People make purchases because of recommendations. How likely are you going to buy something because some dodgy website (like this one) recommends it? Hmm. Maybe. How likely are you going to buy something because your neighbours, your friends or your family members recommend it, all at the same time? Very likely!! And I can see OO.com.au is making its way to market itself this way.

What’s Affiliation Sales?

First of all, BIG DISCLAIMER — there exists such a thing called “affiliation sales”, where retails pay a small percentage of the sale made by your friend, the “customer”, to you, the “affiliate” or the “referrer”. And Bargain Blog is actually utilising this evil scheme to make money!! If someone clicked on any of the OO.com.au link on this website, and then subsequently made some purchases there… OO.com.au actually gives me some of your money! How bad is that?! Bwawahahah!! I am going to be filthy rich with your money! Not.

The thing is, who is going to base his/her purchase decision on what I said, on a nobody’s website? OO.com.au has realised this, and is now offering affiliation/referral program to the general public! You too can make money off your friends!

Refer Your Friends to OO.com.au!

First, go to OO.com.au: Tell A Friend, put in your personal details, and *very importantly* the email addresses of all your friends? An email will be sent to your friends to lure them into shopping at OO.com.au. And for every $100 they spent there, you’ll get a whooping $4 referral fee!

Just in case your consciousness makes you feel bad about it, OO.com.au won’t disclose all these affiliating activities to your friends. Moreover, OO.com.au will further donate 1% to Mission Australias Christmas Appeal, who provides for thousands homeless families in Australia to have a great Christmas this year. Wonderful isn’t it? No bad feeling any more? Sign it up here.

The next step of getting rich: Go out and find some friends. Now that’s beyond the scope of this blog…

Update

Just in case someone reads it wrongly, I am not attacking OO.com.au! They sell great products at great price, and they provide monetary incentive to web masters to bring them more customers.

However I might have issues with Internet review sites endorsing some products just for the sake of making money off affiliation. The visitors cannot be sure that the reviews are genuine, whether the reviewers are on their side or the advertisers’ side.

So from now on I will try to disclose any affiliation in my posts. Just try to make things clearer.