What’s the source for this? Can’t seem to find details about this online.
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witten@lemmy.world 9 months ago[deleted]
okr765@lemmy.okr765.com 9 months ago
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I can’t seem to find evidence of that. All I see is they’re Amazon affiliates, which pretty much anybody can be.
Do you have a source?
witten@lemmy.world 9 months ago
[deleted]ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fair enough. Honestly it was probably a safe bet too considering how much they have their hands in.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh no way
Spaniard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I didn’t look into it yet but that would seem a bit… Against its own interests.
Scrollone@feddit.it 9 months ago
Not owned by Amazon, but there’s a big but.
Their source of income is from Amazon affiliates link. Whenever you follow the price of a product, if you click on the links on their websites or in their emails, they will earn a commission from Amazon.
Amazon recently started vetting their affiliates more. I’m 100% sure that camelcamelcamel now shows data in a way that doesn’t hurt Amazon (e.g. they won’t show sudden drops in prices, i.e. pricing mistakes) or even themselves (commissions are a percentage of the price paid by the user).