As a coupon site, many times we will work with merchants and offer special placements or special terms in order to get exclusive coupons. One longstanding problem has been other coupon sites taking other coupon site’s exclusive coupons and posting them on their own site. Many times these coupons include our site name, FlamingoWorld or another coupon site’s name or some variation there of.

There are some merchants that track the sales back to those exclusive coupons and they make sure that the affiliate given the coupon code gets credit for all sales. This way the site that lifted the coupon from another site does not benefit financially at all. But most of the time whatever site the shopper clicks through the link on will get credit for the sale no matter what coupon code they use.

Coupon Cabin, a popular coupon site has decided they aren’t going to take it anymore. Coupon Cabin has decided to take legal action against competitors who have been posting and financially benefiting from their exclusive coupons that include their trademarked name. They have started to send cease and desist letters to those using their exclusives, or suing for damages.

There are a lot of coupon sites out there that claim their coupons are entered by users of their site and that their model is a community based website and they have no control over the content. In reality many of these sites are actually posting these coupons themselves and using the member’s as an excuse to post coupons they shouldn’t.

The networks don’t do anything about these websites, They get away with posting any coupon they find whether it belongs to another affiliate or if it is unauthorized for affiliate use. Some merchants kick these affiliates out of their programs while some networks give them awards.

Coupon sites beware if you post other coupon site’s exclusive coupon codes there may be consequences.

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