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Post by Mel on Mar 19, 2018 18:44:17 GMT
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Post by mamakoala on Mar 19, 2018 23:40:02 GMT
I am not seeing the sale....
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 20, 2018 0:46:12 GMT
Me either and I checked right after you posted.
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Post by nicolep on Mar 20, 2018 0:47:48 GMT
They almost always have 'up to 40% off' sales but I don't even see that?
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 1:52:07 GMT
Is that your own affiliate link? Just curious.
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Post by mom on Mar 20, 2018 3:00:27 GMT
Is that your own affiliate link? Just curious. yep, it is. SaveSave
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Post by breetheflea on Mar 20, 2018 3:04:23 GMT
If you search for AC, it does say "all American Crafts products on sale." I don't see 40% though. An album that is normally $30 is now $26 etc.
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 20, 2018 3:05:24 GMT
Is that your own affiliate link? Just curious. yep, it is. SaveSaveJust curious how you can tell? And who is the new man? I can’t tell who he is on my iPad.
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 20, 2018 3:23:44 GMT
Just curious how you can tell? And who is the new man? I can’t tell who he is on my iPad. You can always tell its an affliate link because it will quickly say 'shareasale' on the address bar when you click it. Its only there for a second then it will say sb.com. The new guy is Harvey Spector from Suits. His real name is Gabriel Macht and he's a hottie. He's my new man-crush. LOL SaveSaveSaveSaveHe is pretty delicious! I may have to check that show out.
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Post by mom on Mar 20, 2018 3:25:57 GMT
You can always tell its an affliate link because it will quickly say 'shareasale' on the address bar when you click it. Its only there for a second then it will say sb.com. The new guy is Harvey Spector from Suits. His real name is Gabriel Macht and he's a hottie. He's my new man-crush. LOL SaveSaveSaveSaveHe is pretty delicious! I may have to check that show out. Ive been bingeing it on Amazon Prime. They have seasons 1-7. Season 8 starts in a couple of weeks on USA Network. SaveSaveSaveSave
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 3:39:57 GMT
Trying to not be judgmental but I think it's nice if people say it's an affiliate link. It feels sneaky otherwise.
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Post by Mel on Mar 20, 2018 13:55:05 GMT
I honestly had NO idea it was an affiliate link... heck, I don't even KNOW what that means! I was just trying to share and enable fellow scrappers. I won't do it again. Sorry for the confusion!
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 16:24:17 GMT
Where did you find the link? I would have just typed in scrapbook dot com rather than copied and pasted and create a text link with different text.
I never found the sale either. Maybe it was already expired.
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Post by Mel on Mar 20, 2018 16:47:38 GMT
I think it must be expired., I think it was just for yesterday. I don't remember where I found the link. I did type in scrapbook dot com to link it here though (at least I'm pretty sure I did :/ ).
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 17:19:45 GMT
Wow. If that’s the case it sounds like proboards is automatically changing it to an affiliate link. Really sneaky. I apologize for my post. I didn’t even know they did things like that.
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 17:21:46 GMT
It looks like a company called viglink changes plain links to affiliate ones. I’m so sorry Mel. I had no idea they did that.
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Post by oaksong on Mar 20, 2018 18:03:21 GMT
I had someone call me out on an affiliate link. I didn’t know what it was either. Come to find out, it just happens sometimes when you copy a link, not something that I did intentionally.
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 18:39:27 GMT
I had someone call me out on an affiliate link. I didn’t know what it was either. Come to find out, it just happens sometimes when you copy a link, not something that I did intentionally. I can understand that when you have an email or copy a link from a fb post or something. But when you type in scrapbook dot com and the board changes it to an affiliate link, that was unexpected. I guess they have to make $$ somewhere since so many of us probably have adblock and just deal with the dumb bottom banner thing every time it pops up. lol I go to a quilting board that has a similar thing, only if you type a word like scissors, the board software automatically makes it into a link (an affiliate link to boot). It bugged me but someone there told me how to opt out so now my posts don't automatically turn into a bunch of links.
