eBay is making a big change… they’re leaving Commission Junction and bringing their affiliate program inhouse. And to encourage people to make the transition quickly, they’re offering a 5% bonus for all traffic sent through their new network in the month of April 2008.
It opens April 1, 2008.
If you’re using BANS, don’t worry. They will get it updated so that Build a Niche Store will continue to work within the new system. Has to be a bit frustrating for them, since they just finished updating to version 3, but that’s the affiliate life for you. BANS has already sent an email to users who subscribe to their newsletter about this.
Migration needs to be complete by May 1, 2008. I guess I know where my focus will be at the start of April! But I can certainly appreciate that they’re giving us a couple weeks’ notice of the change, and a month in which to complete it. Much better than some programs do when they make a big change like this.
I had just finished updating a 137 page store when I found out about this the next week, was really not happy if only I had procrastinated.
You’ll be glad to know it’s EASY to update, then. I had no trouble at all with mine.
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