Interesting affiliate case

Hey guys,

So, I just bought an item off of CodeCanyon and got the email receipt as usual.

But I didn’t notice this until today: the download link for your purchased file is something like this:

Note the referral at the end. I said “Ok, they must be using this in their analytics”.

But I looked up the user emailreceipt and it referred quite a lot of people. That would be technically impossible, since you cannot refer an user who has already signed up (as he made a purchase). Not to mention, the rules say that if a user previously visited an Envato marketplace, it doesn’t count as your referral.

So how can this be?

JamiGibbs said
[...] but I don’t see any reason to assume that the user referenced in that URL received any monetary gain from your purchase.

Nope, never even thought about that, and I wouldn’t care either since I didn’t pay more. It wouldn’t even make sense that the user gains money, since that would split it into more locations, meaning more micromanagement for Envato.

I was just curious how can this user have referred people if they were already registered.

Mhhh, that is interesting. I would love to know the solution of this puzzle.
Maybe this link doesn’t refer to the user that is called emailreceipt but it is an indication for Envato how much people click on their download link through the email. So maybe it only is a coincidence that there is a user with the same name that Envato uses for such analytics.

MSFX said

digitalimpact said
I was just curious how can this user have referred people if they were already registered.

perhaps from people forwarding the newsletter and perhaps the newsletters being online somewhere and people stumbling across them…

Didn’t think of that, it is indeed a possibility Thanks MSFX !