[pistol101]

Hi All,

I just thought i'd say hello and welcome to our new forum. As some of you are aware AffiliateFuture has just expanded internationally which is why we are here.

We are one of the UKs largest networks and have been there for over 3 years. We targeted the small to medium sized market initially and due to our success we have been building up a collection of high profile merchants -these include Virgin Atlantic and World Vision. We currently have over 400 advertisers.

The network prides itself on being affiliate friendly:
-We have a 5 day cancelation period with merchants which means 120 hours after the transaction is completed then this is locked. Much as merchants occasionally try they can't be unlocked.
-After 5 days we know all the transactions that have been completed so we start the payment runs and aim to have every affiliate paid by the 14th.
-The commissions are guaranteed as merchants pre-pay their accounts with us. Making sure the merchants pay is our issue not yours.
-We were the first UK network to spot and remove people like 180 solutions. We have zero tolerance on any unethical behaviour.
-On the UK side we have product feeds available, which you can either download instantly or we can FTP to them each night. We spider all merchants to verify the data each night and clear out the rubbish. We'll be launching this as we building the US side.

We will be paying by bank transfers in dollars so you'll not have any issues with exchange rates.

I look after everything day to day so please do get in contact if we can be of any helps. We're always active on forums and wont be far from here. I'm available on MSN if you want to chat or via email Peter@AffiliateFuture.com

I look forward to getting to know you all.

Cheers

Pete

[Herb Ô¿Ô¬]

Welcome to the club, Pete (Pistol Pete?). I think there are quite a few of us who want to get into more international offerings but are not sure which is the proper way to do it. Many UK networks are UK-only by their TOS which excludes most of us here in the U.S. And hosting outside the U.S. is also a problem when required. Hmmmm . . . I have a freebie location on a lycos.uk server sitting in Paris . . . I wonder . . . . ?

[pistol101]

Hi Herb Ô¿Ô¬

We have no issues with overseas affiliates registering on our UK site. The only restruiction we have is that we post GP £ cheques out rather than receiving a bank transfer.

A large chunk of our affiliates have hosting outside the UK so i wouldn't worry about that. I would get yourself a .co.uk address, as it just looks so much better.

Cheers

Pete with a pistol!!

[Herb Ô¿Ô¬]

>>>The only restriction we have is that we post GP £ cheques out rather than receiving a bank transfer.

I'm confused, now . . . an earlier post says:

>>>We will be paying by bank transfers in dollars so you'll not have any issues with exchange rates.

[RadarCat]

:cool:

Hi, Pistol101,

Welcome to the best affiliate marketing forum on the Internet!!

Do you have any computer or computer hardware affiliates on the back burners in Europe? I get a fair amount of European visitors on my site and like to offer them a European merchant.

Thanks!!

RadarCat, Webmaster
http://www.os2warplinks.com

[DesignerWiz]

Hello Pete, welcome to the ABW forum board! :wave:

[pistol101]

Hi Herb Ô¿Ô¬

We have 2 seperate networks. The US network will be paying in US $ via bank deposits and the UK pays interntaional advertisers in GP £ cheques. Hope that makes sense.

Hi Radarcat,

The best 2 computer related sites are http://www.microdirect.co.uk and http://www.planetmicro.co.uk MicroDirect are the best known name, however the Planet Micro guys have a better commissions structure.

Hi DesignerWiz

[Neil]

Mmmmmm....
i have the .co.uk
for my .com domain parked up... that could be interesting.
i could put a site on that..
:cheerful:

[KGP]

and how about the euro payments?

[pistol101]

Euro payments are made via direct bank transfers into Euro accounts at the moment.

We are looking at the options of paying into international bank account in each currency. It's taken us a while to get the currencies sorted so far.

[RadarCat]

Hi Radarcat,

The best 2 computer related sites are http://www.microdirect.co.uk and http://www.planetmicro.co.uk MicroDirect are the best known name, however the Planet Micro guys have a better commissions structure.


:cool:

Hi, Pistol101,

I emailed both of these companies shortly after you posted the URLs but still have not seen anything back.

I also took a look at CJ's UK site and didn't find anything interesting there.

Best,
RadarCat, WebMaster
http://www.os2warplinks.com

[pistol101]

Hi Radar Cat,

What would you like to know from them as we have different contacts for different areas.

Cheers

Pete

[Trust]

Can't believe i missed this thread. Was just checking out the merchant list and i see a merchant i was hoping would have an affiliate program and they did all this time :)

Had a question about this:
"All payments are made by BACS/Wire transfer on or around the end of the 2nd week of the month following the month in which you earned your comission."

Does that meen by direct deposit? Do you pay by check too? Thanks.

[JulesB]

Hi TrustNo1

We are increasing our merchant list all the time, feel free to get in touch with any questions...

You can reach our New York office on: 1-800-605-4462

or feel free to email me (jules@affiliatefuture.com) at any point!

Jules

[id2k]

peter i sent 4 emails to you and also to the support id regarding usage of datafeeds but there has been no response yet..its been more then a month now..are you guys serious about your network...

[id2k]

4 emails in a months time to affiliatefuture and no response yet, post on their forum no response yet, spoke to julus and was told someone from the Uk team will email me soon..no response yet...well thnx for showing this unproffesinoal behaviour before i could waste my time and money in making site/pages for affiliatefuture merchants .....now i know that i should not work with affiliatefuture...

[JulesB]

Hi ID2K,

As i mentioned to you on MSN, Pete works in our UK office. I have forwarded your information over to him and he will be in touch as soon as possible.

The majority of the UK office is currently away at a Get2Gether / Event in the UK so it may take a little while - please bere with me and i will get this sorted out for you asap...

Thanks

Jules

[id2k]

thnx Jules...

[dhooshor]

The Contact of AffiliateFuture really sucks.... Sent almost 10 emails, got no reply at all. Maybe, they're sleeping just after setting up their business. funny !!!

[KGP]

well i dont know for their US section but the UK one (in case they are separate) sometimes are not replying within24 hours but they do reply and provide adequate assistance

[JulesB]

Hi Dhooshor,

I have not seen your emails come through - feel free to email me directly with any queries...

jules@affiliatefuture.com

The office has been closed the last couple of days for the Holidays, however, things will be back to normal tomorrow.

Thanks

Jules

[dhooshor]

Hi Jules,

My concern is about Affiliate Future (UK), not US which you are dealing with.

And, of course, I'm not using my real Affiliate ID. I'm scared doing so since I didn't post any positive regarding Affiliate Future. But, that's true. I am very very disappointed with the Contact of your UK branch.

[JulesB]

Hi dhooshor,

Are you using the email address enquiries@affiliatefuture.co.uk for support there?

Dont forget to give your affiliate ID or user name so that they can follow things up correctly.

I am sure that they will get straight back to you.

Thanks

Jules

[Trust]

Had a question about this:
"All payments are made by BACS/Wire transfer on or around the end of the 2nd week of the month following the month in which you earned your comission."

Does that meen by direct deposit? Do you pay by check too? Thanks."

Don't think that ever got answered.

[Brian_AffiliateFuture]

Hey Trust,

Our quickest, and preferred method of payment is through direct deposit. We have in the past wrote out checks a few times; however it is quite tedious, and takes much much longer to send out. We try our best to pay out everyone as quickly as we can, so we pay out by direct deposit.