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So, if I get it right you've crossed 'adwords/adsense' with 'ebay' ? Interesting!

I'm quite curious how high the effective CPM is of your usage of screen real estate vs other advertising networks. Since the items are 'relevant' it could be quite high, but initially you might be left with more inventory than you can sell.

Shipping seems to be USA only, you may want to limit your 'ads' to the region that the seller is willing to ship to.

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We are just getting ready to launch so I'm not sure what the "effective CPM" will be vs other ad networks but I hope it will be high:) That's a good point about shipping. thanx

you're welcome. Another idea, not sure if it is feasible: Get your users to place an ad tag on their own pages with their own items that they have for sale. That would build you a ton of backlinks in no time at all. And possibly they'll leave the tag up even when they have no items for sale.

That's actually a great idea. We're working on a way to have users request a certain category of ads on their ads that they post on their site, but having them post their own products is a great idea.

Right that would go down like hot cakes with the Etsy crowd.

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