Amazon Store price changes

jstreifel - November 3, 2009 - 19:12

I would like to use the Amazon module and the Amazon Store module to sell products of all sorts while also gaining a commission from Amazon's Associate program. However, I'm not going to get much commission when a product is being priced at $0.01. haha

So, how about marking up the price? Is there a module or method to increase the price to say $4.99 for a specific product (ASIN)? Order information is recorded and transaction is processed on my website. Then, order information including, customer name, shipping address, original price ($0.01) is forwarded to amazon while the same information is in my records. This means my store made $4.98 on that transaction. In the Amazon module, the final step to continue to payment currently forwards the user to amazon to finalize transaction - how about keeping the user on my site and complete transaction with ubercart+athorize.net and then drupal either creates an order or creates an order list that the admin would go and create and order at amazon? my website would be the customer and change the ship to information in regards to my website's customer. This would be similar to turning the commission program into a dropship fulfillment program.

I am assuming there isn't anything that will do this. So, how many hours do you think it would take to develop such a module/feature to my site?

thanks in advance!

I suggest you read the Amazon

bsenftner - November 3, 2009 - 19:36

I suggest you read the Amazon Product Advertising License agreement. What you're proposing violates the structure Amazon allows people advertising their products to use. I'm not affiliated with Amazon, but I'd expect they would shut you down, and potentially worse, like making shutting you down public, to discourage others...

Thank you for the heads-up.

jstreifel - November 3, 2009 - 20:57

Thank you for the heads-up. Until now I had only read the Operating agreement and did not find anything that I would be violating. I see now that they say customer must be forwarded to amazon site.

There must be some sort of way around this. Or maybe some other dropship program from, or similar to, amazon.

 
 

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