Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]

Post by ricardo81 » Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 8:22 AM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #12

For those who don't watch the video: This is about his affiliate account. It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days. Amazon seems to be almost the only game in town. Sure, there are thousands of other affiliate programs. But they pay surprisingly little. Often affiliates earn only like $0.05 per click (on average). While the same company pays $1 per click on other channels like G…

Post by burnished » Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 8:23 AM UTC

viknesh wrote: post #35

Yeri wrote: post #28

Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…

Written by AI?

Post by RobotToaster » Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 8:24 AM UTC

voytec wrote: post #9

codegladiator wrote: post #3

Amazon needs a process before deleting accounts to check if the target has a big social media presence somewhere that it might create a backlash. Such accounts need to be handled differently.

My take from this video is that social media presence was the reason for account deletion. Amazon doesn't care about bad press (do they even get positive media coverage?). It's day like any other and it doesn't seem to hurt them.

Post by RobotToaster » Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 8:25 AM UTC

pyeri wrote: post #16

codegladiator wrote: post #3

Amazon needs a process before deleting accounts to check if the target has a big social media presence somewhere that it might create a backlash. Such accounts need to be handled differently.

How much of a nuisance it really is if an American got cancelled by Amazon+Google? Assuming any attempt to create an alt account will be thwarted by the process (name won't match credit cards or bank accounts, etc.), I can imagine a dystopian future ~20 years from now where such people will become absolute pariahs in the society. Especially if the current trend of smaller tech companies cow towing the lines of establ…

Post by TekMol » Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 8:26 AM UTC

shermozle wrote: post #34

TekMol wrote: post #12

For those who don't watch the video: This is about his affiliate account. It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days. Amazon seems to be almost the only game in town. Sure, there are thousands of other affiliate programs. But they pay surprisingly little. Often affiliates earn only like $0.05 per click (on average). While the same company pays $1 per click on other channels like G…

Because affiliate marketing is cesspool of scammers doing scams at scale. I say this as someone who's measured marketing performance of these channels over the years.