eBay is increasing affiliate payouts substantially on June 1, 2007. For smaller affiliates, the gains will be over 2x on new customer signups and a 25% increase in revenue share. Both the current and new affiliate fees are listed here, and I’ve pasted them below.
This is good news for startups that directly or indirectly earn revenue from eBay affiliate fees, and it may encourage other ecommerce sites to increase their own payouts as well.
eBay has not made any statement on why they are increasing the rates. Their revenues have been growing nicely year over year, although Comscore shows flat uniques and downward page views over the last twelve months. Their stock price has also been trending down. Getting new users into the service is a priority, and their affiliate network is far more efficient than standard advertising.
Good for AuctionAds, although I doubt there anywhere near small.
I’ve never had particularly good luck converting through eBay, but their payouts always make it seem like it might be worth the attempt.
Seems to me that Ebay’s problem is not so much getting new users (there are not many people left on earth that have not used Ebay) – the problem is retaining current users…and an affiliate program will not fix that.
Talk about an industry in desperate need of disruption. I used to sell over $1M/yr on Ebay…It is how I got started…but I have not used them in several years…partly due to the fact that it turned from a sellers market to a buyers market…and…partly due to crappy service.
Still use PayPal though -=)
Why can’t techcrunch do something like Ebay’s Affiliate payout?
Mike missed an important update:
eBay’s US Affiliate Compensation Section 1.0 will be updated on June 1st as follows:
a. Search Engines. You will not be compensated for paid search traffic purchased from Google.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com, nor from any of their content networks, such as Google AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network, and MSN ContentAds, if it is linked directly to the eBay.com, eBay Express, or eBay Store domains (not “Commission Earning Activity”). The change in policy is limited to the eBay.com US program, and to the three search engines stated above. Linking to a non eBay domain is allowed.
What Ebay needs is to develop something like Amazon’s affiliate stores. It would very cool to be able to generate your own mini-ebays and place them on your site. This increase in pay should at least drive up pageviews from people looking for affiliate income.
Steve
Howtosplitanatom.com
omg, omg I guess this means i’ll be a millionaire next year
I guess it’s finally time to sign up with Auction Ads.
- You can create your own store (Little Ebay)
– Using the Ebay API …. Ebay does pay well … – I will have to consider seriously ….
– finding a way to build a site – and get traffic … hmmm
(Let the mind mapping / brain storming ) begin. -RB
An Inconvenient Truth arrives on DVD November 21, 2006 from Paramount Home Entertainment Participant Productions chairman and CEO Jeff Skoll who used to be with eBay says, “Equally important has been the incredible response to the film’s social action campaign, which has inspired people across the country to take individual action and make a difference in their own communities. It was a orivilege to work with Al Gore. He is a man of honour and integrity unlike our President Georgie Porgie who I can say with liberal freedom is a conservative idiot.
” I am an emotionally retarded nutter. I have been really lucky in life. I have had it easy. I knew early on that I did not want to work hard. My dad got cancer as a result of too much hard work. Therefore ever since I was 14 I decided to take it easy. That is why I hooked up with Pierre a few years later. I worked for three days each week at eBay for three years. In the first year I worked for six hours each day. In
the second year I worked for five hours on the days I bothered to show up. In the third year i worked for four hours for three days each week. The result was that I was able to cash out with two billion.
“I pity the poor suckers in the old economy who sweat under a suit and tie trying to eke out a living. They are trapped inside four walls with such restrictions you would not believe. No chat during office hours. Chat only on personal time. Only 50k each month. Only eight weeks of paid vacation time. That is really lousy. They have to work the whole day. I sleep for three hours in the afternoon and feel that it is hard work. What attracted me to eBay was that the billions would pour in without hard work. The application had all the sex appeal of a college term paper.
“I am the first stupid man to become a billionaire because of idiots. I absolutely love stupid eBayers. There are lots of idiots who drive the price of items up to ridiculous levels. It is because of them that I got two billion. eBay is seen by many as a game. Idiots come along and up a bid until they’re actually paying more for the item than if they went to a store and bought it. I totally get it.
“EBay’s customers are either stupid like me and my dad or so wealthy like me that they don’t bother to do even a rudimentary price check.However sometimes it is a scam by people to drive up bids on their own auctions. I can see how people would just do that to get the victory to inflate their self-esteem bubble like me and Pierre. Either that or they don’t want to put in time or effort to be CAGs like me and Pierre.
“One of the cool things about eBay is that people don’t list their shipping fees up front and stick you with it at the end. One idiot paid $14 to have an mp3 player shipped to him. The guy even sent it to the wrong address. One way to skim people off their hard earned money is to price items so that the cost plus shipping is double that of the retail price. That way you do not have to work hard for money like suckers in the old economy..There are scammers like me and Pierre and then there are idiots. The scammers are those who create a new, clean, account with zero rating and bid to send the price up.
“Then you have the general nutcase. Once a cunt bought software, then when she had problems she sent an email demanding someone respond in 10 minutes even after she had been given links to the refund policy at least twice, once after she purchased on the confirmation screen, and again in the confirmation email plus it was available before she purchased for her to read at anytime. That is the thing about eBay clients. A lot of them are not normal human beings. I thank God for that.
” I am a huge cinephile. I watch four films a week. The films that I now co-produce are not expensive. People who are the opposite of me make them. They are passionate about what their work. For me job satisfaction is a bad word like motherf…”.
jskoll@yahoo.com
I think that this is great, with all the money ebay takes in it is nice they are spreading it around. But you still have to watch out for those risky auctions: http://listafte...y+Auctions.aspx
I’ve been an eBay affiliate for over a year now , and I’m averaging just over $100 per month (without any advertising). Hopefully, this new payout structure will put some more money in my pocket. That way I can do some advertising and make more money.
This is very good news. It is especially good if you use auctionads or some other system that pools affiliates