Amazon Mishaps

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Just want to let everyone know that you cannot use the same email address for Amazon Affiliates as you would use to buy something on Amazon. Working with their affiliate program for 3 months and had nothing sold, so I called them last night. Found out I had to open a whole new affiliate account with them because the email address was the same for both. On Oct 27th they are removing the astores, but I think your links will just go to their home page, not the item anymore.

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Well thank you for this information, I was kicked out of the affiliate program with no explanation. Now I know what the problem is.
Pierre

It also could be that you did not have any sales for 6 months. Sorry

No only two months in.

Are you going to reapply?

Yes, I was going to wait until I get more traffic so that I can pass the 6 month sale threshold.
Pierre

Thanks for the update. This is very helpful.

You are very welcome. Good Luck in all your endeavors with Amazon and WA.

Very interesting. We both have this issue here. I have sold with the same email though-twice. Two ebooks but it listed the sales. Why can't we just change our email on the personal account?

Thinking of this in the opposite way, may work. I do not know. Hopefully it does for you. I only had 1 sale, but I know I had a total of 3 so I started all over again. Good Luck.

Well now, I guess addressing this is extremely important. Thank you for sharing this!

Amazon is too big to care for afiliate with low volume of sales.

They are big, but they have almost everything to sell. May still be better to stay with them for now.

Also - if you purchase from them, those sales do not count towards your affiliate, even if you go through your site.

Yes Mike and if you buy something from your own website, I think they will drop you.

Hi, Billy. What would happen if the email address is the same?

You would have to open a whole new affiliate account and you lose any sales you have had to that point.

I see...thanks for the info.

Thank you very much for the alert!! :)

You are very welcome. Good Luck

They do keep their departments separate. thank you!

Didn't realize it at the time, and they don't tell you this in the beginning.

Well, this is good to know. Thank you for the alert.

You are very welcome. Good Luck

Interesting, I had no idea and I have the same situation. Thank you for this information.

If you have the same email address for both, you have to start all over and lose any sales you had. Sorry

No sales yet, thank goodness! Getting on it right away!

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