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The end-user is not clicking through a referral link, going to the Amazon site and making a purchase. How would Zinc earn the affiliate fee? If you're suggestin
by dangrossman 13y ago
The end-user is not clicking through a referral link, going to the Amazon site and making a purchase. How would Zinc earn the affiliate fee? If you're suggesting they negotiate a custom referral arrangement with Amazon, that's probably impossible at the MVP stage.
- arbuge 13y agoThey might be filling orders manually as some suggested. A Turker working for Zinc.io and placing the orders via their affiliate links would do the trick. No need for negotiations etc.
- jeffasinger 13y agoToo many affiliate orders from the same affiliate from the same IPs would probably cause some flags to raise at Amazon.
- dangrossman 13y agoYou can't refer yourself, else the program wouldn't work -- everyone would sign up, everyone would click their own links, and Amazon would effectively have dropped its prices across the board while adding a rebate-processing overhead to every order. That's why program agreements virtually always prohibit this.
- arbuge 13y agoAmazon is careful about this with their affiliate program - but most other retailers aren't in my experience.