Simple enough question for all the eBay affiliates: Now that we're nearly a month into the EPN nightmare, has your income gone up or down since switching from CJ to EPN?
after a pretty shaky start I would have to say that I am actually earning a little more. My epc with cj was averaging around $4-6, so far this month I am at an average of $7.3, month not finished yet but I would say I will equal or exceed my usual number of clicks. my net earnigs so far slightly exceed last months with CJ. I have not had any ACRU's. With CJ I was getting around 5-7 per month, but not one so far with epn. All of my clicks from BANS RSS feeds with the exception of "sign up Here" banners. Interestingly I am not showing any impressions at all, only clicks so no CTR figs available. Also strange, some periods of days with no revenue and then a couple of days with large payouts - like there is a catch up or something. My April so far for what its worth looking at the graph I guess I am one of the lucky ones.
40% down. I'm going to give it a another month. Then have a rethink on alternative affiliate programmes.
Down about 50% here and I'm already starting to find maybe not a replacement for ebay, but some "additional" sources.Really hoping things get better with ebay though.
ACRU's have pretty much disappeared for me entirely. Sales are lower with the same traffic #'s So far... not too impressed but it could be teething problems so I'll give it a month or so then re-evaluate.
Down, down, and then down some more Even though they aren't admitting it, there has to be an issue with the tracking and reporting. If there wasn't, they why are so many in the same boat?
A complete wipe out!!!!!!!!! 38% drop in CRUS (from April 1 incl. CJ cookied commissions).. all other thing being the same including reported traffic. (cj stats: 31,9 Crus/day in March...EPN+CJ stats April 22 = 19.1 Crus/day = drop of approx 38%. At the same time reported epn traffic is only down 4,2% comared to March so there is definitely a problem, question is what... and I think we all know the answer
I have several "category" pages on my site with the Editor Kit listings displayed and I moved one over so far to the EPN that normally got 1-2 sales per day off of it. Since moving it over to the EPN on 4/15, I have ZERO sales and ZERO commissions off that one. I'm hesitant to move the others over yet but my time is running out. I saw someone mention something about a 7 day carry over period...any truth to that? Either way I should be past it though... Really getting worried as i'm unemployed and this site is my only money maker right now and while its only a couple hundred a month, its all I have.
I moved over my sites in stages, so it's tough to say yet how bad EPN is doing, but I will say it's at least 30% off of what I normally do. ACRUs are pretty much gone. Profit patterns are all over the map. $200 sales one day then $3 the next. I'm praying we see some reporting issues at the end of the month to make things right.
I only use BANS for my eBay and again, only recently at that. However the last two months I've been averaging $300pm which included about 5 ACRUs a month. 24 days in and I've had no ACRUs and commission stands at a little under $15 All i can say is I'm glad I wasn't getting used to the money!
They have major issues with tracking. Around the 1st, I got commissions with zero clicks. How does that happen?
how about a third option "barely changed" lol. the real proof will be in next months figures - for me at least
For what it's worth, I've seen a couple people over on the BANS forum state that they had friends make purchases through their links so that they know the commission should be there and it hasn't shown up (and in some cases, definitely enough time has passed).
on the subject of ACRU's I kept my highest earning BANS store on CJ which usually has about 2-3 ACRUs a week, so far this month I've had none on that either... Anyone else still getting ACRUs on CJ? It just seems odd/disappointing that no ACRU's at all this month so far