I'm not convinced this is going to be a good thing for affiliates. I didn't care about the lack of transparency in the ACRU change - I figured that to be a perk, incentive, whatever - but to completely change and obfuscate the payout model from a straight percentage per sale to some 'quality traffic score' that is ripe for errors on ePN's side - that to me just seems to be placing too much faith in ePN.
I'll continue to use auction2post for generating great content and sure the rover links to eBay that generate some 'quality click pricing' will be fine - but I'm much more interested in checking out some of the retail affiliate programs out there and incorporating those into my sites as I described
here. Mashup sites from now on...