How do you feel about the move Amazon made to terminate their relationship with approximately 10, 000 affiliates? If you are like me you really don’t feel like sending much business the way of Amazon.

On top of that I have cancelled my Prime membership, because I have decided to try to make purchases and encourage others to take their purchasing power to another site/company that respects affiliates/partners.

Jeff Bezos obviously must have approved the action.

Why Amazon would not have left their relationship in tact with affiliates and fought the ruling that was passed in California, is something I am not sure I will ever understand. Their action took place over the course of 2-3 days it was like we are warning you that you are being terminated and then, you are terminated. Good luck!

What is encouraging to see is that other companies have taking a completely different approach, i.e. we are a California company and we respect our affiliates.

Did Amazon/Bezos feel that by terminating 10,000 California affiliates that the law was going to mysteriously be overturned? The chance of the ruling being overturned are pretty slim, as several states have passed the into law and others are considering it seriously. Will it become a federal law? perhaps at some point, where the sale took place is where the taxes need to be collected. What puzzles me is that Amazon leveraged and disposed of their “associates” affiliates with little regard.

Perhaps those signed up with Amazon need to look at things again, they call their publishers/affiliates ASSociatES.

Really how many Amazon publishers are making substantial commissions every month. I would bet that the 80/20 rule certainly applies here,  and maybe even 90/10, that 10 percent of the publishers generate 90 of the sales/volume