Posted 1 year ago
Free Subscriptions to be phased out by June 1st 2012
They have decided to phase out the UK Free ClickShare Subscriptions and replace them with a £9.99 per year CickShare Subscription.
FYI ICODES Free Subscriptions to be phased out
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Posted 1 year ago
Yeah this is correct but only in the UK at the moment.
With the subscriptions being free we tend to get a load no hopers, a small yearly charge at least weeds the majority of these users out and so will improve the service all round for everyone else.
We will have more time to improve the service instead of support tickets for those who want to make a million with no effort or outlay, and the server will be more stable with less users onboard.
I doubt it will do any harm, ie effect couponpress sales for example, as the type of person not willing to pay £9.99 per year is the type who wouldn't buy a third party script either.
Lee
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Posted 1 year ago
is there the possibility for CouponPress users in the UK who want to try it to be able to signup for a free trial still..?
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Posted 1 year ago
What, if any are the alternatives to icodes for Couponpress users?
The combination of a good looking WP-theme and supporting scripts with the use of an equally good data feed was really great whilst it lasted. I was happy with the icodes shared revenue option as it gave me a chance to prove the site worked first, -although the scheme promised very little or no revenue to start with.
I've only just purchased my Couponpress WP-script and would not have done so without the free shared revenue feed from icodes. I must also say I really didn't cotton on to the fact that I had to manually join 8,400+ stores in 17 odd affiliate merchant schemes..
I know it's not a lot of money but icodes are already gaining all the revenue from the displayed vouchers with icodes own affiliate ids and a 50% share on the customers own joined affiliate merchants.
Has anybody noticed that a lot of the feeds from icodes include the actual voucher/coupon codes in with the item description this - sort of blows any chance of revenue from a fair few of the coupons. Also they seem to be missing quite a few stores for the affiliates merchants?
I don't usually mind paying for things but initially it was important for me to prove it could work first.
I agree with MarkF, and would advocate at least a three month trial, that give us, new users a chance to see which of the paid icode options best suit.
After that the Icodes quip of "if your site isn't making enough to justify £9.99 per year then you may aswell pack in anyway :-)"
May well apply... Perhaps they are forgetting it's not free it's a shared revenue option!
Bit miffed,- Mark
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Posted 1 year ago
A free trial will be available shortly, however we have always had available a free username and subscription id to test things out.
As for the above reply, i'm not aware of any codes in descriptions, they are supposed to be stripped out, however not reporting it via support ticket doesn't help anyone.
Gaining ALL the revenue from the 50/50 clickshare lol, 100% of free users who stay on the free subscriptions make next to nothing, 50% of next to nothing is pretty much nothing.
The 50/50 clickshare may aswell be 100% to the users if our earnings have anything to go by.
Another fact is those who stay on the free subscription actually cost us money due to the size of server we require to cater for the amount of imports done daily by free users.
The paying users subsidize the free users, the clickshare is negligable, this is why we are filtering out those who don't stand a chance by charging a whopping £9.99 a year. (2.7p per day)
Lee
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Posted 1 year ago
So you are saying you wouldn't have purchased couponpress at $79.99 IF iCodes was £9.99 at that time?.. I find that hard to believe.
You happily pay for the script, the domain name, the hosting, why are you offended by paying £9.99 for the feed?
I honestly have a feeling that in this case the £9.99 charge has proved to have done it's job quite successfully.
So far this is the one and only complaint about the charge we have had.
Lee
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Posted 1 year ago
Great, will the free trial be for three months? I think that is enough time to see if this works before deciding on which paid feed to use from icodes, if any.
As far as coupon codes in descriptions, I found so many I just thought it was normal. I must admit I actually couldn't believe that I was the only one that would have an issue with this. I just checked the last two coupons from you "Save a HUGE 50% @ photobox.co.uk" "10% Discount @ rubbersole.co.uk" and both have the coupon codes in the descriptions.
You say and I quote "Gaining ALL the revenue from the 50/50 clickshare lol, 100% of free users who stay on the free subscriptions make next to nothing, 50% of next to nothing is pretty much nothing."
That is not what I said at all, what I said was.
"icodes are already gaining all the revenue from the displayed vouchers with icodes own affiliate ids and a 50% share on the customers own joined affiliate merchants."
Now you are saying 100% of users on this feed make next to nothing, could you help us out with some figures or statistics so we are able to make informed decisions please. It doesn't sound good charging £9.99 for a service you say will gain us 50% of next to nothing?
