Why are some affiliate program dumb?

[freitasm]

"Thank you for applying to the XYZ Small Business Affiliates Program. We are sorry, but we are only accepting applications from applicants who have a mailing address in the United States. The XYZ Small Business Affiliates Program is currently based in the United States."

Got this through BeFree...

Why are some of the advertisers on these programs so dumb? Just because my postal address is not in US it doesn't mean that websites are not visible there.

I'm serving around 15,000 pages a day, 50% of these going to US and Canada.

Is just me or it seems those guys think the Internet only serve one country?

[teeceo]

What counrty do you stay in? There are some countries that "no" affilaite programs will touch....

teeceo.

[freitasm]

New Zealand.

I run Comission Junction and Google AdSense in my site and got approved very fast by these (and quite happy with Google AdSense I have to say).

[seindal]

I have gotten automatic refusals from several programs for the same reason. I'm in Denmark, but traffic on my sites are 60%-90% US. In some cases I have been accepted when I have written the AM to explain the situation.

Some programs don't give an email for the affiliate manager, so they lose a good affiliate.

René

[Essex_boy]

The programs are dumb cos they are run by dumb people ;)

[seindal]

They're only hurting themselves, as there are plenty of programs to work with.

[freitasm]

On CJ I've e-mailed O2 (British mobile) and Palm (US/Canada) and was accepted after explaining my traffic comes from US and Europe mainly...

Others, as noted in this thread lose affiliates because there's no contact info at all :(