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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by usaphp on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:11PM (#13726671)
It will be a big loss for pc tech YouTube reviewers, I know it's a big chunk of their revenue. They already removed a lot of them from their affiliate program because youtubers used to just tell viewers to bookmark their affiliate amazon link because it supports their channel. So a lot of them had to open a new affilaite account to comply with new rules and all previous videos were demonetized because of account suspensions.
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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by _q1cj on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:18PM (#13726734)
Immense loss for PcPartPicker as well, their entire revenue stream was built on Amazon affiliate links.
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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by _delirium on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:25PM (#13726810)
It doesn't look to me like there's a change in the payouts for PC part referrals. In both the old and new structure, those are a flat 2.5%.
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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by exolymph on Friday February 24, 2017 @06:55PM (#13729073)
Volume pricing is gone.
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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by _delirium on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:34PM (#13729263)
PC parts (along with electronics and a dozen or so other categories) were already ineligible for volume pricing under the old program. Volume pricing applied only to items that did not fall into one of the flat-rate categories.
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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by jeron on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:25PM (#13726805)
don't put all your eggs in one basket

I hope they have other retailers' affiliate links too, like Newegg.

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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by onli on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:32PM (#13726892)
They do. You can see it via the codes embedded in the links.
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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by krrrh on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:10PM (#13729398)
A lot of big podcasters get people to use their Amazon link for shopping. It set a floor for sponsor pricing, because they had little incentive to sell an ad for less than they could make by promoting the affiliate link to Amazon on their front page.
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Re:Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics ... by Dylan16807 on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:14PM (#13727422)
What even are the rules for how you talk about affiliate links? They seem to be pretty obtuse. Is saying to bookmark a problem? I know using the word 'supports' is a problem, as is mentioning where the money goes.
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