A Penny Saved

Ebay Inc. announced that it will be starting a program called “eBay AdContext” at eBay live this weekend. The new program will allow website owners to have ad units similar to those by Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network on their site in exchange for a share of any resulting sales. That share could end up in the 40% to 70% range.
This could be great news for those of us that sell on eBay. The extra exposure could be phenomenal and could allow for greater sell rates and selling prices. Any little boost to my bottom line would certainly be good. There wasn’t any word on whether the sellers would incur extra fees from the appearance and sale of their products through eBay AdContext, but I would certainly think they would need to pass that on a little.

As a publisher here at A Penny Saved, it could make a little extra padding for the bottom line a second way. As long as it doesn’t violate the Terms of Service of the other ad systems that are in place currently, you just might see some eBay ads soon.

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