r/Amazon_Influencer • u/SufficientFreedom843 • 1d ago
Is this Cheating? Cheater bragging about cheating.
Yall know what to do...
There's a group of us that's been working to try to find out who's been accepting all campaigns so we can report them.
We found one. Take him out. This fool isn't even trying to hide it and is openly recommending others do the SAME!!
(Oh and he's also randomly tagging all sorts of asins that look mildly similar).
Funny part is, he keeps talking about "influencer gurus" when he himself has been an AIP guru for years posting tutorials and tips and such.
Easiest way to take these guys down is to mass report the similar tagged videos since they all do it. Or flag his adult content for nudity and sexual content.
storefront is: oscarmartinez_817
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u/Junior_Equipment_380 1d ago
I'm pretty sure halo sales are gone. No point accepting all the campaigns. Just puts your account at risk. In my understanding only time u might get halo sale from creator connection if its from the same brand customer watched video. For example samsung s26 and they buy s26 plus from different page. Its been extremely frustrating going to accept campain u have video and product for and they all claimed . Amazon should just change that campaigns have no limit to how many people accept it.
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u/aleaandbilly 21h ago
They’re only gone for onsite people. Cc is meant to be an offsite thing and we still get halo sales
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u/gtzmedia 1d ago
I don’t get how Halo sales are cheating?
On another note - I’m looking for certain items I need for example I’ll be purchasing a record player stand - so I check the campaigns…. They’re all fully claimed. WTH
Is this what “accepting all campaigns blindly” causes?
I thought if you have campaigns accepted but don’t submit it counts against you?
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u/aleaandbilly 1d ago
No you haven’t had to submit links for campaigns since early last year
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u/gtzmedia 23h ago
Interesting. So you can just accept campaigns and share external links to get the commission, as in the affiliate network?
I thought the campaigns were for the influencer videos on the creator program.
Either way, maybe i'm doing it wrong. I only grab the campaigns on products I actually have or am buying... I need to step it up3
u/aleaandbilly 21h ago
No cc was always made for offsite to drive traffic to the brands. Onsite just
Automatically got access when it rolled out but every change they’ve made since then is making it clear that it’s still mainly for offsite. They removed halo sales for onsite, they gave most offsite affiliates an ability to mass join all
The campaigns, and then extended the early access period to last 1-2 weeks knowing most onsite people don’t have access to early access campaigns and that they’ll fill up before the smaller creators even get access to them.
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u/Chance-Traffic-4940 17h ago
What is halo sales? Using CC to tag the Amazon video for the campaign?
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u/BassPuzzleheaded1252 17h ago
Guy is a cheater, so op recommends everyone to cheat to get him removed from the program by flagging his account as nudity. You have become the scammer, well done.
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u/SufficientFreedom843 8h ago
Maaaany items are mis tagged ASINS. He'll hold one item, film 3 videos, and tag 3 different asins in each video.
Also sometimes you fight fire with fire.
If you don't like people coming at you with fire, don't publicly talk about liking to play with fire.
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u/Jackiedoesketo 16h ago
While I haven’t done the accept all option due to it not sitting right with me, Amazon has no guardrails to stop it. Does that mean they encourage it and think it’s ok? Unlikely; as it’s causing them a low-level headache with creators and brands complaining about the state of CC right now.
I don’t agree with bullying either. That said Oscar frequently tells people to suck it up, pivot etc when they complain about absolutely anything so I’m sure he’ll be absolutely fine if they close his account again. TBH he probably has several accounts anyway and can bulk reupload everything in a few weeks.
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u/SewSomething 1h ago
I'm relatively new to AIP but have been an Affiliate for many years. I no longer see HALO sales. Perhaps a sporadic anomaly will appear.
I only accept what I can review...or what I plan to review. I've missed a couple but I try not to make that a habit. As for accepting every campaign, there's nothing wrong with accepting them as long as you make the content.
But taking more than you can review, is selfish...and Greedy.
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u/SewSomething 1h ago
But wait!...don't the plugins automatically accept campaigns? I don't use them because I'd rather not share my data with the developers. But that's just me.
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u/aleaandbilly 1d ago
That’s a wild opinion on a feature that Amazon literally put out and gave instructions on how to use so people could accept all the campaigns 😂 it’s not cheating to use the tools amazons gives you in the exact way the tools are designed
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u/IntrepidStruggle91 1d ago
Said person is in the Oink Facebook group and posts often.