Amazon book purchase did not result in revenue



By Wendy C Allen


Amazon book purchase did not result in revenue #1374708  by Jim from stockscreening101.com 
 22 Jun 2017 14:32Recently a family member in another town purchased a book from the amazon affiliate link on my site.

For some reason, this did not register as a sale even though it was the Zweig book on the page. See http://www.stockscreening101.com/growth-stock-investing.html

Prior to this, a non-book purchase after accessing Amazon through an affiliate link on my site produced no revenue.

Considering the success everyone seems to have with Amazon, I must be missing something. Prior to contacting Amazon, perhaps someone here can offer some insight.

Thanks.Jim 

www.stockscreening101.com




Re: Amazon book purchase did not result in revenue

 #1374776  by Adriana (SBI for WP user from New Market) 
 23 Jun 2017 08:37

Amazon knows your family and friends (don't ask how, LOL, they just know) and won't give you credit for it.

Adriana



Re: Amazon book purchase did not result in revenue

 #1374784  by Mary from saintanneshelper.com 
 23 Jun 2017 09:27

What?!

Amazon knows your family and friends (don't ask how, LOL, they just know) and won't give you credit for it.

That's freaky. 

Mary

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Amazon tracks your ISPN, matches it to the ISPN of your FaceBook account, and EVERYONE on your FaceBook account (both friends on your profile and followers on your fan page) are classified by Amazon as your "family". If any ISPN of anyone on your FB friends list buys something off Amazon, it will not be credited towards you.

Also, you can not write a review for any book written by a family member. Amazon automatically rejects/deletes any book review written by any ISPN that is a friend or follower on your FaceBok account.

It's a HUGE problem for us authors. I've got 9,000 readers of my novels on my FB... they usually buy my novels via clicking the links on my website to get to Amazon.

Each one of my novels sells around 7,000 copies... ALL to the 9,000 people on my FaceBook... meaning Amazon doesn't credit the affiliate sales to my books AND deletes every review that gets put on my books.

There's a mass amount of tens of thousands of authors who have been petitioning to get this changed... people always wonder why self-pubbed books struggle to get any reviews... this is why. Amazon makes in almost impossible for a self pubbed author to get either book reviews or affiliate income on their books. This algorithm system has been in pace since June 2015. They announced it at the time they did it, said it was supposed to prevent fake reviews and people gaming the system for affiliate accounts. Not sure how it does either of those things, but it's pretty good at punishing authors who are not buying fake reviews or gaming the affiliate system.






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Since starting my writing career in 1978, I have written 130+ novels, 2,000+ short stories, 6,000+ non-fiction articles (ALL are found on this site), a few dozen stage plays, 12,000+ blog posts, and a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (I only worked for Disney one year (in 2005) and only wrote a few stories for their Danish comic books).

NOTE: I ONLY write the Quaraun series (aka The Twighlight Manor series aka The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane). In recent years there has been an issue with impersonators trying to pass books off as written by me, notably several non-fiction and Erotica books. I write neither nonfiction nor Erotica.

ALL of my books and their cover arts are listed on my website here. Beware of any books you find claiming to be me. If the books are NOT listed here on my website, they are NOT my books.

In fiction works, I specialize in Weird/Bizarro Tales set in 40th century CyberPunk-Quasi Medieval, Cozy Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds featuring an intersex Elf and his Faerie husband main characters.  I DO NOT WRITE ANY OTHER SERIES - THIS SERIES IS THE ONLY ONE I WRITE.

Non-fiction (found ONLY here on my site) is daily updates of events in my life, and how-tos on how I write my novels.

I DO NOT write Erotica.

I DO NOT write books with HUMAN characters.

The Erotica books and books with Human characters, that you are finding, are written by scammers trying to impersonate me.

There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter. If you find any such books, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322

The FBI believes the people behind the impersonation accounts showing up, are relatives of the woman who murdered my son.

146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.

And I'm sick of real estate agents who are too incompetent to research land ownership before they show up to stick a for sale sign in my yard.

The fact of the matter is, my son was murdered in 2013, and the friends and family of the murderer think it is funny to keep ILLEGALLY listing my land for sale, because apparently their child murdering bitch friend didn't hurt me enough by crippling me with a golf club, ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and beating his brains out on the ground with a golf club.

Also, her friends and family like to gaslight me by doxing me on ufo and alien abduction forums, while pretending to be me, and trying to make it look like I believe in ufos or aliens, even though I think people who believe in ufos are raving lunatics and people who claim to be alien abductees are crazy. 

Worse, they've also taken to harassing my WW2 vet homeless friend, by calling HIM an alien, demon, or cryptid and sending alien crazy ufo nutjobs at try to "catch him".

So, yeah, my son was murdered and the murder's friends and family endlessly harass me, my friends, and my family both online and offline, and I'm not happy with it at all.

There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter.

The FBI is looking for information into:

  1. identifying my son's murderer, 
  2. identifying the scammers who listed my land for sale, 
  3. identifying the impersonators who pretend to be me both online and offline, 
  4. the harassers who are harassing the homeless man and sending the UFO nuts to harass him... 
  • If ANYONE tells you 146 Portland Ave Old Orchard Beach, Maine is for sale:, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
  • If ANYONE tells you I believe in aliens, demons, or UFOS, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
  • If ANYONE tells you my homeless friend is an alien, a demon, a cryptid, or named Etiole for sale:, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322


I'm going to repeat it because I'm tired of people showing up and making offers:

146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.




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