Amazon wishlist address change, brand deals and what I use now
- MelRose Michaels
- 8 hours ago
- 5 min read
Blog Post Written By: Melrose Michaels
Spoil Me is an official SexWorkCEO platform sponsor and this post contains sponsored links.
Five years ago a mainstream company would not take a meeting with an adult creator, and this week I announced a new platform sponsorship with one. In that same stretch of months, a different mainstream company made our lives measurably more dangerous. Both of those things are true right now and they are happening to the same group of people..
On March 25, 2026, Amazon started passing our addresses along to third-party sellers, which removed the single most important protection inside a tool that most of us had been using for years without thinking twice about it. A few months after that, I sat in a meeting with a company whose product was engineered so that my address never enters the transaction at all.
Amazon wishlist address change puts creators at risk. Here's the private wishlist I use instead, plus how I read a brand deal before signing.
The wishlist problem almost nobody warned us about
I wrote about this in this week's newsletter and it is the piece I would hand to any creator who still thinks a PO box is enough protection. The reason this one hit me as hard as it did has everything to do with who else lives on my property, and I tell that whole story in the newsletter. So when Amazon changed how wishlist orders share address information, the risk stopped being theoretical for me and became something I think about whenever I hear a car in the driveway.
404 Media, Lifehacker and Reader's Digest all covered the change within days of it going live.
What a wishlist is actually for
In this week's YouTube Video I build a Spoil Me wishlist from scratch, starting at download and ending with a live link you can share. I also cover the three ways to add gifts and the step almost everyone skips, which is putting the button directly on your OnlyFans profile.
The setup is the easy part though, and the strategy is where I spent most of my time.
Most creators treat a wishlist like a tip jar, drop the link in a bio and hope a generous fan sends them a candle. That framing is the reason so many wishlists sit untouched for a year at a time. A wishlist is the only thing you sell that lets a fan buy his way into something real happening in your life, which puts him inside the experience instead of watching one through glass. I use one specific example on camera to show what that looks like and why a fan will still be bringing it up months later.
I also cover best practices, starting with the rule that a gift has to stay a gift, meaning nothing is owed the second the money lands. Keep nudity off your Spoil Me images and profile, because it is a mainstream platform and that is a large part of why it works. Show off every gift you receive, because gifting turns out to be contagious in a way that almost nothing else in our business is.
You can get the complete wishlist story strategy inside CEO Society for free, because some items on your list will sell over and over while others sit there for a year, and the difference has almost nothing to do with price.
The three questions I run before I reply to any offer
Mainstream companies are starting to email adult creators, and I mean software companies, apps and consumer brands that would not have taken a meeting with us five years ago.
In 2016 I was the one doing the asking, and now the email arrives in my inbox instead.
Every offer runs through these three questions before I write anybody back:
Have I used this with my own money and my own fans? Did something measurable happen as a result?
Would I still recommend it to another creator if the deal ended tonight and there was nothing in it for me?
Do they actually understand what we do for a living, or are they tolerating it while they take our money?
That third one is the hardest to fake, so I stop listening to what a company says and go look at what they built instead. Engineering time is one of the most expensive things a company has, and where they choose to spend it tells you exactly what they think you are worth.
Once an offer clears all three, there is a contract to read, and I break down what I look at first, starting with exclusivity, term and termination, approval and edit rights, the morality clause and usage rights.
The rate is the least interesting number in the entire document, because you can renegotiate a rate next term and you can never renegotiate a term you already signed. Usage rights are the one I would tattoo on people if I could, because they cost me over $100,000 on three bracelets in 2016 and I tell that whole story here:
Note: I am not a lawyer and none of this is legal advice, so have an actual attorney read anything before you sign it. The one thing I will hand you right here is the question to ask out loud and document in writing, which is whether the license ends when the agreement ends.
What ties all three together
Amazon took something away from us in March, and a much smaller company spent real engineering hours building something that works inside a platform we already live on. That product is whitelisted on OnlyFans, so a link in a DM arrives as a link a fan can tap instead of dead stripped text.
Same year, and two very different answers to the same question about whether we are worth building for.
The offers are coming and they are arriving faster than most creators are ready for them. The ones who do well with them will be the ones who learned to read the terms before the money got interesting.
Do this before you close this tab
Go set up your wishlist, which takes about three minutes from download to live link. Then drop your wishlist link in the comments in this week's YouTube video, because I am gifting creators from this community out of that pool every single week and I cannot spoil you if I cannot find you.
P.S. I've created "the wishlist ask swipe file" with 8 ready-to-send messages that point a fan at your wishlist without asking for money, grab it here
Spoil Me is an official SexWorkCEO platform sponsor and this post contains sponsored links.
*DISCLAIMER: All platform experiences will vary by creator, based on many variables, audience size, buying power, type of fanbase, etc. Please know that just because a platform or product works for me, doesn't necessarily mean you will get similar results. I want to share things that work for me with the creators inside my community, but what you choose for yourself, should be what you find works best for you.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the interview are those of the guest speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SexWorkCEO or MelRose Michaels. Anything said or written is of their opinion and is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone else.
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