1) Subscribe to one of our plans (monthly or yearly). Subscribing starts your free two-week trial, and gets you assigned a UserID, which is one part of your authentication process. Unless you're creating your own feeds (see question below), you can safely ignore your UserID.
2) If you're an eBay affiliate, enter your campaign ID(s) in your Profile, so we can further verify it's you when we receive your link requests. Additionally, without a campaign ID designated, your links won't be getting ePN credit, which would be money left on the table!
3) Armed with your UserID, proceed to convert / build your own feed links that point to us (see below), or head over to the Feed Generator and build one here!
var $eb_base = "http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?";
to
var $eb_base = "https://www.auctionrequest.com/arfeed.php?uid=[AUCTIONREQUEST USERID]&";
where [AUCTIONREQUEST USERID] is your AuctionRequest UserID from your profile, without brackets.
For the WordPress version of the phpBay plugin, the edit is in /wp-content/plugins/phpbay/lang/english.php, near the bottom:
define("PB_EPN_RSS_URL", "http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?");
to
define("PB_EPN_RSS_URL", "https://www.auctionrequest.com/arfeed.php?uid=[AUCTIONREQUEST USERID]&");
In addition to these edits, you'll need to have all your ePN campaign ID(s) entered in your Profile here for you to receive affiliate credit.
However, as this plugin has been abandoned by its author, we do not recommend its use and cannot provide any support for it; instead, we point you to one of the solutions featured on our front page.
1) Subscribe to one of our plans, either monthly or yearly. Subscribing gets you a UserID, which you'll need to put in your feed links. If you're an eBay affiliate, enter your campaign ID(s) in your Profile, so we can further verify it's you when we receive your link requests (and without a campaign ID designated, you won't get ePN credit for your clicks!).
2) Replace the first part of your feed URL: http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss? with this: https://www.auctionrequest.com/arfeed.php?uid=(your Auction Request ID here)& (don't forget the "&" at the end). That's it! Your feeds will work perfectly without any interruption, or any of your users being the wiser. We don't actually need a lot of the junk that eBay put in your feed link, but it doesn't hurt to send it to us; we'll extract the info we need.
To give your searches the best possible results, use the parentheses OR syntax like so: rural (carrier, carriers) (sign, signs) to cover different possible pluralization of terms.
Using syntax, you have a much more granular control of what you're searching for. Hopefully this little chart explains it simply, along with the symbols to use:
AND: great smoky mountains
OR: (great, smoky, mountains)
AND/OR: great (smoky, mountains)
EXCEPT: great smoky –mountains
EXACT: "great smoky mountains"
• Providing larger pictures in results and/or a picture-size selector (will require plugin/reader support)
• We can possibly display more search results than the current limit of 100, but this would require plugin pagination support, as well as a good sense of how many people this would benefit (honestly, 100 seems to be enough, but if you're itching for more, please let us know!)
• Additional sort option Most Bids
• Importing your ePN campaign IDs to your profile (for those with many campaigns!) via text file
• Language localization for the website here
• "IP Intel", to attempt to identify VPN / Tor users and un-geotarget them. This would be a paid service that we'd have to subscribe to, so we'd have to weigh the benefits of this
We'd love to hear your suggestions on how we could improve, complaints, or praise, at our contact form. We can't promise the moon, but we'll certainly endeavor to give you the best possible product as time and finances allow.
Once cancelled, you'll still be able to use Auction Request until your current subscription period ends.