The company offers $5 cents to $16 for every new member referred who bids or transacts within 30 days of registering on the site. As an affiliate, you can point to someone else’s auction, but you can’t point to your own.Īficionados of the site who want to get involved find plenty of opportunities. There’s just one limitation: You can’t be both a seller and an affiliate. The Web, after all, is a great vehicle for finding rare items (see story, page 66). They also include collectible sites that keep a sharp eye out for rarities. EBay affiliates include sites like, which links to the rock memorabilia category on eBay. It’s especially anxious to build its account base internationally, and there is some churn when deadbeat bidders are removed for failing to pay on three winning bids.Īnd then there are all those items passing across the auction block. First, eBay uses affiliates to attract new bidders. So why does eBay even need an affiliate program, and what do those affiliates do? As it turns out, eBay is a company based on a different business model, and that has led to a slightly different use for affiliate marketing. Instead, it’s a virtual warehouse filled with millions of constantly changing items being sold by other folks. That may seem odd given that most merchants use affiliates to sell goods or services, and eBay doesn’t sell goods or services. What may be less obvious is that eBay also has one of the largest affiliate programs. To state the obvious, eBay has become a household name, at least in the US where everyone recognizes the brand as the largest online auction site.

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