Amazon Associates

Affiliate publishers who participate in the Amazon Associates program can promote any page or product they find on Amazon and can earn affiliate revenue for it. Amazon Associates is very simple and requires no input from merchants. It just amazing.

Amazon own a swarm of traffic with the busiest intersections, they probably have the largest inventory online boasting a stupid number of products, a stupid number. Sales and their threshold on the market is an iron fist, their prices and range alone do this as well as brand awareness, So to have an affiliate programme offering very little is understandable, it does make a nice training ground for new comers.

Where i can't help but give them an evil grin, the affiliate tools and options? In my opinion are designed to fail, their cookie policy is a slap in the face, visually? There isn't a lot freedom as to what you can do? How you choose to integrate amazon with your site? If i came across a site with an amazon link and maybe had something i thought was interesting i'd go straight to amazon by passing there affiliate link simply cause it's straight ugly I did however discover amazon through no doubt an affiliate but i never bought anything, in my experience i found no way at all to integrate them into my sites as the tools are limiting at least with google ads you are able to customise them completely, at best a square banner that was high res and clear from amazon maybe maybe i'd use it. So yeah my guess is the affiliate programme is indeed set to fail pushing more and more consumers to visit direct.

Thirdly merchants are or can be unreliable so if you are with amazon be sure to check merchant outlets, make sure there direct outlets not third party shipping, but thats a whole new conversation

I discovered something that is really bad about Amazon. If you use Amazon to promote specific products here is the big problem: You put rectangular boxes on your site that have a "Shop Now" button on the bottom. When someone clicks on it they get a very intimidating message from Amazon that says "Please confirm that you wish to add this item to your cart." The customer is given a second link that says "No thanks! Please return me to Amazon.com." 19 out of 20 customers will bail no matter how much they were interested in the product. To make matters worse, Amazon erases the record of an affiliate link click. Even if the customer ends up buying the product or another product in the same category, the affiliate gets zero credit because Amazon automatically deletes the cookie showing a click on the Amazon link.
When using Amazon Associates you can avoid this problem by creating links to categories of products based on a search term, not links to single products. Be aware that you will have serious problems if you use links to specific products on your website. Who wants to be told that they can't look at reviews or other information about a product before they actually add it to their cart?

I ordered an item from aliexpress and the estimated arrival date was 15-20 days from when I purchased it. It's been over three months since I placed the order and I've never received the item, even though the tracking number incorrectly states that it was delivered two months ago. I have contacted aliexpress many times to dispute the order but have been told to be patient, or that I will receive the full refund. But it also says not to reply to the email! So how the heck am I supposed to get the refund? This is the worst communication I've ever experienced with a business and not only do I not recommend it, but I'm going to spread the word about it's incompetence, and about how it stole my money.

Essentially, I had a site running under the affiliate program for about a year. In July 2019 it was terminated for no reason, except a vague email about compliance. I can bring a site into compliance, but there was no offer just termination. I stood the site back up and revamped it to meet the affiliate program compliance requirements and that affiliate was also taken down.

Poor customer service. The cost to me is greater that $1000 over two months of sales. I generated greater than $12K in revenue for AWS in that two months and I will get nothing out of it.

At least give us a chance to be compliant instead of hiding behind your program agreement and emails like a bunch of cowards.

(Amazon) my order has not been received, the order was placed on June 26,2018 and it was supposed to arrive on June 30,2018. My problem is as on my amazon account shows that my order has been delivered, but it's not like that. I wrote a message to customer service Amazon to which I was responded with indifference from a consultant service, that my order has been delivered. The order was not delivered to my address, there is definitely a mistake from the courier.the courier delivered the command to the wrong address. And I also lost money and I didn't get the order! They said they would not refund money, I'm annoyed and disappointed by the Amazon company! Be careful when ordered from them!

As an Amazon Affiliate member i have given my best sales with a short period of time, today i received a mail from amazon that my account has been rejected due to less followers in Instagram, this doesn't make a sense - even if my followers are low in Instagram I am able to sale the product with more then the expectation of amazon, while creating an account with amazon affiliate in emergency i created a new Instagram account so my followers are less but amazon team could have given a prior notice or would have checked my Facebook account or could have said to link your Facebook account - this is not the right way to reject applicant which was performing good, Very much disappointed from Amazon team and there is no contact details for have a query on it - Hence forth due to disappointment i would not recommend any one to buy from amazon - my followers and all my friends, I would say them to cancel all the items which were been ordered from my link because no response from amazon team. Kindly take action immediate. (From my understanding and research today its completely a fraud thing - there are around ******* members as amazon affiliate
If one affiliate done a sale with Rs. 40,000
If 10 affiliate done a sale means Rs. 4, 00, 000
If 100 affiliate done a sale means Rs. 40, 00, 000
They are creating a impact from the affiliates in order to reach out to the customers and buy the product by convincing later point of time they are increasing their sale and cheating the affiliate programmers)

I don't know how it has changed over time but I personally have found it impossible to even BEGIN to try to advertise with them. They say you will earn the API key after 3 sales and so many views or whatever. But to use the plugins in order to sell anything, you have to have the API key. Ok. So I can't use the plugins, yet. Fine. No big deal. I'll just include the links manually using the SiteStripe. Only the links either say, "No product", won't load the pictures, or simply stalls at "retrieving price and rating" and never fully loads. Even if that WASN'T the case and i'm just too dumb to get this going right, the reviews are all stating that they delete you as an associate for no reason, use you as free advertising and won't pay out, and ignore support requests. Just don't bother. It's unnecessarily complicated to become an advertiser, and if you do, you're screwed anyway.

Comparing to all Affiliate Programs, Amazon Affiliate program is the best available in the world. If you are loyal to your advertising site, Amazon will be very loyal to you. Promoting products are made very easy on the platform. Moreover, Amazon made very easy for associates to promote their different products internationally by introducing "OneLink".
The reports are very transparent and helpful to associate.No doubt, the advertising fee payment system is to be appreciated.

I fully endorse the views of several people here as I too have faced the same. After a few months they just remove you as an Associate, but hey hang on even if they have the right to terminate you as an Associate with specifying what the issue is apart from vague reasons like does not meet Amazon requirements, HERE'S HOW THEY MAKE THEIR PROFITS, UPON TERMINATION THEY REFUSE TO PAY ALL THE UNPAID COMMISSION S WHICH IS CHEAP, UNETHICAL AND CORRUPT BEHAVIOUR EXHIBITED BY CROOKS, FRAUDSTERS AND SIMILAR FLY BY NIGHT SCUM... ONLY DIFFERENCE IS WE ARE SEEING THIS BEING DONE BY A MULTI BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION

They Scammed me of my little savings in the name of I can't afford to place an order, even after top up.