eBay Affiliate Program Users Complain of Decreasing Returns

[mandy]

If you peruse eBay's Affiliate boards today, you won't hear many people crowing about the thousands of dollars they're making using one of the many tools used to promote eBay and drive new registered users (referred to as ACRU's) to the site. Even a look at eBay's Affiliate Best Practices page will show the same four "success stories" that were there two years ago.

Users on the Affiliate discussion board have repeatedly asked for new success stories only to be disappointed. The overall sentiment among eBay affiliates is that decreasing returns are a combination of market saturation with affiliates using paid search, organic search tricks and other tools and the number of registered eBay users. It's become difficult to drive new registrations, which result in the real payoff for affiliates.

To add insult to injury, eBay changed the reward structure of its affiliate program in October 2005...

full article: http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions...hp/3593856

[xppman]

If you peruse eBay's Affiliate boards today, you won't hear many people crowing about the thousands of dollars they're making using one of the many tools used to promote eBay and drive new registered users (referred to as ACRU's) to the site. Even a look at eBay's Affiliate Best Practices page will show the same four "success stories" that were there two years ago.

Hmmmm: The same four "success stories" that were there two years ago.

Imagine that.  :

[sneakymagenta]

combination of market saturation with affiliates using paid search, organic search tricks and other tools

Every other listing in Google is an Ebay affiliate