Online retailers & states battling over tax rules 0
I’ve recently been loosly following the actions of Amazon dropping affiliates in certain states. This is an interesting topic for affiliate marketers.
Today there is a good article out there about some of the people affected by this stuff.
By running Web sites like GPSTracklog.com from his home in Asheville, N.C., Owings serves as an affiliate for Amazon and other companies. Owings, 53, spends most of his time reviewing GPS gadgets and covering industry news. He links to navigation products of his choosing on Amazon’s site, and if his readers click through and buy one, he gets a commission.
Owings estimates he brought in about $80,000 in affiliate revenue from various companies in 2008, about $50,000 of which came from Amazon. After Amazon recently shuttered its North Carolina affiliate program in response to that state’s attempt to collect sales taxes, Owings said he and his wife were thinking about heading elsewhere to run their business.
“We’re terrified,” he said. “We just bought a house here a year ago and we’re looking at having to move out of state just to keep our business going.”
Also…
Judy Browning, 66, worries she’s done collecting affiliate revenue from Amazon for her Vegetable Goddess Web site, which she runs from Honolulu. Browning did not want to say how much money she had been getting from Amazon, other than to call it a “tremendous” opportunity for her.
“If I don’t get paid by Amazon, then I’m not making money,” she said. “If I’m not making money, I can’t spend money.”
The whole article is really interesting, check it out here.
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