Interesting Times

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Have you heard?

Australians living in the land of Aus, will lose access to their purchasing power with;

amazon,com as at the 1st July, 2018

If and when we wish to purchase at amazon.com, we will be redirected to the Australian store, only one at the moment, based I believe in Melbourne with a significant smaller inventory and according to my news feeds, more expensive products.

This I believe is because of our GST, ( goods and services tax)

At this stage in my journey with Wealthy Affiliates, I have only one website, where I promote this amazing platform of learning and expertise. I have not chosen, at the moment , any other niche/niches, but would certainly be looking at, amazon.com to promote products, perhaps sell my own, etc. on their website, as I grow in confidence and knowledge.

I have purchased in the past from amazon.com, as have my children, I love books and purchase also from The Book Depository, owned I believe by Amazon, which charge no shipping, fantastic.

So where do I stand as an affiliate marketer, can I promote products, sell products on amazon.com?

Interesting Times, I would love your views, feedback.

Michelemarie


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FYI, The Book Depository has their affiliate program on Awin.com. I can help you join the network as my guest if you wish (I work for Awin). There are a lot of other merchants you can use besides Amazon - in fact, if things there are going to become much more expensive with a smaller selection, this is a perfect time to help people become aware of other options with better products and competitive pricing!

Jeannine
Thank you, that would be fantastic
Yes and thank you for the idea, yes, promoting lots of other options
Michele
May I get back to you?

Sure! Just let me know when you are ready!

Hi Michele, we are living in interesting times, in the US, states that intoduce sales taxes get the heave hoe from Amazon. The population of Aussie is nudging 25 Million some state's in the US have more California 30 plus. So I guess the message that Amazon is sending to the Australian government is that they are not going to be an unpaid tax collector.

It will only affect people who purchase product from Amazon outside of Aussie. I presume product purchased from Amazon, will have the GST included with the purchase if that makes sense.

As for becoming an affiliate for Amazon, nothing is effected, we can all apply to become affiliates and promote across borders targeting consumers in other counties.

The thing is that most governments are struggling to come to terms with online commerce, which is global at the end of the day legislation is crafted by beuracrates that don't understand how the global online economy works.

Hi Alex
Thank you for your comments.
I believe, at the moment GST is being collected by Amazon if purchases are over 1000.00.
As of July 1st, our Government wants Amazon to collect it for every dollar!
So Amazon have shut the door, so to my mind our Government misses out on revenue and we lose our choice of purchasing from amazon.com
Mmmmm ...lose/lose situation!

Fun, I read this a few years later. At that time gov was slow in accepting amazon. Now they are slow in accepting Bitcoin.

Hello!

I have not heard of this but I am sure you will get some good answers here. : )

Best wishes!

Cath

Apache1
Thank you!!!
Michele

I've done it, thanks to a very exceptional fella
If you make a mistake/typo, after you have published, go to the cog wheel!!!
Amazing
Thank you

People from all over the world promote products from Amazon and you can do it even if you do not have access to the .com yourself. You just need to sign up for an account for Amazon associates for the countries you want to promote it in.

And with Amazon One Link (you can use the search bar to find more info about this) you can even promote Amazon product in different countries at the same time easily.

All the best,
Mikael

Thanks Mikael
Do you also know how to fix my typo, it looks like I am promoting another website!
I really need to be more careful re my proof reading!!
Michele

You are welcome. Can see you found a solution for correcting the typo.

Yes I did! Wow thanks to the Community!!
What a fabulous place this is
Yes??!!

Good grief!!
Forgive my typo!!
Not amazing.com, but amazon.com
OK correct how to??

Typo's are easily made. Its great to find them yourselves.

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