Any EPN affiliates get this email?

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phil9922 said:
I received that email last night. My EPCs were right around $10 as well. Pretty pissed off since I just recently scaled to 100+ sites and was on my way to 4 figs daily with them. Thanks eBay.
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I'm sorry to hear your loss man. Honestly though, it should be thought of as a lesson. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

rgordon83 said:
This would be a good time for someone to start a phpBay for amazon....
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Amazon does well for me so I'm going to really up the income with them. net-60 bites though.

vinny lingo said:
hxxp://www.associate-o-matic.com/

I have absolutely no affiliation with this script, nor have I ever used it. But I heard it mentioned a while back when someone asked for an EPN alternative. Hope that helps.
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Benji49 said:
Manalang makes a Wordpress plugin for Amazon called WP-Amazon. It's at manalang dot com /wp-amazon.

I played around with it a bit but I had some GUI issues with it, it may have been the PC that I was on.

The future (IMHO, just for me), is learning to incorporate ANY data feed from ANY commission program into a Wordpress blog. Time to go back to the lab.

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Even though I'm just a scummy affiliate marketer, and my heart has shriveled to the size of my left testicle, I felt bad about those people who got thrown out of the EPN program. For some, that was their life, their only income.
I could peddle penis-enhancement tools for the next 1000 years to Mormon missionaries and still not achieve the level of evilness that I saw yesterday.
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Interesting. I'll look into that.

kingfish said:
Ouch sorry to hear that, you guys who got booted could try running through pepperjam don't know if they have the same standards.
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I don't know what the fuck is wrong with PJ but I made like 2-3 times more with ebay.
 


Benji49 said:
Manalang makes a Wordpress plugin for Amazon called WP-Amazon. It's at manalang dot com /wp-amazon.

I played around with it a bit but I had some GUI issues with it, it may have been the PC that I was on.

The future (IMHO, just for me), is learning to incorporate ANY data feed from ANY commission program into a Wordpress blog. Time to go back to the lab.
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There's a couple wordpress plugins that do that, for people who are code ignorant. One I know of is:

hxxp://www.wordpressdatafeedimport.com/ (again, not affiliated with this product, and haven't used it.)

Benji49 said:
Even though I'm just a scummy affiliate marketer, and my heart has shriveled to the size of my left testicle, I felt bad about those people who got thrown out of the EPN program. For some, that was their life, their only income.
I could peddle penis-enhancement tools for the next 1000 years to Mormon missionaries and still not achieve the level of evilness that I saw yesterday.
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I read through a couple of the threads on ebay's forum regarding the shit canning of all those affiliates. I almost felt bad for them. Not just because of the loss of income, but because some were foolish enough to build allegedly large and successful sites around their association with ebay.

I find it surprising that affiliates who were pulling down some big numbers ($4+ EPC?) with (again, allegedly) clean traffic were getting canned, while others with vastly lower EPC ($0.02) were allowed to remain. And it is interesting how that correlates with ebay's stock going down (according to a quote in one of the threads I read).

Seems maybe someone upstairs said, "hey, we need to cut some costs and cut them FAST. Where can we get some slack? ... Oh hey, there's this nifty clause in the EPN affiliate contract that states we can terminate the relationship without cause. DING!" Their big mistake was attempting (and failing) to compete with a traditional ecommerce site, Amazon.

"Guys, we need a new goal. Hey, I bet our apples can outsell these oranges!"
 
what i don't get is that some publishers who earn the majority of the $ from winning bids and not ECUs are getting kicked out. why would ebay care what someone's conversion rate is as long as the sales are legit?
 
Cool1g said:
what i don't get is that some publishers who earn the majority of the $ from winning bids and not ECUs are getting kicked out. why would ebay care what someone's conversion rate is as long as the sales are legit?
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Ebay wants to cut down on thin sites which are competing with their organic results.
 
I just talked to Wade (phpBay Pro developer). He is actually pounding away on an Amazon plugin this week. So that's good news for all of us.

Also, if you have phpBay Pro and you've been dropped, you should try switching the settings to peperjam and apply to pepperjam...
 
I didn't get a letter and my account is still active but My earnings just completely stoped as of the 12th... plenty of clicks just no money.. Sounds like the june tracking issue but perhaps its their way of getting me to jump ship. WTF eBay... WTF
 
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