Featuring items without the appropriate referral code

Hi guys,

I just found a blog where the owner promotes projects of several users using his own referral code.

Being part of the same community and curious to know his name I investigated and found out he has the red author badge (1000-5000$) and the black referral badge (100-199 users) even he made only 107 sales selling 2 items.

Obviously the big part of the amount is made by referrals.

Well, the question is: is it really possible to use this stratagem to get money? What if I use my personal code to feature all the items of all the marketplaces?

Featuring Items: You can use your site or a social service to feature an item, using your referral link.

What does it correcly mean? Am I really able to use my own referral code to feature items whose I’m not the owner?

Note: I do not intend to accuse nobody. Just want to clear things up!

Cheers,

m.

From what I understood in past threads, this is acceptable behavior.

He’s basically giving our files promotion using his own potential traffic. It’s a win-win trade off for both of us, the referrer and the author.

I also have 3 domains that drive traffic to Envato marketplaces, as long as i earn i will continue to expand my network. Feel free to use your code, here take a look my portfolio, add what do you like to your website/blog/twitter/youtube etc… I get buyer you get ref. cut. we both happy isn’t?

P.S. take a look my http://www.aedaddy.com/ or my new http://www.theme-city.com/ is i success (i hope i will) that will be money machines in near future.

BTW THIS WAS MY 666 POST

I’ve put a lots of time investigating this thing because I saw that some people made serious money featuring Marketplace items with their own referral code. As what I’ve understood it’s perfectly okay and I’ve featured some items myself on my blog! You can see a lot of bloggers who publish articles like “50 Best Videohive Projects”, “25 Coolest Wordpress Themes” etc. and they are all using their referring code. In my opinion it’s a win-win situation and the marketplace gets more visibility on the Internet.

I also have 3 domains that drive traffic to Envato marketplaces, as long as i earn i will continue to expand my network. Feel free to use your code, here take a look my portfolio, add what do you like to your website/blog/twitter/youtube etc… I get buyer you get ref. cut. we both happy isn’t? P.S. take a look my http://www.aedaddy.com/ or my new http://www.theme-city.com/ is i success (i hope i will) that will be money machines in near future.

Your post number 666, scary!

..so i just need to reboot the brain and start to think its fair for all of us.

thanks guys for answering : )

m.

..so i just need to reboot the brain and start to think its fair for all of us.

thanks guys for answering : )

m.

No problem I had the same thoughts when I first noticed the whole referral thing but now I know that maybe some day someone will feature my item on a blog, website etc. and will drive more people purchase my files!

any promotion is good! there’s nothing wrong in promoting an item of an other author.

I probabily was the only one on the world who didn’t know about this possibility

Feel free to promote and earn money promoting any file of my portfolio.