Eren Padar had brought up a point to me either today about how the metaVENDORs allow their owners to get commissions from the things they buy themselves. Not all affiliate vendors desire this, because it makes them feel cheated. But for some, they want to allow this because they feel "A sale is a sale, and a discount encourages sales".

However, Eren and I both agree that merchants should be able to choose whether or not metaVENDOR owners receive a commission when they buy products from their own metaVENDORs. If this option is enabled, then the vendor's owner would not receive a commission when buying someone else's products from their own metaVENDOR. As well, they would not receive the commission if someone else buys the item as a gift for them.

As well, if this feature were implemented, we would need to decide on a default: allow discounts, or disallow discounts? Eren Padar and I vote in favor of not allowing discounts.

Clarification: The abuse spoken of is someone acquring a metaVENDOR just to get a discount on everything, rather than become an actual metaBRAND affiliate.