Referrals Are Not Working!

We are investigating this internally.

To set the record straight, AS tell me that I have had 6 referrals that 'worked' during my time with AS (2 or more years!). However, I consider that to be too few considering that I have a website link and a link from my ebay About Me page. Plus the 2 instances detailed above.
AS have their best programmers investigating it so hopefully I'll be able to report back soon!

R2

Hello R2,

We checked out your webpage and everything looks fine. I think that people may not be doing it correctly... or changing the field where we insert your name. At any rate, everything looks good. It is odd that you only have 6 confirmed referals... that seems pretty low.

Bill

We have tested this dozens of times, it works 100% for us, on all computers, and this is over months.

I'm not doubting it may not be working for you. Perhaps the user in question visited our site before from another link and that person go the credit. I dont know but we give away a ton of free snipes so it is working.

As for links on webpages and such they just dont produce the kind of results most peopel think they should. Most banner ads get 1 click in 1000-2000 views. Then out of that maybe they get a 1% response rate or purchase. So that's 10000 views for 1 sale on a god day.

We simply read that field, if it's entered correctly the database adds 3 snipes. It's honestly like 5 lines of programming. It costs us roughly $2-3 for a support reply. Thus 1 support case may cost us a few dollars. Why on earth would we try and jip someone out of 3 free snipes. It makes no sense. So that's not the case. So that leaves the programming in question and since this is really just like 5 lines of programminmg that we've seen tested over and over that doesnt seem likely.

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I'm not doubting it may not be working for you. Perhaps the user in question visited our site before from another link and that person go the credit.

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As I mentioned - I watched this person registering (not from a link but from the Join Now button) and dictated my ID to her at the appropriate point. I have given the new user's ID in as part of my support call so I guess you could check what happened there by looking at your records.

R2

If a person has cookies turned off you may not be credited. Check on that.

Sara - I can understand that if they were following the referral link but the one I watched was a straight input and submit on the main AS Join Now page which I reckon wouldn't rely on cookies. I'll try again with someone else on a cookie enabled PC and report back.

R2