Lesson learned the hard way!

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Tuesday Morning was a start of a very long and tense week for me, and here it is Friday and still have until Monday to go. When I went to check out my e-mails for my website I got one heck of a shock. My affiliate site, amazon, closed down my account.

I could not believe this for I have nineteen posts online, with everyone of them having their products on them. In the e-mail they told me that I must take down all products and links from my site that closed. That I would not receive any money I had already made from the site and the reason is for non-compliance.

Man was I ever confused because my site allmightygamers.com is in full compliance with amazons contract that I signed. So what is going on here? This was driving me nuts so I contacted amazon associates to find out. I have to laugh at this point because they could not see the problem either, for the site is in full compliance.

Then I remembered what the e-mail said. It said something about shutting my site down, and it dawned on me. I had a website built for me just before I got into WA. It cost me $292.00 and I did not like the design nor the back office. I had too much trouble with tech issues that I had the company shut it down and send me my money back.

Well when I had both sites I had both going to one e-mail which is my lori@allmightygamers.com. BIG MISTAKE, and that was just mistake number one. Mistake 2 was, when I logged into my affiliate site both accounts were tied to the same password. Mistake 3, both sites were tagged to the same ID #, and trust me when I say I don't know how the 3rd one happened, but it did.

LESSON LEARNED THE HARD WAY!!!

Well needless to say I have to wait to get my site reinstated through their appeals team. Until then, I can't promote my site on my social media sites, I can not create new posts and can't earn any commissions though my site.

All of this came down because I forgot to contact my affiliate site to tell them pokidoo.com was closing down. And because of the three mistakes I made it affected my site that is in compliance with the contract I signed.

I got a lot to catch up on when Monday comes around and my site is approved want's again. Until then, I will write my posts here, and write review's for my site so that I can publish a couple a day for a week till caught up.

I hope by learning of my mistakes you will not end up the same way. Please be diligent and let affiliates know when you're closing down a site. Don't attack your e-mails to one e-mail site and separate your affiliates back office from one another.

LOL I sure learned my lesson well.

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Recent Comments

6

Sound terrified but learning a lot. Keep it up. Slowly Steady and you get there. Thanks for sharing. you are great.
Jessie

It is a challenge keeping up with all the terms as it is a moving target. I am sure the experience you are sharing will help others avoid making the same mistakes. Best wishes to Monday for getting your account reinstated. Thanks for sharing.

Wow this was a hard lesson Lori. I'm so sorry this happened to you but at least now you understand what happened and hopefully you will get it reinstated Monday.
Great plan on writing content while you wait.
You're a trooper.
Have a better week.

Lily 😊

So sorry to hear that! I hope you get it sorted out. Thanks for sharing with us here though!

Jeff

Wow hard lessons ..... your sharing will I’m sure save someone else the same agony...
thank you for sharing
Tim

Wow! I'm going to remember this! Thank you for sharing!!

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