The Amazon Screw Job?
Well turns out the Kindle just got in stock and was shipped out on September 2. This means I only get 4% because I haven't reached the 6% tier for the month yet.
It's a $189 item so 2% would have been a little less than $4 but the point is this has the distinct feel of a screw job.
Someone ordered this thing approximately 26 days ago when I would have gotten a decent % commission but the order somehow wasn't shipped until my referral tier commission had started over.
At the very least, it's an inequitable way of doing business. I sold the item during a 6.5% commission tier so it should have been marked as such no matter when it was shipped.
On the other end, someone held this thing over for the next month - be it a 3rd party seller or Amazon.
This really pisses me off. The only reason I use AZ is to lower my Adsense CTR with some sort of a supplemental income, albeit an efficient one. Now, I'm thinking about dropping it altogether.
They don't pay me enough or have a long enough cookie for me to justify taking a direct slap to the face like this.
That item was sold August 6th and it gets shipped on September 2nd. Come on. Sounds like % shaving if you ask me.
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