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Thursday, 05/18/2017 6:00:53 PM

Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:00:53 PM

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Amazon Associates (affiliates) can screw you over!
You don't get paid if you don't follow THEIR rules about linking!
...and Amazon is VERY STRICT.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies#Associates%20Program%20Fee%20Statement

2. Disqualified Purchases

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Qualifying Purchases are disqualified whenever they occur in connection with a violation of this Associates Program Fee Statement or any other terms, conditions, specifications, statements, and policies that we may issue from time to time that apply to the Associates Program, including the most up-to-date version of the Associates Operating Agreement (collectively, the “Program Documents”). For example, no Program Fees are payable for a purchase that is not correctly tracked or reported because the links from your Site to the Amazon Site are not properly formatted, or for a purchase through a Special Link that violates the terms of the Program Documents.

Additionally, the following purchases that would otherwise be Qualified Purchases are disqualified and excluded from the Associates Program:

(a) any Product purchased after termination of your Associates Operating Agreement,

(b) any Product order that is canceled or returned,

(c) any Product purchased by a customer who is referred to an Amazon Site through any advertisement that you purchased through participation in bidding or auctions on keywords, search terms, or other identifiers that include the word “amazon”, or “kindle”, or any other trademark of Amazon or its affiliates (see a non-exhaustive list of our trademarks here, or variations or misspellings of any of those words (e.g., “ammazon”, “amaozn”, and “kindel”) (all, a “Prohibited Paid Search Placement”),

(d) any Product purchased by a customer who is referred to an Amazon Site by a link that is generated or displayed on a search engine (including Google, Yahoo, Bing, or any other search portal, sponsored advertising service, or other search or referral service, or any site that participates in such search engine’s network),

(e) any Product purchased by a customer who is referred to an Amazon Site by a link that sends users indirectly to the Amazon Site via an intermediate site, without requiring the customer to click on a link or take some other affirmative action on that intermediate site (a “Redirecting Link”),

(f) any Product subject to a Bounty Event (as defined in Section 4(a) of this Fee Statement, with the corresponding related Special Program Fee) or purchased in a subscription (other than the initial purchase of the subscribed Product), and

(g) any Product purchased by a customer, where such customer does not comply with the terms and conditions applicable to the Amazon Site.




The good and bad of the Amazon Affiliates program (other reviews share similar thoughts):
https://onlinefinancialsuccessstory.com/is-amazon-associates-a-scam-here-is-my-take-on-it

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