Any eBay affiliates get this email?
I just got an email from EPN. Thankfully it wasn’t a deactivation email (these days my heart pounds every time i get an email from them). Here is the email:
Hello Ross Gordon,
We have identified an issue that may be inflating revenue data in eBay Partner Network reports. Due to an issue with one of our databases, some of the revenue fees for publishers were double-counted in our system. The issue appears to have affected publishers only from Sept 5th-Sept 9th, and only in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada programs. Although the impact varies by publisher, the revenue was overstated by as much as 20% or more for those 5 days.
We have been able to calculate down to the individual publisher level what the correct revenue should be for those days. Our team is in the process of correcting the associated data and tables but may take several more days to complete this task. In the meantime, please keep this information in mind as you run any reports that span the associated time periods.
That may explain why my earnings went down $25 already this month. But right now I’m at $407 for the month. I hope it doesn’t go down any more.
These days it seems like eBay and EPN are screwing up every way possible. They really need to start getting their act together or else they are gonna crash.
Anyone else get that email or notice their earnings go down?
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September 17th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I got a similar email through pepperjam, but none from epn directly.
It’s is funny how they jump all over this type of tracking problem, but if my earnings are under paid they don’t give a shit.
Not to mention the fact that they are kicking good affiliates out of their programs left and right. I don’t know what the hell the people at EPN are thinking right now.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I got the same email yesterday. After looking over my stats I actually have noticed that my earnings were up over that period of time, but I haven’t seen any adjustments yet…
September 19th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Yes, i got it as well, and i’ve seen negative deductions in my reports to show it.
EPN=
Everyone jump to
PepperJam
Now.
Idiots!
A.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I got this email too and I’ve only been signed up for 3 days!! So I don’t even have any earnings yet!
This is not very comforting for the future!
October 31st, 2008 at 5:06 am
Update this biznatch fo sho
November 26th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
yes i got the email and i cringe every time i get an email thinking it is the deactivation email.
i didnt see a drop in earning but earlier in the month they lowered my quality score so i saw a big drop in earnings.
April 10th, 2009 at 1:27 am
I find that EPN has their stuff together these days. But I see that a lot of people are going through PepperJam cause they also let you promote eBay auctions.
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Thyere has only been one post here this year. It implies that this mess is better now. Is that really the case?
Fron a post I made in another forum:
As only one of the millions laid off recently, I have been researching online ways to earn some income. I don’t expect to make a full-time living, but want to supplement the considerably lower income that I have been forced to accept. I will be retiring in three years, so I would also like to be able to be able to work toward a retirement supplement also.
But, in my research, I have seen many disturbing blogs and posts that warn about EPN’s new policies concerning affiliates. Dismissal letters with no explanations – seemingly unrelated to performance sometimes, etc. Since ANY new affiliate will be underperforming – at least for the first few months – I now wonder if the expense in both dollars and time will just wind up being in vain. I have no intentions of using “black hat” techniques – even if I knew how to.
I have looked into niche systems like PHPbay and BANS, and they would seem to be the easiest to start with, at least. In my experience (in other venues), the crooks (i.e. “black hats”) will always poison the efforts of the honest people. They have no feeling of remorse for hurting the reputable business person. They will simply open new accounts, and start over with the same techniques.
So, if the honest affiliates are going to be booted because of the dishonest tactics of the black hats, then I wonder if this enterprise is for me. Most of the posts that bothered me were back in mid-2008.
So, my question is:
Has the mess over the ousting of affiliates died down, and become less of an issue? Does just using PHPbay of BANS immediately cause a red flag at EPN?
Any help would be appreciated, as I simply cannot throw time and money at a system that will inevitibly boot me.
Thanks,
Ron