The Amazon Screw Job?
On August 6th, I somehow sold a Kindle through one of my affiliate links. At the time, I had sold enough products to be at the 6.5% tier. Problem is the item was "out of stock" so it didn't ship immediately.
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.
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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