[dgrtech]

Hello! Been looking around and I can't quite seem to find an answer to this, but what is the minimum requirements to join the Newegg affiliate program? Mainly in terms of traffic? I'm currently in the planning stage of a website that will rely on a hardware vendor affiliate... one that just about everyone goes to for their parts for custom rigs and whatnot. For the purpose of the site- newegg is perfect. However, it probably will take a couple weeks (months) until it starts generating traffic. It will involve plenty of linking to Newegg's site. I was wondering if they will approve it without a problem, or if I am out of luck until I'm generating x-amount of visits a day/month?

[dgrtech]

forgot to also add in- is it possible to generate a link that automatically adds a list of products to a users cart from my site?
ex:
user clicks "add to cart" from my site. redirects to neweggs shopping cart with 5 different products already in his cart.

[ecomcity]

Big no no programming your site to impersonate a real merchant like Newegg.

[dgrtech]

Big no no programming your site to impersonate a real merchant like Newegg.
no no no.. its not impersonating in any way. its going to be somewhat of a blog talking about hardware, computers, etc- geared towards the "newegg crowd"... basically, as those of us who like to custom build computers and mod our computers LOVE newegg, then what better affiliate to choose than newegg? im looking at my target audience of basically people just like myself, my friends, and others who simply only buy from newegg. a newegg "fansite" if you must. also, at times in the blog, i may recommend a rig customized from budget parts through newegg and in turn- the user can say, "wow, that sounds great" and click "add to cart" and it adds that entire setup to their newegg cart.

[ecomcity]

no no no.. its not impersonating in any way. its going to be somewhat of a blog talking about hardware, computers, etc- geared towards the "newegg crowd"... basically, as those of us who like to custom build computers and mod our computers LOVE newegg, then what better affiliate to choose than newegg? im looking at my target audience of basically people just like myself, my friends, and others who simply only buy from newegg. a newegg "fansite" if you must. also, at times in the blog, i may recommend a rig customized from budget parts through newegg and in turn- the user can say, "wow, that sounds great" and click "add to cart" and it adds that entire setup to their newegg cart.

I've been custom building and upgrading systems for over 30 years. Your blog reader's component selections, based upon performance/value recommendations, can be added to your own sales cart. But Newegg and other reputable distributors will not drop ship for you or give you a passthrough hook into their secure cart. Only out is to smooze Newegg into a legit Tax ID reseller relationship and purchase the items yourself and deliver them. Better to just go direct to TechData and Ingrim Micro, like they do, if your having to assume full merchant responsibility.

[nakedgamer]

30 years? What systems did you custom build and upgrade in 1977?

[Witzer]

UNIVAC :shhh: :angelic:

Maybe Tandy??

[AffiliateHound]

Intellivision

[BatteryFuelPatrick]

Atari 2600. Now that was a good stable system!

[dgrtech]

I've been custom building and upgrading systems for over 30 years. Your blog reader's component selections, based upon performance/value recommendations, can be added to your own sales cart. But Newegg and other reputable distributors will not drop ship for you or give you a passthrough hook into their secure cart. Only out is to smooze Newegg into a legit Tax ID reseller relationship and purchase the items yourself and deliver them. Better to just go direct to TechData and Ingrim Micro, like they do, if your having to assume full merchant responsibility.
No, you're not understanding what I'm getting at. In NO WAY am I talking of impersonating Newegg. NO WAY is the site going to look a thing like Newegg. When a user clicks "Add to cart" or something like such, it will redirect to a regular old Newegg shopping cart at Neweggs site, except it will have a few items already in the cart. It wont by my site with my shopping cart selling Neweggs things. It won't be me saying I'm Newegg at all. It will be a site with talk of hardware/etc and instead of giving 5-10 links to the products recommended so the user has to go through all of them and manually add them to their cart- the user just presses one button and the user is redirected to their normal Newegg shopping cart view but with those items in it

I saw a site doing something like this on how to build a $500 gaming machine on Digg the other day, but I lost the link. At the end of the article, the site gave a list of all the required hardware to make the $500 gaming machine and then a link that if the user clicked it- all of the hardware was added to their NEWEGG cart. It wasn't fooling the user in any way. Simply making it convenient for the user instead of making them click through the 5-10 products and add them all manually.

