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Here in Austria, Amazon pays the major price comparison website to be listed: www.geizhals.at And I hear it's not cheap for them.

• Cthulhu_ 11y ago
  Well, being listed on a price comparison website is basically advertising, and can funnel a lot of traffic to Amazon if they are often the cheaper or better choice. This service just used referrals to make a bit of money instead, probably because there's a lot more price comparison website competition in the US and Amazon doesn't want to fund them all to get listed. They get away with it too, because a price comparison website is not feasible without having amazon as one of the shops.
• the_mitsuhiko 11y ago
  It works in Austria because of how many people use Geizhals: basically everybody in certain categories who is a regular shopper. They have a huge reach.
• lazyjones 11y ago
  That's not strictly true. Amazon pays affiliate fees, not for being listed. I can't disclose details, but Amazon apparently has no issues with big CSEs (Idealo.de, billiger.de) but obviously they don't like sites that focus on deal "sniping" (like PriceZombie and "deal" sites) as much, since that cuts into their margins (people buy mostly temporarily low-margin offers through such sites and affiliate fees are too expensive there).