Quoted from Amazon correspondence:

Hello,
For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of Connecticut residents. Unfortunately, the budget signed by Governor Malloy contains a sales tax provision that compels us to terminate this program for Connecticut-based participants effective immediately. It specifically imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales by online retailers – including but not limited to those referred by Connecticut-based affiliates like you – even if those retailers have no physical presence in the state.

We opposed this new tax law because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It was supported by big-box retailers, most of which are based outside Connecticut, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors. Similar legislation in other states has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue. We deeply regret that we must take this action.

As a result of the new law, contracts with all Connecticut residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program will be terminated today, June 10, 2011. Those Connecticut residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned on or before today, June 10, 2011, will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule.

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of Connecticut. If you are not currently a resident of Connecticut, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state after June 10, 2011, please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.

To avoid confusion, we would like to clarify that this development will only impact our ability to offer the Associates Program to Connecticut residents and will not affect their ability to purchase from www.amazon.com.

We have enjoyed working with you and other Connecticut-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to Connecticut residents.

Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team

Quoted from Amazon correspondence:

Hello,
For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of Illinois residents. Unfortunately, a new state tax law signed by Governor Quinn compels us to terminate this program for Illinois-based participants. It specifically imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales by online retailers – including but not limited to those referred by Illinois-based affiliates like you – even if those retailers have no physical presence in the state.
We had opposed this new tax law because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It was supported by national retailing chains, most of which are based outside Illinois, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors. Similar legislation in other states has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue. We deeply regret that its enactment forces this action.
As a result of the new law, contracts with all Illinois affiliates of the Amazon Associates Program will be terminated and those Illinois residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned prior to April 15, 2011 will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule. Based on your account closure date of April 15, 2011, any final payments will be paid by July 1, 2011.
You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of Illinois. If you are not currently a permanent resident of Illinois, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state after April 15, please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.
To be clear, this development will only impact our ability to continue the Associates Program in Illinois, and will not affect the ability of Illinois residents to purchase online at www.amazon.com from Amazons retail business.
We have enjoyed working with you and other Illinois-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to Illinois residents.
Regards,
The Amazon Associates Team

Greetings from the Amazon Associates Program:

Starting March 1st, we are changing how we pay Associates for phones purchased on AmazonWireless.com. While we are reducing the bounty amount to $50, we’re extending the bounty to all Products sold on AmazonWireless so that now you can earn the bounty not only by referring Qualifying Purchases of phones bundled with service plans, but also of phones by themselves. As before, purchases from AmazonWireless.com will not be eligible to earn advertising fee percentages in addition to bounty payments.

However, Qualifying Purchases of unlocked cell phones or cell phone accessories on Amazon.com will still be eligible for advertising fees at the rates set out in the Associates Program Advertising Fee Schedule.

For more details on how to earn the AmazonWireless bounty, please review the Associates Program Operating Agreement available here. Promotional tools for AmazonWireless can be found on Associates Central here.

The Amazon Associates Team

Below is their standard letter sent to current affiliates:

Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate:

We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules. The new regulations do not require online retailers to collect sales tax. Instead, they are clearly intended to increase the compliance burden to a point where online retailers will be induced to “voluntarily” collect Colorado sales tax — a course we won’t take.

We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably, as a result of the new law, we have decided to stop advertising through Associates based in Colorado. We plan to continue to sell to Colorado residents, however, and will advertise through other channels, including through Associates based in other states.

There is a right way for Colorado to pursue its revenue goals, but this new law is a wrong way. As we repeatedly communicated to Colorado legislators, including those who sponsored and supported the new law, we are not opposed to collecting sales tax within a constitutionally-permissible system applied even-handedly. The US Supreme Court has defined what would be constitutional, and if Colorado would repeal the current law or follow the constitutional approach to collection, we would welcome the opportunity to reinstate Colorado-based Associates.

