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September 17th, 2008

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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6 Responses to “Any eBay affiliates get this email?”

  1. 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.

  2. 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…

  3. 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.

  4. 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!

  5. Update this biznatch fo sho

  6. 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.

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