Comments on: Overstock Threatens to Terminate Colorado Affiliates Over Pending Legislation http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/ Discussion of Online Marketing, SEM, Social Media, Mobile and Video, Micro-Content, and Affiliate Marketing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Amazon Affiliates out of Business by Colorado Law HB 10-1193 | Greg Ahern's Blog http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-28583 Amazon Affiliates out of Business by Colorado Law HB 10-1193 | Greg Ahern's Blog Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:23:54 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-28583 [...] Feld – local Colorado entrepreneur and founder of venture capital companies. Overstock.com is threatening to cancel all affiliates in Colorado Cary Bergeron Denver Post, Vincent Carroll The [...] [...] Feld – local Colorado entrepreneur and founder of venture capital companies. Overstock.com is threatening to cancel all affiliates in Colorado Cary Bergeron Denver Post, Vincent Carroll The [...]

]]> By: Greg http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-25189 Greg Tue, 11 May 2010 18:22:31 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-25189 According to the state of Colorado, the law states that outside retailers have to notify the State of Colorado and the customer of what they spent, so that the state of Colorado can collect the money. It doesn't make any difference if they have affiliates in the state or not, if they make any sales in the state, then they have to report the sale. <a href="http://cclponline.org/pubfiles/Amazon%20fact%20sheet%203_9%20final.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://cclponline.org/pubfiles/Amazon%20fact%20sh...</a> According to the state of Colorado, the law states that outside retailers have to notify the State of Colorado and the customer of what they spent, so that the state of Colorado can collect the money. It doesn't make any difference if they have affiliates in the state or not, if they make any sales in the state, then they have to report the sale.

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]]> By: Greg http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-25188 Greg Tue, 11 May 2010 18:07:46 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-25188 I just received this email from about 50 Commission Junction Advertisers that I do affiliate marketing for. (CJ.com) "Dear XXXXXX, Due to the recent tax laws regarding nexus involving online affiliate publishers in the state of Colorado (legislation known as HB 10-1193) we will no longer be able to accept new publishers from Colorado into our affiliate program. Additionally, we will be immediately terminating our relationship with any publishers located in Colorado that were already joined. We sincerely apologize for the abrupt interruption in the program if this affected your account directly. This, unfortunately, affects our ability to continue business with loyal publishers and we understand that we are losing valuable relationships due to these new laws. If you are a publisher located in Colorado, your publisher account will be closed as of May 18, 2010, and we will no longer pay advertising fees for sales referrals after that date. All sales made prior to May 18, 2010 will be credited to you and paid out in accordance with our regular schedule on June 10, 2010. Please accept our apologies and we appreciate your understanding. Hopefully in the future, these laws will be reversed in order to keep the networks diversified and growing. Kind Regards, XXXXXX" I just received this email from about 50 Commission Junction Advertisers that I do affiliate marketing for. (CJ.com)

"Dear XXXXXX,

Due to the recent tax laws regarding nexus involving online affiliate publishers in the state of Colorado (legislation known as HB 10-1193) we will no longer be able to accept new publishers from Colorado into our affiliate program.

Additionally, we will be immediately terminating our relationship with any publishers located in Colorado that were already joined. We sincerely apologize for the abrupt interruption in the program if this affected your account directly. This, unfortunately, affects our ability to continue business with loyal publishers and we understand that we are losing valuable relationships due to these new laws.

If you are a publisher located in Colorado, your publisher account will be closed as of May 18, 2010, and we will no longer pay advertising fees for sales referrals after that date. All sales made prior to May 18, 2010 will be credited to you and paid out in accordance with our regular schedule on June 10, 2010. Please accept our apologies and we appreciate your understanding. Hopefully in the future, these laws will be reversed in order to keep the networks diversified and growing.

Kind Regards,

XXXXXX"

]]> By: Daron Babin http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-24346 Daron Babin Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:44:36 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-24346 Agreed! ! Saw it come across my desk today and knew this would be good for affiliates. We've wanted to be proactive within our trade shows regarding the ever changing laws that affect affiliates. So this should be a good panel nonetheless, and you can bet there will be no punches pulled with this crowd. Agreed!

! Saw it come across my desk today and knew this would be good for affiliates.

