Fuck EPN - It's not an affiliate program, it's a fucking bingo game.

Drake said:
If your working with the huge companies you are going to get screwed. Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, Dell, none of them care about you and are jsut using you paying you as little as possible.

Their CEO changes and the program is canned.
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Yeah, but there isn't much choice out there.
 


... and if a rebill gets shit canned by the FTC you're equally fucked.

I am not thrilled about these new changes at ePN as I've said in another thread - but if retail affiliate programs are what you're looking for - ePN plays into that mix. I was really irked when I first read about the changes (and I've seen some weird fluctuations in earnings as well) and i'm not convinced it's going to be a great thing for affiliates. that's why I'm stoked by this thread that shows how to integrate multiple retail merchant offers on a single post using auction2post. (yeah, fuck it, it's a plug)

the new Quality Click Pricing algorithm is going to be pretty easy to figure, it only has two modes:

1) if eBay looks like it's going to miss its stock's target eps (earnings per share), affiliates will get a lower percentage per sale/click/whatever the fuck you want to call it.

2) if eBay looks like it will meet or exceed its stock's target eps, affiliates will get a lower percentage per sale/click/whatever the fuck you want to call it.

win/win situation. eBay/shareholders that is... oh, affiliates - ha! - they don't figure into this at all.
 
radio said:
... and if a rebill gets shit canned by the FTC you're equally fucked..
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Problem with that comparison if if AcaiOffierA gets screwed/goes down, it's super simple to swap AcaiOfferB in it's place. With EPN, guys like me with thousands of EPN/PHPBay pages are kind of fucked as tehre is no way to just swap out epn links/scripts with normal CPS based affiliate links!

Maybe if we kidnapped Meg Whitman and did the whole 2girls1cup thing with her and Hilary Rosen (kidnap her too) we'd garner some sympathy!
 
Would be epic if we can organize a Black Friday and everyone in this industry shut everything they run the fuck down for 1 day. Guaranteed to shift the fault line a little in good ol' Mountain View/Sunnyvale/San Jose. Would make for some interesting blog posts and forum topics for weeks to come....although too many fucking tools in this biz for any kind of attempt at solidarity.
 
I'm stubbornly sticking by the sunny side notion that you guys are running around like chicken little on this.

Don't you destroy my sweater.
 
Sticks79 said:
Yes there is, CPA, re-bills, ebay & amazon aren't the only aff programs on the net, fucking hell man, start searching.
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Well, we're talking actual products here, so nope, there isn't much choice.

I know what CPA offers are, I know what re-bills are and where to find them. Neither of those are any good for long term SEO campaigns.
 
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