Comments on: eBay Starts Paying Affiliates by the Click. Here’s Why.

By: Domain Investor

Domain Investor — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:54:05 +0000

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“Good luck to the suckers that intend on staying. Genuinely. You’ll need it. There is no way I would work for anyone that can pay you whatever they feel like!”

Domainers utilizing ppc have been living with this problem for years. And, it is now catching up to us.

Sarah,
How are you utilizing your domain traffic?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:50:47 +0000

EPN has moved away from a transparent form of payment to a ‘magical-unknown-ppc’ method. Some affiliates are seeing an increase (me) in earnings and some are seeing massive reductions in earnings.

Whatever your ‘adjustment’ in earnings, do you really believe that the amount paid to you will not decrease over time?

As soon as the dust has settled and enough time has passed to blur the memory on commission based payments, those epc’s will start to decline…. and affiliates will continue to stay!! After all, what’s the point in spending a lot of time moving all of your work to OverStock / Amazon / Adsense / Chitika / Pepperjam / PopShops / Shareasale simply because your epc has slipped a little? The fact is though that every month it will slip a little more… then a little more… In the meantime, Ebay have managed to get another year out of you sending converting traffic whilst paying you next to squat!

Good luck to the suckers that intend on staying. Genuinely. You’ll need it. There is no way I would work for anyone that can pay you whatever they feel like!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:29:24 +0000

No transparency = less payout.

By: ePN’s new QCP scheme: a stealth technique for avoiding sales tax issues? | affiliate-marketing-adventure.com

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:42:04 +0000

[...] Over at Domain Name Wire they’re suggesting that the eBay Partner Network’s new QCP method for paying affiliates is not simply a way of “hiding data from affiliates.” Instead it’s an approach to dealing with states’ sales tax issues – paying affiiliates by the click means those affiliates are not a company’s sales representatives. Read the whole piece here. [...]

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:05:14 +0000

You can view reports for August that compare what you made and what you would have made with the new QCP system. My earnings would have gone up by 18% in August. You also still see what was won through your links so you still see the same reporting as before.

By: InternetInvestments.com

InternetInvestments.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:23:24 +0000

Does this mean that publishers won’t be able to use both google ads and ebay’s affiliate program simultaneously?

By: jp

jp — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:07:13 +0000

Good work Governator!

They should call this new traffic score at eBay a TQ score.