just updating a week into the new ebay Partner Network, seems people have already shortened this to ePN.
I have had a few people report that when generating rss feeds they get an invalid feed, this seems to be being caused by people not entering a custom id along with the campaign id. So a simple thing to fix.
Tracking reports from ePN seem to be showing clicks ok, almost in real time, but already I have noted that ebay are dragging their feet on reporting sales/commission. This isn't that unusual for anyone used to ebay affiliates as they used to be quite slow in reporting previously. It seems that the main issue is that people may click-thru, win an item, and then as payment isn't 'cleared' until later, earnings are credited until then. Though there is another theory that the delays are longer than this and only appear when positive feedback is left. I could go on with more theories, but if anyone has some definite facts on this it would be nice to read them!
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