Comments on: Any eBay affiliates get this email?

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:23:30 +0000

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

By: phpBay Guru

phpBay Guru — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:27:59 +0000

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.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:21:29 +0000

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.

By: James

James — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:06:22 +0000

Update this biznatch fo sho

By: AlexRoux

AlexRoux — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:14:24 +0000

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!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:43:11 +0000

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!

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:25:13 +0000

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…

By: spyderman4g63

spyderman4g63 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:47:43 +0000

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.