Is the Amazon Astore any less vulnerable to parasites

[cmendla]

I removed most of my amazon links previously. My suspicion was that parasites/scumware were grabbing most of the commissions.

I took a look at amazon's astore. I was wondering if anyone has figured out if the astore is less vulnerable to parasites and scumware.

thanks

chris

[digicam]

How do your commissions get stolen exactly?

Also does this happen if you are using a shopping cart system for your Amazon commission buyers.

cheers

[piatkow]

From threads about "missing" commissions on the Amazon boards I would guess that the OP has a mismatch between orders and shipments. Amazon simply don't advise if an order is cancelled prior to shipping. This is a particular issue or pre-orders as customers find cheaper sources close to the release date.

[Beagle]

There might be more to it than that. Check out this thread, which even gives a bit of explanation on how they do it:
[webmasterworld.com...]

I don't know specifically about the astore. There's an entire forum on the associate's board dealing with astores, so you might find some answers there.

[edited by: Beagle at 1:36 am (utc) on Feb. 18, 2007]

[Jane_Doe]

I have regular Amazon links on a few site and they have pretty decent conversion rates compared to other affiliate programs selling comparable products. I don't know if I am losing commissions to parasite or scumware, but I know on certain products I won't make any more money by using other affiliate programs.