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Post by Mel on Mar 20, 2018 18:55:11 GMT
It looks like a company called viglink changes plain links to affiliate ones. I’m so sorry Mel . I had no idea they did that. Me either!! No worries!! I wish there was a way to know if/when they do it. It really does seem pretty sneaky! FTR, I googled "affiliate links" just to see what I might have done wrong. LOL Sheesh! Nothing is simple anymore!
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Post by peachiceteas on Mar 20, 2018 19:13:20 GMT
Have you edited the post Mel? The link there now isn't an affiliate link
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Post by Mel on Mar 20, 2018 19:25:25 GMT
Have you edited the post Mel? The link there now isn't an affiliate link Nope...that is really strange!!
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 19:59:29 GMT
Have you edited the post Mel? The link there now isn't an affiliate link If you click on it, it says something like viglink and then redirects to shareasale...whatever and then redirects to scrapbook.com. eta: it does on my ipad anyway. It doesn't on my pc-possibly because I had already clicked on it once. Very confusing.
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Post by peachiceteas on Mar 20, 2018 20:03:15 GMT
Have you edited the post Mel? The link there now isn't an affiliate link Nope...that is really strange!! The link in the post is not an affiliate. It is simply a link to scrapbook.com, as shown by the forum coding. If it was an affiliate it would have something after the .com such as a unique user ID or username. Just because the sharesale (or whatever) comes up when you click on the link, doesn’t mean it’s an affiliate. It just means the site has the sharesale software enabled on the site. The current link can’t be an affiliate, it would need more information in the site URL to know who to give money to.
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Post by peachiceteas on Mar 20, 2018 20:04:28 GMT
Have you edited the post Mel? The link there now isn't an affiliate link If you click on it, it says something like viglink and then redirects to shareasale...whatever and then redirects to scrapbook.com. eta: it does on my ipad anyway. It doesn't on my pc-possibly because I had already clicked on it once. Very confusing. Not sure what’s happened but I feel confident that Mel has not put an affiliate link in her post. Something is happening independently, most likely the software on the scrapbook.com site.
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Post by peachiceteas on Mar 20, 2018 20:05:56 GMT
The image I posted shows the breakdown of Mels post when I quoted her. If it was an affiliate it would have something like /03837271 after the link - so the affiliate software knows who that affiliate link belongs to.
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Post by Mel on Mar 20, 2018 21:03:41 GMT
I'm still confused. LOL I won't post links anymore. I'll just tell which store to go to if I do share again.
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 21:49:57 GMT
I'm still confused. LOL I won't post links anymore. I'll just tell which store to go to if I do share again. Please keep posting links. It doesn't hurt any of us if proboards or whoever converts links. I should have kept my piehole shut. lol
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2018 21:51:48 GMT
FYI: www.proboards.com/press-releases/proboards-partners-with-viglinkwhen I clicked the link on my ipad, the address bar first said viglink then changed to shareasale (and I couldn't see the end of the url to see if there was an affiliate id) and then changed again to scrapbook.com. So viglink is definitely doing something here. Maybe not for everyone who clicks on the link but for at least some.
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Post by FurryP on Mar 20, 2018 22:21:11 GMT
Just for the record I have also posted links that show sharesale and I absolutely do NOT have affiliate links.
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Post by peachiceteas on Mar 21, 2018 6:05:05 GMT
FYI: www.proboards.com/press-releases/proboards-partners-with-viglinkwhen I clicked the link on my ipad, the address bar first said viglink then changed to shareasale (and I couldn't see the end of the url to see if there was an affiliate id) and then changed again to scrapbook.com. So viglink is definitely doing something here. Maybe not for everyone who clicks on the link but for at least some. I just wanted to make the point that mel hadn’t done anything wrong. I guess if proboards wants to piggyback on the back of people’s (potential) affiliate links, nothing we can do about that, but they won’t be making much money out of the peas as people rarely post affiliate links here. If it works by creating an affiliate link on peoples links, nothing we can do about that either. But people who’ve done nothing wrong shouldn’t be made to feel bad.
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