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It may not actually be in Amazon's best interest to make this "free money". The ROI for publishers will be lower, hence the publishers will consider using alte
by ggrot 17y ago
It may not actually be in Amazon's best interest to make this "free money". The ROI for publishers will be lower, hence the publishers will consider using alternatives (adsense, chikita, commission junction). Amazon will lose sales from this.
Additionally, if enough publishers use a system like yours they Amazon won't actually be making more money, they will just be giving a third-party more money. Thus amazon's lack of regional awareness depends on you not being too successful. Not a good place to be.
If amazon wanted to maximize their own profits, they would enable regional awareness and simultaneously decrease commissions by 1/7th. The publishers you support would make the same amount as before, but would no longer need your product.
- ggrot 17y agoAlso worth adding, if your ip database doesn't match amazon's exactly, there is money being left on the table. If amazon just "fixes" this issue, there won't be.
- NathanKP 17y agoTrue enough. Obviously Affiliate Script is on shaky ground if Amazon.com adopts the features that I have developed, but then again it is my first startup idea, so while I hope for success there is the very real possibility that I may go obsolete. That said, I doubt that Amazon will update their system anytime soon. At the very least Affiliate Script is a serious project and demonstration of my programming skill that may help me get a job later on, so either way I benefit.