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eBay Affiliate tracking broken for 2+ weeks

eBay’s Affiliate tracking mechanism was broken April 7 and is still to be fixed on April 23 !

last message from April 18 states

ebay on April 18 wrote:

The eBay US team has been working to solve the tracking issue that began on Saturday April 7th.

A fix was implemented over the weekend and early data is pointing to an overall improvement.

Additional data is required to confirm that the fix is complete. We will update you as soon as we have confirmation that tracking is fully restored.

At that point, we will assess the full impact of the partial outage and calculate the make good.

This means they’ll just credit an arbitrary amount of money, based on your past performance… you could as well have referred that $80,000 sale and would not get money for it.

AuctionAds which was invented by ShoeMoney and is now run together with TLA is actually based on the CommissionJunction based AffiliateProgram of eBay – and they sent out a not so happy mail two day’s later

AuctionAds on April 20 wrote:

began on Saturday April 7. These issues affect revenue share and ACRU performance. The exact scope of the issue is not fully known by eBay. When the notification first went out eBay thought the fix was going to be forthcoming. We communicated with eBay and made the decision to wait to notify our users until a fix was completed and the lost revenue credited. Unfortunately the tracking issue still hasn’t been fixed, and it doesn’t appear that a fix will be in place shortly. As a result, the credit can not be determined until the problem is resolved.

We understand your frustration in this matter and while it is not a problem with AuctionAds we are extremely frustrated as well. We fully understand that receiving a bonus credit is never the same as knowing what your real stats are. [...]

Now, technical probs happen – shit happens anyday – but how broken can a system be, that a major corporation like eBay is not able to just FIX IT within a couple day’s time?

I mean, the worst thing that can happen is that the archived TERABYTES of clicks need to be migrated, but that wouldn’t take THEM from registering new commissions…

Having been in the software development and OLTP business for more a decade I REALLY do not understand what the eBay guys are messing around here… I feel it’s a big mess!

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Marketing Fan's picture

works again, weird bonus

FYI - Ebay seems to have fixed this weeklong issue.

Also some arbitrary credit was rewarded to the CJ affliate account...

What is left is the question how much you might have really lost due to this issue... :-/

Christoph C. Cemper
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