Anyone know why Clickbank doesn't pay out with Paypal?

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This is something which has puzzled me for ages. The cynic in me thinks it could have something to do with the fact that Clickbank is a pretty shoddy outfit, but that's just my opinion creeping in.

So why don't they offer the option to pay vendors and affiliates using Paypal?

I live in Europe and the way Clickbank operates really means that it is a non-starter when looking to affiliate out a product - especially a low cost product. Much of this could be alleviated by just adding Paypal as a payout option.

Here's what I mean:

You can only get paid by cheque or wire transfer. I live in Europe. The wire transfer (if its available in my country - which I am not sure it is) is expensive - $35 a time - and only paid in dollars so I have further expense in bank commissions to turn it into something I can spend. OK if I was doing a mega guru launch every week, the $35 would look small if the amount transferred was in 6 or 7 figures. But I'm not.

Cheques are sent by snail-mail and get here 2/4 weeks later. They then take 20 working days to clear in my account. In the UK, they charge £7 (about $10) just to put the cheque into a bank account as well (I escape this where i live, though) Man, this is soooooo last century.

Then they take around 10% of your sale in fees. This means putting, say, a low cost continuity program on there is just not viable.

Anyone know why they are stuck at 1989?
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Briggs
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  • Profile picture of the author kavi
    clickbank does have bank wire transfer as well as getting your payment through the payoneer atm card.
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    • Originally Posted by kavi View Post

      clickbank does have bank wire transfer as well as getting your payment through the payoneer atm card.
      Does clickbank offer a Payoneer card? I just logged into my account and I couldnt see any option for a Payoneer card. Can you point me in the right direction?

      Thanks!
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      • Profile picture of the author kavi
        Originally Posted by Anonymous Affiliate View Post

        Does clickbank offer a Payoneer card? I just logged into my account and I couldnt see any option for a Payoneer card. Can you point me in the right direction?

        Thanks!
        Don't know how to activate it but they announced it on their website - News Releases - ClickBank . Try contacting them for more info.
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    • Profile picture of the author obseerver
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      • And Amazon don't pay electronically outside of the US. No idea why though.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarketingPro11
    Several times I too have wondered about the same.May be it is in self interest of Clickbank Or may be they see PayPal as their competitor.

    Otherwise I don't think they should have any problem with paying via PayPal when most of the CPA networks have this option.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oxbloom
    Originally Posted by Paleochora View Post

    This is something which has puzzled me for ages. The cynic in me thinks it could have something to do with the fact that Clickbank is a pretty shoddy outfit, but that's just my opinion creeping in.
    Of the two, I don't think it's Clickbank that's the shoddy outfit, and I often appreciate the fact that I can do business there without the menace of PayPal mucking everything up.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Wire transfer can be done to ANY bank in the world (or it ain't a bank!), and they shouldn't deduct as much as $35! In fact, check the terms, maybe Clickbank foot the transfer fee (yeah, I know, wishful thinking!)

    As to why they don't use PayPal, I would agree that it's a competition thing - let's see, Clickbank is a payment processor, Paypal is a payment processor..!

    Same reason with Adsense - you don't SERIOUSLY think Google would use Paypal for their billions of ad revenue payments?! Especially since they have a rival payment solution in the form of Checkout.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    I get paid directly into my bank account from Clickbank and I'm in Australia, so I'm sure you could probably have bank transfer to the UK.

    Same with Adsense - that is paid directly to my bank account. To be honest I prefer that than going to my Paypal - I wouldn't trust Paypal as far as I could throw them!
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    I am in Philippines and I am receiving checks after 2 to 3 weeks of CB disposal. My back ask another 17 business days to turn this paper into cash without any charge.. The problem is, I needed to have a dollar savings account where I can deposit the check.. and another problem was, my bank stopped accepting CB checks for some reason so I had to switch banks.
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    • Profile picture of the author rts2271
      lol that would be like 2 3 legged dogs humping. nothing I would want to have anything to do with. Could you imagine the threads in the WF when one of those convuluted disputes came through?
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  • Profile picture of the author YungNic
    click bank doesnt use paypal simply bcuz they are competition
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  • Profile picture of the author Paleochora
    As to why they don't use PayPal, I would agree that it's a competition thing - let's see, Clickbank is a payment processor, Paypal is a payment processor..!
    They accept payments using paypal...so why not make them that way too?

