Shoemoney’s belowabuck.com website

Shoemoney made a new blog post about his belowabuck.com website. After reading it, I was a bit disappointed but at the same time I think he is pretty smart and brave enough to blog about such a site.

Let me go ahead and break it down from affiliate marketing’s standpoint.

Do you really think he makes money from promoting items under a dollar? Don’t be a fool. Ebay pays 50% commission on the fee seller pays ebay. For something under a dollar, you are looking to earn maybe 2 to 5 cents per sale on the item.

Why would he start such a site with so little of profit? Reason is easy. He is using the site as a lure to lure people click through the link, register his affiliate cookies in people’s browser, and whenever people make any purchase on ebay, he makes commission off those purchases.

This trick would only work with ebay simply because there is a LOT of people shop on ebay every single day, I would say probably 6 out of 10 American shop on ebay. This site is only used as lure, the whole point is to register that affiliate cookie and make commission off other purchases.

Why I am disappointed? He should have kept it himself, because he is not the only person doing the trick.

You can see his post here

http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/16/below-a-buck-items-on-ebay-for-under-1/