Why Amazon Affiliate Program Sucks
 

Top #1 Thing an Affiliate Program Needs

Have no friggan clue what is selling me DVD's on Amazon.com
I have a few domains that could be sending it (domains I bought and never developed) but Amazons tracking is absolute garbage..

today I log in and see this (must of hit some good dvd keywords <shrug>)


Earnings Report
GlossaryJuly 12, 2006 to July 12, 2006
Summary

Item Name
Seller
Price
Referral-Fee Rate
Items Shipped
Revenue
Referral Fees

DVD
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection Amazon.com $28.99 6.00% 1 $28.99 $1.74
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (2-Disc Collector's Edition) Amazon.com $17.97 6.01% 1 $17.97 $1.08
Four Rooms Amazon.com $14.99 6.00% 1 $14.99 $0.90
Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series) Amazon.com $14.99 6.00% 1 $14.99 $0.90
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Unrated Extended Edition) Amazon.com $13.88 5.98% 1 $13.88 $0.83
Office Space - Special Edition with Flair (Widescreen Edition) Amazon.com $13.45 6.02% 1 $13.45 $0.81
Braveheart Amazon.com $13.17 6.00% 1 $13.17 $0.79
PCU Amazon.com $12.99 6.00% 1 $12.99 $0.78
Rocky Amazon.com $12.99 6.00% 1 $12.99 $0.78
Rudy (Special Edition) Amazon.com $12.99 6.00% 1 $12.99 $0.78
A River Runs Through It Amazon.com $10.99 6.01% 1 $10.99 $0.66
Fight Club (Single Disc Edition) Amazon.com $10.97 6.02% 1 $10.97 $0.66
Kingpin Amazon.com $10.99 6.01% 1 $10.99 $0.66
Man on Fire Amazon.com $10.97 6.02% 1 $10.97 $0.66
My Cousin Vinny Amazon.com $10.99 6.01% 1 $10.99 $0.66
Far and Away Amazon.com $9.99 6.01% 1 $9.99 $0.60
Reservoir Dogs Amazon.com $9.99 6.01% 1 $9.99 $0.60
The Natural Amazon.com $9.99 6.01% 1 $9.99 $0.60
The Replacements Amazon.com $9.99 6.01% 1 $9.99 $0.60
Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) Amazon.com $9.99 6.01% 1 $9.99 $0.60
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (Special Edition) Amazon.com $9.99 6.01% 1 $9.99 $0.60
Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition) Amazon.com $9.88 5.97% 1 $9.88 $0.59
Dazed & Confused (Widescreen Flashback Edition) Amazon.com $9.88 5.97% 1 $9.88 $0.59
Old School (Widescreen Unrated Edition) Amazon.com $9.88 5.97% 1 $9.88 $0.59
The Goonies Amazon.com $9.88 5.97% 1 $9.88 $0.59
Caddyshack Amazon.com $8.99 6.01% 1 $8.99 $0.54
National Lampoon's Animal House (Widescreen Double Secret Probation Edition) Amazon.com $8.74 5.95% 1 $8.74 $0.52
Zoolander Amazon.com $7.86 5.98% 1 $7.86 $0.47
The Sandlot Amazon.com $7.47 6.02% 1 $7.47 $0.45
Natural Born Killers Amazon.com $6.99 6.01% 1 $6.99 $0.42
The Legend of Bagger Vance Amazon.com $6.99 6.01% 1 $6.99 $0.42
Super Troopers Amazon.com $4.99 6.01% 1 $4.99 $0.30


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I sold all those DVD's yesterday, and have not got the slightest clue what site is sending these dvd sales... So I have no hope in ever increasing my
income... What a joke of a service that place is...

What are they thinking?

There are tracking softwares you can use to track the traffic you are sending to affiliate programs you know ?

yeah but this is coming from stuff I don't care about or have the time to go in and track when the traffic is under 5 hits per day on average.. would have been nice to know which one of my sitting domains has some power... hit stats don't show nothing out of the norm

what makes it worse, is i know they have referring tracking enabled, because I had a support problem with them and they were telling me what domains sent traffic.... so its there, why not put it online?

The Legend of Bagger Vance

who the hell buys that!?

Don't know, don't even know what it is :)

ohhhhhhhhhhhh ...........