Posted by Kevin May on 19 March 2010



Quite a furore in the travel affiliate marketing sector this week when a travel firm was exposed for charging different prices to consumers depending on how they arrived on the site.
Although the apparent scandal may well have been a non-starter as an issue for any consumers involved, as they may not have realised, affiliates have turned on UK-based European accommodation site VivaStay with venom.
VivaStayGate (as it has now been dubbed on affiliate forums) began when an affiliate noticed that prices for hotel stays on VivaStay were cheaper when a user went direct to the site rather than when arriving via an affiliate link.


Read more about this article here: When the affiliate marketing community turns on a travel company | Tnooz




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I wonder what's the use of affiliates if they charge higher when user arrived on their website via an affiliate link...