Comments on: Trying To Making Sense Of The Nonsensical

By: katie clarke

katie clarke — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:33:54 +0000

Too many codes is a real pain it is hard work to keep on top of all these changes. Thing is they are restricting themselves in the long run.

By: Kieron

Kieron — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:06:32 +0000

Mate I stopped promoting Pixmania codes many moons ago. The problem I found was that they had too may codes, for only ever a short period of time, that didn’t really offer anything special for the consumers. This latest announcement from them just means that you need to bin them. Ridiculous.

By: Chris Frost

Chris Frost — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:34:23 +0000

Agree Dave – it was a tongue in cheek comment!

I also agree with you on SunShine, however what Pixmania have done here, that SunShine haven’t and wont (as they are clued up), is to give with one hand and take with the other hand.

Ray runs a discount themed website amongst others, and he too will be penalised by Pixmania’s new rulings.

It beggers belief TBH.

By: David Fiske

David Fiske — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:47:38 +0000

I understand Ray’s perspective. An incentive isn’t just a freebie – it’s a means to continue promoting that brand (IMO).

I won a holiday care of Sunshine. I’m not going to turn around and stop promoting them. I’ll be thinking of them before I consider other merchants.

Incidentally, no one wants to send me a TV even though my main affiliate focus is consumer electronics.

As for your link ideas (concentrating them all onto one site), I like this idea. I can see the time saving benefits of implementing something like this although it may be more time consuming with deeplinking.

By: Chris Frost

Chris Frost — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:49:15 +0000

A company buys you a TV and you persevere with a programme that is ludicrously silly? Come on Ray, dont let Pixmania “buy” you Next Chrismtas I will buy you a DVD player and hope to see links to my website all over ShopCodes

I continue to push their codes, and will do so. If they continue to get arsey then I will simply make use of better e-retailers that higher conversion, offer better prices to consumers, and allow discount codes sites to use discount codes – Dixons, Comet, Currys to name a few!

By: Raymond Theakston

Raymond Theakston — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:35:10 +0000

Pixmania product codes do not convert for me. The ONLY reason I persevere with adding their many frequently changing product codes is because they sent me a nice tv at Christmas.