I don't know how much more I need to break it down to explain whats going on. You seem to have a hard time comprehending that this is in now way going to use Newegg as a dropshipper, wholesaler, or impersonation. Its just going to be a type of review site centered around what Newegg has to offer.

[rematt]

dgrtech, I'm not familiar with any affiliate side scripts that will accomplish what you want to do, however there are several shopping carts that have this functionality as well as shopping cart scripts that will add the functionality to existing carts.

One way for you to accomplish what you want to do is to contact the Newegg AM and see if they would create a custom product ID for you that would include all of the products in the bundle. Of course this would assume that they're shopping cart has the necessary functionality and that would be willing to add it.

Prepare a strong enough business case and you never know what could happen. I'm sure that there are other Newegg affiliates that could make use of this functionality to bundle cables and other necessary components with the products that they sell. Whatever makes the buyer experience better (and easier) has got to be a good thing.

-rematt

[dgrtech]

thanks! at least you got the jist of it to understand what i was getting at lol

anyway- back to my original question: is there a minimum amount of traffic Newegg requests?

[nakedgamer]

dgrtech, I read the very article of which you speak.

This is the site and article:

http://techreport.com/etc/2007q3/system-guide-0707/index.x?pg=1

This is the example of which you speak:

http://techreport.com/etc/2007q3/system-guide-0707/index.x?pg=2

Certainly nothing wrong with doing that and you are not cloning NewEggs site. I am not certain exactly how they went about adding everything to your cart and get the affiliate sale for it, but then again I haven't worked a lot with Newegg.

It's a great idea and the best of luck to you on it. :)

[nakedgamer]

No, there isn't a minimum amount of traffic that newegg requires. They will (or we think they do) review your site, but some have reported being approved by them quickly and others have said it took them weeks to get approved.

After that I haven't heard of anyone getting dropped due to lack of traffic. :)

[dgrtech]

dgrtech, I read the very article of which you speak.

This is the site and article:

http://techreport.com/etc/2007q3/system-guide-0707/index.x?pg=1

This is the example of which you speak:

http://techreport.com/etc/2007q3/system-guide-0707/index.x?pg=2

Certainly nothing wrong with doing that and you are not cloning NewEggs site. I am not certain exactly how they went about adding everything to your cart and get the affiliate sale for it, but then again I haven't worked a lot with Newegg.

It's a great idea and the best of luck to you on it. :)
Excellent!! I looked FOREVER and I couldn't find it and I thank you so much! But yes, that is the jist of the type of thing I want to do IN A WAY. As you can see- not emulating newegg at all- simply making it convenient.

From the look of the link, it seems as if its just a link with all the product codes in it

No, there isn't a minimum amount of traffic that newegg requires. They will (or we think they do) review your site, but some have reported being approved by them quickly and others have said it took them weeks to get approved.

After that I haven't heard of anyone getting dropped due to lack of traffic. :)Great :)

[nakedgamer]

Yea, they have all the product codes in the link now that I look at it. However, not sure they are using CJ to get affiliate credit. TechReport might have a direct deal with Newegg as I know a lot of sites did before they had an affiliate program (sort of an inhouse program).

[ske9963]

amazon does it, why can the OP add to cart?

to try to answer your question, I do not think it can be done

[Kevin]

Ske is right. Amazon does it through A-Stores and similar tools. Might be someone in the hardware sector that does it... Like Amazon :)

[nakedgamer]

Actually I think it is possible to do it just have to script it right. Now my curiousity is up and I might just see what I can do.

