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Warning for Amazon affiliates

siamjerry

Published on June 2, 2016

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Last year I joined the Amazon affiliate program with no issues at all. Through my website chardonnayfans.com I was promoting their wines. Four months into it, when communicating with them directly about some business problem, they informed me that although I can advertise their wines, I would not be eligible for referral fees.

Quoting Amazon: "We have contractual agreements with some merchants and manufacturers that prohibit us from providing our Associates with advertising fees on certain products on Amazon.com".

One of these is alcoholic beverages, you can find the others here:

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https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/operating/exclusions

So be aware of this, avoid a nasty surprise and just check your products/services against their listed exceptions.

Cheers, Jerry

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