As a former Amazon Associate
I used to earn from qualifying purchases
"Under the terms of the Operating Agreement (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement),
we may terminate your account at any time, with or without cause. This
termination is final and not subject to appeal."
Below are the reasons they stated (keep in mind, they provided no option
for me to change to suit them). This page was here to help share
with people how the program worked, and how you could help support my
efforts of helping others.
-You are incentivizing
others to visit the Amazon Site via your Special Links by offering
rebates, cashback, discounts, points, donations to charity, or other
incentives, or by stating that customers can support you by shopping
through your Special Links.
-You are encouraging customers to bookmark your
Special Links. All Special Links must be accessed directly from your
Site.
-You have created
Special Links to an Amazon Page that does not contain any products.
-Your Site makes inaccurate, overbroad, deceptive
or otherwise misleading claims about Products, the Amazon Site, our
policies, promotions, or prices.
Due to
this, I have removed ALL Amazon links from MilitaryCAC.
MilitaryCAC will no longer recommend Amazon. If you find a link I
missed, please email me and let me
know, so, I can remove it ASAP.
My only
source of income for the website is now donations via the donations
link. Once the money I have dries up, it'll probably be the end of
this website. The money
is used for
the following expenses:
1. $2800 / year for Dedicated server for hosting the website (shared server
could not handle the web traffic)
2. $ 875 for TeamViewer & Splashtop remote access
software (something none of the official help desks do)
3. $ 150 / year for 2 Exchange accounts (Check email from multiple
computers and mobile phones for better support)
4. $ 250 / year for Domain names & registration fees
5. $ 150 / 3 years for SSL
certificate (Site can be accessed via https://)
6. $ 35 / 7 years for Domain certification (Verifies that
MilitaryCAC.com is registered by Michael Danberry)
7. $ varies / year Purchase new CAC readers to
test.