Slide Ins Need to Slither Out for Affiliate Marketing Success

Has anyone else noticed the rash of pop ups, slide ins, computer generated virtual assistants with a special offer deal that seem to have attached themselves to many info product pages lately? I find these pop/slide ins annoying and time wasters, and they show me their web site visitor a certain lack of respect. It reminds me very much of trying to walk out of a store in a mall and the shop assistant grabs you by the arm and drags you away from the door. Is this kind of behaviour effective marketing or good customer service? Not in Australia nor in most other countries I believe.

I, and I'm sure many others, would be rather interested in seeing what the testing results of this type of marketing is showing. For my part, I would have to question the effectiveness of it and I would also like to see the results of an actual survey that some one has run? The other thing that would be interesting to know is how many repeat visitors do they get back?

If someone was to treat a customer like that in real life, wouldn't you go and tell all your friends and neighbours about the rudeness of the shop assistant in that store? I would and then I'd have a bit of a laugh at the ineffectiveness of it. If the owner of the store found their shop assistants behaving like this, do you think that the offender would still have their job at the end of the day/week?

Why do some Internet marketers think they can hide behind the anonymity of the Internet and practise these bad-mannered disrespectful sales pitches? Are they all so desperate for a sale? Trying to sell me something this way reeks of desperation to me and if I feel uncomfortable about the treatment I'm receiving why would I want to buy anything from their website?

I believe it's time the slide-in computer generated virtual assistant packed up their pixels and took a very long walk of a very short plank.