Comments on: Amazon Associates Central Sucks as bad as the Commission

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:11:27 +0000

Amazon support gave me the following email address for Amazon Associates Program support: assoc-1@amazon.com .The result: "Address rejected. Reason: 550". I'm now definitely an ex-customer of Amazon.com...

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:31:33 +0000

By the way, i just realised that I've been giving Amazon traffic from my large website for about 6-8 years now and I didn't realise that ID was already canceled – Amazon did not bother remind me that I was shooting with no bullets… they quietly and happily took all the traffic and customers I sent them and di not even kindly let me know I could make some money from it…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:01:48 +0000

Google Adsense pays my website thousands of US$ while Amazon jusyt pays me $7 – $12 a month. I don't think that is fair, I will be removing amazon links from my site very soon.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:57:09 +0000

Amazon.com Associates website is a JOKE... I'm unable to update my address under payee-info.html page. It's not a problem with my computer or with cookies or with a firewall as Amazon "support" suggested. They told me there is nothing they can do to help me update from a North Carolina address to another state. So, I guess I will be closing my Amazon Associate accounts and all my past work i sgoing to atrash bin and Amazon is not going to get any sleepless nights over losing me as their associate ONLY BECAUSE their website is a joke and their support can't even update my address! Never again will I buy anything from Amazon.com!

By: PuReWebDev

PuReWebDev — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:25:16 +0000

I think Amazon Associates is still the best. Sure some of the tools are a little quirky, but if you are a developer, they really give you all the tools you need to make sales.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:43:11 +0000

Amazon Associates has the world’s most useless customer service. They do reply within three days but their answers are INANE. They do not make sense. It’s like they don’t even bother reading your concern, they just blather useless, mindless, worthless information. One time they asked me to send them “information they requested” but they didn’t even ask for anything at all.

By: A

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:18:16 +0000

You are missing a bigger point why amazon isnt doing well for most people.

Amazon gives you only a 24 hour window for your referal to buy a product. after which you get nothing.

80% of people will not buy within 24 hours.

I am experimenting with some of the best books on amazon and i am getting a lot of click throughs.

I am also sure many people will actually buy something from them but not within 24 hours.

That my 6% gone and amazon gets a new customer

Rememeber, the hardest part for amazon is earning a new paying customer. Once it does that, it will make a lot more through the lifetime of the customer.

In an ideal world, i would get a commission amount through out the lifetime of the customer i refer.

Unfortunately, i am just sending amazon free traffic, and making nothing for myself.

A
http://www.lucky-six.blogspot.com

By: Patric Welch

Patric Welch — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:43:42 +0000

I for one, like the income generated from Amazon Associates but I couldn’t agree more about the link building. I get so dang frustrated at how many hoops I have to jump through just to get a product link.

If you want to use one of their widgets, it’s a breeze. But when you want a link for an individual product, it’s a royal pain.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:31:13 +0000

I have a completely different reason for knowing that Amazon Associates SUCKS. Useless service with no concern for their publishers. I’ve posted about it in my blog.. Spread the word!

http://dood.ca/2008/02/28/amazon-associates-is-a-garbage-program/

By: Danny Tuppeny

Danny Tuppeny — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:54:03 +0000

Whoops – I always fixed up the image paths assuming it was a bug. Still, I don’t use them now, so I guess they can’t shout.

I wrote a series of posts about having links automatically generated with a little Javascript and an XML file. It should make an intresting read

http://blog.dantup.me.uk/2007/08/blogging-creating-better-ad-system-with_9334.html