This plugin AmazonPress is a scam be careful people

  • The plugin AmazonPress Was Stolen from a really cool programmer. AmazonPress is really called AmazonFeed the thief who stole it has removed the tip feature, if any of you dont know the tip feature its where within the plugin you can give your amazon affiliate sales to the developer. in AmazonPress you have no control over the tip feature all your hard earned sales are going to AmazonPress technically he is stealing your affiliate sales.. All i can say be careful people.. p.s i downloaded both plugins exactly the same late just the tip feature missing in AmazonPress and here is the link to the original developer…

    https://www.warkensoft.com/2010/04/beware-of-thieves-like-amazonpress/

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/amazonpress/

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    GPL is covered by the reference to AmazonFeed as parent to the fork. 

    This was Amazonfeed 2.0.1, now forked as AmazonPress starting from ver 9.0.1
Improved by: Tom Makela - https://cj7.co.uk/
Version - 9.01 -  includes all Amazon partner sites .com, Canada, Germany, Japan and France
Updates and this download can be found at: https://cj7.co.uk/amazonpress-free-wp-plugin/
Original source -  https://www.warkensoft.com/php-downloads/amazonfeed-wordpress-plugin/
Warkior, if you can code a snippet that makes the tip feature to share it 50/50 for 2 developers, I happily include you in this fork.

    A quick scan of the tip-code shows they’re pretty much the same. You don’t have to like it, but it is permitted.

    Plugin Author TomYam

    (@tomyam)

    I hope that you read the README file a bit more carefully about AmazonPress.

    “AmazonPress” in wordpress repository is a fork of AmazonFeed by Warkior – https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/amazonfeed/.
    Mine is at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/amazonpress/
    All credits have been kept to point this out as that is what the GPL states.

    However there was someone who ripped of Warkiors AmazonFeed, they even set up a domain called amazonfeed,com and removed Warkiors copyrights and disabled the “Tip” function for users, and claimed they were the creators.

    So I put a fork in the eye of the people who “stole it”, by claiming the “AmazonFeed” plugin name in the repository.
    Therefore they were forced to use a different name in the repository, called “./amazon-press/” – “AmazonPress WordPress Plugin”.

    As for improvement – I have added extra countries to be used in the admin.
    Therefore I call it a fork. Since I have re-made the plugin from the original one. I see not harm in adding my affiliate code, specially when the user do have the option to disable it in the backend.

    Hope this clarifies things a bit of who is stealing or who is doing something dishonest. Maybe stealing from thieves is as bad?
    But on the other hand I never stole their code, I improved the original code, and AmazonPress is hardly a copyrighted name they have claim on.

    I hope to get a few hours free and I will see if I can add a few more countries where Amazon has expanded, since my pervious fork, I believe the missing countries are Italy and China.

    Cheers.

    Tom Makela,
    Bangkok, Thailand

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