Amazon affiliate question...when do my earnings show up?

[RockNRollPig]

2 Days ago I finally got my first order on my AWS site (yipee)...but my total items shipped and my earnings still say 0. When do those update?

[GCT13]

It updates when the item has shipped; some items take a few days to ship so it may take a while.

[flyingpylon]

And sadly, some never ship because the customer canceled the order or whatever.

[GCT13]

Indeed.. a moment of silence for cancelled items :(

[Chris]

Heh.

Returns suck. I've had returns suck thousands of revenue from Dell.

After Florida my coupon site traffic changed so drastically that I ended up with a negative balance with Dell's affiliate program. The prior month had such good sales that the normal returns from them exceeded the sales of the current month.

[michael_gersitz]

A negative balance? thats funny!

[incka]

I wonder how much the top coupon site is earning...

[Chris]

Quite a bit, I was the top coupon site for the better part of a year.

Although the current top ones use multiple-domain/duplicate content spam.

[incka]

Would it be worth you buying PR to beat it?

[Chris]

PR is overpriced, and not really my problem.

[incka]

I agree that it is overpriced. I've been doing alot of calculations, found out how much I could earn doing affiliate campaigns on fastclick, etc... But one thing I did find was that the online coupon market must be worth $500 million a year to the merchants who do coupons combined...