Yet another affiliate merchant refusing to play fair with the webmasters sending them their traffic. Kiddies Kingdom have been listing items on their site and in their affiliate feeds, using the text
PRICE IS NOT £1! PHONE ORDERS ONLY! Call 01924 439049 For Best Price!
Despite this being brought to their attention 2 weeks ago, I can still see this on their site today:
So Kiddies-Kingdom.com are expecting affiliates to go to the time and expense of getting traffic to their site, then they deliberately cut them out of the transaction by listing items at £1, then saying “Oh, but the price isn’t £1, you can only order by phone”.
Its seems like there are far too many merchants who simply see the affiliates commission is an optional extra, to be avoided at every chance possible. We’ve already had Viva Stay adding on an affiliate surcharge, who will make my “Affiliate wall of Shame” next? Do I need to create a new category for these posts? There could certainly be enough of them.
Kiddies Kingdom (Kiddies-Kingdom.com) seems to be one of the worst offenders. Despite being asked/warned multiple times, they just keep using these methods to steal from affiliates. I would avoid Kiddies Kingdom until they sort this out…
