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ClickBank Switch

by whoserman
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Has anyone used the ClickBank Switch? It's a plugin that apparently switches a Paypal buy button to a ClickBank button depending on if the visitor arrived from a clickbank hoplink or through another way.

I see the appeal of this. Don't have to pay huge clickbank fees unless their is actually an affiliate involved that needs to be paid. Supposedly, you get the best of both worlds.

Have any of you used this product? Would using this product make it harder to get affiliates?
#clickbank #switch
  • Profile picture of the author patey88
    It sounds like yet another thing affiliates need to look out for when choosing a product to promote. When someone clicks my hoplink to go to a vendor's pitch page, they get a cookie set with my affiliate ID. If they don't buy right then, but visit the pitch page again sometime later and buy through Clickbank, I still get the commission because my cookie is retained.

    With what you're describing, they might go directly to the pitch page and be presented with a purchase-via-PayPal button, instead of a Clickbank button. I won't get my commission even though I led them to the product. Not good.
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    • Profile picture of the author rondo
      Originally Posted by patey88 View Post

      It sounds like yet another thing affiliates need to look out for when choosing a product to promote. When someone clicks my hoplink to go to a vendor's pitch page, they get a cookie set with my affiliate ID. If they don't buy right then, but visit the pitch page again sometime later and buy through Clickbank, I still get the commission because my cookie is retained.

      With what you're describing, they might go directly to the pitch page and be presented with a purchase-via-PayPal button, instead of a Clickbank button. I won't get my commission even though I led them to the product. Not good.
      The whole point of CBswitch is to prevent the problem your'e describing.

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      • Profile picture of the author patey88
        Originally Posted by rondo View Post

        The whole point of CBswitch is to prevent the problem your'e describing.
        Andrew, have I misunderstood? Is the "switch" to PayPal triggered by the presence or absence of a cookie? I was thinking it was triggered by coming to the pitch page via a hoplink (or not).
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  • Profile picture of the author whoserman
    That's what I was thinking. It sounds like a great idea that's not really feasible. The cookie would probably only last for 30 days. So if they bought after 30 days you'd be SOL.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ian Varnava
    Originally Posted by whoserman View Post

    I see the appeal of this.
    Yes, the appeal is amazing, for the vendor.

    It also has an amazing appeal for affiliates (to leave the vendor as quickly as humanly possible).

    I have some products on CB but I promote way more as an affiliate. I would never put anything on my site which even remotely created the possibility of one of my affiliates not getting paid. I cherish my affiliates too much to play that type of games. In fact, if I had it my way, I would like to meet every single one of them in person, whether they ever generated a sale for me or not (as long as they tried), and give them all kisses (strictly hetero ).

    Would using this product make it harder to get affiliates?
    Don't worry, you'll get affiliates. Just not good ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
    Interesting. I have not heard of this before but I understand why it was made. Just not so sure how good it could be in reality!
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  • Profile picture of the author LB
    I don't know anything about it, but from what you're describing it just seems like another point of failure for affiliates.

    As a vendor, I would not use something that could even a tiny percentage of the time erroneously cheat an affiliate out of their commission.

    I'm not claiming the product is doing any such thing, simply that a point of failure that exists could, at some point in time, fail.

    I don't get the deal with the "huge" Clickbank fees. CB handles all the sales tracking, fraud scrubbing, provides their own customer support form and phone and at the end of the year they issue tax forms to your affiliates. Not to mention the huge visibility their marketplace gives you. I'm happy to "pay" them the extra percentage.

    This just seems like scarcity thinking in a big way.
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