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Adam & Eve affiliates enjoy the highest commission rates
of any e-commerce site on the Internet today, earning at least 20% on sales generated
through their own links, plus a $1.00 reward for every new, unique customer who
registers on our site and makes a purchase. Affiliates also earn bonus commissions
for future purchases their customers make, $5.00 for every new affiliate they refer
to our program, and 5% of that affiliate's commissions.
Commissions are earned on all web sales made by your customers, and you may retain
customers for life. Your affiliate ID is attached to the customer login, so the
site will recognize them as your customer when they log in to make a purchase. We
do not use cookies to retain affiliate information for each customer.
We sometimes feature special higher promotional rates, allowing you to earn even
more. Some high-volume affiliates may have a preset, contracted commission rate
based on sales and traffic. Not all affiliates are paid at the same rate.
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We pay commissions to affiliates monthly. The minimum
to balance to receive a check from us is $25.00 in commissions during a calendar
month. If you earn less than $25.00, your commissions carry forward until you have
earned the minimum for payout. Commission checks for U.S. affiliates should be dispatched
to you approximately 2 weeks after the close of each calendar month. We do not currently
offer electronic payment options.
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Some webmasters prefer to have multiple affiliate accounts
to track different promotions on their site. Our program supports custom campaigns
within your account, so it is no longer necessary to maintain multiple affiliate
accounts to run campaigns. If you need to set up multiple accounts, contact us at
affiliate@adameve.com and we will help
you. Be advised that we cannot conglomerate sales across multiple affiliate accounts
to meet your minimum for pay-out. Webmasters with multiple affiliate accounts who
have earned the monthly minimum commission for pay-out will be paid on the same
check.
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We offer free registration, which allows your customers
to see all the adult images on our site. Registration is required when they place
an order. The on-site free registration collects the customer's address for our
e-mail program, and their mailing address for catalog and package delivery, along
with specific permission to e-mail to the customer at their preferred address. You
will be paid $1.00 for each unique new customer not already registered on the site
who signs up through your affiliate links, if they make a purchase from us within
30 days of registering. Our program does not pay for e-mail addresses alone. As
above with merchandise sales commissions, not all affiliates are paid at the same
rate for catalog signups.
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We synchronize sales data from the websites to our mainframe
twice daily, at approximately 5:00am and 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time. During the
synch, we will post all commissions earned on shipped merchandise and new customer/
approved new affiliate signups.
We post commissions on items as they are shipped out of the warehouse rather than
at the time an order is placed to prevent chargebacks to our affiliates. As soon
as the merchandise leaves the warehouse, we credit your affiliate account with the
commission. This insures that you won't see chargebacks on your account for cancelled
or fraudulent orders, or incorrect credit card information. We have collected the
money for the order at the time we post the commission to your account.
When shipping orders, your affiliate account is credited for each item on the order
individually, rather than for the whole order at once. That way, if your customer
orders multiple items and one is out of stock or being shipped in a separate package,
we don't hold your commissions any longer than necessary. We will credit your account
for the items that ship, and then post the remaining commissions as the remaining
items ship.
Since new customer signups, referred webmaster commissions, and entertainment/VOD
sales do not go through our package shipping system, those commissions will appear
on your account with the next posting.
New webmaster referrals are paid after their site is reviewed and they are approved
for our program. We do not pay for referred webmasters whose applications are rejected.
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Except during high-volume holiday periods, our warehouse
ships packages Monday through Friday. Even though you may see some new customer
signups and entertainment sales hitting your commission report over the weekend,
you won't see many merchandise shipments posted to your account. Web orders that
come in over the weekend usually post in your Monday and Tuesday commissions as
the orders leave the warehouse. Over time you may notice an increase in your early-week
sales because of this.
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While it's true that we do not pay commissions on our
free products (20% of $0 = $0) we have great success with using our free DVD and
Sex Toys promotions as a means of introducing new customers to Adam & Eve. Our free
product offer links make it possible for your customer to continue shopping after
they select their free gift, and most do. You earn commissions on all the other
products that your customer purchases, along with their free product offer. Orders
that include the free promotional item and no other items will not show up on your
account. We removed the $0 dollar commissions from the sales report to avoid confusion.
Any free items that are included in a customer's order (Gift With Purchase) will
not appear on your commission report, since you don't earn commissions on free products.
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We are always looking for promotional opportunities that
will make our webmaster affiliates more successful. Contact us at
affiliate@adameve.com and we'll try to create a promotion that works for
your site. Our marketing tools also include the ability to link to any product within
our site, or to build a search results page of products that are relevant to your
niche/market. Additionally, you can build a co-branded Adam & Eve store and select
what categories of merchandise will be shown in the store. For example if you want
a store link on your site that sells only lingerie or sex toys, we have that functionality
available.
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We have hundreds of banners ready to go on your site,
pre-populated with your affiliate link info and hosted on our servers. You may also
save the banners to your hard drive and use any of our available affiliate links.
You can use our product images on your site if you are promoting the same item,
and link back to AdamEve.com via your affiliate account. Do not use explicit images
on any website that is not behind some type of age check (see our
Terms and Conditions for more details). You may only use Adam & Eve product
images or logos with our permission. You may never use them for TGP, gallery images
or e-mails.
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You can now build your customer Adam & Eve store for
use in your webmaster promotions. You can either link directly to your custom store
or you can redirect your domain to the store link for easier promotion. Webmasters
have the option of the major types of merchandise sold in the store, either a full
Adam & Eve store, Video product only, or all products except Video. You have font
and color choices, as well as the option to hot-link to a main store banner of your
choice. All sales from customer stores go through the same Adam & Eve checkout process
and pay commissions through the same process mentioned above for the adameve.com
site.
We also offer a customized solution for high-volume affiliates who generate significant
sales and commissions through their stores. If you are a website owner with high
traffic volume and would like to add a customer-built Adam & Eve store to your site,
contact us at affiliate@adameve.com.
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Our Terms and Conditions for webmasters specifically
prohibit using the Adam & Eve name or promotion of our products via e-mail. Violation
will result in immediate removal from the program, and forfeiture of any outstanding
affiliate commissions.
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We can only accept live sites into our affiliate program.
If your site is "Under Construction" with no content in place, or your domain is
not live, we cannot accept your application.
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If you have your own website (e.g. http://www.johndoes-sextoys.com) and have placed our banners there, you are more than welcome to utilize pay-per-click advertising; however, those who are using the Build Your Own Store feature may not use their Build Your Own Store URL in paid search (e.g. http://johndoessextoys.adameve.com).
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