Is SquareTrade Evil?

[northy]

I see alot of affiliates with squaretrade id charging a non-refundable fee.
Is this working?
The squaretrade guidelines say the affiliate site cannot process orders or use a branded form. I wonder if this is a result of suaretrade policies hurting conversions for branded/store type affiliate sites?

[AlexOP]

Can you give a sample site?

Being new to about to offer sites to affilaites, If we had a site with square trade, would this be a good thing ? Any affiliaes still doing PPC ?

We have a site that will get it, but you would really be like a "sub" as you HAVE to point to the site.

Not to hijack this thread, but would we be hurting you, or helping ?

[No Life]

You can actually have square trade review your site before popping over the non-refundable fee, and they'll tell you if it looks like it would fly or not. And what you'd need to change.

[No Life]

My edit button doesn't seem to like me today, so a double post. IMHO, having Sq Trade is never a bad thing, Alex.

[DaveM]

SquareTrade was created for the sole purpose of giving brick and morter pharmacies the ability to lock out Web based pharmacies. A majority of those Web sites that you do see with certification are extensions of their own brick and morter counter parts.

In addition, it gave companies like Google and Yahoo an easy and inexpensive method to protect themselves from any legal ramifications which may occur.

It would be almost impossible, at least financialy, for most OP programs to obtain certification because of the number of various fullfillment pharmacies they work with across the country. For a program to be certified, each and every pharmacy they work with would have to be certified.

Are they evil? Perhaps not evil but not helpful to the industry as a whole.

[AlexOP]

Ok !! So it looks like the affiliate side likes it. I woudlsay this is a good thing.

Why ?

Make the "here today gone tommorrow" Ops harder to jump in and take advantage of affiliates and customers.

Legtimizes us some more, not be confused with "guy in cali, selling Vagra i bought in Idia and smuggled from Mexico"

Yes, wow, something in the medical field costs money. As an op, we have many expenses, legal and otherwiese. Reasons I will never try to get you the phentermine 90 ct 37.5 for under 80 bucks. Also reason I wont let our affiliaes for 90 bucks.

So I doubt we will become one of the largest out there, I do not care. One reason we are still a "coming soon" is waiting on the final steps of our square trade cert for the main site. I am confident, this will start a trend with the "STOPS (Squre Trade Ops') of which I persoanlly only see one, to be able to offer afifliates piece of mind, that yes, a REAL pharm dispnsed this, meaning a REAL docotor reviewed this.

I see it as a great step, of many still needed , to weed out the bad.

And hopefully, those not with the seal for any reason, do not think I am accusing you of anything, I do understand it is not easy. So, If an Op does NOT have that it does not mean he or she is crooked, I am just saying lets all get together as an industry, and agree with the "powers that be" and get thse things done in the near future.

As a side note, If I were to get several ST sites, would affilaites be interested in marketing these if I could not BEAT or MATCH the lowset price ? I could still do mark up meathod, but iI am interested if affilaites do not care, just want the "best price" no matter what !!

[Wicked]

The bottom line is profit after PPC spending. How many affiliates are going to have Adwords going at the same time pointing to the same URL? If you think the price of PPC for Phen, tramadol, soma is high now can you imagine just 20 top affiliates bidding against each other for Adwords to let them advertise at the top 3 spots. Doesn't Adword have a set of rules for affiliates that advertise a URL that is not theirs?

I personal do care about base prices and setting my price, I also perfer my own website.

Does anyone remember doing Adwords for Epharmacist?