Victims speak out!
"My site drives very targeted traffic to eBay, I often hear from my visitors how much they enjoy my site and use the eBay links on my site... I can't imagine how much better a site can be targeted than mine, offering more than just eBay ads but a LOT of other information related to the topic. My site ranks #1 for most eBay searches for this topic and it was all EARNED, not purchased... WHO can possibly stand up to whatever standards they require?"
"I've been affiliating for eBay for over a year as well and never used any practices to drive traffic that could be construed and questionable."
"I totally depend on ebay. I have been an affiliate for almost two years. This is my year to date earnings; clicks-189684 epc-7.50 income-14,220.95... I have e-mailed ebay to try and find out what exactly I did wrong. We should be given a warning to fix, correct or stop any unethical behavior that we are not aware of."
"I've been an eBay affiliate for 3 years now, and my site is 11 years old."
"... With ePN I had high hopes, dreams, aspirations of true success... Gone are those days."
"How can eBay treat it's affiliates this way? I've invested countless hours developing and adding content to my sites for EPN to drop me."
"... Just got my email, ebay affiliate for several years, high quality niche sites, no junk, no spam, no black hat. Ebay listings are on my blog sites, one gets 20,000 visitors daily, many go to ebay and buy. Like some of you above, significant ebay income, mid to high 5 figures yearly."
"We actually built our community around ebay. I can't tell you how much traffic we've driven to ebay... It just hurts me that I've worked so hard with Ebay... And to have formed such a great community now over this, and now my incentive to keep going is gone. Like I've been kicked in the teeth as a thank you for driving traffic that would not have otherwise been driven there."
"I got the boot also. I just spent over $2000 and countless hours getting my EPN setup."
"We have been with eBay for over 6 years, Total Motorcycle is a top website worldwide, the leading motorcycle website in North America and gets 1.5 million uniques per month for traffic with our 500,000 pages of content (with eBay being on 90% of those pages)"
"I was a small guy. I made less that $1000 this year with EPN, so it is not just the big ones they want out.."
"After 19 very good months as an ebay affilate, the EPN network has sent me my expiration Email... I am unaware of what I have done. I am a disabled Vietnam Vet confined to my home, and trying to eek out a living from the web, This seemed to be a wonderful way to do it... Now it seems like all this will come to an end."
"Ebay has hurt people here and still is not classy enough to respond. A good business practice might have involved a warning to improve your sites or performance. Even Google does that."
"Last December I found something I really loved to do, eBay affiliate marketing. I devoted my entire life to it. I love it! And I feel like I am pretty good at it. I even paid for a TV commercial in my area to promote one of my websites. I have about 30 well developed, content rich sites and I make a modest amount of money from them, it's a great supplemental income for my large family. I was planning on going full-time this month. But last night I got the "letter"."
"What adds to the insult is not even a peep from epn. At least come on here and say we're looking into this on a case by case basis. I've never seem customer service run like this or an affiliate program.
"This is just sick, a flawed system running wild, the Rude part about it for the rest of us left in the program is the not knowing why every one is getting booted and are we next!"
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