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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Well ultimately, the consumer does pay extra. All costs associated with selling a product are factored into the price.
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Meaningless in this case though. By that statement, if you work for an electric company that sells some Amazon facility it's power, you'd better disclose your financial interest in any referral, because Amazon's prices reflect it's utilities costs which in part pay your salary.
For all practical purposes, Amazon gives a little of it's profit away for the sake of generating more sales and making the profit up in volume.
Some places do really lousy things with their affiliates/referral programs, programs, like give better deals to customers who DON'T use a referral link, or prevent referred users from taking advantage of other discounts and offers. I hate that. Amazon doesn't seem to do that.
By the way, I've seen mention of the affiliate links generating cookies which give the affiliate credit for all Amazon purchases made in 24 hours (assuming no other affiliate link is clicked, I guess). Does anyone have any proof of this?
I do not believe it works this way. As far as I can tell, the affiliate link is only good for the one browser session, which typically only survives about 20 minutes if the session is inactive, and would not survive, say, fully exiting and reopening your browser, or rebooting your computer.
ApK