http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/12/amazon-affiliates-get-big-payouts-amazon-prime-referrals Comments for "Amazon affiliates get big payouts for Amazon Prime referrals" en http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/12/amazon-affiliates-get-big-payouts-amazon-prime-referrals#comment-5316 <p><!--paging_filter-->For those of you with Prime memberships, here’s a good website for searching for Amazon Prime items:<br /> <a href="http://www.amazanian.com" rel="nofollow">www.amazanian.com</a></p> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:36:08 -0400 ChrisV comment 5316 at http://www.thestandard.com http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/12/amazon-affiliates-get-big-payouts-amazon-prime-referrals <!--paging_filter--><p><!--paging_filter--> <p><!--paging_filter--> </p> <p><img src="/sites/thestandard.com/files/u2482/amazonprimelogo.gif" align="left" height="22" width="181" />Amazon sent out a letter to all of its affiliate partners yesterday offering $12 for every referred customer who signs up for a free trial of the company's $79/year unlimited express shipping program, Amazon Prime.</p> <p>Amazon's affiliate program allows website owners to refer potential customers to Amazon.com and receive a cut of whatever they spend. Depending on the number of sales referred, users can make a significant amount of money like Daring Fireball's John Gruber who made more than $5,800 from a <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/john-grubers-leopard-windfall.html">single post linking his readers</a> to Amazon's Mac OS X Leopard pre-order page.</p> <p>Amazon Prime gives subscribers free two-day shipping on just about all products sold by Amazon (not including sales not fulfilled by Amazon) and $3.99/item overnight shipping. </p> <p>A $12 bonus on referrals to free trials of its $79 service suggests that Amazon wants to seriously promote the service. I've been a member of Amazon Prime for several years and found that I purchased many more items from Amazon because of the cheap expedited shipping rather than making a run to my local bookstore. </p> <p>I've even gotten overnight shipping for $3.99 on some really big items like a toaster oven which certainly would have cost more than four bucks to ship.</p> <p>Amazon doesn't vary product shipping fees for Amazon Prime subscribers like it does for standard customers, but in my experience, Prime customers that I know order a significantly higher number of products on average than non-Prime. Given the increase in products ordered, Amazon is probably planning to pick up enough profit on the increased product sales to cover the additional cost of free two-day shipping.</p> <p><b>More news, commentary, and predictions from <i>The Industry Standard</i>:</b></p> <ul> <li>Prediction: <b><a href="http://thestandard.com/predictions/connectu-twins-lose-court-will-win-semifinals-beijing">ConnectU twins lost in court, but will win semifinals in Beijing</a></b></li> <li>Prediction: <b><a href="http://thestandard.com/predictions/nbc-s-streaming-online-olympics-coverage-nbcolympics-com-will-pass-20-million-visits-aug">NBCOlympics.com to pass 20 million visits in August</a></b></li> <li>News: <b><a href="http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/11/beijing-olympics-millions-online-viewers-china">Beijing Olympics via millions of online viewers in China</a></b></li> <li>News: <b><a href="http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/11/online-olympics-offerings-leave-iphones-some-macs-out-cold">Online Olympics offerings leave iPhones, some Macs out in the cold</a></b></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/12/amazon-affiliates-get-big-payouts-amazon-prime-referrals#comments Business &amp; Finance co:Amazon.com product:Amazon Prime The Industry Standard Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:43:57 -0400 Jordan Golson 111611 at http://www.thestandard.com