Hello, Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program are terminated effective today, June 29, 2011. Those California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned before today will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule.
You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of California. If you are not currently a resident of California, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state in the near future please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.
To avoid confusion, we would like to clarify that this development will only impact our ability to offer the Associates Program to California residents and will not affect your ability to purchase from Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.
We have enjoyed working with you and other California-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to California residents. As mentioned before, we are continuing to work on alternative ways to help California residents monetize their websites and we will be sure to contact you when these become available.
Regards,
The Amazon Associates Team |
I enjoyed a very nice relationship with Amazon for the past three years of my blogging endeavors. I understand it is a brave new world we have entered and the only certainties in life are taxes and death. As a resident of California, we need every taxable penny we can get in this state. As a champion of capitalism, I see why Amazon doesn't feel that it is a fair law. Regardless the ones who suffer are the ones who really optimized their businesses to partner with Amazon.
All of my websites feature some sort of Amazon advertising.
Alliance-Wrestling.com even had an Amazon Store. I will not suffer to greatly, but others will. I guess there is always eBay. What really chaps my hide is that I have to go remove all of my Amazon code on the sites. I'm glad I never finished my article on adding Amazon to your website piece I was working on for
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