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

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

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
>>
>