ebay affiliate program

adsense/amazon like ads, any good?

[amznVibe]

Not sure how new this is, but it's the first time I have seen it.
Has anyone tried this affiliate program from ebay? Does it actually pay?
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$5 for new signups, 5 cents per bid? Sounds feasible.

it appears to be part of this system:
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[fidibidabah]

Done to death. Nearly impossible to convert.. imho :)

[Teshka]

I'm doubtlessly missing something because I don't see why anyone would use adwords to promote ebay (unless they have a better deal than the .05 per bid system) unless they're promoting their own auctions.

As for the ebay affiliate program, I joined at the beginning of November and have made about a dollar from bids on a page that talks about the pros and cons of buying widgets from ebay. It's worth it to me since the page talks about ebay anyway, but as far as promoting it heavily, it seems that other affiliate programs (that give you a % rather than .05 cents) would be more profitable.

With the ebay program they have to bid as soon as they come through from your page. If they surf to another page first, you don't get your .05 cents. If they close the window and come back later, no dice either.

[fidibidabah]

I believe it was more for the signups. When Ebay was new, or when Ebay Motors first launched, a few people made a TON, and I mean a TON of quick bucks on new signups. So is life I guess, catch it when it's comming by you, then you won't have to chase it down.

[firstmark]

Actually

"With the ebay program they have to bid as soon as they come through from your page. If they surf to another page first, you don't get your .05 cents. If they close the window and come back later, no dice either." is not true anymore.

Affiliates are credited for bids up to 30 days from the moment the visitor is referred to ebay's site. Leads which require a bid be placed also allow that bid to be placed within 30 days.
The tricky thing that ebay does not mention very clearly is that the ebay.com affiliate program does not pay anything for leads from those signing up from outside the US basically unless ebay doesen't have a separate country specific program in place I believe.
To earn money for Canadian leads you have to have the visitor referred from the ebay canada program. To earn money from Uk visitors you have to have visitors referred from the ebay Canada links.

If a visitor from Canada arrives at ebay via affiliate links for ebay.com and signs up the affiliate gets nothing for example.

Ebay's program is tricky in the past affiliates received nothing for buy it now transactions even though most considered them bids that would get compensated as such but ebay did not. Now buy it nows are compensated the same as bids.