Merchants - Don't Use URL's with "Affiliate In" (Annoyance #2)

One thing that does my tits in is merchants that have landing pages or redirects with "affiliate" in the URL.

Many affiliates spend time hiding the fact that links are of the affiliate variety by using redirects and forcing the text in the status bar - so the last thing we want is to let it be known to all and sundry that we're gonna earn a few quid from your sale.

The one that tipped me over the edge was Curry's. Today I've been looking for a new microwave and popped into Comet and saw a nice Samsung one, it looked quite neat, but being an affiliate I wanted some commission on it so was going to buy online. Comet didn't have it on their site so I started looking around for other suppliers. I went to comparestoreprices.co.uk and found it.

I knew Chris encrypts his links so I looked at the address bar and was horrified to find:




What's wrong with these guys? Can't they just rename the redirect AR.asp ?

So if anyone else knows of merchants that do this, or have actual final landing pages with "Affiliate" in, please let me know?

Also if you know of a better microwave than the Samsung BCE1197B, let me know!