eBay: The Missing Manual

eBay Affiliates

You love eBay. If you're not bragging to your friends, relatives, and colleagues about the great deals you got on eBay (from your vintage '70s necktie to your hula-girl bedside lamp), then you're bragging about the money you made selling off the junk in your garage. If only you had a nickel for every time you told someone how great eBay is….

If you have a Web site or email newsletter, you can get a lot more than a nickel for putting out the good word. When you become an eBay Affiliate, eBay pays you when visitors to your Web site click a link, register with eBay, and buy or bid on at least one item within 30 days. These referrals earn you from $20 to $45 each, depending on how many people you've referred. In addition, you get paid 10 to 25 cents every time someone coming to eBay through your link makes a bid or uses Buy It Now. Figure 10-11 shows the payment structure.

Figure 10-11. As an eBay Affiliate, the more people you refer, the more you get paid for each referral. In addition, if people bid on or buy items they found from a referral on your site, you get paid for that buyer activity. Bottom line: the more buyers you send to eBay, the more you get paid.

The eBay Affiliate Program is free to join. On the navigation bar, click Services. Under Tools, click the eBay Affiliate Program link. The Join Now link gets you started. After you've read the Affiliate agreement, ...