[ecomcity]

30 years? What systems did you custom build and upgrade in 1977?

Junior I was selling, installing, and upgrading Mini Computers from IBM -Wang and DEC in the 70's. In 1981 I was one of the first IBM PC authorized resellers, Also handled Zenith, NEC, Compaq, Corona, Exerex. There is nothing about the computer products mfgr/distributor/VAR business I don't know.... and want to forget. Get your act together and bow down to the powers that control the computer marketplace. Only niche for you as a youngster gamer type is to just sell the highest end systems where the margins are.... 2500 to $3000 systems. Your one of a million experts buying from Newegg. If your so good just write system component reviews for the PC Magazines and drive traffic to your forum/blog.

Legit distributors and close markers have had VAR/Dealer (All tax ID approved resellers) having white labeled mirrored sites for years taking orders. They settle up every 30 days and drop ship the internet orders. Hint many use the MIVA shopping carts datafeed feature with a cron job update daily.

[nakedgamer]

Junior I was selling, installing, and upgrading Mini Computers from IBM -Wang and DEC in the 70's. In 1981 I was one of the first IBM PC authorized resellers, Also handled Zenith, NEC, Compaq, Corona, Exerex. There is nothing about the computer products mfgr/distributor/VAR business I don't know.... and want to forget. Get your act together and bow down to the powers that control the computer marketplace. Only niche for you as a youngster gamer type is to just sell the highest end systems where the margins are.... 2500 to $3000 systems. Your one of a million experts buying from Newegg. If your so good just write system component reviews for the PC Magazines and drive traffic to your forum/blog.

Legit distributors and close markers have had VAR/Dealer (All tax ID approved resellers) having white labeled mirrored sites for years taking orders. They settle up every 30 days and drop ship the internet orders. Hint many use the MIVA shopping carts datafeed feature with a cron job update daily.

Mike, deary, you might want to hold back your personal attacks.

I am not a youngster by any means, and have been in the computer industry myself for about 24 years. Perhaps not as long or as white haired as some, but still enough.

I have also owned 4 successful computer stores (my own mini chain if you will) for several years before selling and moving on to more profitable ventures (as the margin shrank in the computer industry).

BTW, I do happen to make good money on my computer related sites as well. Thanks for your concern. Why would I want to write reviews when I want to make REAL money? LOL

I never claimed to be an expert as you are clearly doing, but I am afraid that no one knows everything in any industry or market. I gladly acknowledge that someone else might know a big more than me.

However, in this thread you were quick to jump on the OP and accuse him of things he was not even intending to do in the first place. You were wrong in your assumption and only with a little patience and listening one could see what he was talking about.

I could get a feel for what he was trying to accomplish, and sure enough even knew about the exact article that gave him the inspiration.

I am curious as to why you assume that if someone is a gamer they are young in age? I have been gaming since the games were invented, but that is all beside the point. Age doesn't necessarily bring wisdom or patience apparently.

[dgrtech]

Mike, deary, you might want to hold back your personal attacks.

I am not a youngster by any means, and have been in the computer industry myself for about 24 years. Perhaps not as long or as white haired as some, but still enough.

I have also owned 4 successful computer stores (my own mini chain if you will) for several years before selling and moving on to more profitable ventures (as the margin shrank in the computer industry).

BTW, I do happen to make good money on my computer related sites as well. Thanks for your concern. Why would I want to write reviews when I want to make REAL money? LOL

I never claimed to be an expert as you are clearly doing, but I am afraid that no one knows everything in any industry or market. I gladly acknowledge that someone else might know a big more than me.

However, in this thread you were quick to jump on the OP and accuse him of things he was not even intending to do in the first place. You were wrong in your assumption and only with a little patience and listening one could see what he was talking about.

I could get a feel for what he was trying to accomplish, and sure enough even knew about the exact article that gave him the inspiration.

