[SLPTALS1]

Say I want 10-12 products on one page, with reviews and pricing. Which means I have to have a refresh the timestamp every 24 hours per TOS guidelines of Amazon…

Timo was saying I can use cronjobs to update products in the backend cpanel/ssh, without having a user refresh the page to refresh the timestamp, total reviews, is this correct?

I tried to explain Timo the 24 hour timestamp refresh dilemma before, which basically means if you list the price, you have to set Repo or Cache to 22-24 hours by Amazon’s TOS guidelines…

Timo provided me with a really cool website where it lists products with 5-7 products on one page, but I hope this user knows, you must provide a timestamp by Amazon’s TOS, or you could face termination with the Amazon Associates program.

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I’ve been fooling around with cronjob in my cpanel, but I can’t seem to get it to work…

* * * * * wget -q -O – http://www.healthyfoods.biz/wp-content/plugins/amazon-simple-affiliate/scripts/script.sh Asa2_Module_Repo_Cron_Refresh –lifetime=150 –limit=50 >/dev/null 2>&1

I opened up two tickets in past week, not sure if Timo is mad at me for asking for a refund the first time or he’s on vacation. I plan on keeping his plugin regardless if I can’t have 10-12 products on one page, it’s a great plugin with incredible features…

[SLPTALS1]

In fact, all of the showcase sites on the homepage are in violation of TOS because they don’t have a timestamp, hope everyone knows that, hate to see your guys account terminated on Amazon, once it’s terminated, it’s permanent.

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• This reply was modified 8 years ago by SLPTALS1.

[Timo]

I am not mad at you at all 🙂 I just answered to the ticket you created today, so I think that is a pretty good respond time 😉

Here is my answer from the ticket:

I guess the problem in your cronjob configuration is the “wget” part. The “script.sh” should not be accessed via HTTP but via the bash/shell. So please try to replace “wget -q -O -” with just “bash”. Then the shell script should be executed as expected. As long as you are testing, I would suggest to remove the error suppression part “>/dev/null 2>&1”. If it still does not work or does not produce any output, please change the option “Cronjob event” in options “Advanced” tab to anything other than the default, like “plugins_loaded” event.

I think you are right about the Amazon TOS, but that is under the responsibility of each user. You have all the options with ASA 2 to show the required information like timestamp, disclaimer and so on.

I hope I could help you to get the cronjob running. If it still won’t do, please let me know. I am sure that we will get it to work, as it finally runs for every user I have helped with it so far.

Kind regards,
Timo