Amazon CLosed my account for Trademark bidding.

Greetings from the Amazon.co.uk Associates Program.

We are contacting you because we have noticed that you are purchasing and/or registering the term "xxxxxxxxx" and variations of this term with search engines and requested that you refrain from this Activity. Per the Operating Agreement:

4. Referral Fees

In addition, you may not: (j) seek to purchase or register any keywords, search terms or other identifiers that include the word "amazon", "endless," "kindle," "javari" or any other trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, or variations or misspellings thereof (for example "ammazon," "amaozn," "kindel," "endlss," "enldess," "javary," etc.) ("Proprietary Terms") for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service. From time to time we may request that you cause any applicable Web search provider to exclude Proprietary Terms from keywords used to display your advertising content in association with search results, assuming the provider of such Web search engine offers such exclusion capabilities. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any of the foregoing activities or, as the case may be, refused promptly to comply with a request from us to exclude Proprietary Terms from any keyword as mentioned above, or have violated any other term of this Agreement, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any referral fees otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement.

As you have failed to comply with this point, your Associates account has been closed. Thank you for your interest in the Amazon.co.uk Associates Program and best of luck in the future.

Warmest regards

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moonie said:

This might be seem like a newbie question but how they know what you bid on?

So soryr-please don't flame.

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biks said:

So were you using Amazon related keywords, or just product name keywords like "nintendo" or "playstation"?

I can see how they would get pissed off with "kindle"

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4. Referral Fees

In addition, you may not: (j) seek to purchase or register any keywords, search terms or other identifiers that include the word "amazon", "endless," "kindle," "javari" or any other trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, or variations or misspellings thereof (for example "ammazon," "amaozn," "kindel," "endlss," "enldess," "javary," etc.) ("Proprietary Terms") for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service. From time to time we may request that you cause any applicable Web search provider to exclude Proprietary Terms from keywords used to display your advertising content in association with search results, assuming the provider of such Web search engine offers such exclusion capabilities. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any of the foregoing activities or, as the case may be, refused promptly to comply with a request from us to exclude Proprietary Terms from any keyword as mentioned above, or have violated any other term of this Agreement, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any referral fees otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement.

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i was using amazon product names

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