An Internet marketing services consultant in Denver, Colorado has call for consumers to boycott Amazon.com. This comes after Amazon.com had terminated over 4,000 affiliates. Jason Lancaster is an Internet marketing consultant in Denver, Colorado and states that Amazon.com’s move has hurt businesses as well as individuals in the state of Colorado. He says that now the consumers in state of Colorado should not help Amazon.com’s business after this move.

This move was made on March 8, 2010, in a letter to these affiliates in Colorado, stated in the letter from Amazon.com “The new regulations…are clearly intended to increase the compliance burden to a point where online retailers will be indued to ‘voluntarily’ collect Colorado sales tax- – a course we will not take.”
Claims from Amazon.com about the move is because of a new law that is “burdensome” with the regulation of sales tax on Amazon.com.

Jason Lancaster was an affiliate for Amazon.com with a small business in Colorado up until this move. He states that, “I lost my relationship with Amazon.com because they do not like a new Colorado law. They decided to hurt my business in order to send a political ‘message’ to Colorado’s legislature. How does Amazon.com hurting my business send a message to anyone but me?”

According to Senator Rollie Heath in a statement, this law does not include the local affiliates in the bill. He believes this is a political move on Amazon.com’s part.