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[Announcement] Subreddit Merger / Affiliate Links are now Banned (self.buildapcsalesuk)

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[–]jiana11 3ポイント4ポイント  (27子コメント)

I did lose money from this but honestly it made way more sense before.

If you were offended by affiliate links, you could use one subreddit, if you weren't, you could use either. Now we've got one subreddit where you can't post affiliate links and you know what's going to happen? It's going to be really quiet, because people can't be arsed posting links purely for altruistic reasons.

It's not like we were making a killing, but the few quid you'd get made it worth it to spend 20 minutes getting the best deals and posting it to the subreddit.

Ah well it's over now, no money for anyone, less deals for the users.

[–]GoGoGadgetReddit 1ポイント2ポイント  (16子コメント)

It's not like we were making a killing,

How much money did you make in Affiliate commissions per month?

[–]markrobbo96[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's a good question I think will probably go unanswered :P

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    [–]GoGoGadgetReddit 1ポイント2ポイント  (13子コメント)

    So now you start slinging personal insults because I ask a relevant question?

    The question is entirely relevant here. Are you here posting to save other people money, or are you here for your own personal profit?

    How much money did you make from Affiliate Commissions per month?

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      [–]GoGoGadgetReddit 1ポイント2ポイント  (11子コメント)

      The stay out this side discussion, and STFU with your personal insults.

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        [–]GoGoGadgetReddit 1ポイント2ポイント  (8子コメント)

        And yet more personal insults.

        [–]marcusper 0ポイント1ポイント  (7子コメント)

        My posting motives are irrelevant.

        I save people money and make a small commission off that. Only loser in this situation is Amazon.

        Similar question but x1000 the $$: Do doctors help out patients to earn a profit, or because they care about other's health and well-being?

        [–]GoGoGadgetReddit 1ポイント2ポイント  (6子コメント)

        Your posting motives are, in fact, relevant. Your refusal to answer says everything: you post here solely for your own personal profit. How much profit is that? You refuse to say, other that it is "small". That's BS. You are embarrassed to tell the truth of how much it is, and it most definitely is NOT small.

        You are USING the readers of this subreddit for your own personal profit. We are being USED by you, and until 2 days ago, /r/buildapcsalesuk existed for you as a means to secretly make money off of others.

        You never tell readers that your submitted ebay and Amazon URLs contain embedded Affiliate codes which will create a browser cookie on their computer and then profit YOU with a commission for anything they buy on ebay or Amazon in the next 24 hours afterwards. ANYTHING they purchase, not just the item they clicked on here in /r/buildapcsalesuk, will generate a commission for you. That's not being helpful to others. That's using people.

        It's laughable that you're comparing yourself to a doctor. And you don't care the slightest about anyone here. All you care about is losing a source of hidden income.

        If you really care about others here, you'll post more sales in the future. Will you? ( <- Not a rhetorical question. Answer it!)

        [–]supergauntlet[M] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Stop being an asshole. Only warning.

        [–]markrobbo96[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (9子コメント)

        It isn't that we are personally 'offended' by the affiliate links, purely that we don't think it is healthy for the subreddit.

        Allowing them incentives spammy posting rather than just quality posts and restricts people to certain merchants offering affiliate schemes (most previous contributions were either amazon or ebay)

        [–]jiana11 0ポイント1ポイント  (8子コメント)

        It worked great for years, and yes there'd be a tendency for most of the posts to be Amazon links, but that's better than no posts. If you take away the incentive, you're not going to get more none-affiliate links, you're just going to get no affiliate links and the same amount of none affiliate links (barely any).

        And no, no ones "offended", that's hyperbole. But some people have openly admitted that they'd rather that extra 50p went straight into Amazon's pocket than some redditor who took the time to post the deal. It pissed a lot of people off that we were making money, because they were spiteful pricks tbh.

        Edit: Just to be clear I'm not trying to convince you to allow affiliate links, I know it's not going to happen now. It's just a shame is all.

        [–]markrobbo96[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (7子コメント)

        Well it 'worked' for years as in the sub got posts in it yes, but that isn't to say that it wouldn't have got higher quality content without allowing affiliates, and it wouldn't have been banned for an extended length of time if it wasn't heavily spammed with affiliate marketing.

        As we stated in the OP, we will be implementing approved charity affiliates in future and amazon smile links would be welcome. It is of course preferable that the money goes to good causes if possible compared to just being skimmed off by other affiliates.

        If the only reason to contribute to the sub was based on money, I don't believe that is a good motivation for quality posting here.

        [–]jiana11 -1ポイント0ポイント  (6子コメント)

        So you're saying that now we don't allow affiliate links, people will be more motivated to post good deals?

        You can see straight away that's not the case, there's been one deal submitted since the relaunch, 4500 people over 24 hours... one deal. On Amazon anyway... but just having looked at it, it's not even a good deal, the price dropped last month.

        It's pretty evident no-one can be arsed finding the deals to post them.

        [–]markrobbo96[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

        What I am saying is that I'm sure some people don't need the 'encouragement' of making money to post deals here. If you are too selfish to bother then that is your prerogative.

        [–]jiana11 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

        I'm too selfish to post deals without affiliate links? I've posted plenty

        [–]GoGoGadgetReddit -1ポイント0ポイント  (3子コメント)

        So you're saying that now we don't allow affiliate links, people will be more motivated to post good deals?

        Look at /r/buildapcsales. It has a real community that posts good deals constantly. None of the submitted posts you see there are Affiliate Marketing URLs.

        It's pretty evident no-one can be arsed finding the deals to post them.

        No selfish person interested only in themselves...

        Again I will ask you: How much money did you make in Affiliate commissions per month?

        [–]jiana11 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

        Buildapc sales has about 50 times the amount of traffic the UK subreddit has.

        I've posted deals without affiliate links, most never post one. How many deals have you posted?

        So far for May I made £3.97 from reddit affiliate links and I doubt I'll make any more - does that sound like an incredible amount of money to you?

        [–]GoGoGadgetReddit 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

        £3.97 sounds like such a small amount that you will never miss it going away.

        You should continue posting here in /r/buildapcsalesuk to help others and to keep this subreddit alive and going.

        [–]jiana11 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Are you going to post any deals? No one appears to be posting any