Originally Posted by
justhere
it's an immediate error msg. i click on shop now, you can see the URL show up in the address bar and instead of the webpage showing up, I get the IE blank page with just the "IE cannot display this webpage" error.
I'm pretty sure that i am using a HOSTS file and I think that the only thing that I have blocked is tribalfusion but i will check that and see.
I was trying to get to BestBuy so I know that one is one of them but I can't remember which other ones I tried that didn't work.
I'll post a few of them later if necessary when I get home. (At work now, but obviously not working
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Best Buy uses commission junction as its affiliate portal (which passes the info from the rewards mall to best buy and back). They redirect through a bunch of domains that are all nonsense names.
Any form of ad blocking software including host file implementation can interfere with mileage credit from any of the malls so if you are using it, be prepared to be told by the malls that there is no record of your transaction and you aren't getting any credit. Doesn't happen all the time (since each of the 4 major and many minor affiliate portals have their own domains they redirect through etc) but does happen.