.

In my own opinion, any review site should provide evidence they have actually received or paid for the product they are reviewing…

Personally, I never review products I have had no access too.

By: AffiliateX

AffiliateX — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:24:56 +0000

Hi Raymund

Yes you are right about the dishonest part, to many affiliates just write reveiw after review on products and services that they have never used. This is not something that we encourage or do as any product or service we write about has been used by some one in our team.

By: Raymund

Raymund — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:21:18 +0000

I think affiliate marketing is beneficial to consumers through the product reviews that affiliate marketers wrote. The downside would be affiliate marketers writing dishonest reviews just to sell the products and make money.

By: AffiliateX

AffiliateX — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:51:26 +0000

Hi Bob..

The only time this would have an impact on consumers is when you have some affiliates using misleading information to try and attract a sale.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:51:31 +0000

Interesting thoughts. I haven’t thought about the impact on consumers. I guess it couldn’t hurt them that much. I think it is useful because they will find products related to the article they are reading (for example). It could be harmful for consumer if low quality product are promoted just for commissions.

By: AffiliateX

AffiliateX — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:42:52 +0000

Hi Jason…

I would have to agree with you when it comes to pre-sell pages i really dislike them and have ever since first seeing them. If i want information about a product I expect to go to a page that gives me that information not a hyped up offer or video that then requires me to enter an email address to get further information.

I do disagree with you on one thing Jason and that is that the search engines may have to support consumer welfare, to me this sounds like we are giving up the freedom to view and research what we want and that is what will happen if you give the search engines the power to make decisions for us.

Simply put if you are looking at getting involved with any programs online make sure you do your own due diligence and find out the good the bad and the ugly before you purchase. Also make sure you use a third party payment processor such as Paypal or even Clickbank to process your payments as if there is a problem and I have had many these two companies seem to be able to refund your money.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:38:08 +0000

I guess affiliate marketing do “sometimes” hurt consumers, knowing that most of the digital products these days have money back guarantee, but some publishers are mischievous about these risk-free offerings. The point of having thousands of affiliates competing for a niche (with millions of pre-sell pages) also adds to that problem, in which online seekers will not really benefit from what they’ll be purchasing aside from the negative idea that they’ll come to realize that Internet products are mostly scams. Definitely not good for the industry. Search engines may have to act in replenishing their ranking algorithms to support consumers’ welfare, specifically with relevance and authority of pre-sell pages. That will be harder for us all.

By: AffiliateX

AffiliateX — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:28:46 +0000

Hi Tricia

Yes these are things that can help your consumers especially when you do have a big client base of subscribers. When you talk about helping your consumers with any problems is another area where you can stand out from the crowd with your affiliate marketing.

Many affiliates today will simply take the money and run leaving the consumer to their own devices to deal with the vendor, which is a reason why many affiliates have a bad name and why many people do not like to go through an affiliate link, another reason is that people seem to think that they will be paying more for a product if a affiliate commission has to be paid.

Again Tricia thanks for the comments…

By: Tricia Meyer

Tricia Meyer — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:00:33 +0000

I think that there are two really important ways that affiliate marketing helps consumers that were not brought up. First, affiliates can help negotiate deals for consumers that they would not otherwise be able to get. For example, I can use the volume of my membership and the promise of publicity to get a 10% coupon from a merchant that does not usually give out coupons. In doing so, my visitors are saving 10%. Secondly, I can help the consumer get a resolution to a problem with the merchant. I don’t always step in when one of my visitors complains about a transaction but there have been many times where one of my visitors made a purchase with a merchant on my site and then something went wrong. The visitor tried to resolve it with the merchant but didn’t get anywhere. I was able to use my contacts through my affiliate marketing relationship with that merchant to help my visitor get a resolution.

Very interesting article! I bet if you asked most people not involved in affiliate marketing whether affiliate marketing benefits them, they would assume that it does not.
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