ebay pulling out of CJ

Just received

We are excited to announce eBay’s new global affiliate platform: the eBay Partner Network.

The new platform will go live on April 1st, 2008 PST, at which point eBay will no longer be running its affiliate program through Commission Junction. Beginning April 1st, affiliates should register with eBay Partner Network and migrate their links from CJ to the new platform.

While CJ and ValueClick have been valuable partners to eBay throughout the years, we’ve decided to give our affiliate community a customized experience for eBay affiliates.

All the great tools and benefits of working with the eBay program will remain the same – access to the Editor Kit and affiliate API, the flexible destination tool, the great payout structure. In addition, the eBay partner network will provide several new features:
• Easy global registration to multiple countries simultaneously
• New, targeted banners and rich media creatives
• New landing page optimization and geo-targeting capabilities
• More detailed reporting capabilities for eBay’s programs

The eBay Partner Network and Commission Junction will run in parallel for one month through this process, so please plan to complete your migration by May 1st, 2008.

You can receive an additional 5% bonus for all traffic tracked through eBay Partner Network in April 2008 (bonus applicable to traffic sent to Half.com and US, UK, Australia, Canada, Italy, India and Spain eBay sites). The sooner you migrate, the more you’ll earn! Just:
• Register with eBay Partner Network on April 1, 2008
• Confirm your registration, and obtain your new identifiers
• Update your links with your new identifiers.
• Reminder: Please plan to complete migration by May 1, 2008.

You will receive more information and step by step directions for the transition on April 1st. A special help desk to answer your questions about migration will also be available starting April 1st. You can find more details, including a list of programs that will be affected, at http://affiliates.ebay.com.

Thanks for being a valued partner. We’re excited for a successful transition, and the opportunity to grow your business through even more innovations, information and communication moving forward!

hopefully current affiliates will be accepted into the new program????

 

This will be a HUGE pain in the ass for those of us not using bans or one of the other niche store scripts.

 

yep - *schedules week long of trying to remember everywhere used*

 

How do we know that it won't be a pain in the ass even if we ARE using one of those scripts? lol

 

I just hope it's a matter of replacing the PID part of the xml address.

 

I got this email as well but it did say it would happen on 1st April so I thought it might be an April Fool.

 

Tragic and not april fools joke. Looks like i'll be promoting BigCrumbs from now on. Thanks eBay, what a joke. Some heads up - IE a few months would be proper for you loyal affiliates. What a joke.

 

On the upside maybe the reporting of ebay transactions will improve.

 

EBAY ll get all cj affiliates direct now so they ll save 35% which they were giving to cj.

Good Deal for Ebay

 

Great deal for eBay and expect us affiliates to see some benefits as well.

 

Well, they really want to piss off a lot of people. A nice way to make millions out of their affiliates without paying them a single penny. How much software and sites out there can't be edited?

 

The only CJ thing in there was the PID and affilliate program identifier.
Let's hope eBay keeps change to a minimum.
And of course let's hope they pass some of the $ they sent to CJ now onto the affiliates.

 

MY understanding is that CJ will still be feeding the ads, but the affiliate relationship will now be managed through ebay.

I could be wrong, but that is what I think I read.

 

damn them...lol

na hopefully they will orchestrate it well, if they were decent they would provide the better affiliates with a percentage of that saving.

 

*sorry reading wrong page*

Will be interesting to see how it plays out

 

Thank you eBay!!!!! Now I will never EVER have to login to CJ again!!!

 

Not want to say. But want to want and see the result. Hope something better will happen!!!!!

 

Does this mean, we have to input our personal information e.g. bank details again or will ebay collect the info from CJ themselves?

 

Bugger!!

Looks like you will have to call it www.mycantusethattrademarkreport.com!

on a different note - HOPEFULLY all current CJ/ebay affiliates will be accepted into the new program