    I get paid directly into my bank account from Clickbank and I'm in Australia, so I'm sure you could probably have bank transfer to the UK.
    Yup, but I don't live in the UK. In Australia, UK and a few other countries you actually have the International Direct Deposit system which is free and pays into your bank account in your local currency. For all outside those handful of countries (where I live is not included) , the only option other than cheques is International Wire Transfer which costs $35 a go and is only done in US$

    ...and they shouldn't deduct as much as $35! In fact, check the terms, maybe Clickbank foot the transfer fee (yeah, I know, wishful thinking!)
    That is just Clickbanks's charge. For sure my bank will charge for receiving an international wire transfer (it charges when I transfer money into it from Paypal as well, though) and will charge more commissions in currency exchange.
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    • Profile picture of the author M Thompson
      I live in spain and get bank deposits every week, can't beat it.

      when I first started i used to get checks but I lost so much in fees it's wasn't worthwhile.

      If they don't deposit into an account in your country can you get an account in another country where they do? If your payments are a good size then it would be worthwhile.

      My deposits go to a non resident account without problems and have done for 5 years.
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      • Profile picture of the author Nissim
        Originally Posted by Anonymous Affiliate View Post

        Does clickbank offer a Payoneer card? I just logged into my account and I couldnt see any option for a Payoneer card. Can you point me in the right direction?

        Thanks!
        Hey,

        ClickBank does not currently offer a Payoneer card, however we would love for you to let them know you are interested.

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        • Profile picture of the author Alex Barboza
          Originally Posted by Nissim View Post

          Hey,

          ClickBank does not currently offer a Payoneer card, however we would love for you to let them know you are interested.

          Nissim
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          so why did they announce it on their website some months a go?

          Tell them that I am interested as well
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  • Profile picture of the author Andre Slater
    Simple... Clickbank is so huge, that it doesn't have to...
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  • Profile picture of the author 995sunglasses
    They did this in the beginning but then after a while the quality of the products went downhill, so they didn't want to risk their Paypal account. They would rather eat a return, then pass it on to the affiliate then to have paypal eat it. I'm surprised paypal has allowed clickbank this long to operate. And what gets me, is why can't the people at CB be smart enough to pay for their own merchant account and accept credit card directly to their own bank, and I think it's because 90 percent of the people out there like paying with paypal. Problem is, of that 90 percent 60 of them know that they can get a refund and get their money back through paypal if they don't like the weather or if it's "Tuesday" instead of Wednesday and paypal gives it back.

    This is why I don't promote CB anymore. Doesn't matter how good your ebook is, you'll be giving a lot of them away for free if you team up with CB and Paypal. And the thing is, people take your product and resell it too!. Thats the other problem. There are many site swipers out there that will take your whole site, and your ebook and resell it on the same network!. lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Paleochora
    If they don't deposit into an account in your country can you get an account in another country where they do?
    This is something to look into. If I could open a euro account remotely with online banking in, say, Spain, then it would solve some of these problems. I could then transfer the euros out here or use a debit card to withdraw here.

    Whether I can do that without flying to Spain would remain to be seen.

    Also, lately, all banks are tightening up on opening accounts to try to combat terrorists laundering money around.
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  • Profile picture of the author thinkrich
    They are in competition.

    The reason CB put PP on their checkout is simple.

    Instead of using your bank funds to purchase a CB product, you can use your PP account as it is directly linked to your account anyway.

    CB put the PP link there as a courtesy to CB customers.

    Ya think it works??

    You bet it does!

    However, it has always been CB policy to send checks or to do wire transfers for larger amounts.

    Keep in mind also that CB will only honor one of their checks for 90 days from date shown on it.

