Re: Please test amazon search plugin for the US (current ones not working :-( )

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

New plugins are there now. So please test them

Thanks

Jaap

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 14:31, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> Please wait around 15 minutes. I forgot to push the changes to the
> website. They should appear in a few minutes
>
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 14:27, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think I found the error now. (I used gnomesearch-plugin as the
> > affiliate id while it needed to be gnomesearchplugin ). Updated search
> > plugins are now available on http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/
> >
> > Please deinstall the ones you currently have and do some searching and
> > clicking on items and preferably also buying such that I can see that
> > it works now
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jaap
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 15:17, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just discovered that for some strange reason the referrals with the
> > > searchplugins I made don't work. By default when I log in to the
> > > affiliate account with Amazon account it shows the combined result of
> > > all referral IDs we have. The store on the website has a different id
> > > than for the search. I now looked at the individual ids and saw that
> > > for the search plugins we have zero sales and clicks. So something is
> > > wrong.
> > >
> > > I now changed the US plugin slightly such that it uses the same url (I
> > > used a slightly different one and thought it did not matter for
> > > getting affiliate fees) as the one ubuntu uses to get affiliate fees
> > > for canonical.
> > >
> > > Can you try the new one out? Just remove the search plugin you have
> > > and add the one on http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/
> > >
> > > Please click on some items and preferably also buy something such that
> > > I can see that it works correctly.
> > >
> > > Can you let me know if you bought something? In about 2 days (the
> > > reports are always about 2 days behind) I can see if the referrals
> > > really work.
> > >
> > > Sorry for not noticing earlier because I think we lost quite some
> > > money due to that. Looking at the bright side revenues can be quite a
> > > bit higher than sofar when I get the plugins working correctly
> > >
> > > Happy holidays
> > >
> > > Jaap