Amazon raises free shipping to $35. Good or bad for Amazon affiliates?

[liams]

Amazon Bumps Free Shipping Threshold to $35, Now You Really Want Prime

Good: People will spend more.

Bad: People may not buy as often, or buy elsewhere.

Thoughts?

 

[contract]

Considering Amazon is the real* online verison of Target.

I don't see this being a problem..

 

[lukep]

LOL, the timing of this makes it pretty obvious that all of EPN's affiliates flooded over to Amazon when EPN pulled their cookie down to 1-day cookies on Oct 1.

Keep an eye out for amazon making more tweaks that benefit them for a while; they can certainly get away with it now that so much traffic is being diverted from EPN to them.

 

[efeezy]

Amazon Prime bitches. Learn about it.

 

[HeadStartSEO]

I don't think this will be a problem, remember they test everything. They are a amazingly profit squeezing company, I think it will be fine.

 

[BrandonSI]

I bet it will help. I went to buy something with the intention of only spending 15 bucks, I saw I could get free shipping for 25; I quickly bit the bullet and added another item to my cart.

There are so many things on Amazon people can use.

 

[himanuzo]

Amazon's commission rate is low.... so think how to push people to spend more money for more commission to affiliates.

 

[kumansk]

Amazon's commission rate is low.... so think how to push people to spend more money for more commission to affiliates.

Did you really just paste that from an ezine article?