Question about selecting Amazon products in the UK

The idea is to have a mix of high-priced items for max profit and low to mid-priced items to get your sales numbers up so you achieve the highest percentage commission.

I don't know how it works for the UK, but for the US program you start at 4%. If you sell X number of items, you move up to 6% on all items. If you sell XX items, you get an even higher percentage on all items.

If you need to sell X items to get the full 7 pounds, then you should choose a mix of high and low-priced items to get both quantity of sales and high commissions.

In addition, there's no reason not to promote items even higher than 150 pounds IF they are high quality products that are popular with consumers. It's good to promote different price points to appeal to different buyers.

Hope that makes sense!

Hi,
Sorry... missed your original post.

The Amazon UK price cap does mean that £140-150 is probably the optimum price point for affiliates. Our friends 'across the pond' can target higher priced items and make better commissions.

To make good money at £7 a pop, you'll have to drive a serious volume of traffic to AmazonUK.

The % rate paid goes up in tiers, e.g. sell more than 21 items in a month and you'll get an extra 0.5% on everything sold that month - still not a lot of dosh...
This is where the idea of targeting some lower priced products comes in - hopefully increasing volume of sales thus increasing commisisons across the board.
This works if some of your products are big ticket items, but for a £140ish product works out at about 40p more per item sold

Their are other tiers at 51 sales and 401 sales each giving a further increase of 0.5%.

US affiliates can review and promote very expensive products and get commission for the full amount...
$2000 product @ 5% = $100 commission
$2000 product @ 5.5% = $110 commission

A very different ball-game to the UK...

Give it a try if you like but don't forget that there are other UK merchants out there with better (un-capped) commissions and longer cookies...

It's possible to make more £ by sending your visitors to some of these other merchants.

Test and see...

Nothing is set in stone - switch merchants as many times as you like to find the one that performs best for you!

Best Wishes & Welcome to the WF,
Kev

Yeah, that kind of sucks :-). However, the best experience for the "visitor" is to see a wide range of products, from cheap to expensive. Then they are more likely to buy something. Whereas if you limit the presentation to only cheap or only expensive product, you might be limiting your total sales.

I'm in the UK but am an affiliate of US-Amazon.

The only products which UK residents are typically going to buy from Amazon.com (US) are products for which we're specifically looking and can't find in the UK (including at amazon.co.uk).