25 JUNE, 2004

eBay extends access 

eBay has used its annual Developers Conference in New Orleans to introduce an extension to its eBay Developers Program with the addition of an affiliate Program, which will allow access eBay's API to increase their annual earnings from the program.

The new Program is aimed at helping entrepreneurial individuals and organisations earn money by driving new users and bids to the eBay marketplace. To put the potential in perspective, the top 50 affiliates earned an average of over $1 million per year in commissions. Most of the top 50 affiliates are entrepreneurial teams of three to five developers committed to driving traffic to eBay.

Affiliate tier members will benefit by having access to the most current eBay information, such as real-time pricing, specific product details and bidding times for all of eBay's 25 million listings. In addition, these affiliates will be able to integrate actual product images from eBay into their sites. A recent pilot program of affiliates using the eBay API suggests that access has the potential to increase affiliate monthly commissions by an average of 30 percent. Once affiliates have been certified within the program, they will receive free access to up to three million affiliate API calls per day. This certification is based on the type of application being developed as well as expected traffic.

http://affiliates.ebay.com





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