Affiliates and rejoin program after governor repeals law.
Remember when Amazon fired all of its California “associates” because the state said affiliates created a nexus in the state and was going to force them to start collecting sale tax?
California governor Jerry Brown has repealed the affiliate tax law and Amazon is inviting affiliates to rejoin the program. Here’s an email Amazon.com just sent to former affiliates:
Hello,
As you may have heard, California Governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation repealing the law that had forced us to terminate our California Associates. We are pleased to invite all California Associates whose accounts were closed due to the prior legislation to re-enroll in the Associates Program.
If you haven’t already re-enrolled, please click here:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/reinstatement/main.html
When asked to sign in, please use the same email address and password that were previously associated with your Associates account. To make your return to the Program as seamless as possible, when you re-enroll, your account settings (login, Associates ID, payment information, etc.) will be the same as they were previously.
For further information about re-enrollment, please click here:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t48
As I’ve written before, the goal of the law makes sense, but in real life laws like this never work.
(Hat tip: Joe Politzer)
Louise says
Just in time for X-mas! Cutting off 10,000 California affiliates huge PR blunder on the part of Amazon. Plus, Jerry Brown, as I understand it, postponed the tax until next year, and that is all that was signed!
“As part of the deal with Brown, lawmakers and bricks-and-mortar retailers, such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp., Amazon agreed to start collecting sales taxes in September 2012 and work with California and other states to ask Congress to pass a national Internet sales tax collection law.”
– Amazon invites its fired California associates to come back
I replaced my affiliate links, and outside a couple products not available elsewhere, I am not going back. Even those I may just leave as regular links. Amazon burned its bridge with me.