How I Usually Bust Dishonest Clickbank Vendors

This can happen with any product that collects the visitor's opt-in information before the sale...

regardless of the affiliate network.

There have been many threads here on the WF discussing the dangers of promoting a sales page that has any leaks (especially an opt-in form).

Once the merchant has captured your prospect's opt-in information, the affiliate network (and the affiliate's cookie) can easily be bypassed by the merchant by simply linking directly to the sales page on follow up emails.

Some merchants (a very small minority) will capture the affiliate's information as a part of the opt-in form (in a hidden field), and then use that affiliate's link on subsequent follow up emails - but those are rare.

NOTE - there is another danger when promoting products found on the affiliate networks.
On a number of affiliate networks, when your referrals actually do purchase a product - they wind up on BOTH the merchant's buyer list as well as the affiliate network's (JVZoo is a prime example of this) buyer list. Then, not only will the merchant begin upselling to your referrals as a part of his back-end marketing strategy, but the affiliate network will also begin mailing that same referral with offers from other merchants who have listed their products in the affiliate network.

You really don't even need that tool you mentioned.

This is all he needed to do.

It's what I do before promoting any affiliate offer.

1. Get your affiliate link.
2. Visit the vendors site through your own affiliate link
3. Sign up using your email.
4. Read the vendors email and click the link to visit the sales page.
5. Click the order button on the sales page.
6. If the vendor is legit, your affiliate ID will be at the bottom of the page on the checkout page.

See screenshot of an example below. Note: The part I blocked out is the place where your Clickbank affiliate ID should be.

No...If the vendor is being fair, then he/she will cookie your affiliate id and give you credit for a sale even if the customer buys from them via follow up emails.

You have a valid point, but when vendors on Clickbank are paying out 50%, 75% or more products that tend to have a limited shelf life (like MMO "systems"), I also understand the urge to save as many of those commissions as possible. Especially when an email the vendor sends tips the buyer into completing the sale.

I don't condone it, but I do understand it.

Add in the fact that a large number of CB vendors are rank beginners with a single product and little knowledge of running a long-term business, and the urge is even stronger.

Then you have the group that lies, cheats and steals because that's what they do. Whether it's cheating an affiliate out of a few bucks on CBor JVZoo, welfare fraud, Medicare fraud, ponzi schemes, real estate scams, you name it - some people would rather cheat even though playing fair would be more profitable.

To the OP - contacting the vendor to try to shame them likely got a chuckle from them. You'd have done us all a service by reporting him to CB and getting his backside bounced.

This method looks fine and is almost like having your own product but how do you do this?.. Could you give an actual example of this... like showing the real LP's and how do you redirect them to the order page from your email list.....

I find that hard to believe. In 2016...Any vendor who is not collecting their customers email addresses are not going to be able to maintain their business.

Most vendors profits come from their backend. They collect their customers email addresses and then promote higher price products to them via email.