And The Misguided Merchant Award Goes To…

by Scott Jangro on 01 October 2006

Fabulous Furs for their ridiculous suggestion that their users delete all their cookies…
“Please be sure to delete all of your internet cookies so that the sale price will display properly to the right of the original price.”


ong with a link to How to delete cookie files.
Not only is this about the worst thing you could do to your affiliate partners, but it’s just plain bad advice for end-users, at least without a warning that all their persistent sessions on other sites will be eliminated just so the user can see an updated sale price.

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Screenie taken from here
What kind of website design would have a cookie causing sale prices not to show?
Maybe “Shift-refresh” would be better advice?
Found on ABW, where there’s a good ol’ fashion lynching going on.

UPDATE: I just noticed, Oct 11, that the offending text has been removed.  Took ‘em a while, but good job.

  • Scott
    Looks like it's gone now.
  • The most ridicolous things I've ever encounter since I know affiliate marketing. LOL :p
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