QPC is a smart thing. Just put yourself in ePN shoes for a sec. What do you see? A historically profit record for the fourth quarter...smart...very smart... You still bring traffic, you still send plenty of money to ePN, you still provide plenty of ACRU but now you are paid a couple of cents per click.... They madeit attractive. Lots of people got in and now, ebay has a jackpot.... They will never go back...
"WordMazon" - I certainly am thinking about that, or a CJ equivalent. I mean, maybe it's been done already, I dunno... Mine would be free though. There are other reasons why I can't support WordBay very well too - to do with my "revenue sharing" model, which EPN advised me to discontinue. So still thinking about what to do with my EPN-based schemes. Sure, I know QPC makes perfect sense for eBay - almost the same traffic for MUCH less money. Probably worth it for them - how many publishers will REALLY migrate their sites to other programs...
Mark, For CJ there are things that have been done but (to my knowledge) nothing good with wordpress. There is a wordpress datafeed plugin which I've heard is ok but it's $200+ which is fine for me but not all. PHPzon is the phpbay equivalent for amazon.
Unfortunately, I think you'll have to keep dreaming. Like it or not ... there is no way that will EPN be going back to their old model.