I did notice that the amount of confusion on the part of "buyers" is great — they are trying to fit the classified ad into their "auction mindset" — and eBay has added to the confusion by including the PayPal link at the bottom of the classified. My classifieds have been videos with a link at the bottom of the video.

Another quick question — I purchased "Silent Sales Machine" in 2004. Is there a revised version?

Thanks for all you do.

I have a local-based service business as well as an industry-related Blog, and used an eBay Classified Ad to refer readers there. I used 2 links within the body copy, and had no problems. My ad ran the full 30 days and just expired.

I plan to do some tweaks to the copy, and rerun it again, likely starting today. IMO, $10/month is cheap to get some good inbound links and exposure. Thanks for the info, Jim, and I always enjoy your great ideas.

i purchased your silent sales`machine ebook on your site a `while back and I was impressed with it's details on ebay. I have since purchased an ebook store business.I learned a lot and now have my about me page set up with a link to your free newsletter. I just have to be patient and wait for the customers to find their way to your site and hopefully this will result in some affiliate commisions

This is got my blood pumping. I will give it a try right away. Appreciate all the comments here!

Thanks!

Steve Renner

I did the online chat with someine that said sge thought I couldn't link to a website from an ad. Anyone got an update? I hope you will send us info as soon as ebay changes its policies, if ever.

Also, is there any penalty for having listings shutdown?

Thanks a bunch.

Susan

A belated congrats to your Colts.

I've used the ad format about 4x. No problems so far except my copy needs tweaking. Lots of traffic, no sales yet.

Regards,

Ray

I posted a classified to promote an affiliate website/link last week and my listing was canceled the following day by eBay and the owner of the site from Clickbank contacted me that I was violating eBay and his company's policy of promoting his site. I've been warned by eBay not to do it again or else my account will be suspended.

What's going on? Please advise.

Thanks,

Rafnie

Greg D, you might remind Commission Junction that your eBay listing is your properety. The ebay website your listing is on is yours for the time you have bought the use of it. You have a contract with eBay to use it for 30 days. Let CJ chew on that.

I posted about a week ago (I think) stating that I'd had no problems … next day one of my Classified Ads shutdown ! I had about 7 running at the time (all with external links) so why they just picked on that one I don't know. I was also as the other respondents accused of listing it in the wrong "Real Estate" category which I KNOW I didn't because the one that was shut down had already run ok for 30 days under the Everything Else category and I had simply re-listed it ! Weird or what ? I immediately sent an email querying their decision (and logic) but have heard nothing since !

Just thought I would put in my 2 cents, for what they are worth…

I ran a classified ad on ebay displaying an opt-in form for a free special report, when they subscribed to my mini-course…

Then, I displayed a few main points to my website with a link directed to my website.

The ad ran for 5 days, but today was shut down because of "violation of external linking policy" or something like that.

They also said that I was listed in the real estate category.

I sent them a response explaining my situation, and also asking them what's going on with the real estate classification (my ad has nothing to do with real estate and was not posted in the real estate category).

I don't know if this helps anyone else or not, but I just thought I would share my current experience so that we can all figure this thing out better.

Thanks for reading my post,

Neil