they sent me this

“We are writing to inform you that incorrect balances were displayed in your May earnings report on Associates Central. This was caused by a system error that resulted in an inaccurate display of additional referral fees. The error has been fixed and your earnings summary now shows accurate referral fees. ”

I checked my earnings and half my sales were deleted. They did not explain ‘their mistake” and when I wrote to them I got an inane response about a different month’s earnings.

I’m in the same place you are. Should I loose these ‘thieves’ or suck it up for the measly income I get? This just happened this morning, so I have to cool down before I decide.

The question to me now is, should I keep trying to promote the Kindle for someone with policies like this?

I guess you might say that I should keep promoting it if I believe in it. Maybe and I probably will. I think even this post shows I love my Kindle. But my time is valuable and all the stuff I did added value to them. I don’t think there is anything wrong with being compensated for adding value.

I also think the idea that someone making money as an affiliate will turn the internet into “…a giant morass of affiliate link bait, spam farms, and SEO marketing blogs..” is a bit extreme. You should blame amazon for the problem then, because they created the biggest affiliate program in the world. With out it the Internet would not be sinking in to the morass.

I hope you aren’t offended by my frank response. I mean it in no way as a personal attack, I’m just trying to present it how I see it without beating around the bush. I’m actually very interested in your opinion and experience with the Kindle, but somehow the experience feels a bit dirty or sullied when there’s an affiliate link. Not just in your case, but with all affiliate programs. It’s admittedly a very difficult line to define.. obviously, spamming your comments with my own Associates links (I have one, so I can’t be too opposed to the concept) would be blatantly wrong. So is writing a blog where you do nothing but insincerely promote products through affiliate links. Where does it stop being obviously wrong and start being just a bit slimy? And what’s the difference between slimy and legitimate? I can’t define it, but I usually know when I see it. And unfortunately, having a fairly typical “I got caught and now I’m all upset about it” post is something that generally subtracts rather than adds to the feeling of legitimacy.