Hello Yuv,
Finally! Thank you, that was a very nice answer/analysis. :)
Kind regards,
Shelly
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From: Yuv Joodhisty <locustv2_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 7:52 PM
To: Ajay R Ramjatan
Cc: S Moonesamy; Shelly Hermia Bhujun; mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
Subject: Re: Press says Amazon dedicates a branch to Mauritians
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<mailto: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<
http://defimedia.info> article, I understood that amazon-mauritius.fr<
http://amazon-mauritius.fr> is a subsidiary of Amazon as per the caption in the article which reads "Le site Internet d’amazon-mauritius.fr<
http://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<mailto: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/AMAZONMAURITIUS/>
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-mauritius.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_360175811044509_3726245768818551455_n.jpg?oh=16d90f8152706d68f567fd4f50b22724&oe=598FD73F&__gda__=1498658733_be2a7481c31615e5ced1776f2133a313 about a message from "Club Partenaires Amazone.fr" to amazon-mauritius.fr<
http://amazon-mauritius.fr> The message is dated 11 April, i.e. after the amazon-mauritius.fr<
http://amazon-mauritius.fr> issue was discussed on this mailing list.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Wed Apr 12 2017 - 16:06:10 PST
