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I sure hope you were joking - if not then the Amazon Associate
program will implode due to a mass revolt. Your message implies yet
another affiliate program that us peons are not aware of.
Message copied to prevent it from being redacted:
Strago,
I pay a lot of FEES to be in
the Amazon Associates program, but they are all worth it.
Someday they'll help me be really successful and qualify for the
free house bonus....
Everytime someone goes to my website and buys
a new copy of a book that I was trying to sell used in the
marketplace, I have to pay a FEE to store that book for another
month.... Of course I didn't really want to sell my used
copy anyhow, my other 20,000 books could get lonely....
Of course Amazon also charges all
my website visitors a membership FEE before they can buy
anything from my website (they call it a shipping and
membership fee which confuses 1-2% of them into actually
sticking around and paying it), and there is a really great
scheme to split those FEES back with me and
the website I first rode in on when I signed up,
and also with his referer too back through seven levels, as long as
I don't clear my browser cache or leave my computer on for more than
24 hours....
They also make me pay a FEE every month
to receive an audio tape of the month
from various important people in the company, and
other successful Associates, exhorting me how to sell more
books and non-media items. Sometimes they include discontinued
motivational books with diagonal pieces cut off the corner of the
covers... Most of the time I dont have time to listen to these
tapes or read anything more than the back covers of the books. I
have a huge pile in my trunk that I'll listen to someday, but last
month I had time and that tape was really good. JB's topic
was how bad I should feel about all the books in my
house that didn't come from Amazon. Fortunately he didn't charge me
a FEE to list them all in the marketplace so I can eventually
exchange them all for Amazon purchased books. My wife was happy I
felt so guilty I rented a storage to get them all out of the house,
but she doesn't know yet about the replacements I'm going to order
when I spend the entire commission gift certificate I'm waiting
for from Amazon for last quarter....
But I also think eBay licensed that
presentation, they sent me a tape that made me feel really guilty
about all the non eBay stuff I have, and I was really encouraged to
try and get rid of it all on eBay, but they wanted to charge me
a FEE for every item whether they sell or not. But fortunately they
beat the other company to the patent on the idea of
no-sale FEEs, I'm really glad that saves me from having to
pay a FEE for every visitor I send to Amazon who doesn't
buy.....
I also have to pay an
annual FEE to receive monthly magazines featuring the
smiling faces of successful Associates on the cover..... The
last issue had a coupon code for a discount on the FEE to get a
full color poster of the new commission structure for Q3, I hope
they get that back in stock to send to me before it changes again
for Q4.....
The webmaster of the site that refered me to
Amazon (my sponsor) just wrote me about the small
FEE he wants to sell me some "motivational
cassettes" (B000069KAB) that I can mail to my website
visitors to convince them to come back to my site and actually buy
something....
My sponsor also gave me the ASIN to buy
batteries from him, B00003IE4N. He said it's really bad to ever
buy from someone else something that Amazon offers. For
example, he told me never to buy a 48 pack of batteries at
costco for $8, or even only just the 2 I need at the
grocery store, because I can buy 72, B00008MOQ6, for a
FEE of about $36 and he will earn a commission. I'm really
glad he calls me every couple of days to keep me psyched up
about buying things from his Amazon website.....
Next month when I travel to see my sister, a
small FEE to buy B00008MOQD should keep me safe from
SARS. Her friend likes to eat chalk, and I
think B00009AOCI ought to satisfy her, but does anyone
know what color it is? She can't stand the green
chalk....
My sponsoring webmaster also offered me
a low FEE 1000 minute calling card B00006ISCK that I
can order from him. He promised to help me use it to
do some three-way calls to all my old friends from high
school, and distant relatives to, to ask them to come and pay FEEs
to sign up for Amazon. He said we'll make a lot
of commissions from them. And the FEES aren't too much to buy
lists of people who know how to read so we can also call them and
ask them to come and sign up....
I also signed up to pay a small FEE to
have the number of a weekly conference call to help me learn how to
be a better Associate. That one really helps me on the long second
month stretch of the quarter until the next commission gift
certificate....
My sponsor wasn't sure if my best selling
item, B00006GQCK, qualifies as a non-media item. I hope to ask
on the next conference call.
I'm still saving up the FEE to go to the
annual convention in Seattle to actually meet all these other
Associates and learn why they are so much more successful than
me.... If I can get into the 8th tear, sniff, before the
convention, I heard from my sponsor that I'll get
a FEE-free tour of the various closets that the foreign Amazons
are stored in... The best thing is that at the conventions you
can save a lot on the FEEs for the various courses that you need to
buy to learn how to sell more and get into the diamond tieras, like
the Non-Media Sellers Course that I have been wanting to buy, if
only I could afford the FEE.....
- Garnet
P.S. BTW, a site visitor bought a
$200 marketplace book the other day (not one of my books, someone
elses), but I was happy with the commission it generated....
It beat the commission on all the new books I sold that day....
Broom closets, here I come.....
P.P.S. If everyone else knows if
B00006GQCK is a non-media item, I'd sure appreciate
knowing.... | 
