Just use the eBay RSS Widget in the EPN to generate the feed. Works fine for me.

But can I feed from topics?

Is this working in 3.7.0 *Gold*? Any compatibility problems with vBSEO?

Thanks in advance!

Yes and No.

Has anyone else had a radical drop in earnings this last week? I upgraded to 3.6.10, ten 3.7 this week, and my clicks and earnings dropped significantly since the 3.6.10 upgrade. The links are being rewritten correctly, and I did rebuild the thread cache. I'm just not getting the impressions for some reason.

If the links are being rewritten correctly, then it indicates an issue with CJ/EPN.

Unintalled

The sharp decline in earnings, particularly ACRUs, is well documented on the ebay forums. Affiliates are up in arms.

That's just simply creating a new BB Code. The ability to create a new BB Code is default functionality of vBulletin.

I just received an email from Ebay that they will no longer go through Commission junction and we now have to join the Ebay Partner Network and become direct Ebay affiliates. Will this plug-in still work with the Ebay Partner Network?

Yes...

Wow, you are 45 days behind the times. This started on April 1st. You have to sign up with EPN, overwrite your mod with the newer version and put in your new Camp Ids. And, you have exactly 7 days before this is completely switched over and CJ doesn't pay anything on Ebay links now.

Everyone else has been doing this for a month an a half already.

This is working for me. I just copy the RSS URL into the VB feed and it creates threads. The in the thread there is a BID NOW, MORE and ADD TO WATCH LIST links. All of the links take me directly to the auction item.

Many of my users got upset with the feeds showing up in in the Today's Posts and New Post links so I just did and exclude of the RSS feed category IDs so that they would not show up.

You all need to set the categories as no viewable by guest if you uses view new post via your forums RSS feed. I have tried to find out how to exclude certain categories for my forum's RSS feed but so far have had no luck.

BTW - The eBay feeds I am posing only pertain to items that would be of interest to my forum members. Not all eBay items.

This plug-in is doing a fine job of adding my EPN number to the links.

:confused:

Is there anywhere that has a walkthrough for that? What's a VB feed?

Admin CP > RSS Feeds?

Got it, thanks.

Might as well be written in Chinese though...

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Hi! Great mod but I'm running into a problem where it appears that eBay is basically hijacking non-eBay links that have "ebay" in the url.

For example.. here's a link a member just posted as a copy and paste:
http://www.tamebay.com/2008/05/ebay-...ly-sooner.html
Here's what it looks like if I copy link (with my affiliate code XXXX'd out of course):
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53...ly-sooner.html
With or without my ID it takes you to main eBay US page.

Is this perhaps part of eBay's geolocation thing (mentioned in this thread on page 15) and most importantly is there anyway to stop this "hijacking"? It's really annoying, not to mention a bit disconcerting, that when you click on a link to an "anti" eBay link it takes you to the one place you don't want to see ATM... eBay. ;)

BTW this happening is not terribly uncommon on my board since it's for online sellers and buyers, many of whom are sellers on eBay and they often link to tamebay.com and other "anti" and "pro" eBay sites that use ebay in the url. Oh and FWIW I had your shoppingads mod on until recently and it did the same thing.

I really don't want to remove this mod.. it's perfect for my site over all (especially if eBay ever gets it ePN pulled together) but I don't want my members upset when this "hijacking" thing happens either.

If I missed this being addressed earlier I apologize.. I skimmed through quickly and didn't see anything but admittedly I'm not firing on all cylinders today (lack of sleep and a nasty cold).

Anyway, thanks for any help.. I truly appreciate it and all the work you've put into this. :)

It's a bug that is going to be addressed.

This hack is great and so is the amazon one.

Is there any hack to rewrite links in general to another affiliate link fo VB?

Yobajufa

I'm running 3.7.1. I've got the EBay RSS feed coming into my forum. Auction items are posted as threads and there are links to EBay "Bid Now" (click to bid on item) "More" (click to go to EBay to read the auction description in detail) and "Add to Watch List" (click to add this item to your watch list). This mod works fine with the EBay RSS Feed except for the "Add to Watch List" link. When this mod is enabled, that link becomes truncated or corrupt, or something and it takes you to an Ebay "Page not Found". Any clues how to fix this? Would really like to continue using the mod. I've only had it installed a few days but I like to keep it active on my forum.

Not at the moment.
What is the link?

PM Sent..

Installed Thanks!

I am using this hack and love it so much... but we're getting errors on my site when people post poorly formed URLs. If the URL contains any spaces or is otherwise malformed it throws and error and will no longer display the thread.

I believe I asked about this before but it would be greatly appreicate if you could add in some simple regex to check for a malformed URL.

It's as simple as typing http:/// in a thread to break it.

But other examples do it as well like people dumb enough to link to a local document on their computer's drive.

This is a fairly critical issue on my site, and I'm sure others, that just haven't noticed it yet. If it's not something you can find the time to fix on your own I would certainly be willing to kick in a few bucks to have you working on it. For now I've had to disable the hack entirely, which means no money from eBay, so I really need this back up and running as soon as possible.

This is one of the specific examples that broke our site... please ignore the idiocy of the link name, it's not real, one of our members was posting it as a joke in our off topic forum and the follow is the resulting error.

There has been a fix posted in the thread by me before - I have not had time to update anything as I have been very busy.

Thank you! Wonderful news! :cool:

I know it's probably hard to do but is there any chance of getting a time frame on approx when this will be done? :)

Soon - I hope. I don't have any solid time frame. I do all this "work" in my spare time - so I fit it in when I can.

My forum suffers from the same problem that NickCat's does.

//sites waiting patiently for the fix

Thanks for all of your hard work Dismounted.

Does this work directly with the ebay affiliate program or does it require going through Commission Junction? The reason I ask is that Ebay does not work with Commission Junction anymore.

Mike

It works 'directly' with the eBay programme in a sense. The only drawback I've found is that it only works with .com.

That's actually a drawback of eBay's program, AFAIK.

has anybody come up with a way to check/rewrite the url without the three slashes which cause problems '///'?

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1348791&postcount=45" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...1&postcount=45</a>

Thanks D.

I implemented it and reactivated the product but the product no longer appears to work properly. I am going to try and run through it again (download and rewrite) to see if it was an error on my part.

I cannot get this to work with Ebay Partners -- or at least Ebay partners doesn't acknowledge any clicks. Kinda a shame as I was earning about $150 a month when with CJ

If I go to Ebay Partners and create a link -- I get
my understanding being that the campid is the same as the pid. So in Vbulletin, I enter 5336008383 and to link converts to

since others are not having a problem getting this to work -- I'm sure I'm just making a stupid mistake. Can someone roll me a bone and get me pointed in the right direction. Please be specific -- and many posts are cryptic -- assuming that everyone is an expert on some instruction thrown out.

Thank you

OK -- I just check my version and I was running 1.1 so I just upgraded to 1.2 -- and hopefully I just had a case of the dumbass and this is fixed.

Dismounted,

I know you are probably busy with other projects, but do you know whether you intend to update the script any time soon. The proposed changes that I made to my file do not seem to work. Thank you for this great mod.

Soon ;).

Great news!

Patiently waiting... :)