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It's not difficult to put myself in your place, and I'd be really frustrated, too! I admit, though, that I haven't paid all that much attention to this issue because I've not made much (if anything?) from my couple of Ebay modules, with most of my affiliate sales being through Amazon. But that's probably ONLY because I haven't utilized the Ebay module enough OR well enough. I know, though, that your case is quite the opposite, and I'm sure there are others. Maybe many of those folks aren't active in the forums?

At any rate, I can image that, for you and others like you who've been earning significant money from Ebay sales, this is like losing a job (or business, rather).

Well, my response here was pretty useless. I just wanted to sympathize (empathize? commiserate?) ... you know, respond.

Last edited by Ramkitten (10/19/2009 10:18 am)

Ramkitten wrote:

Well, my response here was pretty useless. I just wanted to sympathize (empathize? commiserate?) ... you know, respond.

Your post was not useless and I appreciate you taking the time to respond.   It did make me feel better.

I do well w/ amazon and my 3rd party affiliates, but for some reason my lenses always did best with eBay. 

I am just grateful that I listened to the little voice in my head a year or so ago that told me to diversify my online presence to other platforms.   If I hadn't, I would be taking a huge earnings hit this month as opposed to a minor one overall.  However, this does not make this situation any less frustrating....

Ugh! This is not a good sign. Thanks Janet for letting us all know that it needs fixed ASAP. Just last night I put ebay modules on 20 lenses. If I'm not going to get a commission I'm taking them back off!

Please let us know if you hear anything from HQ on this?

flowergardener wrote:

Ugh! This is not a good sign. Thanks Janet for letting us all know that it needs fixed ASAP. Just last night I put ebay modules on 20 lenses. If I'm not going to get a commission I'm taking them back off!

Please let us know if you hear anything from HQ on this?

I definitely care... and didn't even realise that we were not getting paid for our e-bay sales

this is very upsetting... I alsp have recently added a lot of e-bay modules after being prompted to add them by rms & the Giants blog...
now I'm wondering why we were encouraged to add them if we don't even get paid for having them...

I'm with Deb, if I'm not going to get a commission then I will be removing them from my lenses???
hopefully HQ addresses this issue quickly

I feel really bad now, since I have been encouraging squids I'm helping to add e-bay modules...
if I had known that they wouldn't get a commission, I would never have suggested it

Last edited by mysticmama (10/19/2009 12:22 pm)

thefluffanutta wrote:

I know most of you have read it already and it doesn't help address your concerns, but here's the latest word from HQ about eBay for anyone who has not seen it. [Oct 8th]

So does that mean that eventually we will get commissions for sales made during the changes
or that Squids are just SOL for commissions earned during e-bay's restructuring???

It's a pretty ambiguous post, that really doesn't answer much, just tells us to be patient
Some assurance one way or the other would be nice

I promise that we'll post an update as soon as we hear back from eBay. We've done everything we can to escalate the issue.

I havent' been following this issue since I don't make much of anything yet, but I will start to now. Hope things will be fixed soon.

I hope this gets resolved for you Janet because we all one day aspire to get the eBay affiliate commission on the sale of a car or some other big ticket item on our lenses, too. Hang in there. But congratulations on your success on HubPages and your diversification strategy. I see on your recent interview there you made over $500 last month with them. That's super...

Last edited by AdrienneJenkins (10/19/2009 5:20 pm)

dagsmith wrote:

Janet21 wrote:

Gil, EPN announced their new QCP program in mid-August.  I would have hoped that Squidoo & EPN would have been working together to iron out the details way before Oct 1 to make sure the programming was all in place when the program went live .

That would be nice.  But, I have had the fortune/misfortune (I am still deciding which) to be involved in high level business development discussions with eBay and they moved slooooooooooooow.  When compared to other Internet partners, progress at eBay was substantially slower. 

It takes two to Tangoo.  So as eager as Squidoo might be to resolve this, unless somebody at eBay is eager to dance this will continue to drag. 

It might actually be more effective to raise this issue in the eBay support/affiliate forums as eBay is the party that needs to be pressured into changing a policy.

I agree, eBay does move very slowly.   However, I raised the question to find out if Squidoo attempted to work things out with eBay before Oct 1st (back in Aug when the announcement was first made) or after.    To me, that makes a difference.  It is a matter of being proactive as opposed to being reactive. 

I am a member of the epn affiliate forums, however, I doubt bringing it up there will help.  If they are not responding to Seth Godin's request to get this fixed, I can't imagine they are going to give a hoot what I think.  I am not the affiliate in this case anyway, Squidoo is.

Last edited by Janet21 (10/19/2009 8:05 pm)

calicoskies wrote:

Janet21 wrote:

that we are not receiving any earnings from our eBay modules this month? 

I realize not everyone does well with eBay sales, but I am getting killed this month since we stopped receiving earnings from the eBay module.  We are not even receiving earnings per click as the new EPN program states.   And, no word from HQ since Oct 8th.  11 days and no update.   I am really trying to be patient, but my patience is wearing thin.   I am confident HQ is working with eBay to fix this, but I can't help but wonder why they were not proactive in the beginning when this new program was announced.  Why did they wait until after the program took effect on Oct 1st to see how it would impact our eBay modules?

To top it off, I am also losing lenses out of the top tier since they no longer have the royalties to help them maintain their position.   Add that to the fact that Oct is one of the busiest times of the year for my lenses, the time of the year I look forward to the most, but without eBay sales, my earnings are dismal.

I am also wondering that if/when they do correct the problem, will we be given the earnings for the last two weeks or are these earnings gone for good.

What is even more frustrating is that nobody else has even posted the slightest concern over this issue in the forum.   It certainly is lonely to be the only lensmaster that seems to care about this.  You know what they say, misery loves company.

eBay is my main niche and if I can't make money on Squidoo with eBay, then I really may need to rethink why I am here at all.

I just needed to vent some.  Thanks for listening.

You aren't the only one that cares! I am leaving Squidoo - I will probably have the rest of my lenses gone in the next couple of weeks. I wish everyone the best of luck!

I hate that you're having so much trouble and wish you the best of luck

calicoskies wrote:

You aren't the only one that cares! I am leaving Squidoo - I will probably have the rest of my lenses gone in the next couple of weeks. I wish everyone the best of luck!

Sorry, but from an SEO perspective that's just stupid. Delete the ebay modules, replace them with amazon modules and link out to whatever new web projects you've got going on. THAT's the way to respond to this if you're going to 'quit' squidoo. You've built online real estate here. Deleting that will hurt no one but you. Instead you should use it as a baseline link pool for other projects & new projects.

Last edited by spirituality (10/20/2009 1:17 am)

dagsmith wrote:

It takes two to Tangoo.  So as eager as Squidoo might be to resolve this, unless somebody at eBay is eager to dance this will continue to drag.

Exactly.

The problem is with eBay, as they don't provided detailed information about where the clicks are coming from (I checked by looking in my own EPN account). Until they do, Squidoo can't attribute the revenue to the rightful lenses.

All we can do is wait...