Summary – these are the current rules as of June 2017. See also Affiliate/Referral Links in Deal Posting Guidelines on what links can be posted, and Referral and Affiliate Link Differences.

• You CAN NOT submit a deal with an affiliate link as the main link/URL. Affiliate links CAN NOT be placed in the description or anywhere else at all.
• You CAN NOT post affiliate/referral links in the comments.
• You CAN NOT submit a deal with a referral link as the main link/URL or in the description. The only exception is if the referral for the store in question has not been added to the ChoiceCheapies referral system yet. In that case, you may include a referral link in the main deal/forum post description, however it must
  • Be placed at the very end of the deal description
  • Be declared, eg prefix/suffix with *”This is my referral code”*
  • If store is not already in the ChoiceCheapies referral system, please explain the referral. For example:
    • This is my referral link, if you click through and make a purchase I will receive $10 and you will receive $5.

ChoiceCheapies supports user-submitted referral code for some of the merchants. In order to submit your own referral code,

• Merchants must be approved for referral links by ChoiceCheapies. All approved merchants will be listed later in this wiki page.
• You must be a user on ChoiceCheapies.

You can then go to your account settings → referrals page to set up your referral codes for all the merchants that we are supporting.