I purchased a site on DP and it had areas perfect for amazon ad's. However, when I signed up, they said that since I live in North Carolina, I couldn't join the program. Does anyone know what the reason for this would be? It's perfectly legal.
yeah, it's true you cant join this program since the early of this year, Amazon is well-known enough in North America and no need any affilaite for advertising, IMO this is the main reason that they stop the program on specific countries.
Has to do with North Carolina tax laws and how those taxes are collected. Rhode Island has the same problem. Several affiliate programs no longer accept users from the 2 above USA states. see http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1383004