Advertising / affiliate programs - your opinion is wanted

[Mervi]

My experience with tBD is that they pack better than Amazon (and I've heard Amazon *used* to pack better, I've only been ordering from them during the last 2 years or so). In my (rather limited experience) play.com is the worst when it comes to packing stuff so that it survives the overseas trip.

Farseer, I can login to their site with my affiliate ID and password and see all kinds of statistics - how many clicks per day or month there have been, how many books have been sold through those clicks and how much £ that means. If I dig deep enough, I can see the IDs of the titles sold, and search the database to see what book titles those translate into (with amazon this is much easier, which is a good way of seeing what kind of books sell better than others). But I can NOT connect what has been bought to who bought it in any way (if that's a concern).

What I mean to do with the ticker is to update it regularly - it's done manually. (I log in to the affiliate page, check the sum, go to the ticker factory page and update the ticker there).