Amazon.com Associates Q2 2006 Compensation Structure

got this email

 

Hey, it looks good for anyone selling over 20 items a quarter. Which I image is most folks...

 

Ya, its real good for non-electronics item referals.
But, referel to electronics is flat 4% - no performance incentive sucks.

 

works well for me since I had 55 this quarter so next time I should get paid better.

 

It sucks, in fact. About 90% of my sales are cusumer electronics item.

 

Ditto on the sucks for electronics

 

is it still +2.5% for direct links?

 

Looks like a carrot for hardcore dreamlanders (after Jagger, BigDaddy)..

 

I did a big blog about it today. Too many links and quotes to convert to BBcode.
Here's the 1st paragraph.

Amazon Changes Commission - Associates Threatening to Drop Links

"Amazon just announced it's Associates Q2 2006 Compensation plan and affiliates are up in arms about the pay cut calling it a De-incentive and many threatening to remove links. In addition to viewing the changes as a pay cut, many affiliates are upset about the fact that they were notified only two days in advance of the changes by an an email that said ‘earn more all the time’ and contained other messaging they felt was spin and insulted their intelligence."

http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/2006/03/30/amazon-associates-commission/

 

I think this means that there is no more direct link premium. I sell hundreds of items each month and it looks like I'm losing about two points on the direct link sales. I've been averaging about 7.5% with both direct link and indirect sales, which will now be about 6.5%.

The new structure is good for people who have not been chasing the direct link sales, but it hurts the high volume players who have focused on direct links to specific items.

 

Go figure, Amazon finally does something that benefits me instead of continually taking away from me. Yay!