BANS is dead. It didn’t die because it wasn’t a good script. I promoted it heavily in 2008 and even for some of 2009 because I believed in it, used it, and made a lot of money with it.

It died because the developers abandoned it and left it to the members to upgrade it as necessary to cope with changes made by ePN and server upgrades.

The developers appeared briefly in 2009 after a long absence to promote a “guide” they were selling and a promise of a new, improved script. After milking members for the price of the guide (basically a rehash of information that was available online and in the BANS forum) they declared that a new script would not be developed and they have disappeared again. They do not answer emails, or problem tickets.

Most of us veteran members do not help any new members with problems. We do not provide repairs to keep the script functioning. After all, why help the developers, who won’t help themselves.

The BANS forum, once a very active area with exchanges of information and help has become nearly deserted, with only those hardcore devotees who have built their website business around everything BANS have remained – and even they are scurrying to change their blogs from strictly BANS oriented to some type of SEO, or web building information resource. The forum that would have hundreds of posts each day, now is lucky to see one or two.

Other than them you can find a nut job from the Netherlands who has more personalities and lies of past exploits than Doan’s has pills. Twice banned from the forum he has returned claiming a new name and a female personality, who claims to be the wife. Though reading the posts made it obvious that it is not a wife (what woman would have this manic depressive, bi-polar, ignorant, fool?), he was able to get back onto the forum through the purchase of the less expensive guide. He remains because the founders of BANS don’t bother to check emails about him, or monitor the forum any longer.

Much time is spent by the previously mentioned member and a few others trying to create a new forum for link planting purposes and attracting the last remaining members to their own forum or blog.

It’s a sad state of affairs for BANS. The price to purchase the script has been lowered from $97 to $67.50, last time I checked and isn’t worth $10. The entire BANS script and associated guides and websites that once averaged about $300K per year in sales, couldn’t even be sold for $100K (after being lowered from $500K) on Flippa.com.

BuildANicheStore is a piece of crap. An old racehorse that has been put out to pasture and will be taken to the glue factory.

I heard Goggle didn’t like BANS anymore so I went with WP & phpBay.

I would like to know is it still profitable for You when eBay Partner Network changed payment model? Thanks.

“Quality Click Pricing

From September 1st 2009 for new publishers and October 1st 2009 for existing publishers, eBay Partner Network will replace the current CPA (Cost Per Action) system of directly paying for new users and bids or revenue with a new payment model called Quality Click Pricing.

With Quality Click Pricing, we will pay publishers for clicks sent to eBay sites and the amount paid per click (EPC) on a daily basis will depend on the traffic’s quality. The quality of traffic will be assessed using a number of different factors, including revenue from sales and the long term value of new users, as today, but also eBay advertising and PayPal revenue and other user behavior factors. Essentially, the more incremental revenue your traffic generates for eBay, the more you’ll be paid per click.”

http://hubpages.com/_Marisa/hub/BANS-Build-a-Niche-Store-Review

BTW I’m surprised you don’t have HubPages on your list!

I just read the article about BANS and am inspired to try it. Can I get some updates from some of you about how things are going with your BANS sites since Antonio’s August post? I’m very interested in signing up, and to hear success stories would be highly encouraging.

Thank you,

dj