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[Burnsite]

Posting of direct links to other sites may not be related to sales at all, but to the fact that malware and viruses are rather often transmitted by those direct links.  Then QVC would be held responsible when their customers' computers slowed down or stopped working.

[Perkup]

Hey, folks.  I just don't quite understand why they have a problem with B&M stores and no problem with other shopping channels. I don't use coupon codes anyway because I rarely shop elsewhere where they do offer coupons.

Except for Winn Dixie, where I use all the coupons I can get.  Nuff Said.

I've read their rules and regs.  

[Moonchilde]

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@Burnsite wrote:

Posting of direct links to other sites may not be related to sales at all, but to the fact that malware and viruses are rather often transmitted by those direct links.  Then QVC would be held responsible when their customers' computers slowed down or stopped working.

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This is precisely the reason, and it has been stated on the forums and it's in the guidelines/rules.  It's because QVC does not want to be responsible for live links to ANY other site.  It's not at all unusual (and in fact common) for people to disguise a website, call it something benign, and when you click on it, the site is either data-mining or malware/virus. It is everywhere. And QVC is not going to click on every link anyone posts just to check. Why should they? They have stated "no live links" as part of the rules. It could be a live link to the American Cancer Society and it would still be a "no."

[nun ya]

So no links at all or just ones to other shopping sites?

(I'm confused because they have the button to insert a link.)

[dooBdoo]

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@Burnsite wrote:

Posting of direct links to other sites may not be related to sales at all, but to the fact that malware and viruses are rather often transmitted by those direct links.  Then QVC would be held responsible when their customers' computers slowed down or stopped working.

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      While I wish that were true, it  can't be the reason because they allow all other links (to articles, sites related to support or advice, etc.). 

      (eta:  As an example, some of us regularly post direct links to tech support info and those are always allowed to remain in place.)

      Also, in their very detailed "General Terms and Conditions" (section 7. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability as to the QVC.com Site and Content) they state they are not responsible for any potential damage from other linked sites.

link goes to:  http://www.qvc.com/GeneralTermsandConditions.content.html

(By the way, disallowing coupon codes and certain retail site links isn't new to this platform.  It's been in the Standards for Participation, and enforced, as long as I've been posting here.)

[dooBdoo]

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@NUNYA wrote:

So no links at all or just ones to other shopping sites?

(I'm confused because they have the button to insert a link.)

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      They do allow links, @nun ya.  The only prohibited links seem to be to retail sites or to sites which violate their guidelines (so says the Standards:  "Do not post web addresses (URLs) for, or links to, outside sites that violate these guidelines.").

[dooBdoo]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@Burnsite wrote:

Posting of direct links to other sites may not be related to sales at all, but to the fact that malware and viruses are rather often transmitted by those direct links.  Then QVC would be held responsible when their customers' computers slowed down or stopped working.

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This is precisely the reason, and it has been stated on the forums and it's in the guidelines/rules.  It's because QVC does not want to be responsible for live links to ANY other site.  It's not at all unusual (and in fact common) for people to disguise a website, call it something benign, and when you click on it, the site is either data-mining or malware/virus. It is everywhere. And QVC is not going to click on every link anyone posts just to check. Why should they? They have stated "no live links" as part of the rules. It could be a live link to the American Cancer Society and it would still be a "no."

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     @Moonchilde, I looked and I don't see anything in their Standards for Participation or their General Terms and Conditions saying "no live links."  And, as mentioned before, we have a working feature in the toolbar which makes it easy for us to insert these links.

[nun ya]

Thank you @dooBdoo !!

[Moonchilde]

@dooBdoo, I believe I have seen a moderator describe it that way, but I could be mistaken. I have been trying to cut and paste the relevant parts of the Guidelines, but being on an iPad is making that pretty impossible, and it isn't important enough to me to pursue it further re cutting and pasting, and I can't do it from memory, so I'm bowing out here.  I am also going by what has typically been removed in the past.

[Buck-i-Nana]

So, a little off topic, but are the moderators no longer commenting when they delete posts and threads?  I find it very curious.