[charlief]

Thank you Patrick. I'd like to do more research on the topic and await your blog post. As this topic pertains to eBay, it is extremely interesting.

As you mention some other ways are not impossible, but have serious problems. I agree, but at the very least, I think the status quo is not optimos. If you are starting up an affiliate scheme, it would be interesting to explore all options even ones that seem more complex or unconventional, because frankly, the ultimate black magic is a spontaneous killing of a business with no warning signs or even the converse. Either eBay wins (by getting some extremely high-LVT traffic) or the affiliate wins then loses (by getting killed). There has to be a way to a middleground.