[creativepart]

Hey Dismounted,

I had a HUGE problem with the rewrite mod this week. Someone posted a link to a non-auction HTML page that is on ebay.com on my forum running this mod.

Naturally, the mod rewrote the link and put my campid and rover coding on this static html page link.

Then one of my members ran an auction on EBay and he decided to put a link to this static page in his auction description. He could not find the URL but he remembered he had seen it on my website. So, he went there and copied the link and placed it in his EBay Auction Description.

All this was, of course, unbeknownst to me.

Within an hour or two of him posting that auction I received an email from Ebay closing my EPN Affiliate account and seizing all of my earnings.

Luckily, I have an EPN rep that I can turn to with issues and problems. I called my rep and we figured it out and we found the problem and the guy that posted the link containing my affiliate coding notified Ebay that I wasn't involved and that it was an accident.

The next day I did get my account back.

But everyone should know that if for any reason one of your converted links ends up in an Ebay Auction, Blog, or even Ebay Forum you'll get booted out of EPN within hours of the posting. I was told that that any Affiliate coding link on any Ebay Hosted page will get you booted.

This mod needs to be fixed to NOT convert anything but auction URLs. It has to be made so that it will ignore ebay.com urls that do not contain the rest of the auction part of the URL.

PS They also said -- and this is a different subject but important too for people using this mod to know -- that you can not put your affiliate coding on any auction that you are conducting. So, if you are running Ebay auctions in the same niche as your forum and using the rewrite mod be sure that none of your auctions can show up on your forum with your Affiliate coding.