Amazon Cutting Commissions on April 21st

What about target European countries or even the new amazon . nl (offers 10-14% commissions) that they want to push?
Traffic is less but commissions didn’t changed.
Do you think they will also cut commission for these countries?
 
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Here we are, guys!

Corona increased their revenue to the highest level currently, and here we are from 10-8% to 3%!

Yes! Max is 3%, even for the home category!

Did you receive this email? What do you feel? Will you plan any other network?
 
I was always thinking that one day amazon will end their affiliate program or offer %1 max on all categories

theyve gotten too strong honestly, why do they need to pay to affiliates when everybody and their mom is already their customer?

of course fuck them for not thinking about us the afffiliates that helped them get there,
But this is bussiness. Adapt.
 
Fuck!
I need to stop working on Amazon Affiliate
 
Nargil said:
Their stocks hitting new all time high, but cunts have to be greedy. :) This might be temporary, due to a huge spike of orders during the quarantine times, but I really doubt that, considering how greedy this company has become.

The sooner it's kicked down of its perch, the better.
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and you keep sticking to amazon monetization anyway i suppose?
 
mqsss said:
I kind of saw that coming. Sold my best site 2 weeks before Google medic update a few years back, the site lost 90%+ of its traffic. And I sold my last Amazon site 3 months ago. Here are a few facts.

1. Amazon doesn't need affiliates any more. They needed them, but not any more. Google is packed with Amazon niche affiliate sites. If there are 500 affiliates fighting for the 1st page in SERP, Amazon doesn't matter who gets the commission, someone will. If they are left with 30 biggest players in Amazon Associates program and pay them normal 6-8% commission, they can cut much of their bureaucracy staff. There will be no help desk dealing with thousands of affiliates asking stupid questions about OneLink integration, there will be no need to talk to thousands of affiliates asking why they didn't receive their checks, etc.

2. Bezos is the richest guy in the world. He doesn't give a shit about you, your family, or anyone else. He never will. If he could, he would robotize the entire business process of Amazon and sit on the iron throne like that degeneric incestuous Lannister bro. He'll never have concious. If he will, he'll just donate 0.001% of his net worth to a charity and he'll sleep like a baby.

3. Most people whether reading reviews on niche sites or not, will buy something on Amazon any way, so small time affiliates are pretty much useless to Amazon. It's a hard fact to grasp, but if you were a small time US Amazon affiliate in the past 5 years, you weren't making Amazon a favor, Amazon was making you a favor. International Amazon sites are another story since Amazon doesn't have a monopoly there.

4. There's no alternative affiliate program for most products sold on Amazon because prices on Amazon are usually the lowest for the same thing and most consumers aren't stupid. Years ago I switched affiliate program from Amazon to Walmart, promoting exact same products. Conversion wasn't 5% or 20% lower, it was about 80% lower. I found another store that had affiliate program, and they didn't even bother to accept me into it although my site was pretty much dominating all the important keywords in the niche and I'm sure I'd made them shitload of business back then. I found a third affiliate program that offered 20% commission on the same products and I was thrilled. But... The price for the same product was $174-194 on Amazon and Walmart, and $400 on the "20% commission" affiliate program. It was a damn joke. On one of my sites I was selling 1k$+ items and I always thought that 24-hour Amazon cookie hurts me the most. Because there's less impulsive purchases on expensive products than cheaper ones. I switched affiliate program to a smaller distributor who had exact same prices as Amazon, same day shipping and had 60- days tracking cookie. Instead of getting 10x $1000 sales, I got zero sales in 1 month.

