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ACEO website - legit? - 3/1/2009 5:47:21 AM   
KingDavid


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Status: offline 		Hey guys .... I just listed my first ACEO on ebay recently. Here's the link to the auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130290237263&ih=003&category=60437&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1

Since this medium of delivering art to the masses has intrigued me a lot lately, my business-mindedness has me looking deeper & deeper into it's place in the art world. So I go on Verio.com & start looking up available web domains with the ACEO tag in them. I wonder how many people have already taken the good domains. Of course aceo. com is taken, aceo.net ... taken & so on. Now I go on to the different sites .... take a look what they are doing.

So I get to looking through aceo.net & I click on one of the links at the top left of the opening page (the last one) & it takes you to a page of ACEO's for sale. Holy crap! My ACEO that's listed on ebay is one of the displayed pictures. How can that be? I only listed it on ebay. Right? So I click on my ACEO's picture & it takes me to my ebay auction listing .... still in progress. Now here's that link:

http://aceo.net/shop.php?Cat=&Query=

So here's the questions: Is that legal? When I listed it on ebay, did I somehow agree that it can be used on another site ... one that may be an affiliate site or something? Am I crazy for caring? Am I being used or exploited. I mean, in essence, it's free advertising for me. And it's almost a compliment that someone would think that much about my ACEO, that they would put it on their site. On top of it, it has a bid & for all I know. it came from someone seeing it on that site.Please chime in on this one & give me any info that you might have. Any opinions & observations are also welcomed.

< Message edited by KingDavid -- 3/1/2009 5:55:55 AM >

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RE: ACEO website - legit? - 3/1/2009 7:59:43 AM   
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Status: online 		Congratulations on the Bid, David!...........as far as the other site is concerned, I too think it is funny.  It seems like they are harvesting auctions because there is nothing on ebay that you would have clicked to put it there.  Yes, it is free advertising, but I would feel a bit strange that they had just lifted it and used it.  Maybe a polite email asking them what they are doing would be in order.

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RE: ACEO website - legit? - 3/1/2009 9:07:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		I suspect it had nothing to do with you personally; it's merely a site that is displaying auctions from eBay that have the ACEO keyword and when people click through, they get an affilate's cut from eBay if the person who clicks bids on anything on eBay's site. There are literally thousands of sites out there that do this and they likely couldn't exclude you even if you asked them to because that's not how eBay's seach/API works. It's all perfectly legal, even if it seems a little weird.

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RE: ACEO website - legit? - 3/1/2009 10:44:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's what my assumption was too Amie. I have been looking into affiliate listings / banners for artist suppliers & the like on my site as well. It only makes sense. The thing is, how much does ebay make on a $2.99 purchase .... 15 cents? So I would guess this guy made 2 cents on my listing.

On that note ... does EBSQ offer something like that for sign-ups?

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RE: ACEO website - legit? - 3/1/2009 12:18:40 PM   
platypus


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Status: offline 		I'm curious about what determines which aceo's get posted there, is it random?

Actually I like their format better than ebay, it's easier to see the aceo's quickly.

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RE: ACEO website - legit? - 3/1/2009 3:28:09 PM   
gillie


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ORIGINAL: KingDavid

That's what my assumption was too Amie. I have been looking into affiliate listings / banners for artist suppliers & the like on my site as well. It only makes sense. The thing is, how much does ebay make on a $2.99 purchase .... 15 cents? So I would guess this guy made 2 cents on my listing.

On that note ... does EBSQ offer something like that for sign-ups?


Nope, we don't currently have an affiliate program for signups. It's an idea we've toyed with now and again, but it costs big bucks to buy into a program like that and right now, our resources are better off being used elsewhere.

/tangent

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RE: ACEO website - legit? - 3/3/2009 6:40:49 AM   
KingDavid


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Status: offline 		Yes ... you've got enough on your plate, I can imagine.

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RE: ACEO website - legit? - 5/9/2009 11:45:35 AM   
sunnyba8e


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Status: offline 		I believe that EBay uses RSS feeds from your listings. I enabled my RSS feed and my listings go all over the web to those sites that use these feeds.

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