eBay Affiliate Program Commissions Doubled

Yeah I think they are the sites. I dont know why you think you have to be a US citizen. They just send you a cheque in US dollars and you convert it to your home currency.

Ross

 

If you know where too look, you can earn $35.00 per registration with ebay and no tiers. Your users must sign up and bid on something within 30 days and you earn $35 for each one who does that.

 

12freeforum, why dont you tell us?

 

Do you know if we get paid on bids/buys or selling? Sellers are the ones who pay Ebay, so would we get paid for buyers purchasing the items? I guess I should dig up this program over at cj.com-- I wonder why I didn't see an Email about it...


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Derek

 

What proportion of experienced net users already have an eBay account do you reckon?

Maybe it's not worth promoting them - as mentioned at the start of this thread don't a massive number of people already have an eBay account? Therefore you'll be sending visitors to them and not earn the registration fee...

 

I've never really understood this-- particularly getting paid for un-succesful bids-- the same as a BIN, at that... Ebay should provide some reward for sending SELLERS to the service(other than the registration)...

Oh well, I guess only time will tell if revenue sharing will bring in more $$$ for me than registrations/bids/bins-- I get quite a few $.10 bids/BIN's for specific Ebay product searches I list on my site-- this bid/bin structure could work better than flat rate...


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Derek

 

That's what I always thought, but there's still people registering... Even those that aren't looking for 'Ebay registration' or simply 'ebay' on search engines... Getting paid for general bids/bins isn't too bad, either-- though the current $.10/flat seems low...


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Derek

 

Cool, we'll have to see how that goes!

 

My first reaction is that this sucks , 70% of eBay's revenue may be very little. Ebay's revenue comes from the listing fees -- which can be in the pennies for certain types of products. (Think dutch style auction where 50 items are sold)

I suppose it'll take a change in strategy -- less emphasis on ACRUs and more on delivering solid leads to sales.

 

Last time I sold on Ebay, insertion fees were $0.25/item minimum, and then there was something like a 5% charge on top of that(if the item sold). So, if I provided a lead that sold a $10 item at 40% sharing, it should be something like (.25*.4)+(10*.05*.4)=0.1+0.2=$.30. Cooincidentally, the $.25*.4 is 10 cents-- the current bid/BIN price... Maybe this is an all-good change(aside from the lowered ACRU rate)...


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Derek

Why would someone give me a neg rep over this post, I wonder?


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Derek

 

Because there are a lot of dirtballs on the forum that have nothing better to do.

Are you kidding? eBay makes a fortune off the seller, especially if the items sells. Those "pennies" add up real fast. Besides, I see a heck of a lot more bidding off my referral/affiliate pages than I do sign ups.

 

I agree-- even though I had a record # of signups yesterday... I send them far more sales every day-- many of them BIN's... Small $2-20 purchases, but with this structure, I think I should see more $$$ from them...


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Derek

 

I agree! eBay deserve a real chance!

 

If you use the API and target just the featured items, you will make a killing, last time I ran a featured listing it cost to $109.00 list it.

 

I currently feel that the rev sharing idea by eBay will be a good thing for us affiliates.

I wonder how Shawn will prevail in particular. Shawn do you mostly get ACRUs or actual bids and BINs?

I know that our eBay commisions are a lot of the 10 cents (bids or BINs) and a ACRU or two for every 20 or so bids of BINs. So I think this rev share will increase the bids and BINs to a reasonable commision per winning bid that will even out the lower ACRU price. But now of course people will try to show featured auctions and expensive items so they get more commissions.

I'm just a little worried about how many actual winning bids we will refer to eBay. I hope the people we refer are serious about the auctions they want and will make sure they win. Because it sounds like affiliates wont get any commision if someone bids, but doesn't get the winning bid on the auction.

Again I am very interested to see how this first month will turn out. I'm hoping for more money on our end just because of the structure of payments, but who knows for sure?
I believe Shawn has a higher frequency of eBay commisions per day so I wonder how the actual payouts will be; higher? lower? about the same?

Can't wait to see.

 

If you have the type of site that can promote fancy cars and real estate, you could probably do real well. My ratio of bids/bins to ACRU is pretty high, I don't have a chart, but I get better than 1 ACRU per 10 bids.

So, the cut in pay from 20.00 to 12.00 is a bit of a shock, but we'll see how the bid prices work out, it's impossible to know how many non-winning bids we've been getting dimes for, as far as I can tell.

I suppose I should send more traffic to eBay motors rather than where I'm doing. And I'm sure that's exactly what eBay is trying to accomplish.