You may express your views of Colorado’s new law to members of the General Assembly and to Governor Ritter, who signed the bill.

Your Associates account has been closed as of March 8, 2010, and we will no longer pay advertising fees for customers you refer to Amazon.com after that date. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned prior to March 8, 2010, will be processed and paid in accordance with our regular payment schedule. Based on your account closure date of March 8, any final payments will be paid by May 31, 2010.

We have enjoyed working with you and other Colorado-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program, and wish you all the best in your future.

Best Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team

What a better way to operate a website with current popular search terms than an auto updating news portal. This site is huge with content covering subjects from world news to technology news to hollywood news. Also included for content is a huge jobs section and a shopping section featuring thousands of products from Amazon.

Features:

• Professionally designed and programmed website
• Auto updating maintenance free website…just market it.
  
• Great tracking of transactions through the affiliates
• Strategically placed affiliate banners for additional revenue
• Huge Amazon affiliate section
  
• Strategically placed Google Ads for higher earnings.
  
• Translate icons enabled for larger audience
  
• Social Bookmark enabled (add to Digg, Furl, del.ici.ous, etc.)
• SEO competed with title tags, meta tags, etc.
  

This website has a lot of potential!

Check out the amazing features:

• Content from Google.com, YouTube.com, Flickr.com and others – all updates automatically.
• News page
• Photos page
• Blogs page
• Videos page
• Twitter page
• Yahoo Answers page
• Auction Pages include your Ebay affiliate ID on every item!
• Shop Pages include your Amazon affiliate ID on every item!
• Google Adsense integrated

Check out the amazing features:

• Content from Google.com, YouTube.com, Flickr.com and others – all updates automatically.
• News page
• Photos page
• Blogs page
• Videos page
• Twitter page
• Yahoo Answers page
• Auction Pages include your Ebay affiliate ID on every item!
• Shop Pages include your Amazon affiliate ID on every item!
• Google Adsense integrated

Stunning travel agency that harkens a breeze on a hot day. Everything the affiliate has to offer is set up on this website! Tons of features:

• Hotel booking, flight reservations, car rentals, vacation packages, cruises, road trips and destination guides to every corner of the earth.
• Sell packages from the most reputable travel vendors.
• Monitor your traffic, commissions and anything else you want to maintain from your affiliate account. They do everything, you just promote the site!

• Prepaid Hotels - 5%
• Non-prepaid Hotels – 50% of the commission we collect from the property (hotels generally pay 8-10%, so the affiliates receive half, or 4-5%)
• Airfare – $5 per transaction (not per ticket or passenger)
• Cruise – 1.5%
• Cars – 4-5% of base rate
• Vacation Package 2%

*Amazon Integrated *Google Adsense Integrated

We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to notify you that your Associates account has been closed as of June 30, 2009. This is a direct result of the unconstitutional tax collection scheme passed by the Hawaii State Legislature with an effective date of July 1. As a result, we will no longer pay any referral fees for customers referred to Amazon.com or Endless.com after June 30.

We were forced to take this unfortunate action in anticipation of actual enactment because of the uncertainty and timing of a veto, and the possibility that a veto could be overridden. The governor has until July 15 to veto the bill but, as indicated, the bill has an effective date of July 1.

Please be assured that all qualifying referral fees earned prior to June 30, 2009 will be processed and paid in full in accordance with our regular referral fee schedule. Based on your account closure date of June 30, 2009, any final payments will be paid by September 1, 2009.

In the event that Hawaiis governor vetoes this tax collection scheme, and that veto is not overridden, or in the event the law eventually is repealed, we would certainly be happy to re-open our Associates program to Hawaii residents.

The Hawaii General Assemblys website is http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/, the governor’s website is http://hawaii.gov/gov and additional information may be obtained from the Performance Marketing Alliance at http://www.performancemarketingalliance.com/.

We have enjoyed working with you and other Hawaii-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program, and wish you all the best in your future.
Best Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team