How should I spend my 'holiday' Amazon affiliate earnings?

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   SimeyCposted 3 months ago

   Well this Holiday season I made a whopping 5 sales and $0.69 commission! How should I spend it?

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      emievilposted 3 months agoin reply to this

      You and I have the same problem. Mine already hit $5 this month.

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      kmackey32posted 3 months agoin reply to this

      Oh I made 2 sales totaling $1.80.

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      mrpooperposted 3 months agoin reply to this

      Give it to charity and claim it on your taxes. Hopefully your deduction will be worthwhile

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      prettydarkhorseposted 3 months agoin reply to this

      Oh Simey, I had my first three sales on lingeries and my commision is 4.05 USD,

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         SimeyCposted 3 months agoin reply to this

         how about we all combine all earnings and throw a party - I figure we can afford two beers and fifty straws at the moment!!!

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            prettydarkhorseposted 3 months agoin reply to this

            your right Simey

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   starme77posted 3 months ago

   all in one place , you'll get more that way

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   blondepoetposted 3 months ago

   So what is the actual figure here we are figuring out on how to spend? 70cents??? Is that US dollars?? Be right back I will go get my Aussie dollar convertor calculator and we will whip this one in the teeth.

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   MikeNVposted 3 months ago

   Well as soon as you make $100 Amazon does the "right thing" and pays you... well except for the $15 check fee.
   
   In all my years of Affiliate Marketing I have yet to encounter a company that sticks it to affiliates like this... seriously A $15 FEE!!!
   
   Once in a while I will have a company keep the postage as a deduction from earnings.  But this is just plain theft.
   
   Add to this the 24 hour cookie and it's a wonder Amazon gets people to work for them at all... and the vast majority of affliates will never reach the threshold.
   
   I still make money with them, but I do not emphasize them. It's more of an afterthought because hubpages makes it easy and on big ticket items you can make money.
   
   While I realize the sarcasm in your message... too many people do not understand how Amazon works.

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      ryankettposted 3 months agoin reply to this

      Set your payment threshold higher then, I have been ambitious and set mine at $1000.

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         Karina S.posted 3 months agoin reply to this

         $1000 per month?

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      SimeyCposted 3 months agoin reply to this

      I must be on an old scheme? I get a quarterly gift certificate - I guess if you choose to be paid in an Amazon certificate, they don't mind waiving the $15 fee! Lucky me eh - I get to buy some products I didn't really want instead of having money!
      
      Amazon is OK - but they do seem to 'steal' a lot eh - I was a little annoyed when I sold a Kindle book and got zerp commission .....

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   thisisoliposted 3 months ago

   I had the Kindle Book problem, but I get paid by BACS in to an american account, so no cheque fee! I also made over $1000 so far this month on amazon, so won't be complaining anytime soon :p

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   adamareangereposted 3 months ago

   Buy me a present??!!
   
   Joke
   
   Get something good, like a new tv or something good. Those are .69 right?

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      SimeyCposted 3 months agoin reply to this

      LOL well I might pick one up for that amount in the sales - and as you asked politely I'll ask Santa to deliver it to you...!!!

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   rebekahELLEposted 3 months ago

   

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   rmcrayneposted 3 months ago

   I feel your pain Simey.  I haven't made any Amazon sales yet.

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   KCC Big Countryposted 3 months ago

   I'm hoping for one more Amazon sale.  With that one more sale I move up to 6.5% on everything sold this month versus 6.0%.  Now if someone will just buy a 50 ct diamond or something, I'll be set. 

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    chigoiykeposted 3 months ago

    Smart prettydarkhorse. I just need to promote hot selling products on amazon with high commissions. all these cents are just too annoying when I see them.

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       prettydarkhorseposted 3 months agoin reply to this

       BTW, the products I chose to promote in my sites are lingeries but then it is not related to the article, LOL, I didnt bother to check my earnings for a month and then I was just curious yesterday, huh...
       
       sometimes also when I am putting amazon to my articles, I just promote whatever I feel like selling there too,three pieces of lingeries which caused 110 dollars for the three items and the commission is almost 4 plus....
       
       I need to learn more to earn here, next year I will do that I am just enjoying to write now,,,,

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    thisisoliposted 3 months ago

    Make sure your Amazon modules are related to make the most out of your hubs!

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