What the hell is this, i got $-2.57 from amazon

brendan9971 13 years ago

om my gosh i can't believe amazon would charge you if they got a refund... just seems weird?!
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Peter Gehr

13 years ago

Woo hoo! Let's celebrate!

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Bradley J Anderson

13 years ago

Wouldn't that suck to get a bill in the mail for $2.57 from Amazon?

"I help you make money, and you're sending me a bill?!"

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MikeCollins 13 years ago

They won't actually send you a bill. It was just appear as a negative until you generate more sales to push it back onto the positive side.
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fitz10

13 years ago

You had a return. Don't worry though, they'll just take out of your pay next time you sell something. They will not bill you.

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BloggingPro

13 years ago

I'm not seeing how this could have happened. Amazon wouldn't issue you payment on your commissioned sales until after the commission itself was locked. This means that even if there was a refund on that item, they couldn't go back and take away your commission.

This is why you have to wait so many days to receive payment from them.

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eric w 13 years ago

And I was thinking of getting into amazon affiliate sites.......amazon, that's not encouraging.
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- BloggingPro 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by eric w
  
  And I was thinking of getting into amazon affiliate sites.......amazon, that's not encouraging.
  
  Um why would this stop you lol. Merchants at ShareASale and CJ scrub commissions all the time. The point of the matter is, I'm not sure how he has a negative balance. I've never received a payment from Amazon until after the commission sale has been locked--which means they can't scrub it.
  
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Sydp

13 years ago

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

I'm not seeing how this could have happened. Amazon wouldn't issue you payment on your commissioned sales until after the commission itself was locked. This means that even if there was a refund on that item, they couldn't go back and take away your commission.

This is why you have to wait so many days to receive payment from them.

Would that that were true. Despite the 1-2 month lag from sale to payment, Amazon doesn't apply refunds to a prior month once they've closed bookkeeping on that month (at least, this is how it's always worked on my account).

I frequently start out a month with a negative balance because someone returns something they bought the prior month.

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areoo

13 years ago

HAHAH!!! this is cool man!! no offense though

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Ephrils

13 years ago

I've never seen that before! :p

Must be because of refunds. Get it back positive and you should be ok.

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Millerking

13 years ago

So if product refunded, you not only get 0 omission, but also minus delivery fee?
Why advertiser don't pay the fee, but us?

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Caleb Spilchen 13 years ago

Hey There,

Originally Posted by coronaborcalis

This is ridiculous. hope you get more from adsense so it will never makes you stop to working on your website

How is it ridiculous that a company would remove a commission when a sale has been essentially "voided". The commission is now invalid.

Originally Posted by Millerking

So if product refunded, you not only get 0 omission, but also minus delivery fee?
Why advertiser don't pay the fee, but us?

Because that would be insanely stupid.

Let me give you an idea of what you're suggesting. Ok, so a merchant aka "Amazon" in this case, is selling a TV... The TV costs $1000, and the commission is $100.

Now, the person orders this TV, and you are paid your commission of $100 on your cheque (check for americans). Now, a month later the person returns this item to Amazon, because the picture quality sucks, or something etc..

Now Amazon returns the $1000 back to the PERSON. However, Amazon only has $900 of that $1000 in there account, because the other $100 has been paid to YOU as a commission. Which means, that they are going to take a loss of $100 because they can't return the commission.

"Why doesn't advertiser pay the fee". There is no essential fee here, there is a return of a product, and a refund issued... If you were in Amazon's shoes here, and you had $10,000+ out in commissions on sales refunded, would you just "pay the fees" on every refund, and give affiliates a commission for a sale that was voided by a refund.

EVERY single affiliate network I've been in has this as a policy. I've made thousands upon thousands as an affiliate, trust me.. this is nothing new.

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Dresden14

13 years ago

be lucky... I get residual payments everyday and im in the debt niche. I've had a few ocassions when my residuals had a sudden negative 1,000 amount owed. Dont let that whole 3 bux go to collections neaaahhhwww

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terrencewan

13 years ago

Hey man, why don't you check this out with amazon?

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terrencewan

13 years ago

Hey man, why don't you check it out with Amazon?

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Fazal Mayar 13 years ago

check the issue out with amazon its prolly a typo too and hahahah imagine if they would bill you
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- magnates 13 years ago
  
  Calm down dude . lol.It is only 3 dollars . It is not about to break your bank account anytime soon . Probably a typo , i would check it out with amazon
  
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rainso0

13 years ago

Really a fantastic thing

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matt5409

13 years ago

Cannot believe how many people don't immediately realise this is because of a returned item. It's obvious.

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backendbuddy 13 years ago

Originally Posted by matt5409

Cannot believe how many people don't immediately realise this is because of a returned item. It's obvious.

Everyone is not 'straight'....
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- matt5409 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by backendbuddy
  
  Everyone is not 'straight'....
  
  I don't understand that...
  
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  betteseo 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by matt5409
  
  I don't understand that...
  
  i was just thinking the same thing. but look at the username... maybe a joke account or something?
  
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