ebay changed now to it's own affiliate network, is there any update planned?

So ebay partners is dead?

This plugin still works with eBays changes!

Yes it does. You just have to change the number.

Just a heads up that this hack "appears" to still work fine with vb4.0. If anyone knows differently, please let me know, but the links appear to be re-written correctly.

Do I still need to make these changes in order for this hack to work?

Thanks for the input. Hopefully the original author can confirm if this is indeed the case or if the mod will need to be updated for vB 4.0.

Yes you definitely need to make this change for it to work 100% of the time!

Just for clarification .... :)

I need to add:

... both these lines as is and replace the one that exists now?

Thanks ... :up:

Regards,
Badger

Edit: Never mind... I had to put code back the way it was as eBay stopped crediting me for click throughs the day I changed the code and added the above two lines as a replacement. As soon as I returned the code back to the original one line, the clicks starting paying again, so I have no idea why this is the case, but others should be careful making the above change.

confirmed working on vB4 PL1

Ok, we've also got this code running on our site (vb 3.6) and updated it as mentioned above at the beginning of the year. It wasn't clear from your post exactly if your click throughs dropped significant and/or so did your payments.

For us, the click through rates are about the same, payments may be down slightly but that's probably more related to January than anything. I just wanted to have a better idea of exactly what your problems were so that we can be on the lookout for the same thing (and change the code back if needed).

Thanks in advance for your help.

nevermind.

Many of the item links posted today are saying "Invalid or Listing Removed" when in fact its not. Any one else?

Yes, I get that too, but not all the time ....

I've never understood why ... :confused:

Regards,
Badger

Same here. I would love to see a solution.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

I've been doing some experimenting and discovered a bit of a pattern ....

I've been able to take a post from one forum where the link fails with that message, then put it into another forum and it works fine. :eek:

I think there's something about forum permissions and this mod, but I have to look into it further to make sure it's repeatable.

I thought I'd report this here in the meantime, just so if you want to try some experimenting yourself to see if it holds true for you. Try turning on HTML in a non-public "test" forum (only you can see for security), then see if the same link works from there? :confused:

Regards,
Badger

Edit:
This link works in a forum that has HTML option turned ON or OFF ... :up:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Enfield-L42A1-Sniper-Rifle-Scope-IWS-Bracket-Mount_W0QQitemZ200432655499QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_D efaultDomain_2?hash=item2eaab79c8b#ht_1300wt_1167

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This link ONLY works in a forum where HTML is turned ON. If it's OFF, which is prudent for all public forums, then the error mentioned saying "Invalid or Listing Removed", when in fact its not. :confused:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200432655499&ru=http%3 A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trks id%3Dp3907.m38.l1313%26_nkw%3D200432655499%26_saca t%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1#ht_1300wt_1167

I've tried this test several times with multiple forums, simply turning the forum HTML option ON/OFF and I've obtained consistent results, although I have no idea what's causing it to need HTML ON...

Is there a working fix for the & problem? I tried to code replacement above (with the 2 lines) and it also appears I stopped getting credited for my clicks as well.

Has anyone got a fix on this "& problem"??? I'm having the same issue on my site.

Same here. Seems that this mod may have been deserted. I hope not though.

Where do I find the CID (PID?) on the eBay partner programme to add to the hack?

Login into the EPN site and then go to the "campaigns" tab. There should be a "Default Campaign" there with a campaign ID number. Thats the ID number you use with this add on. From the same screen you can make a custom campaign ID for tracking purposes if needed.

Good Luck!

Thank you. :)

Its doing the "Invalid or Not Found" stuff again today. Any update on a fix? :)

You are correct. I just tested this and it worked. A link in my site took me to a Item Removed page so I turned HTML for the forum and refreshed and clicked again and it took me to the item.

However, when I then turned HTML off for that forum it still took me to the item.

But, I pasted the item link into the test post below the working link (after turning off HTM) and the link showed up broken again -- both the original and the new test copy.

Now... why?????

Did you clear the cache after each test?

