Sad, so sad.

After 5 days of QPC, I'm seeing how my earnings are dropping 75% in comparison with last months under old system.

There isn't motivation here to keep improving my site for eBay Motors. This QPC program is...

I'm wondering one more time, what we can do under the QPC program in order to keep the same earnings we had w/ old system??

Thanks Will.

I noticed in the beginning of the month the qcp earnings are low but then the catch up at the end. much of a relief for me.

Hi hotstuffdesigns and planetearthautos,

Thanks for sharing your concerns on how QCP affects auto sites. As you point out, vehicle sales are special in that there tends to be a longer purchase cycle than for other items. We spent a good amount of time thinking about the effects of QCP for publishers primarily promoting the vehicles category. For these publishers, as Chris was saying there tends to be more of the value that comes from the long-term component of the QCP calculation.

Our analysts just re-ran the numbers for all publishers since Aug 19th and we confirmed that under QCP there are actually more publishers making more money or staying about the same (vs. the current rev share model) as were losing in the vehicles category. This was true across publishers of all sizes.

We also checked the data two ways – one for publishers whose primary category was motors (who drove more traffic to motors vs. any other category as seen in the category report), the other for folks who were vehicles heavy (where there motors category represented >50% of all the revenues). The interesting result was that the folks who’s sites were more targeted (publishers for whom motors were >50% of their revenues, vs. just a majority of their revenues), tended to do even better vs. CPA.

Finally, we also broke out the motors category into publishers who drove primarily parts and accessories and those who drove primarily vehicles. We did not see publishers who drove traffic primarily to vehicles were disproportionally affected negatively, given again that we’re taking both long term and short term value into consideration when we calculate EPC.

So we feel confident that the system is rewarding motors affiliates appropriately and according to the numbers this group is not losing more often than other categories under QCP.

As to your specific question about whether QCP for autos will be re-evaluated soon, we will definitely continue to monitor traffic coming from vehicles publishers and hope to evolve pricing in the future as the vehicles category evolves to make sure we are as attractive of a program as possible for our best affiliates.

Will

@Chris.uk

Quality Click Pricing Preview...

Date - Clicks Current EPC ($) Current Earnings ($) QCP EPC ($) QCP Earnings ($)

9/14/09 - 78 1.00 77.87 0.04 3.12
9/15/09 - 49 1.68 82.12 0.04 1.96

So $77 is now $3... and $82 is now $2

And why did you avoid the OP's original question..
"Can a pink shed light on if there is any possibility that QCP for autos is going to be re-evaluated anytime soon?"

I don't think I can stay here with a 90% plus decrease in revenue.

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If the initial value is incorporated into the long term value for big ticket items, which isn't the impression I got from the wording in the FAQ or seeing my stats drop like a rock, then I would think there's hope for ebay motors based affiliates. Please understand my concern is coming from the data I am seeing in this early stage.

I'm also happy to say that some changes on my end, parsing of some campaign links and other various minor changes seem to have my average EPC under QCP heading back up slightly. There's light at the end of this tunnel still, and thank you for that reply Chris.

That's a very nice quantity and a very good revenue with the current system, however, have you checked your earnings under the new QCP system? Are they more than $15 per car sold? What you think about it?

Yeah, that's what I'm thinkin'

Ebay does not want to pay affiliate for cars any longer because ebay think cars' buyers will check Ebay anyway for cars. If you have sites selling items where commissions are higher than $20-$30, move on. This is not what Ebay is looking for. Who from eBay told you this?

it's not just cars, it's many high priced items. if i had a site for ovens, i could sell some high priced ovens but nobody's going to come back to a buy a second oven from me.

and now that i think about it, it's not even just high priced items. a highly focused niche will not get repeat customers for many categories. if i sell jeans for 3 month old babies at my jeansfor3montholdbabies.com site or whatever, i might be the top 3 month old baby jean site on the net but I'm not going to get a lot of parents coming back unless their kids never grow.