Changes to eBay Affiliate Program
March 17, 2008
Today eBay announced changes to their Affiliate Program. eBay has been using Commission Junction to handle all affiliate transactions. Effective April 1, 2008, eBay will launch their own affiliate control panel with some enhancements. As with anything new, I’m hopeful, yet skeptical of what this really means.
eBay and Commission Junction will continue to operate in parrallel for 1 month, but eBay has offered up some additional commissions to those that signup and switch their links early. For some, this change will be easy to implement, for others, it will take the full month they allow.
I think eBay stands to win big off of this. Why? Well, I’m sure there are thousands and thousands of so called “Auto pilot” sites that are referring traffic to eBay via commission junctions. I do it on some of my blogs and I’m sure plenty of people are doing it through their use of BANS (Build a niche store) and other plugins. For those people on auto-pilot, come May 1st, they will no longer be receiving commissions. Great news for eBay, because those lazy people will no longer have to get paid, but will still be referring traffic.
Hopefully, eBay is being smart about this and will not change any of their formats for referral links. Fingers crossed here, but I’m assuming this will simply be a change to your PID within your link. If so, this will be a minor change.
For all of those that have never discovered the eBay affiliate program, you should definitely check it out, but hold off signing up until April 1st, otherwise, you’re just wasting your time.
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