Affiliate Marketing Manager India

Few months ago, I joined ZnetIndia Web Hosting affiliate program. It was mentioned on their website that affiliate will get 10% commission on hosting plan and 10% commission on domain registration. I started promoting them as an affiliate and referred few sales. After few months when I checked the status I found that they had not given commission on few sales. I was wondering that why did that happened. I had spent a few bucks promoting them and referring new business but still then rejected the commission on sale.

I contacted them. There was no dedicated affiliate manager to reply the query. After 5-6 calls and 4-5 emails I got a reply from them: "The commission was declined becaused we had given discount to the customer and therefore our margin is to low and therefore we can't give commission".

What a funny answer. First of all, I was never informed by them but when the time came to give commission, they had raised the question. I had written about how merchants cheat affiliate and this is a live example. You (The Affiliate) spends money and other resources to promote and refer business to them but when the time comes to give commission, they decline by giving such reasons.

If merchants are launching the promotional offers, they do it to increase their business. Affiliate Marketing is a channel through which they get extra promotions and have to pay for the performance only. But by using such type of unethical business practices, they cheat affiliate and save more money for their business.

Affiliate Marketing fraus by merchants is increasing and affiliates must take care of it.

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