Zavvi Not So Savvy – www.zavvi.co.uk
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As affiliates we suffered at christmas when a number of merhants set their commissions on Wii’s to zero percent. See Wii Are Not Amused. Yet when some announced they were reintroducing commission they expected us to be grateful … Fools ..
Now it seems Zavvi (formerly known as Virgin Megatore) are being just as foolish by announcing they will not be paying commissions on Wii Fit & Mario Kart.
The email was received on the 30th April, but the email says it took effect 5 days earlier. Shall I jump in my tardis & travel back in time to remove links? That really isn’t on! And what is that feeble excuse on the last line all about?
They are a merchant I would promote more, but this makes me reluctant.
“zavvi.co.uk regret that from 25th April onwards they will no longer be able to pay commissions on the following products:
– Wii
GTA IV – XBOX 360 & PS3
GTA IV Special Editions – XBOX 360 & PS3
Wii Fit
Wii Consoles
And from 1st of May 2008 any console bundles including any of the aforementioned excluded products.
zavvi.co.uk have been reluctantly forced to take this step due to extremely low availability of these products. “
Haven’t lessons been learned?
Shane Says “yup that line translates as .. we can’t get that many so we aim to make as much profit of those few that we can so we aren’t willing to pay any commission on them.”
Rich Says “Yeah, they are getting less and less chance of being included in a site I’m slowly setting up. I just don’t get the reason why it affects commission. They either mean general availability to customers is low, so they are saying ‘sod off and sell the less requested stuff’ or availability to them is low, but they wouldn’t be paying out commission anyway if they don’t have it to sell.”
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