Is it against Amazon policies to promote products on sites other than that which you reside? I have been very successfully promoting a product on the German and French sites recently (I am based in the UK). Earlier today I got this email: What the? The reason I was linking to the German and French sites is because the UK site has no stock whatsoever of the product. I thought we were in the European Union that promoted freedom of trade? What a load of crap.
If it really turns out that I cannot promote the products in question I'll just tell everyone on here what I was doing so you can do the same. Was making 10x revenue to adwords cost for three days ...
Thanks! I'm also curious how the things are going on with Amazon because I also have got few international websites (each country in a separated directory). So, if someone of the visitors visit "wrong" country (ie Amazon shop) by mistake I'll be asked to remove the shop as well!? It just sounds ludicrous
i guess if you have different shops for each country the visitor should be able to go to the right one anyways if you promote a shop in a different country on purpose they might not like it i haven't seen anything for this in the agreement though
Well no reply as yet so I guess I'll just have to wait and see. Shame if they do decide to be arses though, I was enjoying making so much money!
I think you should explain back to Amazon UK that the products your listed are not otherwise available from the Amazon UK site and you have no other option but to source it from other Amazon country sites (nearest possible). Make this clear to them and have them reconsider the situation or have the products listed in Amazon UK.
Yeah, it's not going to happen. This is one of the 'must have' items for Xmas, and any stock Amazon UK gets goes within minutes. Whereas the German and French sites appear to have plenty of stock and have done for weeks. Amazon fully understands what I was doing and they have taken the 'business' decision to put a stop to it, even though as far as I can discover, it isn't against their terms at all. I should say also that it's not just my site that got canned - there were 3-4 doing a similar thing and they have all disappeared.
Hi, Firstly, what happened to you is very strange. Does it mean that if I have a site in Luxembourg (where I live) and promoting products for Luxembourg with amazon.fr , is it allowed or not?? Plz answer me, because I'm new at amazon. Thanks
xcelent88 I'd give you the answer if I have one. As I said above, I don't think it is against Amazon's terms, but they just decided they "didn't like it". I'd not worry unless they contact you - they did at least give some notice, it wasn't a straight immediate ban.
My question has some similarities with yours, but its different. If I understand, you promotes products with Amazon.fr and Amazon.de, but the customers are form the Uk. My case is that I live in Luxemburg and want to promote products for Luxemburgish people. But I don't know If I can do it, because there isn't an Amazon.lu . PS: I think I shold start a new thread: D
chimaera, wouldn't it be an idea to filter the traffic from adwords to display the ads only in Germany and France and keep the link to amazon.fr and .de ?
Dwaighty, no point - it's all about selling products to UK people from international sites, due to stock shortages. Well it was good while it lasted, I made $6k from $400 adwords spend, over four days. I thought it had the potential for much more than that, but I shouldn't complain too much ...
This is more than strange - very often I buy stuff from the UK (mostly DVD) and America (well anything which ships well due to the exchange rate) and of course I would want to promote that to my countrymen as well! Because it does not really matter where I shop, it is rather a problem of Amazon that they are still not capable to monetize on the fact that the net loves amazon but does live in different countries. for example i can order a cheaply priced book in the US with horrendous shipping costs, or a higher priced version locally, with no shipping costs. But them ordering you to not do that any more is really bad and unheard of.
I thought if you refere a UK resident to a the amazon.de or amazon.fr through your referal ID they automatically get directed to their own country's website. And not only that but you will also lose your referal link as it only works on the site you refered them to. That's why they require you to sign up as affiliate for each country you refer people to. Am I not right ? But either way, if a british person clicks an ad that leads to amazon.de and the website is in german, isn't that person likely to just press the back button? Chimaera, I don't understand how you managed to make so much money using this technique?
once you understand amazon, it is not that complicated to order something even from german and if you really want something, they offer it and you know how the system basically works ...
crystak, it was all due to stock shortages. Huge demand in the UK, no UK stock, lots of German stock. But Amazon Germany and France both blocked deliveries to the UK anyway ... I think there was pressure from the manfacturer.