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Amazon UK capping videogame commissions

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johnnie

8:53 am on Jul 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Dear Amazon Associates,

We hope you are enjoying the rewards of referring traffic to one of the UK’s largest Affiliate programmes?

Due to continuing high sales of Video Game products, Amazon.co.uk has taken the decision to change the fee structure paid to Associates. With effect from 00:01 Friday 1st August 2008, the referral fee payable on any Video Games Product under the Performance Fee Structure will be limited to a maximum of £10.00 per Video Game Product, regardless of the Qualifying Revenues derived from the sale of any such item.

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Please feel free to contact us with comments and feedback on this or any other issues:

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Regards,

Your UK Associates Team

I don't think many people will be all too happy with that one :O

purplecape

4:59 pm on Jul 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

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How many people do you think it will actually affect, though?

And how many items? Surely there can't be that many video games that would pay greater than a £10 commission, even on the highest performance tier.

johnnie

10:11 pm on Jul 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Hmm... Guess you're right about that... At 7% commission, it would still take a GBP 140 videogame to be affected by this cap. I don't understand amazon's idea behind this...

bateman_ap

10:51 pm on Jul 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

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it would still take a GBP 140 videogame to be affected by this cap

Like RockBand :)

johnnie

2:44 pm on Jul 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Hmm.. And the nintendo Wii?