I Got Kicked Out of EPN Today

Sucks, I was making close to a $1,000 a month with them.

Can anyone suggest some alternatives at this time?

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During a recent review of eBay Partner Network publisher accounts and site metrics data for clicks your account drives to eBay.com, we determined that the traffic generated from your account is significantly less engaged with the eBay site as compared to the standards set by our other affiliates. While we appreciate your efforts to drive traffic to our Advertiser sites, we do not think that it is mutually beneficial to further our business relationship at this time. As a result, we will be expiring your eBay Partner Network account in 7 days and we request that you remove all of your eBay Partner Network affiliate links by that time. Payment will take place as per the Network Agreement for any traffic driven to eBay Advertiser sites prior to the expiration date of August 27, 2008.

One of our account managers will contact you if a more appropriate business opportunity arises to work together again in the future.

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As stated in the ePN Network Agreement Section (L)(3)(i):

(3) Termination by ePN or an Advertiser

i. ePN may terminate this Agreement and your account, one of your websites, your use of a Promotional Method or your participation in a certain Program at any time for convenience in its sole discretion upon 7 days notice. An Advertiser may terminate your participation in its Program or your use of a Promotional Method at any time for convenience in its sole discretion upon 7 days notice.

 

A lot of folks have.

 

Hmmm i just wonder how you were driving traffic? This is a bit worrying if you have this as main income. Can they kick you out if you use normal SEOd webpages with ebay links and listings to products?

I guess if you pay people to signup new accounts and stuff its just a matter of time before they close you out.

 

I am still not started with them but after reading all that .... I don't even know will I want to start with EPN

 

Is that so? I would expect a few more threads like this if that is the case.

 

Check the ebay support forums.

Hell will break loose tomorrow.

 

Dont work with EPN

 

It was a nice chunk of my income but not all of it - I try to diversify my revenue streams for these exact kind of situations.

I wondered the other day what would happen if I took down my EPN ads and replaced them with other relevant affiliate offers.

I jinxed myself


BTW all my traffic was completely natural. I have good rankings for specific niche products, so I really don't see how this makes much sense at all.

 

I've been browsing around and have seen a few more of these type posts, so yeah you're right. Hopefully I won't be 'expired' from EPN becauese I just signed up yesterday.

 

anybody have the same experience with EPN? I am eager to know that..

 

some many ppl got kicked out from epn these days.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=990324

What other people do is that, join peperjam, and then join epn again.

 

This is encouraging... you have until August 27th to make as much money as you can. Pull out all the blackhat traffic generating stops as possible.

 

actually, I think the bastards "reserve the right" to withhold your entire month's pay (aka, steal it) when you get banned. Read their legal hell of a TOS for more insight, you might need a translator.

 

We are still getting paid for the month.

 

Has anyone tried calling these 2 phone numbers?
1-800-322-9266
1-888-749-3229

 

There's lots of talk about this subject online, just google it.

EPN started on April 1st this year and was to become very quickly, the biggest April Fools joke of the affiliate marketing calender for the year.

It very quickly became apparent that earnings after the switchover from CJ plummeted like a stone for lots of people, when signing up to the new eBay based EPN.

Then tracking became a major issue, with hundreds of affiliates claiming that their clicks were not being tracked properly, ACRU commissions dried up in many cases instantly and it was widely believed that eBay were using these teething troubles months as an excuse to purposefully withold commission payments from their affiliates.

Then there was the debacle to do with Auctiva and cookie stuffing, which caused another uproar.

All the while, the affiliates of EPN made their case on the eBay forums, but you just never, ever, hardly at all heard from anyone on the EPN side telling the affiliates what the actual problems were. So in effect, you had people, individuals from every walk of life, spending hours upon hours promoting eBay, designing excellent sites, utilizing only whitehat methods to generate traffic, but eBay simply did not or would not pay those same said affiliates for all their hard work.

Then came the news the other day about if you are not sending us quality traffic, we reserve the right to axe your association with us without any notice. This Is the final straw for hundreds if not thousands of affiliates of the EPN network, who essentially right now are all on a mass strike and have stopped developing their websites altogether. They just see no point at all in continuing without their concerns getting properly addressed.

With no dedicated support team on the EPN side that you can take any concerns to, any questions you raise as an affiliate concerning your account, the simple truth of the matter is, that you just never hear from anyone at all.

As far as affiliate marketing programs go online, the EPN eBay program has to be a text book lesson in how not to do things right or properly and no doubt in years to come, this disaster that is the EPN affiliate program will be taught in schools up and down the country wherever you live, how not to approach the digital business age.

Shame on eBay!

Some bloody partnership this one turned out to be.

If you are thinking of joining them:

Just be aware of the difficulties that hundreds if not thousands of other affiliates have or are experiencing. Not joining them will save you perhaps countless hours of heartache and frusration, exasperation etc.

 

Hope it's not his main income @ $1000 a month...

And they can kick out anyone they want. It's their own program...

 

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=520001583&tstart=0&mod=1219362646807

 

I posted an update a while back about how EPN reinstated my account: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=993452

It wasn't my main income but a nice portion of it, was a real bummer until they decided to let me back in