Can a .com member help, please?

[Anna]

I wonder if .com Amazon customers see something different from me.

I cannot see my sponsored adverts on US Amazon. For example, if I look at some of my targeted authors, say Bess McBride, there are NO sponsored ads on the page, just a heading saying "Continue your search" or 'Also Bought' or 'Also viewed'.

Is this because the ads are not showing for Brit visitors to Amazon but are showing to the .com customers? Does anyone know, please?

Perhaps Amazon are keeping out bots, thinking that UK visitors should not be looking at .com pages.

[Margaret]

I just looked at a few titles by Bess McBride and got the expected list of sponsored ads so you may be right in thinking it's related to you being a UK visitor to the .com. Having just returned from a couple of weeks in Ireland, I can tell you that most everything I searched (on Amazon as well as on other websites) looked different than it did when I do my searches from the US.

[Anna]

Thank you, that's reassuring. Until a few weeks ago, I could see the sponsored ads and, of course, I could see where my ads showed up which helps with monitoring them.

I've just checked again and there's still no sign of any of my ads. Gee, we do have to trust our Zon, don't we?