Amazon Associates Central: Fail
For some reason — I’m going with sheer spite — more than a billion people retroactively removed themselves from ever having ordered something from me through Amazon.com.
Either that, or some naive programmer was working directly with a signed 32-bit number and forgot what signed number representation was being used, which in turns leads me to believe that the back end of Amazon is (and this is surprising to me) c or c++.
| Tracking ID |
Clicks |
Items Ordered |
Items Shipped |
New Customers |
Shipped Items Revenue |
Referral Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mcgeesorg-20 | 232 | 15 | 15 | 0 | $28.05 | $1.98 |
| TOTALS | 232 | 15 | 15 | -1075784408 | $28.05 | $1.98 |
(If your primary response is “You make less than $2 per fiscal quarter through your Amazon Associates ID?!”, the answer is, “Yes, and that was a good quarter.”)
[ Replace this ad for $1/month ]
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