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AffSpy.com Has It’s Uses

April 4th, 2008

I’m not the first person to write about AffSpy and certainly won’t be the last.  I’m a big fan of NickyCakes blog and in his post Affspy: Epic Failboat he rips them a new one.  I actually first heard of the service when he posted about it.  Although all of his grievances are 100% true and his points are valid, I did use the service today to help me see if their are any street payouts higher then the one I am obtaining on my affiliate network of choice.

It just so happened I was getting the best street payout of the networks they report, which means nothing but I thought if another network were offering a better payout I could use it as leverage.  In one quick search I was able to see what about 10 networks were paying on the offer.  If indeed there was a network offering a better payout I could have used it to negotiate a better payout on my current affiliate network.

One grievance I would like to air myself is that the information on AffSpy.com was actually wrong.  Affspy reported that the offer I was running was valid only on email.  I was promoting it on search so wanted to make sure I wasn’t breaking any rules and went to the network to find out.  In fact the offer was fine for email, web, search or downloadables.  If I were relying on Affspy for all of my info I would be screwed because I wouldn’t have thought I could pick up that offer and run it on search.

Overall, Affspy has its uses but don’t rely on it exclusively.

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