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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by lcw on Monday March 06, 2017 @01:07AM (#13800978)
If your affiliate account doesn't get shut down I would love to know how you got through the process.

I did a similar thing, and they shut it down every time someone made a purchase because I wasn't providing "original content". Despite my complaints that there are/were plenty of people not providing original content they said those affiliates were grandfathered in. It was an incredibly subjective process that I eventually gave up on out of frustration

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Re:Show HN: Amazon Price Monitor (weekend project) by timbowhite on Monday March 06, 2017 @01:27PM (#13804803)
I had the exact same experience with a price comparison site for a specific type of product. Got the same rejection + reason even after I spent time writing original overviews and articles about the products in question.
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