Uh ohh...Ebay changes from commission to cpc

Yeh I know, is annoying though. They mention in their terms that its due to the quality of traffic, and if theres no sales this means there's no quality?

Isnt the point of PPC, but as you say theres not much that we can do other than hope it works out to be a good deal.

 

Apples and oranges. Ebay is not paying per click, is "per mood". So, if Ebay stock is diving, Johnny and crew tweak the algorithm a bit to make some dough! After all we have these EPN affiliates that accepted this shady policy of ours. We can do and undo at will.

You are dealing with two different monsters here. One is really evil, ebay with a really horrible reputation and who nobody trusts and then Google who pays per click and really delivers. I trust Google. Adsense checks pay more than the mortgage.

 

So you dont think the new ebay PPC policy is going to be of sucess?

 

For them it is, they will be saving a lot of money.

EPN roped in a lot of good affiliates those first couple years.

Now this year, when it comes to rewards, they're "downsizing". They really have to, the company is tanking.

 

Who or what is EPN?

 

Oops.... my bad lol

I knew thats what we were talking about, just didnt realise that was the abbreavation

 

I was under the impression that you get the same kind of payoff you always did, plus a bonus if your quality remains high? I've read the official description of this change and it doesn't give any concrete examples of what to expect...

 

It kind of is a double edge sword I think.

For one, it will "even out" your earnings. If you have days where you get 20+ clicks with no sales you still will get some kind of payment. However, now when you hit it big with a large priced item you're going to get a PPC that will be much less than the previous model.


I think this hurts smaller affiliates more than anyone. If you have a really good site, maybe only a handful of sales a week...you're going to have to start driving "Clicks" to your site otherwise you'll be making pennies a week instead of several dollars. Doesn't sound like much...but over the course of the year it will add up and you will make much less.

Just my .02

 

I attended the webinar on this yesterday. The one thing that scared me the most is that they claim the average EPC as an affiliate is .7-.21 cents. If you have an EPC of .3 cents or less, it puts up the red flag (high risk of getting banned)...mine is a consistent .4 cents, even though I make a decent salary off of this program...

 

Yeah, that's right...if you are under .03 Cents EPC for an extended period of time eBay will contact you to try and bump it up a little. I have read (and heard on the first webinar) that they will contact you before they give you the boot. But if you can't raise the .03 EPC you have a really good chance of getting axed. Hope it doesn't happen to anyone here.


If you're in that boat...I would try looking at your custom ID's and see which links are driving the most EPC and start running more of those links (products???) In reality you probably want to get your click rate DOWN, especially on non-performing link types...and increase the number of quality/high CPC links.

 

As shady as paypal

 

Ebay - Continually effing themselves as much as a corporation possibly could.

 

ebay is done now??

hhmm... i think so...

 

Now that a few days have gone by, it looks like I'm still getting the same results as I always did. I'm still at a scary .04 cent EPC though...

 

Oops, kerosene you're right - I meant .03!

I've been banned from ePN before (low EPC)...they've sent nothing, so I wouldn't imagine it's any different. If you look at the new batch of "I've been banned from ePN" threads, it appears as though you simply get banned with no forewarning.

 

I think this will affect my earning too and I will rather put more effort promoting Axazon stuff because they have better results

 

wow, really? For me, Amazon makes perhaps 5% or less of what ePN makes for me each year...

 

For the first week of September, my actual earning are 8 times larger than the projected QCP Earnings - not a good sign for me in October. My eBay clicks and resultant sales have always fluctuated wildly over time and it does not look that, as of yet, eBay can average that kind of fluctuation out for QCP Earnings. Of course, more data will have to be collected by us affiliates and I imagine eBay as well before either of us really knows if this is going to be a successful change.

And as others have pointed out. If the amount of MY monthly income drops from eBay - I will spend more time promoting Amazon or other affiliate products.

eBay is risking their affiliate network with this change - let's hope they know what they are doing!