Effective April 1, 2008, eBay opened the doors to their new in-house affiliate program. Previously, the eBay affiliate program had been managed by Commission Junction (CJ) with all link tracking performed by eBay. That’s what all those canine sounding affiliate links were about:
“rover”
A transition period has been in effect during the entire month of April, where eBay affiliate links for both CJ and ePN would be active. As an added incentive for early migration to ePN, eBay is offering an extra 5% on commissions generated during April.