EPN earnings completely flatlined?

Discussion in 'eBay' started by ejmeier, Nov 16, 2009.

  1. #1
    In the past few days, my earnings with EPN have been at ZERO.

    I'm still getting clicks, and everything still appears to be tracking just like before, except now my earnings for those clicks is NOTHING.:confused:

    After Quality Click pricing came out, I was making a lot more than I was previously, (even more than AdSense), but now it appears that they aren't paying anything. The only thing I can think of is if they are waiting longer for things to "finalize" before reporting the total earnings, but this seems a little fishy... (See attached pic.)

    Note: Blue is line for clicks, and orange is line for earnings.
     

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  2. newton21

    newton21 Peon

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    looks like ebay now dont need affiliates,,their new qcp is truely nightmare as compared to earlier system.
     
    newton21, Nov 16, 2009 IP
  3. narutorocker

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    wow just how much traffic are you bringing in on a normal day? and the question is, how targeted are your buyers? Junk Traffic will cause your epc and earning to drop.
     
    narutorocker, Nov 16, 2009 IP
  4. ejmeier

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    I don't know how they exactly calculate earnings with the new system, but the new system was paying me about twice as much as the old. (Up until a few days ago...)

    What I don't understand is that the payment per click was locked in at X cents per click, so no matter how many clicks I generated, it was also multiplied by whatever the click was worth. And for all of October and the first 11 days of November, it was locked in at X cents per click, it was the same every single day. Now it says that my clicks are worth $0.00??? So no matter how many clicks I get, it appears to be multiplying that by zero.

    Has anyone else had something like this happen so abruptly? I can't imagine the type of products that I'm linking to are generating bad buyers. It's a pretty good niche with (mostly) honest people doing the clicking, or so I assume. Nothing really shady that I know of.
     
    ejmeier, Nov 16, 2009 IP
  5. sin

    sin Peon

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    This is old news. They don't want to pay their affiliates. They want them to work for free. The new system punishes success just like the Obama moron.

    It amazes me there are still people promoting ebay. At some point you'll get the $0.00 number on your account. Best punishment is to remove all the links pointing to ebay on your site and tell other affiliates to do the same.
     
    sin, Nov 25, 2009 IP
  6. donluttrull

    donluttrull Peon

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    Are you STILL generating sales when you run your reports? Choose the "All actions" download versus the "only what you will get paid for" version.

    If you are not generating sales than you will have a $0.00, now then they say also that even if you get sales or acru's they will be paid out short term/long term WHICH I still don't get either. I have sold a few cars this month and the highest my EPC has been was $0.01 and currently been chillin at a fun $0.00

    I do however want to wait and see if there are non paying bidders to deal with, new sign ups who don't buy anything and so forth. We can have a ton more traffic this time of year simply because of this time of year BUT stale on traffic because we haven't boosted our advertising and marketing efforts up.

    I do wish I worked harder during the old system so I could stack cash then so I can STOP thinking about the current earnings failures that I keep hearing about. I wonder if they implemented this as a way to reduce ad costs during the holiday season and a way to play the system and leave us in the dark.

    eBay will do a big disservice if they continue how they are doing because I know I should have earned 4x as much last month as I did and I don't even want to start to talk about this month. December better show me something good for sure.

    Not going to give up yet BUT if they are trying to weed people out and suck their traffic dry until they hit $0.00 for multi days then good riddance, I can and have other affiliate programs to push and buying/selling online can be done everywhere and only gives better reason for some sites to start competing WITH ebay finally.
     
    donluttrull, Nov 25, 2009 IP
  7. geomark

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    I with sin, are there really people stupid enough to be bending over for epn like this? C'mon, move on and work with a network that isn't so obviously screwing you. Other networks might screw you but at least it won't be so obvious, haha.
     
    geomark, Nov 26, 2009 IP
  8. internetmarketingiq

    internetmarketingiq Well-Known Member

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    You are absolutely not alone. My earnings have tanked. I'm getting squat for traffic that used to make some pretty good money. When this model first came out I knew it would be a disaster for me.

    eBay is telling people to just work harder and pumping their email lists with stories of the few people who are doing better.

    For every one person that is doing better I'm reading about 10 who need a liberal application of KY Jelly so it doesn't hurt as much when eBay bends them over.

    On the plus side this will cause an exodus of affiliates but perhaps that is the whole goal of the program. Everyone only wants to work with the big volume people. But it's the little guy that built the system.

    Great opportunity for other companies to snatch up disillusioned affiliates.
     
    internetmarketingiq, Nov 26, 2009 IP
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    It could be that bot clicks have severely damaged your EPC.
     
    Scar, Nov 26, 2009 IP
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    Thats one hell of a down turn (pic)

    Looks like it might be time to move on.
     
    gary101, Nov 27, 2009 IP
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    I joined to EPN over 2 months ago. And i only made 20 bucks with them. Many clicks cost 0.00 there.
     
    nick2007, Nov 27, 2009 IP