BANS, Ebay Affiliate, PepperJam Network

If you run a BANs store or have ever run the ebay affiliate program, you probably know the whole story about how Ebay left Commission Junction a few months ago to go to their own in house affiliate program.

If you don't know what a BANs store is, it's a script that allows you to build your own "ebay store." When someone wants to buy something, they're taken to the ebay auction page.

You can see more about the BANs script here.

With the Ebay Affiliate program, you get paid up to 75% of the price it cost to put up the item for sale. So, for example, if it cost someone $25 to list an item, you could make up to $18.75 just for referring someone to the ebay auction and they win.

Additionally, with the Ebay Affiliate program, you could make up to $35 bucks if someone signed up for a new ebay account and won an auction! Cool.

Anywho, back on topic...

Following the move to their own affiliate program, Ebay's affiliate program seemed to take a dive in quality and revenue generated. In fact just searching digitalpoint forums, you can see countless threads of people complaining about how the Ebay Affiliate program was tanking.

Today I got an email from Pepperjam Network (highly recommended) that the Ebay affiliate program would now be offered through them as well. Wow!

I believe this move was an effort to try to redeem the Ebay affiliate program. Honestly, If I were running any type of ebay affiliate sites, I'd much rather go through PepperJam Network because of all the stuff I have heard about Ebay's in house program.

Hopefully that will make you guys some extra cash.

I have yet to hear from the BANs guys about whether there will need to be patches or updates for the BANs store in order to be able to run it on PepperJam Networks new program.

Either way, I'm sure the people at BANs are loving the fact that they have to recode and rework their code to work with Ebay's new affiliate program just to go back and have to add more. I guess that's life though.

Let me know how the new program works for you!