If we would be better off with the full or paid subscription that offers more success and pays for itself - I'm sure we would all be open to persuasion.
I do take your point if the free shared revenue users are costing you money then it would be necessary to change the scheme, we are all here to make money. Have you looked at or any idea why the shared revenue scheme isn't working?
Surely most of the paying users first started as free revenue sharing subscriptions.
Little less miffed, Mark
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Posted 1 year ago
ill leave this open for lee
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Posted 1 year ago
Yes that is exactly what I'm saying.
I had three options for my next project, the couponpress + icodes free revenue sharing scheme pipped the other two projects at the post -but only just. None of these proposed new projects had subscription based re-occurring charges. I'm always happy to put all the site generated revenue back into my projects and to be honest I've made about this amount but not from vouchers from google.
As I said before it was an informed decision based on "the combination of a good looking WP-theme and supporting scripts with the use of an equally good data feed" that tipped the balance in favor of this project.
Okay let me try and be a little clearer.
I'm not offended by paying £9.99 for the feed!- I'm offended by the less than two weeks notice a month of my purchase.
I'm concerned that your saying the free shared revenue icodes scheme makes 50% of next to nothing and now you will be charging £9.99 for this same scheme.
I'm saying I would not have purchased CouponPress if the feed was billed as a re-occurring fee.
I'm saying if there was a three month trial with icodes free revenue sharing scheme I would have purchased CouponPressI wouldn't say this is a complaint I'm just being openly honest.
Mark
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Posted 1 year ago
Mark i would suggest you contact lee directly with regards to your sub subscription with icodes etc i don't think lee would be able to discount individual accounts etc here.
If you purchased couponpress via icodes with the intention of using their free service lee maybe able to accommodate/provide something for you.
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Posted 1 year ago
I'll look into the issue with codes in descriptions, those tidying the feeds should know the basic rules of removing any codes.
Everyone uses the same feed whether they earn nothing or thousands a month/week/day (which some do), now common sense should tell you the feed has absolutely nothing to do with what you earn and that is down to you.
We supply a standardized feed of multple networks data, anything else to do with promoting your site has absolutely nothing to do with us and if someone can't make £9.99 over the period of a year to cover the costs of the feed then I stand by my statement that they may aswell pack in.
I didn't say all those on a free subscription make next to nothing, I said those who stay on a free subscription make next to nothing, so we earn nothing from that type of affiliate. Why should we feed a site for years on end for nothing?, Bandwidth costs money.
If a £9.99 yearly charge is inplace and not paid then we know the subscriber isn't making an effort and so can be removed, otherwise how else would we know not to waste further bandwidth on a site set on auto import and just left to rot.
£9.99 is nothing more than a token gesture to give a hint you're not a complete and utter no hoper when it comes to aff marketing.
Did you get a free trial of your domain name, hosting, couponpress to see if you could earn any commission to pay for them?
Mark feel free to close this thread if you wish.
Lee
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Posted 1 year ago
Can't find any codes in the descriptions you mentioned..
Photobox
http://www.icodes.co.uk/Photobox/Voucher+Codes.htmlRubbersoles
http://www.icodes.co.uk/RubberSole.co.uk/Voucher+Codes.html//edit// I've looked through the last 200 codes added and can't find a single code in the description anywhere, maybe it's a setting on your site or odd formatting making the code appear to be in the description.
Lee
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Posted 1 year ago
Lee thanks I also double checked my site and found there is a default example in the (?) help description for the icodes mass import from CouponPress.
Called: Customize The Imported Coupon Description
example says: [description] [code] [merchant] [url] [starts] [ends]It is the [code] item above that was injecting the coupon code into the Coupon (Big) description.
I've now tested an import with and without the [code] item and with it remove, all is well,
Thank you for looking.
Sure I don't mind closing the thread, I've expressed my opinion, as I said "I'm not offended by paying £9.99 for the feed!- I'm offended by the less than two weeks notice a month of my purchase".
Mark
Oh in reply to this...
Did you get a free trial of your domain name, hosting, couponpress to see if you could earn any commission to pay for them?
All I can say is if this was the case and they gave less than two weeks notice within a month of signing up I would say the same to them.
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Posted 12 months ago
Ok, I agree the notice was short, but we are having server issues and so need to lighten the load as quickly as possible.
The recent server issues may not be anything to do with heavy usage, however reducing the load will help the server cope better with whatever is wrong.
Cheers
Lee
