Amazon Heartache

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Good morning,

So, a friend of mine here at WA wanted to order an item from one of my posts - yay...! Would have been my FIRST real affiliate sale. She lives in Canada and I live in the USA.

She clicked on the link on my post which took her to the Amazon.com site, but was unable to order the item because she was told that it was not available in Canada, and couldn't be shipped to her location. She then clicked around to other similar items and was told the same thing.

We thought that maybe it was because she was on the dot-com site and not the dot-ca site, even though I had already signed up with the international Amazon sites. I contacted support and was on the phone with them for about an hour, going through the VERY convoluted process of applying for affiliate status with Amazon in Canada, Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK, and France.

Not only did I have to apply to each one, and set a dedicated affiliate code for each one, but I also THEN had to click on the little tiny link at the top of the page that said ONE-LINK. Had I not been on the phone with them, I never would have clicked on that link, which is barely noticeable if you are on the page looking at everything else.

The ONE-LINK allows you to get a code which combines ALL the international Amazon sites into, well, ONE link, which is then uploaded to the footer area of your website. It is ultimately an invisible code which then converts your link from the USA to whatever country your buyer is in.

So in my case, my friend in Canada would have clicked on the link in my post, and it would have converted the site to the dot-ca website, so that she could order the item or a similar one, and not be charged import fees or shipping.

Except for one thing --- it didn't work. I am pulling my hair out in frustration. As my friend says, no wonder people aren't making money from Amazon -- they make it extremely difficult to set this up, and even after a considerable amount of time in doing so, it still doesn't work efficiently. For a world-wide corporation, this is just unacceptable.

Please weigh in and let me know if you have had similar experiences with Amazon, and also if you have any workable suggestions. I feel terrible that my friend was not able to order her item, and I feel terrible that I lost a sale, and God knows how many other sales as well.

Thanks so much,

Amy

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If you think being an Amazon affiliate is bad just do a search on Google for:
"Amazon warehouse workers skip bathroom breaks to keep their jobs"

It's unthinkable.

One link has been out for a while now and Jay yas actually done training on it.

Do you have a link to the training?

Hi Amy

Here's the link to the training in which Jay deals with it. But this training by Jeremy111 might be quicker

How to add Amazon one link

Mercy! I keep hearing negatives about Amazon. Is anyone making money with these guys?

I am not using Amazon Amy but they are big so I hope this pans out for you. So much work should pay off!

Good luck,

tom

Thanks...!

Have not heard of this before now. I will be follow this conversation to see where it leads.

This is news to me. As I affiliate with Amazon, but know pay out yet! There are people making money on Amazon.

I wish I knew...!! :-)

I probably would have the same issue as well. Thank you for sharing Amy.

Hello!

I think it might be best to contact Amazon and ask about how this can be changed so that potential customers (who reside in a country other than the one you live in) can purchase our goods. Is it that those specific items she chose to buy are just not available in Canada? Were they herbal remedies or supplements? I know there are shipping restrictions on different things in various countries.

Please let us know when you find out the answer to this, as I have some things listed on my site from there also.

Best of luck
Cathy

Thanks, Cathy — I will contact them again tonight after work. She tried choosing different items and got the same message on all of them. So annoying. Will let you know what I find out...!

Sorry, you did not have luck on your first try. : ( I didn't know you had contacted them. I hope you get satisfaction this time when you call them.

Thanks a lot!
Cathy

Great to know.. I am fortunate to live in the US regarding Amazon and haven’t had any issues. That’s so tough to have to go through all of that. I hope it settles quickly.. Best wishes!!

Thanks...!

This is good to know I will need to check it out as I am sure I will have the same issues.

Great information. Who knew.
Thanks, Amy.

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