Comments on: ebay AdContext Product Manager Sheds Light on Program

By: pcunix

pcunix — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:27:36 +0000

Just to follow up on my experience trying to sign up.

I heard from CJ:

Thank you for contacting us with your inquiries. After searching for your email, you do indeed have a Commission Junction account associated with the email address tony@aplawrence.com and the website http://aplawrence.com. However, your account associated with email address tony@aplawrence.com has been deactivated on 2/15/2002 due to our dormancy policy. I apologize for the inconvenience. As stated in the Publisher Service Agreement, if any of our Publishers do not generate revenue for more than 6 months, we automatically deactivate them. This policy ensures that our network is efficient and beneficial to our Advertisers and Publishers. Since your account is no longer active in our network, your page will register as “expired” among the advertisers with whom you were previously affiliated. Unfortunately, deactivated accounts are not eligible for reactivation. Please sign up for another account using an alternate e-mail address since your email address tony@aplawrence.com is already associated with a dormant account.

Of course I had already tried that, and still was refused. Of course their policy ignores the fact that they (CJ) have lousy (lousy for my site anyway) programs which is why they never generated revenue – I canned them almost immediately.

So.. looks like I can’t sign up with e-bay. Oh, well: their loss for partnering with CJ – bet I’m not the only publisher who became “dormant” and now can’t reactivate.

By: Ytterligare information om eBay AdContext

Ytterligare information om eBay AdContext — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:52:12 +0000

[...] Efter att Darren Rowse skrev sitt första inlägg om eBay AdContext fick han en mycket lång kommentar från en ansvarig person på eBay. Denna förtydligar en hel del ytterligare om programmet och dess möjligheter. På grund av längden återger jag inte svaret här utan länkar istället direkt till Problogger. [...]

By: Enrique

Enrique — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:04:48 +0000

I would like to join this program, but I’m fed up with networks like CJ and Linkshare. It is unbelievable that companies this big are still using these clumsy networks.

By: pcunix

pcunix — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 23:13:50 +0000

I certainly agree that CJ is a weakness. Actually, I think it’s worse: there is so much junk at CJ that it’s guilt by association: in my mind it cheapens eBay’s program a bit.

By: David Bain

David Bain — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:06:48 +0000

It’s good to know that people in the know are reading your Blog or a regular basis, Darren.

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:23:49 +0000

There’s obviously still plenty shakeout before the eBay offering is well known to bloggers, but I certainly was impressed by Ken’s candidness and willingness to share facts and figures. If Yahoo had anyone who would spend half that time talking _to_ bloggers instead of _down_ to them, I’d be running YPN.

It does amaze me what a sea of lemming the majority of us are .. signed up with huge programs who won’t publish their payouts and won’t even let folks seriously discuss them. Strange. Kudos to eBay for starting the game with full disclosure.

And thanks to Darren for taking the time to host this discussion, it certainly helps when principals and knowledgeable fellow publishers can get on the same page.

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Why would eBay AdContext use Commission Junction?

Make You Go Hmm: » Why would eBay AdContext use Commission Junction? — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:05:43 +0000

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By: TDavid

TDavid — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:01:09 +0000

Ken has been at our blog too leaving a couple comments, though his comment here was much more detailed. CJ is one of several weaknesses in this program (and the API requires having a CJ account too).

I don’t get it, eBay will pay billions for Skype and yet won’t design, build and implement their own first party affiliate program?

By: pcunix

pcunix — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:52:35 +0000

OK, so it looks pretty good and I decided to sign up or get on the waiting list.

Checked into eBay and went to the Affiliate area. It sent me to get a Commission Junction account.

When I try to sign up there, that complains that I already have a CJ account.. maybe, I might have had one some time ago, so I’ll try logging in to CJ. Nope – no such account.

So there I am – the man without a country :-)

By: razib

razib — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:38:54 +0000

Thanks for the post Darren. I missed the original comment and so it was useful for me. I am happy that the opportunities for us (bloggers) are increasing now on a weekly basis.