eBay keeps ALL the money from sales that are deemed as not “quality” referred sales.

They save so much fkin’ money from not having to pay affiliates for any of the traffic thats not of ‘quality’

Just think of how much they are saving with this new system.

It’s beyond ridiculous.

They will continue to win all of these awards for their QPC system.

The people who refer all of their sales will continue to loose more money, and eBay will continue to profit.

Large conglomerate companies will continue to be rewarded as the little guys who put in hard earned money, continue to loose money and time.

Hopefully judging by the questions in that survey they are having second thoughts. fingers crossed

I mean – its really a catch-22 now with ePN – on one hand, you have to send a lot of traffic to make good money, and on the other… the more traffic you send, the lower your EPC value. Yawn…. b-o-r-i-n-g!

EPN is getting crappy. Earning less, way less with the new system!

Down from $0.15/click to $0.08/click today. When you get over 1000 clicks/day it makes huge difference.

I guess it’s time to find new affiliate programs.

I’m sorry but their algorithm makes absolutely no sense what so ever. When I first saw it it was completely clear what you had to do:

1) Reduce the amount of clicking back and forth between eBay and your site by getting the user more engaged.
2) Sell an item as close to the click as possible.
3) Make sure the item you sold was as close if not the actual item they clicked on.

I’m achieving all of the above and the only thing that actually seems to make a difference to the EPC by raising it is the number of clicks you have. The higher the clicks the more I am earning regardless of click time stamp, items sold etc.

I don’t think their algo even does what it’s mean to.

Once again, another right royal cock up by eBay.

“It is still possible that you earn less for a transaction which occurred within less time than another one as besides
the duration between the click on your link and the purchase, other
factors likePayPal and advertising revenue also count”

I give up!

I suspect that there are some markets that tend to have higher credit card fraud. I’m guessing here, but probably some of the electronic markets, perhaps? So, it would be a matter of choosing your niches wisely.

For example, baby diapers probably has a low incidence of credit card fraud.

Rochelle

Specifically, we have made four changes to how we calculate the value of traffic sent by an affiliate to eBay:

Although we still have a 7 day cookie for sales, we no longer value all sales in a 7 day period equally. In general, sales that come toward the beginning of that period, close to the click, are judged more incremental and therefore valued higher than sales that come towards the end of that period. Please note an adjustment is made for auction listings and certain categories, e.g. motors, which may take longer to convert.

Certain health metrics are also taken into account in pricing. If the
amount of credit card fraud, unpaid items, extremely low-value ACRUs, and a number of other variables resulting from traffic you send to the site is significantly higher than average, you will be notified and your EPC may be reduced.

Finally, although an EPC amount is posted the day after your clicks are delivered to eBay, when setting that EPC the algorithm takes into account historical data, such as the lifetime value of ACRUs and sales within the 7 day cookie lifetime, as well as the quality of yesterday’s traffic. This means that you will see fewer fluctuations in your EPC on a day to day basis than on CPA. For example, if you have a large sale on one day, your EPC may not be as high as on CPA; if you have a day with low sales, your EPC might be higher than under CPA. Overall, however, publishers who drive more incremental sales and long-term value will
earn more under the Quality Click Pricing system.

I don’t see how we can stop credit card fraud and stuff like that – any answers to that?

Also, I don’t get the incremental sales thing – but that might just be my fuddled brain – that last paragraph is complete gobbledygook

I did find it interesting that on my 2 highest commission items I got paid half the percentage of what I got on the low priced items – coincidence?? mmm?

I have some newer campaigns in the .30 cents EPC range – with NO SALES at all (I would assume this is LOW quality), and others with a 3 to 1, click to bid/bin ratio (I would assume HIGH quality) getting only .14 cents EPC.

Makes ABSOLUTELY no sense at all to me either…. youdathunk that sending 1 buyer out of every three clicks into eBay would result in a MUCH higher EPC than a site sending 50 clicks a day with NO sales at all!

64 clicks – 21 BID/BIN – .14 epc
48 clicks – 0 BIN/BIN – .30 epc

Hmmmm… sounds like one of the Six Sigma Miyagi’s needs a refresher.

I don’t understand neither how works the new payments system. This october, one week is was OK like old good times, next week, $1 or $3 of revenue, at the end, my benefits this month with QPC are %45 down and I’m now here just thinking in all the hours I spent adjusting my sites to EPN. =|