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Those who run in astrological circles are well aware of a time period known as Mercury Retrograde. I won't get into the technical details of what Mercury retrograde is , bu generally the two words can't even be said without a moan or rolling of the eyes accompanying the phrase. This is because during this time the energy is such that there are more opportunities for confusing communication, miscommunication, problems with shipping, contracts, and just all around frustrations in general. Basically, it sucks. Sometimes this plays out in my personal life and sometimes it doesn't. Unfortunately it seems that this particular Mercury Retrograde has decided make itself known more strongly than others have in the past.
On August 3rd, 2011 Mercury officially entered its retrograde period that would last until August 26th. In the grand scheme of things this may not seem all that long, but there is a time period known as the shadow that starts about weeks before and extends two weeks after this time frame.
On July 29th I was informed by KEEN, a company who I have an affiliate marketing agreement with, that the transactions generated by my ads were "suspicious". Because of this they decided to just delete $1,300 in commissions that I rightfully earned for the month of July. *POOF*... GONE... NO MORE.. So Sorry..
I contacted Commission Junction, the company that manages the partnership and was told that it didn't look like I had done anything fraudulent on my end. Ummm.. no.. I haven't.
I've exchanged numerous emails with KEEN's affiliate contact, Steven Chang and received several explanations as to why they have chosen to take this action. At first I was told that my links didn't work. When I checked the links they changed their story and said that they never said they were broken, but then asked me for screen shots. I sent the screen shots only to be told that the screen shots didn't really tell them anything.
I asked for further clarification and was told that of the customers that completed the transactions, only 5% came back and spent more money. Since the terms of the promotion from an affiliate stand point were that they had to spend "any amount of money", I didn't understand why this was a disqualifying issue.
I then received another email explaining that although the customers completed the transactions that were required for me to earn my affiliate commission, the customers had "suspicious" email accounts. I'm not sure what that means or how they would determine that an account was "suspicious".
Knowing how this promotion works I asked how that would matter since each person had to enter a credit or debit card to take advantage of the promotion. I asked if they shared an IP address and if so, if they could share those with me.
The next email explained that the accounts used pre-paid credit cards and the billing address for the cards didn't match the state that the IP address was from. So, do prepaid credit cards HAVE billing addresses?? Also, the IP address for an email account can vary depending on what mail service you use and isn't always dependent upon the state you live in.
On August 3rd, 2011 Mercury officially entered its retrograde period that would last until August 26th. In the grand scheme of things this may not seem all that long, but there is a time period known as the shadow that starts about weeks before and extends two weeks after this time frame.
On July 29th I was informed by KEEN, a company who I have an affiliate marketing agreement with, that the transactions generated by my ads were "suspicious". Because of this they decided to just delete $1,300 in commissions that I rightfully earned for the month of July. *POOF*... GONE... NO MORE.. So Sorry..
I contacted Commission Junction, the company that manages the partnership and was told that it didn't look like I had done anything fraudulent on my end. Ummm.. no.. I haven't.
I've exchanged numerous emails with KEEN's affiliate contact, Steven Chang and received several explanations as to why they have chosen to take this action. At first I was told that my links didn't work. When I checked the links they changed their story and said that they never said they were broken, but then asked me for screen shots. I sent the screen shots only to be told that the screen shots didn't really tell them anything.
I asked for further clarification and was told that of the customers that completed the transactions, only 5% came back and spent more money. Since the terms of the promotion from an affiliate stand point were that they had to spend "any amount of money", I didn't understand why this was a disqualifying issue.
I then received another email explaining that although the customers completed the transactions that were required for me to earn my affiliate commission, the customers had "suspicious" email accounts. I'm not sure what that means or how they would determine that an account was "suspicious".
Knowing how this promotion works I asked how that would matter since each person had to enter a credit or debit card to take advantage of the promotion. I asked if they shared an IP address and if so, if they could share those with me.
The next email explained that the accounts used pre-paid credit cards and the billing address for the cards didn't match the state that the IP address was from. So, do prepaid credit cards HAVE billing addresses?? Also, the IP address for an email account can vary depending on what mail service you use and isn't always dependent upon the state you live in.
