Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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).

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• okr765@lemmy.okr765.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s the source for this? Can’t seem to find details about this online.

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  • witten@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oops I was wrong… My bad. Not sure where I got that from.

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• ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?

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  • witten@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Looks like I was wrong! Consider it a human hallucination.

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    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fair enough. Honestly it was probably a safe bet too considering how much they have their hands in.

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh no way

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  • Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not.

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    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I didn’t look into it yet but that would seem a bit… Against its own interests.

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      • witten@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah turns out I was wrong about that… Must’ve been thinking of some other company! My bad.

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