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"and pinterest can't argue that they're doing anything special to generate the sale." You can't be serious. The sales would never have been generated in the fi
by jbigelow76 15y ago
"and pinterest can't argue that they're doing anything special to generate the sale."
You can't be serious. The sales would never have been generated in the first place if pinterest never existed. Your logic would seem to preclude any affiliate program in existence. If I have a blog reviewing my favorite books, and being a book lover I want to make it easy for people to enjoy books I recommend so I go ahead and place links to Amazon. Should Amazon say "well you we're going to link to us regardless, so you aren't eligible."
- colinsidoti 15y agoYou're right, it is ridiculous, but if you were a merchant why would you want to pay out Pinterest? If you didn't pay Pinterest for their leads, wouldn't you still get the same number of sales? Currently, Pinterest doesn't have a foot to stand on if the affiliate programs simply kick them out. They can do things to bias certain merchants, but that's a riskier play.
- seizetheday 15y ago"The sales would never have been generated in the first place if pinterest never existed." That's true, the sale would never had been generated if Pinterest never existed. But the key point here is that the sale would still have been generated even if Pinterest was dropped from the affiliate program. The user generated link would still exist. As a blogger you could say well I'm not going to link to any Amazon products now. Pinterest doesn't have that luxury. They could remove any links that they can't monetize but users would revolt since they are the ones adding the content and links.