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Why does clickbank allow vendor to use thirdparty payment method?

by SunCraft
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I was checking out this product on clickbank. I always click through to the payment page to make sure everything is working and I noticed the vendor is not using clickbank as the payment processor.

I always thought that for clickbank products the customer pays the clickbank then clickbank pays the vendor.

I asked clickbank about this the reply I get says it's allowed for vendor to have other payment methods. Affiliate does not get commission if the customer does not pay via clickbank. In fact I don't see payment using clickbank for this particular product so the affiliate will never get paid.

I don't promote clickbank that much but this seems open a lot of doors for the vendor to cheat clickbank and affiliates.

Does this seem right to you?
#clickbank #method #payment #thirdparty #vendor
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    • Profile picture of the author SuzanneR
      hmmmm...your question may have partly answered my question (which is still waiting for responses).

      I sell a variety of one kind of product--and clickbank--as far as I know--doesn't accommodate a buyer making multiple purchases. So we'll probably be forced to use a 3rd party checkout.
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    • Profile picture of the author SunCraft
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Obviously "somewhat less than ideal" (to put it very politely), but it's just one of the many different varieties of "sales page leaks" there can be with Clickbank sales pages. You have to be pretty careful in deciding for which products to become an affiliate! If you want to get paid for the work you do ...
      Maybe it's just me but I thought this method of leak is more shadowy than say a big 1800 number on the page. I would think a lot of affiliates would not guess that they won't get commission just because the customer paid using another method.

      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      But to answer your original question, some vendors want to be able to sell their products themselves, without affiliates, in addition to having affiliates, and you can't altogether blame them for not wanting to pay Clickbank's enormous transaction-costs on those sales, can you?
      I actually don't mind that vendor want to do that but it's misleading on
      CB's part especially in this case customer cannot pay with Clickbank so there is no point putting the product on Clickbank except to lure unknowing affiliates.
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      • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
        You have to remember that the single best criteria for choosing a CB product to promote is the reputation of the publisher.

        There are just too many caveats when promoting stuff thru CB, and this will not change because frankly, the publishers are their "bread and butter".

        You can try to evaluate the landing page, popularity, gravity, etc ... but it all means squat if you never get paid. This is especially true for those that use PPC to drive traffic.

        The good news is that many of those publishers are here on the forum, and many of the honest ones have their own affiliate solutions, and you don't need CB and all their problems.
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  • Profile picture of the author Derek S
    Hey suncraft,

    Make sure your looking at their affiliates landing page is they might use a seperate landing page for clickbank products.

    For example I have a my main site (mainsite.com) use paypal and collect email addresses...

    I have a different landing page (mainsite.com/clickbank) that I use the clickbank check out and removed opt-in forms for affiliates.

    If this is the case simply buy a domain name similar to the product and have it forwarded to the affiliate link.


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