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Have You Signed Up With The eBay Partner Network Yet?

Posted by Paul B | April 7, 2008 .

Whilst I’ve never made the explosive earnings that some people manage to make using the various eBay affiliate programs I do manage to make some nice pocket change from them (they’ve just bought me a new TV!) The thing that made eBay really work for me was when I started using BANS. I was too lazy to go through all my own pages inserting relevant product links (this is the best way of profiting from eBay by the way), the BANS model of an instant setup store as an add-on to my existing site content required much less effort. In order to make money this required a Commission Junction eBay affiliate account.

The bad/good news is that eBay have decided to sever their links with Commission Junction and run their own partner program (you can sign up here). I can fully understand this, it’s not like they haven’t got the resources to run it and by removing Commission Junction hopefully they can reward the actual publishers with a bigger slice of the pie (OK, maybe wishful thinking). Either way the fewer middle-men the better.

Starting from the first of April you could sign up with the eBay affiliate program, the 2 programs will run consecutively for 1 month and then any Commission Junction based links you have will stop working. If you haven’t already signed up I suggest you do now. They are offering an extra 10% on commissions for the first month. All in it took me about 10 minutes to complete the application form, a day to get approved and then a further 10 minutes going through and confirming my tax status/payment information. First impressions are a nice, clean uncomplicated system. Even better is that the eBay affiliate programs from all the most popular countries have been rolled under one account. This was something I’d wanted for ages. The one thing I did notice though was that the e-mail confirmation link they send you is/was broken. My link looked like this

https://www.ebaypartnernetworkcom/PublisherRegistrationConfirm?r=*****

Obviously somebody hadn’t checked it, the easy solution is to replace https://www.ebaypartnernetworkcom with https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com

The only thing I’m waiting for now is the BANS team to update their system to work with the new eBay affiliate network. From what I’ve seen the feed information looks very similar, I could probably make the changes myself but then again you don’t buy a dog only to bark yourself do you?

In the meantime I’ll run a few links just so I can get used to the type of reporting that’s available.

Sign Up For Your eBay Partner Network Account Here

(ps I’ve noticed that other than a bit of comment about the announcement that eBay were dropping Commission Junction that very few make money bloggers are giving this much space. Maybe that’s because there’s no way for them to profit from it, those links are straight and not eBay affiliate links).

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  1. Web Hosting UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13  April 7, 2008 10:34 pm

    i think i’ll check that out, actually. haven’t decided on the BANS though.

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  2. Tim B UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4  April 8, 2008 2:30 am

    Once again, a really useful post. I’ve been reading your blog with appreciation for several months.