A few years ago, the Build A Niche Store Program hit the market and quickly become many Internet Marketers favorite tool for making money with eBay auctions. Many Marketers quickly went out and bought hundreds of domains and installed this popular script on them. To say this script was H-O-T is an understatement.

In that time frame, BANS was the easiest program to use to make money online with eBay auctions. Whats more, Owners of the program could also use other ways to monetize their sites for added income. Programs such as Adsense and Bidvertiser were popular as was affiliate marketing products.

Then after about a year or so, a dark cloud came over the Owners of BANS sites. Google suddenly and without warning started delisting BANS sites from their search engine. BANS sites that were once sitting on the front page of Google for profitable keywords were no longer to be found. Some sites went from making 20 thousand a month to nothing as these sites lost their rankings.

As if the Google delisting wasn’t bad enough, eBay then started dropping affiliates. Many who survived the Google delisting suddenly lost their affiliate status with eBay. Many people who were making a comfortable income with BANS suddenly found their self without income as eBay would no longer allow them to be affiliates and stopped paying commissions on sales through their sites.

There are still people making money with BANS. But can the average or beginner Internet Marketer make money with the Build A Niche Store Program? In my opinion, yes. However the sites must be built as content rich sites with the eBay auctions worked into as an added benefit to the end user.

Are there alternatives to the BANS program? Yes there is. Now we have programs that will turn WordPress into Affiliate sites using eBay auctions as well as a host of other programs that uses eBay to monetize their sites.