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
>>>
>>
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