February 10, 2012

New Ebay Clicks Flat Lines

Ebay sales dip as it experiments with new aff program, that well has just not performed as they thought it would in fact allegedly if you have a look at the forums it looks like a ghost town.

Well, Ebay allegedly continues to nose dive against rival Amazon, one of the things that people wonder about is why?

Ebay was doing great then they hired this guy to come in and they changed everything, ever heard the old story if it aint broke, dont fix it apparently and allegedly amazon has not heard that.

As you know Ebay had a good thing going, they had millions of websites out there advertising for them, they had a lot of business coming in by these affiliates.

yet, they had to change it, they could not just let it be successful.  Oh well, we were moving our traffic to ebay but now we have just lost the will to do that mostly because of the changes that ebay made that just basically stopped all commissions from coming in.

We have pulled all our PPC campaigns for ebay.

We have pulled most all of our advertising for the ebay program.

The reason is clear there is no reward, there is no reason to support ebay because of how they changed the game to benefit themselves.

They will regret this, but hey time changes, ebay used to be a good place to move your website traffic, now they are not.

So it is time to look for another company that actually pays a commission, that is the real problem these days is finding a good company that pays a commission.

Before they changed…

before

After they changed…
after

The new Ebay is it good or bad?

UPdate, 10/13/2009

Well our revenue is down a whopping 3200 percent since the change, we are now completely out of the ebay program, it is just not worth it any more.

Good luck to the rest of you guys, hope you do well, but really I can see it, I do not see it at all.

It is obvious now that the new Ebay program is not working for us, we have now removed most of all our ebay affiliate programming and moved to other networks, this new program is really a bad deal.

Many of you may have noticed that over the last few weeks ebay has really changed in fact they have changed so much that many sellers have alleged to have moved to other sales platforms in favor of a more fair and balanced format.

As with the new ebay click program has alleged to have left many affiliates out in the cold there are a lot of aspects about ebay that is not as desirable as they once were, hopefully in the future ebay would consult with its affiliates before making huge changes.

Ebay new affiliate program ends profitable relationships?

Is this the end for Ebay affiliate programs that used to be profitable?

Looks like a flat line to me, pronounced dead at 1201 am oct 1 2009

May ebay rest in pieces, as commissioned sales flat line across the board.

do you notice how your commissions are gone now?

Why not tell about it we would love to compare notes, and more so if you happen to know a good alternative to ebay because we have taken down all our ebay related advertising.

In the past our network was profitable however with the new affiliate system it appears we will not profit at all, so we went from a good profitable situation to a zero profitable situation, so we will be pulling all of our Ebay partner advertising over the next 2 weeks.

If you find that you also have been eliminated, and can no longer retain profits then you should seriously consider alternate networks that are not so hands on in the process of pushing the little guys out of business.

Here is a previous screen shot of how we profited before the change and below that will be a screen shot of how it looks now, the difference is obvious and it is obvious why this has been done, personally and my opinion only here is that this will hurt Ebay in the long run, a shame really but no surprise when people who have no training make business decisions.

Before

As you can see in the after picture there is nothing under Earnings, this is what we expected, however we wanted to wait, and if there is a change we will post that change, however we feel like the new changes were designed to eliminate small vendors like our network from being profitable, again that is just our opinion and may not be accurate, but so far it sure looks like a bad thing, much like the mistakes that amazon made recently, followed by a drop in revenue, I expect to see a drop in ebay stock and quarterly profits as well.

So why do they get greedy? no one knows for sure but one thing is clear the people in charge at Ebay are not in the right place with regard to vendors and sellers.

Stats before the change

Stats before the change

Here is a screen shot after the new system

Here is a screen shot after the new system