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commission junction, keen, at&t, affiliates, mercury retrograde
Spiritually Advanced? Maybe not what you think
Posted August 5, 2011 by Kimberanne Weaver in Spiritual
While appearing as a guest on a Blog Talk Radio show last night we received what I label a "troll call". This was a person who calls in with the intent to try and discredit the guest or the host or just generally be a jerk. In the case of last night's caller when they were unmuted one female caller started talking to another female caller in the background, talking about me as a reader and specifically calling me a "KEEN" reader, referring to a website I used to read on. They then proceeded to say that I "sucked" before the host of the show finally caught on and dropped their call.
What is interesting about this is a couple of things. The first is that I haven't been an active reader on KEEN for well over a year, and closer to two years. The second is that one of the reasons I left Blog Talk Radio in the first place over a year ago was because of the negative energy people who seem to stalk the site and who find pleasure in trying to discredit intuitives. The very sad thing about this is that the majority of the people who are guilty of this are actually readers or hosts of shows themselves.
Being an empath this negative type of energy is something that I can be especially sensitive to and it can throw off my concentration and enthusiasm. A friend of mine who was in the show chatroom sent me a private message, telling me to shake it off and ignore the trolls. Very good advice and one that I will be specifically working on with deliberate intention.
Immediately following the call another caller was welcomed onto the show with us and a brief discussion ensued about the troll that had just called. It is my belief that there are a lot of people out there who call themselves psychics, spiritual, lightworkers, or what have you that aren't on a truly spiritual path. The caller was a great example of this. This type of behavior only hurts the metaphysical world and the work that many of us dedicate our lives to.
I'm sure that you have heard this rant before from others, but I would like to introduce a new twist to this. When someone behaves in the manner that the troll caller did, its easy for everyone, including myself, to say that they must not be very spiritually advanced. Well, I propose that we maybe look at this in another way. Perhaps they are even more "advanced" along their path that any of us are. Perhaps they chose to come back into this life to be a bad example of how to behave and they made that choice knowing that this life wouldn't be as easy for them. They would always be filled with anger, resentment, and a bitter heart that would lead them to attack others. Through their actions however they provide others with the opportunity to evaluate how they behave and to solidify what they believe to be behavior that is honorable to them.
So, although trolls aren't any fun, we can turn this around and choose to thank their higher selves for providing us with a good example of what a bad example of behavior is!
What is interesting about this is a couple of things. The first is that I haven't been an active reader on KEEN for well over a year, and closer to two years. The second is that one of the reasons I left Blog Talk Radio in the first place over a year ago was because of the negative energy people who seem to stalk the site and who find pleasure in trying to discredit intuitives. The very sad thing about this is that the majority of the people who are guilty of this are actually readers or hosts of shows themselves.
Being an empath this negative type of energy is something that I can be especially sensitive to and it can throw off my concentration and enthusiasm. A friend of mine who was in the show chatroom sent me a private message, telling me to shake it off and ignore the trolls. Very good advice and one that I will be specifically working on with deliberate intention.
Immediately following the call another caller was welcomed onto the show with us and a brief discussion ensued about the troll that had just called. It is my belief that there are a lot of people out there who call themselves psychics, spiritual, lightworkers, or what have you that aren't on a truly spiritual path. The caller was a great example of this. This type of behavior only hurts the metaphysical world and the work that many of us dedicate our lives to.
I'm sure that you have heard this rant before from others, but I would like to introduce a new twist to this. When someone behaves in the manner that the troll caller did, its easy for everyone, including myself, to say that they must not be very spiritually advanced. Well, I propose that we maybe look at this in another way. Perhaps they are even more "advanced" along their path that any of us are. Perhaps they chose to come back into this life to be a bad example of how to behave and they made that choice knowing that this life wouldn't be as easy for them. They would always be filled with anger, resentment, and a bitter heart that would lead them to attack others. Through their actions however they provide others with the opportunity to evaluate how they behave and to solidify what they believe to be behavior that is honorable to them.
So, although trolls aren't any fun, we can turn this around and choose to thank their higher selves for providing us with a good example of what a bad example of behavior is!
