Merchants: Keep your site updated (Annoyance #1)

Show me some love!

I'm creating a new site for ppc (Cheap Valentines) - it's nothing great and I'm just doing bits here and there.

I started it before Christmas sometime just to get the framework done so after the new year I could start off easily.

Beforehand I added a page about flowers - pretty damn obvious product. Fair enough, I didn't expect any flower merchant to have valentines products up as the market is still focused on Christmas Flowers.

Now it's a week into the new year, Valentines day is just about five weeks away. I move on to doing the chocolate section - again a no-brainer! And how many merchants have Valentines pages ready? Chuff all!

What makes it worse is that three of the big players, still have Christmas promotions and no products squarly focused at Valentines Day:

1) http://www.hotelchocolat.co.uk/ - "Chocolate Christmas & New Year Gifts"
2) http://www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/ - "christmas santa"
3) http://www.chocolatetradingco.com/ - "The Christmas Chocolate Hamper"

I'm just glad that there are some merchants that are forward thinking! I contacted PrezzyBox (tips hat to Zak) before Christmas and they had some creatives ready on Awin. And after I posted on the A4U Forum other merchants have added their offerings:

So here's who you should be promoting:

1) PrezzyBox - (Affiliate Window) - Zak Edwards
2) JustHom (Affiliate Future) - Love Me Briefs - Adam Davies
3) BuyCheapCondoms - Valentines Specials - Jayne Lock, Marketing Manager (Affiliate Future)

Sales are already coming through (slowly however).