David Fiske A subtle blend of affiliate marketing and web development

I received a personalised (i.e. Dear Dave) email today from a Ross Truesdale of Affiliate Window. Not that bizarre until you realise a) I'm not a member of Affiliate Window and b) it is addressed to my Tradedoubler email address (tradedoubler@...)

It seemingly turns out Affiliate Window are trying to poach publishers from Tradedoubler.
 
Here's the email I was sent:

Hi Dave,

Pixmania are offering you exclusive discount codes and product promotions in order for you to change links across to Affiliate Window. Pixmania are part of the DSGI Group( Curries, Dixons) who have recently moved over to Affiliate Window. These promotions /vouchercodes are only available through Affiliate Window!

Pixmania is part of the DSGi Group, who have recently signed an exclusive deal with Affiliate Window, collectively, as their network of choice.

As a result we can offer you the best promotions within the affiliate marketplace so you can maximise your campaigns!

DSGI brands include: PIXMANIA, CURRYS, THE LINK, PC WORLD, DIXONS.

To join the Pixmania programme through Affiliate Window simply click here

Once you have joined the Pixmania programme through Affiliate Window, drop me an email and I will confirm your application immediately and send you all discount codes available this week!

For information on promotional offers on any of the other DSGi brands please do not hesitate to get in touch.

I look forward to hearing from you shortly.

Best wishes
Ross Truesdale

As I deal with Tradedoubler for the Pixmania program, I emailed them to check whether the Tradedoubler Pixmania account was closing down, as the email above implies. Tradedoubler's response was:

Hi,
Thank you for contacting TradeDoubler.

As far as I have been advised, Pixmania are not closing on the TradeDoubler network. I am unsure as to how Affiliate Window have obtained your details which leads me to believe that Pixmania have not acted in an ethical manner. I have therefore referred this to the account managers for this program to investigate further.

I am very intrigued at why Affiliate Window are emailing me via my Tradedoubler email address. I would also like to know the outcome of this too as I think it's wrong for networks to poach publishers. It's frowned upon on the A4U Forum (memories of Michael Anthony posting links to the Affiliate Marketing School in individual network threads) and should be frowned upon in practise. Fine, email me through my website. Offer me better commission or incentives. Don't steal my email address from my preferred network.