I thought I was being taken for a ride...

[petereff]

I thought I was being taken for a ride by Clickbank, but I've actually learned something quite important.

Let me explain...

I have around 30 unique products in my CB vendor account and recently added Master Resale Rights to one of them. When this sold for $47.00 I expected to see the full amount (less CB fees) in my account transaction reports because this is not listed in the marketplace.

However I discovered that it was an 'affiliate' sale so I only received the sale price less the 65% affiliate commission. Now because I thought that the product was NOT available to affiliates, I got quite sore at Clickbank, thinking I was out of pocket by $25.00 or so especially when the affiliate ID was XXXXX ...yeah XXXXX!

It took several emails to get a proper explanation from Clickbank and that is why I'm sharing this, because I think might be helpful to other affiliates and vendors who may have similar concerns to mine.

Even though the product is in the vendor account but not listed in the marketplace, if an affiliate has a Clickbank ID, ALL products are available upon reaching the relevant sales page.

As you know, for any product the affiliate creates the hoplink like this:

http://affiliatenickname.vendornickn....clickbank.net

And once their nickname is in the hoplink, the affiliate would get credit for any product purchased from anyones account with that hoplink.

For example, lets say you had product number 1 listed in your account for the Marketplace. The customer goes through the correct hoplink for product number one, but decides not to purchase. Then the customer finds the sales page for your product number two, and does not go through a hoplink, but does purchase.

Since the hoplink has already been clicked on for product number 1, it would apply for any product listed in the account.

This is exactly what happened with my product and the concerns that gave rise to this thread.

My product number 1 sales page has a link to a sales page with Master Resale Rights for the same product and although this is a separate product in my vendor account, once the hoplink had been set up and clicked without purchasing, the MRR product was then purchased at a massive discount because the affiliate could buy the product and gain the commission on the sale.

Should this be a concern? I'm not sure and I'd like to know what you think. It does mean any savvy marketer could register as a Clickbank affiliate, then buy up all the resale rights products and pocket the affiliate sales commission and then the whole resell price from their own marketing efforts.