5. This isn't just Amazon, it's internet marketing in general. There's always a chance you'll lose much of your revenue on any given day. The more you sleep on your success and the more you stop evolving, the more chances you have that you'll get raped and you'll have a harder time climbing back up. Had a friend doing mass Youtube commenting spam. Got to $15k per month, invested shitload of money in order to catapult himself to $150k per month in the next few months. In a few days he got raped with a Youtube antispam update and the 6-month run went to shit. Got a friend who ran porn sites before PornHub existed. One day Pornhub got traction and all the "premium" porn sites with 60€/m access fees got down the toilet. It's internet marketing where shit happens all the time. SEO, affiliate marketing, CPA... It only takes one man to push the button and you are screwed. Diversify your income sources and you'll have more chances of surviving.

6. There's still shitload of other affiliate programs to make money in. But most of your "best electric toothbrush" and similar sites are pretty much dead now, you can take that to the bank.

7. There's nothing you can do about it. Amazon is a $1.1 trillion company. It was at the right place at the right time and became one of the largest businesses in the world with a business model that no one will be able to ever replicate because times have changed.
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This sums it all up. Really, if you are doing clothing as someone posted here you may still have shot but look at tech,gadgets,essentials,dyi ...they got it all. I bought some at home depot but only after price matching to Amazon for example.



Nargil said:
Their stocks hitting new all time high, but cunts have to be greedy. :) This might be temporary, due to a huge spike of orders during the quarantine times, but I really doubt that, considering how greedy this company has become.

The sooner it's kicked down of its perch, the better.
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Nah, this will stay. As the quote above also mentioned once again Amazon does not need affiliates in the US.

82% of US household are prime members
https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2019/07/11/82-of-us-households-have-a-amazon-prime-membership/

mqsss said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/amazon-slashes-commission-rates-for-affiliate-program.html
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-slashing-commission-rates-affiliate-program-002256794.html

*see? no one cares* meme
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Nope saw that report and no one does, why? Well they are paying workers a tiny bit more no regular buyer gives a fuck about affiliates. Most don't know some people make this their full time income, but then again many never registered it as a business so in the can't claim anything for your "business" now
 
Davegnima said:
What about target European countries or even the new amazon . nl (offers 10-14% commissions) that they want to push?
Traffic is less but commissions didn’t changed.
Do you think they will also cut commission for these countries?
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Maybe this time you are safe. But remember it's a game of 'when'
 
Mr Positive said:
So basically Affliate get only 3% per sale? Than god I didn’t spend my money on those amazon Affliate sites
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In some categories only. The main rate is now 1% in the majority of categories meaning you will make just $10,000 if you sell $1 million worth of stuff.
 
Vladamir said:
honestly at this point building websites and micro niche sites to try and make Amazon commissions is just completely a dead art. The cost and time investment to do this is nowhere near the return you would be better off trying PPC or a sass product. If you do have your own products or find a great affiliate this is the way you can continue on. But I suspect after this change there is going to be a lot of saturation in those little shareasale niches that offer good affiliate programs.
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Totally agree. Let's ditch Amazon affilitiates. Too unreliable.

theRevolt said:
- Had ordered some masks like a month ago when this all just started, got refund on both easily from Amazon just telling them how they are crap and not as described. How much effort would that take with ebay,walmart,paypal...you'd have to wait here on chat --> refund
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Yeah getting refunds on Amazon.com is so easy, it's not fair for FBA sellers imo.
 
It is what it is... I don't think that we have any good solution than to stick with Amazon until we find something else. It's sucks, especially for those who are working this for a few years and I just started last summer, my income for this month is $320 and it's increasing. I guess it will be 50% less next month. For now, I'll continue this journey and project but started thinking about other options for making money.

I wanted to start a new site soon, but I guess I'll reconsider that now.
 
NLhead38 said:
Totally agree. Let's ditch Amazon affilitiates. Too unreliable.



Yeah getting refunds on Amazon.com is so easy, it's not fair for FBA sellers imo.
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Yes and No. N95 masks over a month ago, turned out to be not even surgical, came in an envelope etc...the seller had the nerve to ask what's wrong, so I just went on the chat again and got my refund.
You have to realize that sellers are replaceable, customers less so (of course to an extent).
 
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