Comments on: Beware Best Buy affiliates…are you really getting credit for the qualified traffic you drive to BestBuy.com?

By: Four0Seven (@Four0Seven)

Four0Seven (@Four0Seven) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:29:58 +0000

Very interesting read. I just got approved for the affiliate program yesterday, so this will certainly have me more “aware” of what to look for. Thanks for sharing!

By: steven fuchs

steven fuchs — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:32:00 +0000

Sad how Advertisers can complain about being ripped off and yet they so blatently rip us off as affiliates. Best Buy can rot.

By: David Hearne

David Hearne — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:31:40 +0000

Hi,

I have done the exact type of test. A company that I support bought 2 items thru my link to bestbuy. The clicks showed up – the products showed up at their doorstep, but the money (commission) never showed up. I watched the entire transaction. It was all done thru our link and credit card approved etc. I think it is a terrible situation and affiliates should unite with class action suits against these fraudulent practices by companies such as BestBuy. When company like BestBuy blatantly steal and lie in their business associations with affiliates without any consequences – other companies will also take up the same methods to stay competitive. I would love to see and belong to a lawsuit against them (bestbuy) and other companies that cheat (steal) in this fashion.

By: jenna

jenna — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:17:49 +0000

we have been going crazy thinking this was an issue only we were experiencing, as we have had ALL of our sales go uncredited with Best Buy for the past year. we are sickened that major company is out right cheating small businesses. it’s incredibly dishonest, and cj should kill thier program. its blatant theft.

By: allen

allen — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:34:08 +0000

Best Buy clearly has a tracking problem. I exeprienced the same problem. I use their remix API with my CJ PID to generate links. There are tons of traffic to my site. I even tested clicking those links myself. But CJ did not show a single click.

I sent email to bestbuyaffiliates@bestbuy.com. But I never got a reply.

By: kellynford

kellynford — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Oo: Amazon has worked out pretty well for us.

By: Oo Nwoye

Oo Nwoye — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:04:26 +0000

” We switched back to another affiliate and immediately started generating significant revenue-producing sales again”

Thanks for your eye opening post. Could you name the ‘good guys’ so we know who we can use.

Thanks

By: AhSan

AhSan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:04:55 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me at all.

Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking about trying them out on one of my sites.

I started doing my own due diligence after a similar incident with hostgator. They credited me for the sale through PayPal. Apparently it had something to do with JS or cookies not working on the clients browser.

Had I not walked my client step by step through sign-up that would’ve been another cheap click for them. Unlike bestbuy, hostgator was quickly able to resolve the issue.

By: kellynford

kellynford — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:25:41 +0000

Joe and I spoke a couple of times and he seemed to want to genuinely help. Ultimately we didn’t come to any resolution, though. We switched back to another affiliate and immediately started generating significant revenue-producing sales again. So I really don’t know what the issue was with Best Buy.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:22:43 +0000

Hi Kelly,

Interesting read. Did you ever hear of anything coming out of Joe Zwack’s “working to get resolution on the problems”?