Nobody knows how to scr*w you better than amazon

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   Will Apseposted 5 years ago

   Income for affiliates cut by up to 70 percent:
   
   your old cut:
   
   
   
   new cut
   
   
   People go crazy buying stuff on Amazon, Amazon makes its extra billions, Amazon slashes the income of anyone it no longer needs.
   
   Ain't naked capitalism wonderful?

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      Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I hate the new HP in-house program, Will. I don't get my usual high priced orders as I did when I used my affiliate account. I realize we're in a crisis, but the In-house programs  are suspect at best. My most popular Amazon orders are suspiciously absent.
      
      Only piss ant orders seem to be credited to my account now. Something stinks.......

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         OldRosesposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         The something that stinks is the pandemic.  Amazon is only delivering essential supplies now.  Everything else is back-ordered.  We are only credited earnings from Amazon after the products have been delivered.  Backorder = no current deliveries = no commissions.

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      NateB11posted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Yep. Of course, they are pretty notorious for various reasons at this point.

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      OldRosesposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      How else do you think that Amazon became so profitable and Bezos so rich?  Squeeze the workers, the affiliates and the suppliers dry.  And they can get away with it because they are practically a monopoly.  You either do business with Amazon or you don't do business at all.  Walmart employs the same strategy with same amount of success.
      
      There are two ways to stop this.  Either the Justice department goes after them and breaks them up (highly unlikely) or the rest of us stop shopping at Walmart and Amazon and support local businesses (also highly unlikely).
      
      Personally, I have been practicing the second solution for years.  I only shop at locally owned businesses.  Neither Amazon nor Walmart gets a cent of my hard-earned money.  I know that doesn't make any difference to either one, but it makes a difference to me.

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      robhamptonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Wtf? Plus the horrible cpm? Barely even worth any effort at this point

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      robhamptonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Did you put that asterisk in? You're allowed to say screw lol

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         NateB11posted 5 years agoin reply to this

         

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   Marisa Writesposted 5 years ago

   I think eBay beat them by a nose but it's still pretty bad.

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      Will Apseposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I didn't know that you were around Marisa. Best of luck. I won't get involved again. There really is no point, at the moment.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 5 years ago

   Yes, Amazon are truly awful. They dominate to the extent they're almost a monopoly like Google Search. Then they screw you. The movement of their  percentage cuts is always downwards, sometimes drastically as you point out. There was another drastic one a few years back that hit me hard. I had virtually given up on them and was focused on Hub Ads. But now with this virus crisis, Hub Ads have taken a hit and it's back to working on Amazon to try to make back some of the losses...

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   Rupert Taylorposted 5 years ago

   According to the BBC (April 15, 2020) "The founder and boss of Amazon has seen his wealth swell by $24bn (£19bn) after soaring demand for online shopping sent the firm's share price to a new high."

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   Rupert Taylorposted 5 years ago

   Three cheers to Old Roses. I've adopted a similar strategy of buying locally and not loading up on stuff.
   
   I would like to think that if this coronavirus thing comes to end we might see a dialing back of the dog-eat-dog capitalism of the post-Thatcher/Reagan era.
   
   The corporations will fight tooth and nail to make sure this doesn't happen and their political stooges will help them.
   
   Sorry to go off topic Will Apse. I'll try to behave myself in the future.

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   GeorgeneMBramlageposted 5 years ago

   I do agree with Old Roses.  But what to do when you are basically isolated?  Local stores charge $10 +/- for deliveries and may or may not have the item you want.  At least the local pharmacy chain still mails prescriptions gratis.

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   theraggededgeposted 5 years ago

   This avoidance of Amazon doesn't make sense if you are including Amazon links in your articles
   
   And don't forget local people work in Amazon depots too. We have two where I live and I know a few people who work there. I'm out in the sticks. We have a great local grocery shop, which we use on a daily basis, but we do our larger weekly shop in supermarkets a little further afield. There's nowhere for books, non-food items and dog stuff unless we are prepared to drive to the nearest city. So that's when I use Amazon.

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