EPN has officially jumped the shark
Last month a site that I hadn’t touched since June 08 dropped from $400/month (every single month since inception) to $13/month. Same traffic. Comparing the logs of May/June/July were like looking at mirrors. Other sites in the ‘collection’ dropped too. Not a single one rose in income. Their new quality score BS is just awful and I’m not going to go back to dozens of sites and spend hours redoing each. I invited Steve Hartman, Senior Director of Ebay Partner Network to answer some very fair and objective questions last month and he declined by simply not responding, or at least the ‘assistant’ who I sent the email to did not reply.
I’m at the point where I COULD go in an figure out just what the heck EPN’s problem is, but the reality is even if I DID know, they wouldn’t fix it NOR would they entertain any sort of negotiation for improving the payouts.
I’m just gonna say this once, if you’re presently making money from EPN, do yourself a favor and jump into something else. Abandon EPN completely. If you gamble on this one, you will get totally owned within the next 6 months.
My final EPN transaction will be driving traffic to my own product’s auction: the soapbox I just stepped off of.
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I don’t see how you can blame the changes yet. They shouldn’t go into effect until September for current affiliates.
I just want to clarify that I think the changes to the model are garbage, but I don’t think that it should be effecting you yet unless you were in the beta program.
@John, While the new program is garbage, the problems I ran into are the result of the new Quality Score system this Summer. In either instance, EPN has successfuly positioned itself as the junk platform of the industry.
100% agreed Nick. Their secretive quality score system is rigged. All of my sites are high quality, with strong rankings in extremely relevant phrases, and I close many high cost transactions each month. Yet they’ve suddenly decided that new users are only worth $1 after I posted my largest revenue month ever last month.
I took a look at the projected QCP for next month and its 1/4 of what i made this month. This is definetly a move to benefit eBay only.