EPN is going to fuck us! QCP Preview Available

So yesterday, I have 13 sales, and ring up $350 in commissions on the old system. QPC pays me $2.14.

I look at the referrer data, and it seems that 11 of the sales were by the same customer.

Someone at Ebay is looking like a genius for screwing me out of $345+ in commissions yesterday. Even though this will destroy their network efforts in the long run, in the short run, they are going to make money hand over fist.

So word to the wise, if you generate multiple sales, and not on the first day of the cookie, Ebay treats them as pretty much worthless even if they rape in commissions on that customer. I seriously need to kick these assholes to the curb because they really aren't compensating me any better than Amazon would, even with the 7 day cookie.
 


After several days of increased commissions, ending on the 8th of last month, my EPN earnings are now $0 since the change. I decided to stop sending them free traffic, and will try out DataFeedFile.com (not an affiliate link) which has a plugin for Wordpress. Has anybody used them?

Yeah, maybe affiliates should boycott EPN and try out new things.
 
0.06 here against ~ 0.20 of the end of oct

until few days ago I was thinking of building more EPN sites but these random fluctuations make it impossible/pointless to plan and develop something to push EPN
 
BlueYonder said:
Yeah, maybe affiliates should boycott EPN and try out new things.
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I think today was the last straw for me. QPC simply doesn't make any sense, and there is no way to value your own traffic, given that none of the weights are known and every day is a random crapshoot.
 
I don't know what the hell just happened to my sites.

They are all new and do not get a ton of traffic - still working on that. However, on Saturday they all got nailed and I made literally 20X as much for Saturday (when the update happened Sunday) as I did on Saturday for Friday's traffic. Averaging $0.14/click.

Then today's update for yesterday's traffic comes along and everything drops like a rock for yesterday - across all campaigns - to $0.02. It makes no sense to me whatsoever why ALL campaigns would drop. I swear to god they are just making up the math as they go along on this stuff.

I can't even tweak/optimize for campaigns because the EPC stays the same for all of them ALL of the time.
 
Sharksfan said:
I don't know what the hell just happened to my sites.

They are all new and do not get a ton of traffic - still working on that. However, on Saturday they all got nailed and I made literally 20X as much for Saturday (when the update happened Sunday) as I did on Saturday for Friday's traffic. Averaging $0.14/click.

Then today's update for yesterday's traffic comes along and everything drops like a rock for yesterday - across all campaigns - to $0.02. It makes no sense to me whatsoever why ALL campaigns would drop. I swear to god they are just making up the math as they go along on this stuff.

I can't even tweak/optimize for campaigns because the EPC stays the same for all of them ALL of the time.
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Here's how I'm tracking for the month. Looks like the fucking stock market a year ago. Started out ok..and you can see the trend.

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Ummm...that's...kind of brilliant.

I will investigate and check it out thoroughly - putting a new site up tonight so I'll definitely be trying this.
 
Enigmabomb said:
Here you go guys. The bot stopping method I'm using.

How To Stop Bots From Ruining Your EPN EPC | Off-White Hat
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I just played around with this for two hours and it's a no-go. No matter how I format the template the Javascript appears as regular text in the auction listing. The link to click still works but the amount of ugliness it adds makes it not worth it.

If you've gotten this to work I'd like explicit details - specifically a template example.
 
Its not a copy and paste solution. Here is the exact code that I tested:

You'll need to build the link parts again. I edited them for the post.

Code: 
<script type="text/javascript">
var item = "[itemID]";
var first = "http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/xxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5837811825&toolid=10001&campid=5336402342&customid=&icep_item=";
var last = ";ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=2293432&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg";
var url = first+item+last;
document.write(<a href=\"#\" onclick=\"window.open(url, 'newWindow')\">click here</a>");
</script>
 
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If you would like to license Josh's brain, please contact my people.
 
Anyone have insight how to make this work with PHPBay? I'd appreciate that. I volunteer to edit the PHPbay code if someone can make the connections for me to see it...

Josh
 
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