Amazon Monthly Payout Question

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   Life and Luxuryposted 5 years ago

   Now that Amazon purchases are fully integrated with HP for everyone ...
   
   Do we still get the previous month's listed Amazon earnings in a full payout the 28th of the following month?
   
   Or are we just paid for HP ad earnings from the previous month? If so, when do Amazon earnings pay out?
   
   Thanks!

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      theraggededgeposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      As far as I know, Amazon stays the same. Payments are always two months in arrears in order to take into account returns and refunds.
      
      The big change is with Adsense, which is now integrated into the HubPages Ad program.

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         Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         And we can't check the ad clicks to see how much we're actually earning. I assume we have to simply trust HP to make the correct earnings split. I don't like this at all!

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            Shesabutterflyposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            Are you talking about how many clicks you get on your links? You can see that. If you're in your earning settings you can click on the Amazon Program Reports link and it will show you the number of clicks as well as how many items were ordered and shipped. Although my shipped and order numbers are not matching completely this month. Not sure what that is about, but it usually does not happen.
            
            I always use that link above because I cannot for the life of me figure out how to read the Amazon Sales Report. It does not make any sense to me.
            
            I do not know when you last checked, but both my earnings are showing up to Wednesday. It is true HP does take awhile to update though. It would be nice if we could see it in real time like with adsense.

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   Randy Godwinposted 5 years ago

   Does anyone actually know how the ad program works? The earnings split was once 60/40 in favor of the writer, but now I have no clue how the earnings are split now.
   
   And why does it take so long for the reports to arrive? It's now Thursday and the last report was Monday. Does HP have to divide the earnings by hand or something?
   
   I'm accustomed to getting my Amazon sales report and Adsense report every day with the Adsense ongoing in real time. So why are the HP reports so late? And how do we know we're not getting ripped off?

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      wildernessposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      The split is 60/40; it has not changed.  The Amazon portion did change in that the total earnings figure earned is used to determine that 60/40 split, but the ad revenue has remained on a 60/40 split of views, not earnings.
      
      There is not, nor has there ever been, any way to check that every view or click is being recorded and split appropriately.  Trust is necessary just as it always was - your option is to write somewhere else and trust someone else.  You can trust google to properly record clicks and views, for instance, and trust Amazon to tell you what products were purchased using your code and what was paid for them.
      
      A purely personal reaction, but I'd trust HubPages over Google any day.

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         Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Perhaps you do, but Adsense and Amazon reported all clicks on their reporting and one could see how much the clicks are worth and you didn't have to wait several days to see it.
         
         I know for sure the HPads don't earn near what Adsense pays comparing them to each other. Earning a few bucks a day when I was earning  hundreds a month sux.
         
         I suppose it was simply coincidence I lost my earnings at the same time the new  rules were added, along with others here?
         
         As far as trusting HP. I've written at other sites over the years and they ripped me off before I left. Now we're under the Maven shadow, I don't know who to trust any longer.
         
         I don't like this $#it all!

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            wildernessposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            That was kind of the point: you have no idea if Adsense and Amazon reported all clicks or not.  You just trusted that they did.  Amazon I might believe, but Google?  Hot hardly.
            
            Just before the changeover, I quit the ad program in order to build Adsense to the point I would get paid.  It cost me - Adsense doesn't pay as much - but I got Adsense to over $100.  I've tried that same thing in the past as well, and every single time earnings went down.  Most hubbers report the same thinig - earnings with HPAds are better than Adsense.  I'm surprised that you say it only pays a few per cent as much for you.
            
            But, like you, I'm not real happy being under the Maven shadow; I just have a hard time we carry the priority that we used to.

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               Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

               I've made over a $1000 a month before on the affiliate programs. I don't expect near this much with the HP programs. I'd be delighted to be wrong about it though.
               
               It was good while it lasted....

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