LisaSTL Wrote:
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> I've never been asked by any scheduler to use
> Shadow Shopper.
>
> While defending your link to Shadow Shopper you
> overlooked the reference to your referral fee.
> Care to address that?
[name deleted]
The question above was answered, and I have further explained the referral process below.
Steve asked:
> Do you think it's ethical to recommend a company
> in the signature of your emails that charges
> shoppers and apparently remunerates you for
> referrals?
I replied:
> I [also] see nothing wrong with affiliate linkage in
> signatures. In fact, it is quite common. So, to
> answer your question, I do feel its ethical...
No one has "asked" anyone to do anything, unless by "ask" you mean it being in my signature. It has already been clarified that Bay received an empty email. Signing up with Shadow Shopper was NOT the purpose of the email Bay received. The link clearly looks like a referral link and I'm fairly sure that most know that a referral link is performance-based, which means we are credited with those that sign up. From forums, emails, facebook, search engines, and mystery shopping companies, etc., referrals are used daily by millions (including my clients and shoppers). With that said, we have been shoppers, schedulers, advocates, and referrers (with or without) being paid for it, with Shadow Shopper for ten years. I personally believe in their services and have no problem whatsoever helping shoppers, that company, and myself all benefit from that.
I have answered the original poster's questions, those of others, and now yours. I have no interest in satisfying your ongoing dedication to create problems, and in doing so now, I am going against suggestions to ignore you, however, I wanted to be sure I have answered all questions (which I have), and done so as quickly as I've been able (which I have).
If anyone has any questions or comments regarding Private Eyes, we will always be happy to respond to them, but if it's obvious that the questions are in attempt to influence, manipulate, or control a conversation, or the emotions of others, those efforts will be ignored by us, as is already done by myriad shoppers that see the difference between helpful posters versus posters in pursuit of creating unprovoked, or unrelated controversies.
Lysa@privateeyesonline.net