Affiliate Parasites Exposed

The days of making big money from eBay as an affiliate is a thing of the past.Their was a time, when a honest affiliate could work his ass off and drive good traffic to eBay and thus get rewarded for his efforts.Well things have changed a little, eBay doesn’t give a damn about it’s affiliates anymore.I know that there are a few affiliates making good money, but they are few and far between.I also believe they get special treatment.In fact they have a hotline to the eBay management I reckon.The new game that eBay uses nowadays, goes something like this.The reason they left Commission Junction, was that it was damn hard to screw over affiliates, when your system was being monitored by a separate party.Not to say that Commission Junction is a noble site, which their not…..their as crooked as the rest…but that’s another story.

So eBay left CJ, and developed their cunning system that basically rips off all small affiliates.It’s a very simple plan….you allow the affiliates to make money, but nowhere near what they were making…even though they are in fact making good money(they just don’t see it).You see, as an affiliate you must trust and rely on what eBay’s stats say.I guarantee you that if you sent 100 people(through your AF ID) to eBay, and they all made a purchase, you will only see credit for 10% of the actual sales.The other 90% was taken by eBay and hidden, because they can do this.Each campaign has it’s own ID number, so if it’s in eBay’s tracking system(which it is), it can easily be blocked from certain sales that may be pretty good for a affiliate.Not only this, eBay has several image providers like Auctiva,Vendio, Inkfrog and others, that have special arrangements with eBay that allows them to over-write a affiliates cookie…thus stealing your commissions.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all, if eBay owns some of these companies.Most affiliates will not agree with what I say here, as their happy to just plod along and make tiny amounts of money!And for you that feel this way…well done, you are doing exactly as eBay has planned….they know human nature.They continue to give you a few crumbs to keep you eager and hopeful, knowing that you will hang in their and continue to push traffic to them, and when people eventually buy something, they will block those sales they see fit to block and collect a big part of your commissions for themselves.However you will still make those tiny sales everyday, and like most money hungry affiliates you will always have that dream of the next day being that big money maker…..the illusion is what blinds you and eBay continues it’s fraudulent practices.In closing, the affiliates of eBay, remind me of the old prospector that had been in the mountains for nearly 30 years searching for the big strike!Even though he found little bits of gold here and their, the mother load had always escaped him.Undaunted he continued his quest each and everyday, with the illusion that tomorrow would be the big strike!Sadly he died bewildered, and eat up with a great addiction for wealth that had eluded him for 30 years.Wake-up affiliates, eBay has already taken your mother load, and you will never strike it rich with them!

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