EPN not reporting commissions? WTF

Okay, I had 127 clicks this week and ZERO commissions. I switched to EPN on April 1-2, and have had unsteady performance. Like having nothing for a few days then suddenly one day I get a lump of commissions, which seems like it would be all of those previous days combined. It's never gone for an entire week yet without posting a commission.

Anyone else having problems?

 

Welcome to the club.

hanji

 

Hey Kerosene

Was wondering how your were doing throughout this migration. I seem to be WAY more off than 20%. I still have more sites to migrate, but all my 'big earners' were moved early on to see good traffic and clicks.. and their numbers are way down.

No ACRUs for me as well.

I saw mention about '_' needing to be urlencoded() in the customid field which is weird. I just went ahead and striped all non-alphanumeric chars. I don't think this was a problem since I do see '_' within customids in my transaction download, so those tracked and earned for me. But anything I can do to help things get back on track is worth it.

Thanks!
hanji

 

I was getting great commissions at the start of the month, and it just suddenly stopped about a week ago, so I guess there must be a reporting delay. Or something. If I don't get my commissions soon though I'm going to be pissed.

 

hmmm.. mine have been reporting daily. Anything change in your link code? You're showing clicks.. so I'd assume that it's tracking right. This is such a mess. I'm hoping that things get back to normal mid-May or something.

hanji

 

It has to be said, what little hopes I had that I'd make more money with EPN over CJ have vanished.. I've not had one single ACRU so far this month and usually I have at least 5 and as for commissions... the past 3 months I've been averaging about $250-$300 by this time of the month.. so far... $6.47!!

 

I was getting 1 acru per day plus whatever sales i would make...same situation Im afraid to put any more effort into ebay...sad considering I was averaging almost a $1000 a month and spent months planning on really making money through ebay...

 

I think it's too early to give up on eBay. I've personally stopped on new development in the mean time, but will continue my traffic promoting on the existing sites. I have a feeling mid-May things should be leveled out.

Sure seems like they've been having trouble with the ACRUs in the last couple of months.

hanji

 

Only 127 clicks? I get about 200-300 clicks a day and some days I don't earn anything.

Oddly enough I changed one of my sites over to test EPN and got 2 ACRU's right off the bat (early in the month). I changed my other 8 sites and haven't got an ACRU since then. Kinda weird, I guess that's just how the chips fall.

 

Something is definitely wrong

I have only migrated 2 sites out of about 15 and I have 2k of clicks for about $5.

But what can you do? Ditch Ebay is my next option if things don't get back to what they were on CJ and promote someone else.

I'm really disappointed as I thought Ebay's own system would be top notch.

 

I have one site with 600 clicks with $0 commissions. Is that possible? I have another site with 198 clicks with commissions. I find that very odd.

 

With CJ I was averaging 2 commissions a day from that number of clicks, and it all but evaporated once I switched to EPN. Who knows.

I had a commission show up yesterday finally, so maybe things are getting back to normal..I hope..

 

We have had to switch off all of our ebay related PPC, earnings are so bad, read non existant now that it looks like it will soon be time to dump ebay. ECM was@ $9.00 on CJ - Now with EPN it's dropped to 0.44 - so not even breaking the one dollar barrier. It's broken I think.

 

Hi, - like many others using eBay prog, I'm seeing some strange after-effects. However, on the BANS forum, there's a thread going about the cookies - and it is puzzling BANS members as to which (if any??) cookie is set for 7 days ...

This was posted by one member and is similar to entries in my cookies folder.

Are we missing the obvious? Does anything here look like a 7-day cookie? or are we looking in the wrong place??

Thanks
M

 

The best way to track cookies is with Fiddler. Its a freeware plugin for IE. I would stick with the older version unless you are a dotNet person. You can watch all cookies as they set, and you can see all headers, forwards, http status codes, etc, etc. Its a great tool to troubleshoot your epn setup.

Looking at fiddler output though, you are correct, there is no 7 day cookie. There is a 10 year cookie and this may hook into their db to compute the 7 day signup limit.

 

Thanks for your reply; it would certainly be good to have the eBay opinion on this. I asked the same question on the epn forum, so will keep you posted if anything crops up there.

Best
M

 

Something definitely is wrong, but remove clicks from the equation. Ebay has already admitted clicks are being inflated due to bots. But putting that aside, I believe ACRUs at the very least are not being properly reported/credited.

 

I have yet to see any ACRUs so far this month.
And I've made a whopping $5 for 2k clicks....

bleh...

 

Yes.. the whole ACRU deal blows for sure. I have a feeling that a portion of tracking is hosed (possibly related to tool/type.. geotarget.. not sure). Just don't get why some people are making the same or more with ePN, and others are showing 'normal' clicks.. but getting extremely low commissions.

hanji