    Here in Australia, is is ILLEGAL to do that. Here, cheques (as we correctly spell them) are viable for 13 months from date written on it.

    CB are happy to print off and mail you a payment. PP are reluctant to pay out anything, even if it is rightfully your money.
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    • Profile picture of the author ktshoppe
      I think bank transfer or transfer to card are for US citizens only. How is payment done for people from Asian countries and India?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Why do people keep saying that it's "because they're in competition"?

    This has absolutely nothing to do with it at all, as you can see clearly from the fact that they accept PayPal payments from their customers. This also makes it a non-starter to suggest that they're concerned about the effect on their PayPal account if they sold their products that way, because they DO sell their products that way. :rolleyes:

    Clickbank is a retailer with its own merchant account, exactly as any other retailer has.

    It isn't a "credit-card processor".

    If you sell someone a product from your own site and they use PayPal or AlertPay or 2CheckOut to pay you, then PayPal or AlertPay or 2CheckOut is your credit-card processor.

    That isn't what Clickbank does.

    Clickbank retails the product. It buys the product from you at 92.5% of the retail price and then sells it to a third party, deducting $1 from that wholesale price before dividing the residue into the vendor's and affiliate's cut and resdistributing the money.

    The end-user is buying the product from Clickbank, not from the "vendor".

    It's completely different in reality, different in law, and different in banking significance, from using "a credit-card processor" like PayPal.

    Originally Posted by Paleochora View Post

    You can only get paid by cheque or wire transfer. I live in Europe. The wire transfer (if its available in my country - which I am not sure it is) is expensive
    I know the thread's a few weeks old ... I'm adding my reply as it's been bounced today, and I see, to my surprise, that nobody's yet explained the answer, here ...

    You can get paid by cheque, direct deposit or wire transfer. Three ways, not two.

    Direct deposit and wire transfer are two different methods.

    Wire transfer is available only in the countries in which direct deposit isn't available, but is available in all of them. In other words, if Clickbank accepts affiliates from your country, then it will pay to your country either by direct deposit or by wire transfer.

    Originally Posted by Paleochora View Post

    Anyone know why they are stuck at 1989?
    I think it's "because they can".

    Their customer service absolutely sucks. It always has done. But until pretty recently they've had no real competition from anyone genuinely and reliably offering the service which they purport to offer. Now they have DigiResults to worry about. Let's hear it for Andy Fletcher.
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  • Profile picture of the author TG12
    Originally Posted by Paleochora View Post

    This is something which has puzzled me for ages. The cynic in me thinks it could have something to do with the fact that Clickbank is a pretty shoddy outfit, but that's just my opinion creeping in.

    So why don't they offer the option to pay vendors and affiliates using Paypal?

    I live in Europe and the way Clickbank operates really means that it is a non-starter when looking to affiliate out a product - especially a low cost product. Much of this could be alleviated by just adding Paypal as a payout option.

    Here's what I mean:

    You can only get paid by cheque or wire transfer. I live in Europe. The wire transfer (if its available in my country - which I am not sure it is) is expensive - $35 a time - and only paid in dollars so I have further expense in bank commissions to turn it into something I can spend. OK if I was doing a mega guru launch every week, the $35 would look small if the amount transferred was in 6 or 7 figures. But I'm not.

    Cheques are sent by snail-mail and get here 2/4 weeks later. They then take 20 working days to clear in my account. In the UK, they charge £7 (about $10) just to put the cheque into a bank account as well (I escape this where i live, though) Man, this is soooooo last century.

    Then they take around 10% of your sale in fees. This means putting, say, a low cost continuity program on there is just not viable.

    Anyone know why they are stuck at 1989?
    I agree they should use PayPal as its a standard. However are you kidding me about those charges?

    Its free to deposit any checks into my bank. They clear within 2 - 3 days. Instant if its between customers of the same bank.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wealthyclark
    Because not enough people are demanding them to offer Paypal as an option. It's not really a concern of mine but companies usually listen to their bread winners if enough of them speak up, unless for some reason the change has the potential to ruin their business.
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