[Brent E.]

I wanted to post our program Terms of Service, so that it is upfront for all to see. If you have any questions at all about our TOS, please do not hesitate to ask.

Terms Of Service:

Keyword Advertising Restrictions:

Affiliates may not advertise our branded keywords for any of our stores, i.e. 'csn stores', 'csn lighting', 'all barstools' etc without our permission. In addition, affiliates may not use the phrase 'Official Site' in their ad creative's, or use our Display URL without special permission granted by our Affiliate Manager.

We have an extensive list of terms that we suggest for keyword advertising for each of our stores. We would be happy to provide a list of suggested terms upon request.

eBay and Amazon Sales Restrictions:

CSN Stores Does not allow affiliates to place products, links, banners, or stores on eBay or Amazon. This type of behavior will lead to immediate dismissal from the affiliate program.

E-mail Restrictions:

Affiliates MAY use email marketing to drive traffic to our sites, so long as they comply with the CAN-SPAM Act.

Other Restrictions:

Affiliates may not advertise our products on Froogle/Google Base, and may not edit our Wikipedia, WikiHow links or entries, or other links that may be edited in public forum. Affiliates may not use pop-ups.

Coupon Restrictions:

Affiliates may not use the coupons provided to our email subscribers in their promotion of our site. The discounts offered in our emails are for our loyal subscribers only.

Affiliates sites that rank in the first two pages of any SE organic search for the terms CSN Stores Coupon, CSN Baby Coupon, or any variation of our niche stores URL’s with coupon or deal included in the keyword, are subject to a different commission structure. The different commission pay-out and the technical integration are chronicled below. Please contact Affiliates@csnstores.com if you have any questions about whether or not your affiliate sites qualify for this commission structure.

First referrer in the click stream sales:

You will continue to receive a FULL commission on these types of sales. At CSN Stores we value all partners that drive new customers to our stores. All revenue is attributed to first referrer in the click stream sales. This is why I am able to continue to pay you in full for this type of traffic.

Last referrer in the click stream sales:

These sales will be limited to a 2% commission. Unfortunately this is the only way we can afford to keep you on as an affiliate. Last referrer sales are destroying our program’s bottom line. These sales are simply customers looking for a coupon. At this point in the customer’s buying cycle they are ready to purchase the item that they have in the shopping cart. They see that we have a promo code box and go searching for a coupon for that product. If there were promo codes set up for these items the sales would not be a bother. However, the customer is clicking on a free shipping coupon or coupon that you have created. These coupons do not add value because the customer is already getting free shipping and the same price that is advertised on our site. Seeing that I do not have any active affiliate coupons, this traffic is not providing our customers with any value.

Technical Integration:

My tech team is putting a string in your pixel when you refer a customer to CSN Stores. The URL will have either a "&lastref=1" at the end of the pixel string; otherwise there will be a "&lastref=0". The coding that has a “0” in it, indicates you being first in the click stream, giving you the standard commission payout. The “1” in the coding means that you are not the first referrer in the click stream and that your commission will be adjusted to 2%.

[Mr. Sal]

I wanted to post our program Terms of Service, so that it is upfront for all to see. If you have any questions at all about our TOS, please do not hesitate to ask.

Terms Of Service:

Technical Integration:

My tech team is putting a string in your pixel when you refer a customer to CSN Stores. The URL will have either a "&lastref=1" at the end of the pixel string; otherwise there will be a "&lastref=0". The coding that has a “0” in it, indicates you being first in the click stream, giving you the standard commission payout. The “1” in the coding means that you are not the first referrer in the click stream and that your commission will be adjusted to 2%.
Hi Brent,

I believe I understand all of the TOS, and I don't see any problem with it, but I just want to make sure about those “1” and “0”.

When you mention the "&lastref=1" or "&lastref=0", I understand that to be the lastrefer, but what about the other code that have a “1” at the end?

While I am going through all of the 200+ CSN Stores datafeeds to see which one I use where first, I have clicked a couple of products pages from different stores, and I have noticed that once my clicks land on the store sites, that my referring links have a “1” in there: &df=1

I believe that since I am using a datafeed, that that's the reason for the "&df=" part, but since it have a “1” in there and not a “0”, I just want to make sure that there are no second class click stream while I am using any datafeed, for any of the CSN Stores.

If all that things I wrote above sounds confuse to anyone else but Brent, it's not my fault, when I first read Brent's explanation of the TOS the first time, I too was confuse as hell, but after rereading it a few more times, they all make sence to me now, so I think Brent would understand my Chinese question above. http://abestweb.com/smilies/conicalhat.gif

[Brent E.]

Hi Brent,

I believe I understand all of the TOS, and I don't see any problem with it, but I just want to make sure about those “1” and “0”.

When you mention the "&lastref=1" or "&lastref=0", I understand that to be the lastrefer, but what about the other code that have a “1” at the end?

While I am going through all of the 200+ CSN Stores datafeeds to see which one I use where first, I have clicked a couple of products pages from different stores, and I have noticed that once my clicks land on the store sites, that my referring links have a “1” in there: &df=1

I believe that since I am using a datafeed, that that's the reason for the "&df=" part, but since it have a “1” in there and not a “0”, I just want to make sure that there are no second class click stream while I am using any datafeed, for any of the CSN Stores.

If all that things I wrote above sounds confuse to anyone else but Brent, it's not my fault, when I first read Brent's explanation of the TOS the first time, I too was confuse as hell, but after rereading it a few more times, they all make sence to me now, so I think Brent would understand my Chinese question above. http://abestweb.com/smilies/conicalhat.gif

Thanks for the question Mr.Sal. The &df=1 at the end of the products you pull from our data feed are not effected by the 2% commission. So, you don't have to worry about that at all. Good question though.

I am working on a reply right now from our PM Friday. It will be in your inbox soon.

thanks,

Brent

[ChristineM]

Brent,

I just noticed a sale I made a while back that you gave me commission for. You said the cookie had been over ridden by a coupon site but you gave the credit to me. I just wanted to say A BIG THANK YOU! I'm a small timer and cannot compete with the coupon sites. I really appreciate you noticing me and giving me the commission. You didn't have to do that it means a lot.

Thank you!
Christine

[Brent E.]

Brent,

I just noticed a sale I made a while back that you gave me commission for. You said the cookie had been over ridden by a coupon site but you gave the credit to me. I just wanted to say A BIG THANK YOU! I'm a small timer and cannot compete with the coupon sites. I really appreciate you noticing me and giving me the commission. You didn't have to do that it means a lot.

Thank you!
Christine

It was my pleasure, Christine. I manually go through every single referral path of every single affiliate sale that goes through CSN Stores. It takes me a solid two hours every day, but I am able to easily detect fraud, duplicate orders, trademark bidders and when a cookie is overwritten by a coupon affiliate cookie.

Thank You, for noticing the commission and leading a great sale for CSN!

Have a good one,

Brent

[KariBon]

You did that for me too, Brent, in May and again in June - Thank You!

Do you by any chance have any stores that don't have that promo code box at checkout? Or any stores that have an ongoing coupon code embedded in the pages?? I accidentally ran into one store that had that - was so shocked, I lost it! The store name that is.

Thanks again for doing what you do :)

Bernie on Karin's PC

[Brent E.]

Hi Bernie,

Thank you for noticing the manual transaction. I credit affiliates whose cookies have been overwritten by coupon affiliates around 5 times a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

Have a good one,

Brent