Many of the larger retailers are no longer paying affiliate commission via shopping portals. Walmart and Target have been gone from portals for a bit already, and now a reader noticed that eBay is gone as well. Amazon is gone too, even in the select categories which they sometimes used to pay out via portals. Sam’s Club seems to only pay on memberships now.
And some of the larger retailers who are showing portal commissions appear to be very reduced or only available on select portals, e.g. Best Buy.
This is presumably all due to Covid-19 as lots of people are forced to online shopping, and some retailers are even struggling to keep up with demand. They don’t feel the need to pay out commissions anymore. eBay is a bit of a surprise to me.
Amazon affiliates is still working for website/blog affiliations like ours; it’s just not paying out via shopping portals which pay out to the consumer. (Our Amazon link is featured down in the right side-bar on every page on DoC.) eBay is still working for websites/blog affiliates too, last I know.
