Comments on: ePN Moving To Quality Click Affiliate Payout System, Ebay Affiliate News

By: chris

chris — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:34:32 +0000

In the era of Internet transparency, so many individuals can see first hand how a company like Ebay changes their rules to simply maximize their bottom line. They are slaves to their shareholders and their stock price, and that will be their undoing. As of this year (2010) their new total fee is 15% which is still competitive with a local auctioneer, but can they continue to raise this percentage? Of course not.

New alternatives to selling online are emerging all the time…back to listing things on MY web site.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:47:24 +0000

EPN is a joke. When they changed from CJ to EPN I lost about 50% revenue, and now that they are doing this quality click junk I’ve lost another 50% of my revenue. I’m going to be re-working most of my websites that run epn to amazon or something else.

the people at feebay have lost there minds when it comes to making everyone happy. They have gone away from the original model that made them what they are today. I would not be surprised if this new move made a huge difference in the traffic at eBay.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:34:54 +0000

Quality Click Pricing is designed to do one thing only – allow ebay to pay affiliates less and make more for themselves. Why? Because they can and there is nothing you can do about it as an affiliate.

Example, I earned 92.00 for sept. Quality Click Pricing predicts my payment would be 32.00 for the same traffic.

What is wrong with that?

The 92.00 is based on actual earnings for auctions won by people who come to ebay through my links. Quality Click Pricing is based on Voodoo

Why is it ok for ebay to now claim that traffic that last month was worth 92.00 is worth only 32.00?

There can be only one reason since the 92.00 figure was based on actual auctions closed, a verifiable metric. ebay now simply wants to be able to pay affiliates less for the same amount of auctions closed. ebay is trying to claim the traffic is not performing but the fact is the traffic is performing exactly the same but will be paid out at a much lower rate. A rate that is about 2/3 lower then before.

I will be removing every ebay auction link I have and replacing them with affiliate links from a source who sells something from my site’s niche or adsense. Anything is better then dealing with a company who just wants me to be happy being screwed.

ebay, you suck!

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By: Brad Charles

Brad Charles — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:04:04 +0000

EPN isn’t worth signing up for anymore, so I wouldn’t waste your time. They just converted to a “pay per click” model, that pays less than Google Adsense. They word it as their Quality Click Pricing, which is basically a system to change your earnings to whatever they want to pay. EPN is going to pay about 1/4th of what is was paying before. This was verified with not just my account, but hundreds of other Affiliates, and 90% are being paid only a fraction of before, even though everything was white hat and quality traffic that converted.