We've wanted to be proactive within our trade shows regarding the ever changing laws that affect affiliates.

So this should be a good panel nonetheless, and you can bet there will be no punches pulled with this crowd.

]]> By: Angel Djambazov http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-24345 Angel Djambazov Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:38:38 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-24345 Hi Daron, Good to see you on ReveNews. Just a small tip, if you want to be taken seriously when you promote an event you need to be current on industry news. HB 1193 is no longer a "bill", it was signed into law on February 25 by Governor Bill Ritter. Now John "Jack" Pommer who was the sponsor of the bill is a great guest to have. It will be interesting to hear his take on the fallout now that Amazon and others have terminated Colorado affiliates. Angel Hi Daron,

Good to see you on ReveNews. Just a small tip, if you want to be taken seriously when you promote an event you need to be current on industry news. HB 1193 is no longer a "bill", it was signed into law on February 25 by Governor Bill Ritter.

Now John "Jack" Pommer who was the sponsor of the bill is a great guest to have. It will be interesting to hear his take on the fallout now that Amazon and others have terminated Colorado affiliates.

Angel

]]> By: Daron Babin http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-24344 Daron Babin Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:05:20 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-24344 Want to make your voice heard? Want to hear why THEY want to pass this bill? Hear from the man himself coming up in June. We just got it confirmed from their office that Colorado State Representative John “Jack” Pommer, who is also Chair of the Appropriations Committee...will be present and sit on a panel at Denver's Affcon2010.com I'm stoked about this. This really gives the community the chance to speak directly to our lawmakes at one of our conferences to try and help educate them and to hopefully in the long run, make a difference. Want to make your voice heard? Want to hear why THEY want to pass this bill? Hear from the man himself coming up in June. We just got it confirmed from their office that Colorado State Representative John “Jack” Pommer, who is also Chair of the Appropriations Committee…will be present and sit on a panel at Denver's Affcon2010.com

I'm stoked about this. This really gives the community the chance to speak directly to our lawmakes at one of our conferences to try and help educate them and to hopefully in the long run, make a difference.

]]> By: Colorado HB 1193: stop this Internet sales tax | wakalix http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-24007 Colorado HB 1193: stop this Internet sales tax | wakalix Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:41:43 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-24007 [...] Also see this post from ReveNews: Overstock Threatens to Terminate Colorado Affiliates Over Pending Legislation. [...] [...] Also see this post from ReveNews: Overstock Threatens to Terminate Colorado Affiliates Over Pending Legislation. [...]

]]> By: Stephanie Lichtenste http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-23936 Stephanie Lichtenste Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:45:24 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-23936 Glad I could help by sending the message. I just saw the turnout of over 100 CO affiliates at the hearing. This is great news that affiliates are getting involved. The 6-5 vote is close so they can definitely still beat it like in CA. Keep it up CO affiliates! Glad I could help by sending the message. I just saw the turnout of over 100 CO affiliates at the hearing. This is great news that affiliates are getting involved. The 6-5 vote is close so they can definitely still beat it like in CA. Keep it up CO affiliates!

]]> By: Angel Djambazov http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-23933 Angel Djambazov Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:26:47 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-23933 Actually, Stephanie, I owe you a direct thank you for the story. Was about to turn off my computer for the evening when I saw your email on Facebook citing the letter from Travis Hopkins that prompted me to write the article to try to get the word out. Wouldn't have seen it until the morning otherwise. Thank you for helping us and the industry spread information on such an important announcement. Actually, Stephanie, I owe you a direct thank you for the story. Was about to turn off my computer for the evening when I saw your email on Facebook citing the letter from Travis Hopkins that prompted me to write the article to try to get the word out. Wouldn't have seen it until the morning otherwise. Thank you for helping us and the industry spread information on such an important announcement.

]]> By: Stephanie Lichtenste http://www.revenews.com/affiliate-marketing/overstock-threatens-to-terminate-colorado-affiliates-over-pending-legislation/#comment-23930 Stephanie Lichtenste Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:19:14 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/?p=4992#comment-23930 Great post Angel I hope this helped today during the CO hearing. Great post Angel I hope this helped today during the CO hearing.

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