Amazon changing fee structure

[enlytend]

Effective March 1, Amazon is changing its affiliate fee structure from a primarily tiered compensation to a flat rate by category. They are uncapping earnings on PC's, but will only be offering 2.5%.

Whether this works for you or not depends on what you sell. If you do a lot of volume in a category that's going to be fixed at 4% or 4.5% that will probably suck.

There are also some program policy changes. And affiliates in Arkansas will now be able to participate.

Details here:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/compare

 

[cdboard]

looks like most high volume affiliates will be taking a pay cut.

 

[enlytend]

I do a lot of sales in lawn and garden, but also a lot of volume from some lower compensation categories. It will be interesting to see how it plays out this year.

 

[Weber]

Amazon displays on 1st search page result for just about anything. What do they need affiliates for?

 

[enlytend]

Amazon displays on 1st search page result for just about anything. What do they need affiliates for?

Presell = Higher conversions.
Though the crap affiliates who just spew product feeds with no added value are dispensable.

They don't even need rankings, people just search on Amazon.

 

[cdboard]

I was thinking of setting up ebay or amazon on a "wine" domain I have.
with amazon paying 0 % commission on wine, it will have to be ebay.


anyone use amazon or ebay api ?

for starters, I would like to have something like the old ebay editor kit listings.

 

[enlytend]

You can make something similar to to the old editor kit widgets by using the RSS feed. (Yeah, I know )
I haven't used the Amazon API lately but plan to look into it when I have the time (hah!). Would make sense to switch - I do a lot of links manually, use native shopping ads for others.