An Open Letter to eBay: Why you Should Fire your Affiliate Team
Dear eBay:
I am very excited that you are moving your affiliate program away from Commission Junction to set up your in-house affiliate program, eBay Partner Network. I really like your affiliate program as your store coverts really well. You see, people like bargain and see you as a trusted brand.
In the past I’ve made nice affiliate commission with your affiliate program via several websites. I set up these websites with a US partner. We earned the revenue via his eBay affiliate account. Why the hassle? Well, in the past whenever I applied to eBay affiliate program I got auto-reject all the time.
Sooo….. I’ve received notification that you now have eBay Partner Network. I was very excited as I thought you will give me a chance. I went through the form and submit my application carefully. Next, you rejected me again. I would not take “NO” as an answer. I click on “Contact Us” at here for re-evaluation. I explained my business model, statistics and visitors’ democratic. Within minutes, I have this reply from you:
Seriously, I am devastated! Why are you doing this to me? Firstly, unlike physical store, my website is not restricted to local visitors! Look at the statistic of one of my site below, I drive ten of thousands visitors to my websites every month, most of them are from US (where most of your customers come from). All these visitors come to my site via search engine. I swear that I used 100% white hat techniques. I am a good girl! I don’t do anything deceptive. I don’t wear black hat. I don’t spam!
What’s more, I have PPC accounts with Google Adwords, Yahoo Overture and MSN AdCenter. Maybe you don’t know that we can target our website visitors by location?
OK maybe you doubt my ability to drive revenue for you. Let’s just take a look at one of my affiliate earning account below, I produced $! I have customers from all over the world, you name it: Europe, US, Australia, Singapore. I bet many of your affiliates do not earn a cent for you. Am I right? Bare in mind that it’s only one of my incoming producing affiliate accounts, and I have quite a few like that.
OK maybe you doubt my ability to drive revenue for you. Let’s just take a look at one of my affiliate earning account below, I produced $! I have customers from all over the world, you name it: Europe, US, Australia, Singapore. I bet many of your affiliates do not earn a cent for you. Am I right? Bare in mind that it’s only one of my incoming producing affiliate accounts, and I have quite a few like that.
Do you worry about my proficiency in English? As you can see, although English is not my first language (I am Asian), I write OK English that produced sales. Most people have no problem reading my article.
Bay oh eBay… why the discrimination against us the non-US affiliates? Seriously, you should fire your affiliate management team as I think they have no clue about affiliate marketing. They are still living in the dinosaur age to think that your business is only limited to your location. They are pushing away opportunities that will help you to make more money.
Lastly, I’ve decided that if you don’t love me, someone else will. Finally I’ve learned the cruel fact that you are just not that into me. My friend Mariah can best describe how I feel now, as she sings:
“I still believe, someday you and me, Will find ourselves in love again;
I had a dream, someday you and me, Will find ourselves in love again.”