I am curious as to why you assume that if someone is a gamer they are young in age? I have been gaming since the games were invented, but that is all beside the point. Age doesn't necessarily bring wisdom or patience apparently.
I wouldn't exactly say it was my inspiration. I've been planning a site for a while now and one of the parts of the site I couldn't exactly figure out the way to do it (adding multiple items at once). Then I saw that site at work one time. It was before my coffee and during a day of a few meetings, so it didn't dawn on me until a couple days down the line (enter posting on this forum) when I realized thats how I'd accomplish one of the parts. Thankfully someone here also reads Digg and knew what i was talking about :)

[ecomcity]

forgot to also add in- is it possible to generate a link that automatically adds a list of products to a users cart from my site?
ex:
user clicks "add to cart" from my site. redirects to neweggs shopping cart with 5 different products already in his cart.

The computer "dog eats dog" distribution industry is tightly controlled by those who actually buy & stock the entire range of in-demand products. There is little respect for anyone who doesn't actually stock & move product. Therefore the small clone building systems operator is advised to only push the high-end custom builds. Expect 90% of sales to be locals picking up from a physical location, as established high-end online system builders will snag all your sales efforts by offering lower priced shipped systems to a loyal repeat/referral base.

Newegg operates on a average 5-7% margin. Those trying to qualify as Volume purchasers can squeeze them for maybe 2% with a few phone calls and indentity verification faxes. Your outlined "add to cart" senerio above requires they open up their ecatalog/shopping cart with a API application compatable with your cart S/W. It requires setting CJ tracking, during the cookie placing redirect process of a group component buy, where the items/price seemlessly gets passed into Newegg's shopping cart. Aside from the security holes of an API, you bypass Newegg's ecatalog inventory availability checking process. The stock-out sale becomes a double whammy for your site/ebiz and Newegg's.

You desire to capture the buyer/customer info with your own "add to cart" app for post sale followup marketing. Big if becomes can your cart be modified to either... 1. bypass the customer info gathering process with a "buy now" button passing the cart contents through CJ to Newegg's cart checkout process. 2. Gather their privacy & CC info then seemlessly pass the final checkout process to Newegg's cart.

Give them a call as it's worth a try. Then call the computer distributors like TigerDirect and Buy.com who embedded 3rd party API scripts right in their checkout process. Any idiot computer distributor willing to pass the order info/privacy/CC info to some MetaRewards type Gorrilla marketing outfit might go for some more shennagans for a quick buck.

Financially viable Middlemen for the few computer products stocking distribution points like Newegg, TigerDirect, CDW are not created overnight. They grew becaused they were forced to buy & stock items by they very system they wanted to exploit.

[dgrtech]

ecomcity:
I've learned from my time on the internet when realize theres the "forum jock". Pretty much, they guy that has tons of posts and therefore feels he knows exactly what he's talking about... whether he's young or old. I may be new to this forum, but it didn't take long for me to see that is you from the 70-80 other forums I'm part of or have been.
I ask you just stay out of this thread. Its obvious you have no clue what I'm talking about. I'm not trying to sound like an ass, but I've exhausted all forms of trying to explain and say "its not a store". Please don't take offense to what I said, just realize you're basically insulting me by assuming I'm doing something I'm not and trying to make me feel ignorant/young/naive.
One final time- I'm not making an e-store. Its simply a computer hardware review/customization/etc site that is somewhat of a "newegg fansite" that gets its income completely from 100% legit marketing... not immitations, nothing against any companies affiliate Terms of Agreement, etc.. It will not be immitating newegg. It will not lead the customer to believe they're buying from me. If you followed that link that was posted, that is the idea I have in mind for the part I needed. Essentially something like that as long as it complies with Neweggs terms.

I seriously don't know how its so hard to grasp this concept. Its not a buy.com, newegg.com, amazon.com, etc- its a tomshardware.com, anandtech.com, etc. Tons of competition, yes. Does it mean I should just assume it won't work and not even give it a shot?