Comments on: Why Amazon doesn’t like deals sites?

By: baloneyboy

baloneyboy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:46:41 +0000

This is very troubling for many Amazon affiliates, not just top-tier sellers making 8%. Why would anyone want to invest time growing as an Amazon affiliate? When at anytime you can be cut off by some corporate cog who has little understanding how Affiliate Marketing even works.

I believe this will hurt Amazon in the long term, as many large publishers will send (most already have) their traffic elsewhere.

By: XynamaX

XynamaX — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:21:30 +0000

Don’t be surprised if other retailers follow suit. Many retailers have a strict “no forums” policy in regards to affiliate links, although there are TONS of sites who are in violation with this.

With tough times ahead forecasted in the economy, that 3-5% might be cut down even further. Most of these companies are operating on thin markups anyway.

Spoofee also tried to circumvent the process and created another associates ID and was caught by Amazon.