Even the EX CEO Meg is dumping her stock its over and going down the
toilet they upset all their sellers and thought they could bully
people but it seem the people have spoken and left in droves now staff
cuts its getting very bad very quickly cut your losses and get out
while you can this ones not going to bounce back

What? I thought Buy.com was there to save the day!!!! (LOL)  See ya,
Donahoe, the sooner the better!!!!

And the affiliate program Ebay Partner Network (EPN) is a joke!
That's eBay's engine.  The affiliates are scared and are leaving in
droves.  They don't want to put a lot of work promoting eBay, creating
sites, and then be suspended from the program in MASS for no valid
reason.  That's no way to do business.

Ebay's EPN is also having a huge commission tracking problem.
Affiliates that were making thousands of dollars from Ebay while on CJ
are now making pennies since the transfer to EPN.  On top of that,
eBay reduced the ACRU (ebay signups) from $25 to $1 - $50.   Nobody
believes they'll be paid $50 but $1, IF it ever gets tracked.  Ebay is
a evil, a joke!  Not worth it to promote it anymore.

I was wondering how long it would take for the ePN news to filter out
into the finance forums.  Investors need to understand the full scope
of the fiasco that is ePN.

Here are the problems with this program as I see them:

1.  Program Director/Manager Steve Hartman has ZERO affiliate
marketing experience.
    (This is the #1 problem with this program.  How can the staff be
expected to know what to do when their leader is wallowing in a sea of
inexperience?)

2. All trust among affiliate partners is gone!
    The mass banning of hundreds of affiliates on August 20, 2008
underminded the trust of ALL the affiliates.  According to ePN these
affiliates were     not removed for policy violations but rather for
not sending traffic that was "engaging" enough.  In other words, the
affiliates were terminated because of HOW the visitors performed and
interacted AFTER they arrived on the eBay site.  Experience tells me
that the level of interactivity a visitor demonstrates is closely
related to the design and content of the target site and less related
to anything that an affiliate can control.

SUGGESTION:  If the affiliate traffic is not engaging enough, change
YOUR end of the equation.  Don't hold affiliates responsible for your
short-fall.

3.  Inaccurate tracking and commission reporting.
    Since the beginning there has not been a single moth that ePN has
not had to make some adjustments to the commissions.  Either they were
under reported or over reported.  Affiliates are supposed to trust
that their commissions are being handled properly when the program
cannot go 4 weeks without reporting errors.

4.  Communication is POOR at BEST!
    ePN only comes to the forums to post useless double-talk and
lawyer-speak and totally dodges the real issues and concerns.  They
flatly refuse to provide any usable insight into the data used to
determine who is sending good traffic and who is not.

In short, I canot see the ePN program sustaining.  Their inexperience
has driven away far more affiliates than their "mass execution" did.
Trust is nonexistant and reporting is a joke.  I am not sure if ePN is
the mill stone that is dragging the EBAY stock down, but if I were an
active investor I would be paying very close attention to how this
area of the company is being run.

It is very exciting, to watch them go down the tubes!

They ruined my business and karma is a strange thing!

Just a word of warning. Make sure you keep you Paypal accounts empty .

I am forced to accept it because some of my customers insist on using
it; however, Google checkout is making a lot of headway in my sales
figures lately. fraudpal ripped me off for almost 900.00. You bet I
don't keep over $5 in there anymore. Draw some interest on that
feebay.  hahahahahahahahahaha

They will be sub $20 and below  v soon their demise is only being
slowed down by inexperienced day traders dreaming of a bounce and once
ebay goes Paypal also goes so like dchill says be sure you don't have
much cash in there!!

this article says it all

http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/09/15/story...

Hey monkeyboym let all these fools buy Ebay stock at least they will
have some toilet paper, when the sh!t hits the fan!!! LOL Ebay hahahah