As an affiliate marketer I’m always on the lookout for new opportunities to make money from different merchants. While browsing through Tradedoubler last week I noticed some adverts for Direct Line Insurance… you may remember that Direct Line are the scam merchants who tried to reposess my car after paying out the wrong person.

Well, as a website for this merchant I added none other that MrDaz.com. Guess what? I received this reply from the theiving bastards.

From: TradeDoubler [mailto:no_reply@ext.tradedoubler.com]
Sent: 23 September 2007 22:01
To: ***@*******.***
Subject: TradeDoubler application declined / denied

Unfortunately your application for http://www.mrdaz.com to Direct Line have been denied.

The most likely reason is that the merchant did not think that the content of your site was suitable for them. To see if the merchant has a specific criteria when evaluatating affiliate sites, please see the merchant program page.

Best regards,

TradeDoubler

The funny thing us of course, whenever I mention Direct Line on this blog I get Direct Line adverts pop up from Google Adsense, so their ads are on here anyway. Doubt my site is much of an advert though. If you want to be ripped off and lose the whole value of your car, go with Direct Line. I did, and my car is still sat dormant 14 months on!

Darren Jamieson

Darren Jamieson, aka MrDaz, is the Technical Director and co-founder of Engage Web and has been working online in a career spanning two decades. His first website was built in 1998 and is still live today.

    

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