1. What is an affiliate program?
2. Can you please explain the tiered commission structure?
3. What's in it for me, my site, and my visitors?
4. Does it cost me anything to become an affiliate?
5. Can a website outside the United States become an affiliate?
6. Can I still be an affiliate if I operate more than one website?
7. How do I sign up?
8. Is my website eligible?
9. How do I create links?
10. Can I use Overstock.com's content on my site?
11. How do I know how much I've sold and earned?
12. How often do I get paid?
13. What about product returns?
14. How will you know that the orders came from my site?
15. Restricted Coupon Information

Affiliate programs are the ideal way to make your website profitable. Overstock.com's affiliate program allows you to earn revenue from your website by sending traffic through Overstock.com advertisements (text links, banner ads, DRMs, etc.) that you have placed on your site. Maximizing site revenue is dependent on two things: increasing the amount of traffic to your site, and improving click-through ratios by finding ads that fit your visitor's interests.

Overstock.com uses LinkShare as our Affiliate Service Provider (www.linkshare.com). LinkShare provides Overstock.com Affiliates with one simple interface to check all sales statistics on a real-time basis. Overstock.com Affiliates also have access to monthly statements and reports that detail impressions, click-throughs, sales, and commissions that you have generated for Overstock.com. Access to site information is password protected. Furthermore, LinkShare and Overstock.com do not collect or track any information that may be sensitive, such as credit card numbers or private data.

Overstock.com offers affiliates a tiered commission structure. Affiliates earn a 1% commission on all media and electronic sales and a 7% commission on all non-media sales. The media and electronic bucket includes Electronics, Books, Movies, Music, Video Games, etc. With the exception of travel, auctions, and cars, everything else on our site (Home & Garden, Jewelry & Watches, Apparel, etc.) would be included in our Non-Media bucket. Every time you refer a visitor to Overstock.com through an affiliate link and they complete a purchase, you earn commission on that sale. If the visitor does not purchase immediately, but comes back within 14 days and purchases, we still credit you with the sale!

Since our prices are far lower than other online merchants, our visitor-to-sale conversion rate is high. Top Overstock.com affiliates are earning THOUSANDS of dollars each week. High traffic sites can easily earn close to $10,000/month while low traffic sites can easily generate between $500-$2,000/month. "Overstock.com's Best Price Guarantee" ensures that our customers are always paying the lowest price for our products.

No! It's absolutely free to join our Affiliate Program. There is no charge to apply, there is no minimum sales requirement, and you can cancel at any time. Once you are approved by Overstock.com, you can place a banner on your site and start earning commissions almost immediately.

No. Currently, Overstock.com does not allow new International Affiliates in the program, unless specific permission has been given.

Yes. You can have multiple sites as an Affiliate. You will have one Affiliate account with us that will include all of your sites. You can track the progress of each of your sites through Linkshare.

First, you must fill out our Affiliate Application and agree to the terms of our Affiliate Agreement. Once you've submitted your application, we will contact you soon (via email) with easy-to-follow information on how to get started and create links on your site.

Most sites qualify for participation in our program. Anyone may submit an application, but we reserve the right to refuse membership to a site or revoke a membership at any time if we feel the site contains objectionable material or if we feel that the affiliate is using unethical marketing practices (cookie-stuffing, bidding on trademarked terms, overwriting links, etc.).

We have an automatic tag generator on Overstock.com Affiliate's Site that creates HTML for you to simply cut and paste into your website. It’s so easy to use even beginners can create links in seconds. You don’t even need to know HTML!

Our creative is your creative! You can use logos, graphics, photos and product descriptions. All of this information is readily available in the "create links" section of the LinkShare interface. Moreover, if you want any customized links created for your pages, don't hesitate to ask!

Through Linkshare's Overstock.com Affiliate Site you can access reports, which are updated daily, that provide information on impressions, click-throughs, orders, shipments, and commissions earned.

Overstock.com will send you a commission check every month for a percentage of the sales you referred to our site, provided you earned more than $10. For example, if you only earn $5 in a month, and then earn $6 in the second month, you will receive a commission check at the end of the second month for $11.

If a user returns a product for a refund, or if credit card charges are reversed due to a dispute or credit card fraud, your account will be debited for any commission earned on that transaction.

All links from your site to our site contain a unique identifier so that every time a user comes to us via your site, you receive credit when a purchase is made. This is made possible with HTML links we create for you through a tag generator on Overstock.com Affiliate's Site.

Affiliates do not earn commissions on Non-Affiliate Promotions.
Non-Affiliate promotions include:

1. Purchases using offers not supplied by your Overstock Affiliate Manager or LinkShare.
2. Purchases using a Coupon Code from a Non-Affiliate Overstock.com promotion or private discount code.
3. Purchases using a Coupon Code supplied in an Overstock.com customer email.