eBay Partner Network Publisher Survey - My Answers

Here is my anwser to one of the question from eBay's publisher's survey:

Q: If there is one change that could be made to ePN which would cause you to increase your share of efforts with ePN, what would it be?

Please be as specific as possible

A: eBay should be paying more to small website owners, I used to receive an avgerage of £1 a week for my site from sales, avgerage 10,000 visitors per month.

Now no matter how many clicks I get the revenue is zero. I know it's nothing compare to the big guys, but it did gave me an incentive to promote eBay.

Now me and many other website owners i know are planning to give it up, as we're not getting rewarded for our efforts.

If you do your maths, before the change from payment per sale ebay had  wide coverage, now only the sub affiliate companies benefits from sales, eBay might be gaining on percentage click to sale, but you're losing the free promotions by website owners.

Lets face it how many 1million hits a day big website have eBay ads on? How many sub affiliate users haven't heared of and are new to eBay?

I just felt it was just a cost cutting plan, if ebay haven't notice already the roll on effect it has on the sale by affiliate click, it will do as time will show.

Isn't paying a small fee to get a millions of views on websites cheaper that paying £xxx,xxxx to advertise on tv.

Don't know how much eBay paying the guys behide this new eBay affiliate scheme, but i am sure eBay will save and earn much more by giving them the sack.

No offence to you or any others dealing with this survey, but just to let you know I declare myself out, and I assure you I won't be the only one.

Q: Please let us know any other comments or suggestions you have.

A: Go back to the old system for all publishers, which is fair to all publishers.

Nice to get this out of my chest, thank you for reading.