Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Probably an actual affiliate can answer this question better - but in general an affiliate will have a website with links to Amazon. If someone clicks on those links to buy something from Amazon (instead of going to Amazon's website directly), the affiliate will get a small percentage of the sale. For example, someone might have a website on backpacking, and have a part of the website that reviews backpacking equipment, and has a link to Amazon underneath the equipment they review. So if you like their review of a tent and want to buy the tent and do so via that link, they will get a referral fee from Amazon.
If Amazon drops its affiliate program, the affiliates will no longer get the referral fee.
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