Re: Press says Amazon dedicates a branch to Mauritians

From: Yuv Joodhisty <locustv2_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:52:19 +0400


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Hello,

This site is just an affiliate program from amazon. It is not related to
amazon in any way.

Anyone can join the affiliate program of amazon and make money from it.
Many people who join this program are blog owners or people who like making
reviews of products.

Once you join this program, you can choose any item on the amazon website
and it will give you a special link for this item (with image if you want).
You write a blog post about this item and put the link on your blog. Anyone
who clicks on this link will give the link owner a small percentage of the
item that the buyer purchased. This item may not necessarily be the one
that the link points to.

If someone clicks on the link, any item that he purchase within 24 hours
will be valid.

Since Amazon does not deliver to Mauritius, maybe they are acting like the
middle man for the purchase.

They just seem to be querying the amazon database via the amazon api and
displaying the products on their website.

Ebay has also a similar affiliate program but it's much more difficult to
enter as you need a website with high traffic.

Just by going to the website and not seeing https was enough to know that
this website is not legit.

Regards
Yuv

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Ajay R Ramjatan <ajay.ramjatan_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> I found links to the agreements for participating in the Amazon Associates
> programme
>
> https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement
> https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies
>
> From the defimedia.info article, I understood that amazon-mauritius.fr is
> a subsidiary of Amazon as per the caption in the article which reads "Le
> site Internet d’amazon-mauritius.fr est une filiale du géant Amazon."
> Google Translate gave me "subsidiary company" for english translation of
> the word "filiale" A subsidiary company is very different to the Amazon
> Associates programme
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:27 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Shelly,
>> At 22:06 10-04-2017, Shelly Hermia Bhujun wrote:
>>
>>> I may be wrong but the whole 'ensemble' looks fishy to me. It reminds me
>>> of the launching of tropical miss Mauritius shopping website.
>>>
>>
>> Wasn't that one on the national TV? :-)
>>
>> Yes, I agree that it is difficult to ensure that a website is selling
>>> 100% genuine products. I will still take Tropical miss website as an
>>> example.
>>>
>>
>> Ok. :-)
>>
>> Amazon-mauritius.fr has a Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/AMAZ
>>> ONMAURITIUS/>https://www.facebook.com/AMAZONMAURITIUS/ and they have
>>> managed to post some pictures related to comments made after the defi
>>> article has been published. I also found this: <
>>> http://amazon-mauritius.fr.hypestat.com>http://amazon-mauri
>>> tius.fr.hypestat.com
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for sharing the above. There is an image at
>> https://fb-s-a-a.akamaihd.net/h-ak-xlt1/v/t1.0-9/17883582_36
>> 0175811044509_3726245768818551455_n.jpg?oh=16d90f8152706d68f
>> 567fd4f50b22724&oe=598FD73F&__gda__=1498658733_be2a7481c3161
>> 5e5ced1776f2133a313 about a message from "Club Partenaires Amazone.fr"
>> to amazon-mauritius.fr The message is dated 11 April, i.e. after the
>> amazon-mauritius.fr issue was discussed on this mailing list.
>>
>> Regards,
>> S. Moonesamy
>>
>>
>
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