I've heard directly from some of my websites visitors that they use my eBay search page all the time! I have a series of helpful searches that narrow down the results and give them specifically what they are looking for. SEVERAL people in my target hobby use my site for this purpose and have thanked me for the service I provide. I guess that is all worthless now, they will miss this service after Aug 27 when I delete it. Sadly, I was not able to meet an invisible, unknown metric until it was too late, and now that I'm banned, I will never have a chance to try again.. not even with entirely new websites with new topics.... what a shame. If I had at least known I was in danger, I could have attempted to fix the problem.

How depressing.

Sounds like there are some serious ASSUMPTIONS being made right now on behalf of those brainiacs at EPN. I have honestly never heard of an affiliate program acting in such a way. The most unprofessional and inconsiderate group of people I've ever laid eyes on or had the unfortunate experience to work with.

ASSUMPTIONS from a few metrics that haven't had enough time to possibly prove themselves. Sounds like to me you are measuring them up to those that are using black hat techniques. How could you possibly be getting poor visitors from those utilizing white hat SEO and PPC. So flawed and so disgusting.

Coming from a person who was about to go into business for himself based on eBay being about 50% of his affiliate revenue. Not to mention countless dollars spent promoting, developing, and doing white hat methods to be a good affiliate. I suppose we all learned a lesson here.

There you have it - eBay showed its true nature. Your typical evil corporation that cares nothing about its constituents.

I suppose my one year of 30+ hours per week of hard work writing content and optimizing my site for 100% pure organic search traffic hasn't paid off a bit. The drilled-down traffic and constantly improved results that my sites have received were all in vain, as eBay (or as they like to think of themselves, jesus christ) deemed to be worthless and non-quality. The measly 0.05% return on the total profits that eBay made off of my efforts were a drop in the bucket, after all.

Nice to be compared to black hatters - too. I've been in web development for 10 years and search engine optimization for 4 years, and have been a hardcore white hatter every inch of the way, but it sure feels good to be stereotyped due to a faulty algorithm and prompt quick fix by your company. Not an endearing quality, ebay.

Your "responsibility" is to make EPN a valuable experience for yourselves and your affiliates. However, you've removed the latter and replaced it with typical public relations speech and still refuse to address each individual account. I hope the guilt of all of the people whose lives are ruined weighs on all of you who have contributed to making this happen. It's all collateral damage though, isn't that right?

My post isn't intended for the "damage control" mouthpiece, but for the bastards who have chosen to wrongly lump together outstanding affiliates in the EPN community who have consistently followed the rules in your TOS, and have probably even endorsed them on the marketing forums throughout the internet (DigitalPoint, BANS, etc) in complete vain, as they have had no warning, no "fix it" email, no nothing - but a complete ban and a lifelong hatred for your company.

I truly hope the wave of negative publicity that is about to hit eBay will cripple the company and only serve as a huge advantage for your competitors.

Also, my commissions better damn be paid, or I surely will have my lawyer involved.

Steve said in his post.....
Our responsibility in the affiliate marketing channel

Well, not fair to blame the ads on Steve. I'm sure he has absolutely no control over them as head of the ePN. His job is indeed to "allocate our resources to best drive incremental demand to our sellers", with the term our meaning ePN resources.

There are other angles to take against ePN certainly, but this isn't a legitimate one in my opinion.

best drive incremental demand to our sellers
is that why your going to put ads in my listings, pointing the people I brought into my auctions in other places, That I paid for....

...are not being asked to stop sending traffic to us due to fraudulent activity or violations of the terms of service...
Then Why did you expire them!

The Bible says that a Double Minded person is Unstable in ALL their ways. And you can take that to the bank!

Working hard currently making sites to promote ebay but after seeing this, I don't quite honestly know if I should continue.

Spending a lot time to find out you are getting axed and not have a chance to reap what you sow is kind of depressing.

Steve said in his post.....
Our responsibility in the affiliate marketing channel

Well, not fair to blame the ads on Steve. I'm sure he has absolutely no control over them as head of the ePN. His job is indeed to "allocate our resources to best drive incremental demand to our sellers", with the term our meaning ePN resources.

There are other angles to take against ePN certainly, but this isn't a legitimate one in my opinion.

I'm not blaming Steve I'm blaming eBay.

Coin... Don't forget you could be next. Why don't you try to help us here!