Some upcoming changes at Auction Request that may impact you: eBay will be discontinuing their old API on Dec 31st, which Auction Request has been utilizing. We've finished converting our code to the new API, which has necessitated some workarounds for features that are no longer available. While we were able to overcome most of
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We've implemented a fix for the Facebook issue identified in this eBay Partner Network post: https://partnerhelp.ebay.com/helpcenter/s/article/Mobile-Deep-Linking?language=en_US#facebook_app . It involves correcting attribution when a user opens an ePN rover link from with the Facebook app. Note that the fix only affects the iOS app; there is no fix at this time for the Android app.
…and apparently I didn't have it quite right. Non eBay.com clicks (to www.ebay.de, for instance) needed to have the siteID parameter correctly coded. That has been fixed now, so all clicks as of 18:30 GMT this Saturday should now be tracking. Apologies for that. 🙁 The siteID parameter was an undocumented feature of the new
ePN just notified everyone (you should have received an e-mail from them today) that as of March 31st, the rover link format is changing. I updated the Auction Request rover links to this new format just now; please advise immediately (in reality, tomorrow morning / Saturday morning when your ePN earning stats will reflect the new link
Due to two users who felt the need to publicly post that ePN had told them to stop using Auction Request, we expect ePN to make the public announcement that Auction Request (and any other third-party feed) is no longer allowed. To date, we still have not been contacted directly by eBay, and the only
Today, we've made the very difficult decision to remove the free tier of Auction Request, as well as disable link cloaking and geotargeting for Premium users. Whilst not a decision we wanted to take, it's unfortunately necessary in order to preserve the integrity of the services we offer. The Free Tier Explained Up to this
As a follow-up to our recent blog post regarding steps we've considered to avoid the downtimes & outages we've experienced, I'd like to update you on where we currently stand. This past weekend, we switched the Auction Request service over to a new dedicated server. This server is faster than the old one, and has
Since one of us here at Auction Request also created WP eBay Product Feeds, it makes sense that the plugin and this site do tend to work well with each other. It's this cooperation that has lead to a new tool – our WP eBay Product Feeds – Extra Spam Checker helper plugin. This plugin,
Hi Everybody, As you are no doubt aware, we had some quite significant downtime this week. This blog post will hopefully explain the situation and what we'll do to mitigate these issues in the future. What Happened? On 7th September, roughly 7pm UK time, our host provider (Hostinger) began noticing a problem with the US
As we've now been "live" for about 50 days now, with a sizeable user base that's provided much better real-world usage than we were able to simulate in testing, we've implemented a number of things in order to regulate how the service is used. This article may get slightly technical, so a brief summary before