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does anyone have experiance of being an amazon associate?

 
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dpack



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 27, 14 9:27 pm    Post subject: does anyone have experiance of being an amazon associate? Reply with quote
    

i had a chat with an american chap today ,his firm host websites for marketing amazon goods ,about 40 % of amazon turnover is generated that way ,it pays 4 to 8 % of the sale price and hosting is about $30 a month(free trial for a bit)

my questions are

anyone tried it?
what happened?
is $30 A MONTH A FAIR PRICE FOR WEB HOSTING A LINKY SITE?
is 4to8% a fair mark up on a no handling marketing only basis?
do they make their cash by web hosting or by taking a cut ?

if there is $20 billion shifted this way and 5% goes to the marketeers there must be a lot of competition so hosting profit might be the prime motive.

i will research further but i was wondering if you folk knew owt about such things,being a bit naive about the web sales tactics of amazon i had assumed that the associates were selling their kit and using amazon as distributors rather than amazon using freelance marketeers

what do you lot think?

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 28, 14 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm pretty sure it was free when I signed up, but I didn't do owt much with it, so I couldn't honestly say I had experience of it.

But should we be supporting Amazon with the allegations of poor employment practice and tax avoidance?

There was a programme on TV recently which I did not see. My friend was disgusted with their working practices, but I suspect it may have been exaggerated somewhat.

dpack



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 28, 14 10:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

umm

i suspect that the web hosting costs are to mitigate the "didnt do much with it"folk

as to amazons working model i saw the tv doc and they are more scummy than some.

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