Affiliate Programs Disappearing Amazon.com Accounts?

[slumbum]

This is my second time being an Amazon.com affiliate. I have been with them for years...about since the beginning. Well, it's been either feast or famine with them. I made lots of money several years back, after LOTS of hard work, then the revenue dried up to nothing, and I went on to better affiliate programs.

I tried reactivating my old account recently, and couldn't log in or retrieve my account information. Essentially my account vanished. I contacted customer service and got no reply.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I reapplied. I have been using them for several months on my site, click-throughs...no sales. I checked my account today, and AGAIN same situation. No ability to log in, no ability to retrieve my account. Now I don't know if this could be because of my use of the terrible ppctemplate.net script, or if Amazon has something up it's *** regarding me. But I think something stinks at Amazon. I also think given their quarterly payments...4 month wait to be paid...it's a big gamble to work that hard for them, especially through the Christmas season, just to have your account yanked from under you.

 

[KaneCo]

I get paid every month from amazon, and they have been very consistent with payment. Don't know why your account keeps getting deleted.

 

[Jonathan]

I've also had an aff account with Amazon for a number of years and no problems. Customer service usually responds within a day to me. If you don't hear from them, then keep writing.

 

[HarveyJ]

It could also be that your traffic is being stolen.
It's a pretty common occurrence with Clickbank products, but it's still doable with Amazon apparently.

There's a number of ways of doing it, from cookie insertion (Digital Point, we're looking at you!) to popunder refresh-n-redirect.

 

[Jonathan]

His problem isn't with the traffic he's sending to Amazon, the problem is that his account doesn't appear to exist.

 

[HarveyJ]

Ahh, gotcha... Dunno where my brain's gone lately.