Regards,
Badger

Another thing I've found out. Maybe everybody else already knows this. If a member is logged in and searching Ebay and them copies the URL of an item and post the link, the link takes us to the Ebay home page...in other words..it doesn't work.

If they log out of their Ebay account and THEN copy and paste the link, it does work.

I love this mod and would sure like to see these issues resolved.

Any news on a fix for these issues? :)

Same issues here, making the mod not effective at all. :confused:

I just realized that RSS Feeds from ePN also contain a Campaign ID which causes a conflict with this mod. So simply remove the campaign id from the feed URL and you're set.

just wanted to give you guys an update, my earnings for the past month are more that double over my best month on shoppingads or EPN alone. With drivingrevenue.com I'm earning revenue from from retailers like Cars.com, edmunds, netflix, bestbuy, newegg, amazon and even obscure ones I've never heard of like fabric.com and acronis.com. they have more than 2,000 retailers that they rewrite links for, pretty much anyone and everyone you can think of.

They have some large networks as clients, lick Internet Brands, Autoforums, LiveJournal.com and TomsHardware.com to name a few. That means their paid out at higher tiers and earn bonuses which trickle down to their publishers.

I don't mean to sound like a cheerleader, just trying to help fellow forum owners make more money.

Thanks .. :)

How does this integrate into vBulletin v4 so we get value from it?

Regards,
Badger

+1 for drivingrevenue. 1 line of js at the bottom of your pages & the links auto-rewrite.
i don't make a huge amount from them, but every little helps. the downside is that they take a cut (naturally enough!), although it's a cut of money i wouldn't be getting without them, so...

Pete is right, it's just two lines of JavaScript in the footer template. Nothing more to do.

Best of all, since it's JavaScript it's nearly invisible. The links remain unaltered until the user clicks on it. Here's an exampl on Tom's hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28...1-tomshardware you can see that the newegg and ebay links remain unchanged, only when you click on them are they converted into affiliate links. You can do a view source on that page and see the Driving Revenue code near the bottom.

They do take a cut, but I'm making a lot more than ever before, primarily because I'm earning revenue not just through eBay ad Amazon, but approximately 15-25 other retailers on a monthly basis.

Unfortunately the Driving Revenue site will not accept you unless you have over 300K page impressions. That kind of sucks for the small site.

Ive been using this hack for a long time on my 3.8.4 board and it works perfectly but I recently opened a new site with 4.0.3 suite and this hack locks down the cron jobs.

Can someone PLEASE !!!! re-write this hack for 4.0.3. I'm willing to pay for it if it .

After much hassle (Not with this mod. Dismounted's hack rock) I think I finally have this working. Problem was in VB 4.0.3 the RSS locks up if you have the default amount (0 or unlimited) set for results returned. Ive got it at 50 and so far so good.

Anyone able to tell me exactly how I can tell if the links are rewriting? I checked my Partner Network and all I have there is the graphs for total clicks and Im using the same number from my main site.

Again this is a great hack and I cant wait until its officially offered on VB4.

I've been testing this with v4.03 on our devforums and it seems to be working fine and I never did anything special to get it working? I'm not sure what you mean about RSS? :confused:

I don't see any RSS component in this hack?

Thanks .. :)

Regards,
Badger

Hi,

I've got his mod running, however it's not re-writing the URL's proerly and when you click it, it gives you a ebay page with 'item () not found)

vB:3.8.4

Help please?

Did you add your Partner Network number in the settings?

Ive been using this for about 2 years and it works perfect on the 3.8.4 board. Try also looking at your reports from PN and see if its recording the clicks at all.

Lastly, remember that you must add the site to your PN account and confirm it. If you dont its not going to work.
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Note for Dismounted. When he gets time to port this. Links posted in the CMS dont work, they just forward to eBays home page.
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BadgerDog, I use the RSS bot to post relative eBay listing automatically in special forums. Its these RSS posts that were having the problem. If you manually post a link then its totally fine.

Thanks ... :)

I was thinking about trying and testing something like this in our v4 devforums, just to see how it would execute and whether it would drive more link through traffic for us.

Regards,
Badger