It’s now been 4 months since I received the ‘banned for being associated with a banned account’ email and I have never received any reply to my emails. Steve from eBay says “ However, if you feel your account has been incorrectly terminated, you may contact us and we will work with you to resolve the issue. If you would like to discuss your specific account status, please contact us via our help section”. Despite this no one seems to have received any reply to their emails, not even a form letter.
I had a look at the eBay forum (I’m not going to give them a link here just google eBay partner network forum!) and there’s been another round of bannings from around the 17th of April. I find it extremely suspicious that they ban people, close their accounts and keep their money JUST before payday! Many, many people are saying they are completely innocent of any wrong doing and I believe them as I know I am too.
There has been some speculation on the forum that eBay is getting rid of affiliates who use BANS. I have no idea if this is true but the way eBay is treating affiliates is shameful and the frustrating part is that we can’t do anything about it. Months and months of work by people is just tossed aside and they keep our hard earned money as well.
I have moved on and I advise anyone who received this email not to wait for eBay to reinstate them. It isn’t going to happen! There are other ways to make money with your websites. I have added adsense to my sites. I tried just using affiliate ads via popshops but found the convertion rate was low so I also have adsense on them I know the popular thinking is not to have 2 types of ads on a site but I found that having affiliate ads doesn’t affect the adsense click through rate for adsense and vice versa.
So if you are banned it isn’t the end of your IM carrer. It’s going to take more work but you can move on and use all the other methods of making money online that are available to you. If you haven’t already found Griz’s Make Money With Adsense have a look at it and his other sites. You’ll learn all you need to know there!
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