Testing, testing, one, two, many, testing

[taptaptap] "Is this thing on?"

Yes, I now have a Dreamwidth account. A free account right now, in spite of my attempts to give them money, because PayPal is not co-operating with said attempts. However, even the free account includes cross-posting to one other journal, so I shall now see if it will cross-post this to my LJ.

No, I am not about to abandon ship on LJ. I just want a DW account *as well*. Just in case...

The reply from Amazon

Here's the weasel word reply from Amazon about that message saying "You are receiving this email because our reports indicate that you have sent users directly to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca or www.endless.com through paid search advertisements that were displayed to users who searched on keywords which you bid upon and purchased in search engine keyword auctions." You will note that they are now trying to claim that it was just a reminder, and not in any way acknowledging that I was explicitly and falsely told that I appeared to have been engaged in the forbidden activity. Wonder how many people they annoyed with this nonsense, given that it's clearly a form letter set up for the helldesk drones to use on the annoyed.


Hello,

The email notification you received was intended to be a reminder that as of May 1, 2009, we will no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search advertising on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and their extended search networks. We sincerely apologize if you received this message and aren't engaging in paid search advertising activities of this kind.

We want to reassure you that this change only affects traffic generated when Associates purchase advertising on search engines and use an Amazon URL as the destination URL. You will continue to receive payment for all qualifying sales you refer to Amazon as long as those sales are not generated through paid search advertising of this sort.

We appreciate your understanding.

Sincerely,