I've browsed the ebay TOS repeatedly and still have a couple of questions that I feel fall into the grey area. Ebay affiliate is a great way to make money, I just don't want to screw it up 1) If I link to an auction that has already ended, do i still get 7 days worth of profits? 2) Is it true they will ban your account if you have ebay in any portion of your url before the 3rd slash? IE http://wiistuff.com/ebay-deals 3) It also states I cannot promote with adwords if I use any of their words. Does that mean an adwords promo with "Cheap wii on ebay" would result in banning. Thanks in advance DPers.
I believe you'll still get credit. I have auctions listed in blogs, etc that have ended eons ago, and I'm getting paid if a user clicks that and ends up buying something else on ebay. Yes.. and your example would be 'okay'. You can't have http://ebay-deals.com for example. I think the adwords restriction is if the adwords is directly linked to a auction. You can have a landing page promoted by adwords that lead to ebay auctions. For example, I would reword the ad to "Cheap wii" or something and have that go to your site http://wiistuff.com/ebay-deals, there you would have links to auctions. I'd be worried about wiistuff.com.. might get a letter from a lawyer (from Nintendo) for that.. but I'm no expert. hanji