Suspect Clickbank Merchant of Cheating Affiliates

If the page to which your hoplink resolves has an opt-in on it, where your potential customers give the vendor their email address, I'd just stop promoting the product. Very few (if any) serious, professional affiliates are willing to promote a ClickBank product on that basis. :p

Here's a long, detailed thread you can read about it, which explains why in detail (read it all, though, and carefully, because there's a little misinformation in it, too - this subject is quite widely misunderstood): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...oduct-opt.html

You can opt in yourself, under another name/email address, and see what you receive from the vendor, but (unless he sends a hoplink that overwrites yours) it won't be conclusive, anyway. You need to know what all the other people are receiving, too, and there isn't a way to know that.

Be careful using the word "cheating", in this context: I know it sounds strange, superficially, but ClickBank does allow vendors to do this. They take the view that if a prospective customer has chosen to opt in on the vendor's page, they "belong" to the vendor (and they have to take that view, really, because they wouldn't be able to enforce anything different, would they? So don't blame them, unfortunate though it can sometimes be).

The good news is that there are about 15,000 different products from which to choose, on ClickBank, and nobody's forcing us to promote anything with a vendor's opt-in!

"Keep away"!! (is my advice). I wouldn't touch it, and pro-affiliates I know wouldn't touch it, either.

(You can ask the vendor if he has another "straight sales page" without the "squeeze-page"/"opt-in". He might have one. Then again, he might not).

Possibly this post might interest/help you, also: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

thanks for the thoughtful reply - very helpful.

Ya you should probably stop promoting that product. Anybody who sends affiliate traffic to their squeeze page has to be using an affiliate cookie software like infusionsoft where you can cookie subs to the affiliate who sent them so if they ever buy the affiliate gets credit.

On Clickbank they don't offer this feature (as far as I know). I could be wrong but how you're describing the sales process sounds pretty shady to me

I just noticed that on the sales page where it shows which affiliate gets credit, there is something strange happening. Instead of just showing my affiliate nickname, it has my affiliate nickname + a period + another nickname. like this:

[Affiliate = "mynickname"."another nickname" ]

Anyone know what this means?

Yeah, you're not going to get anything. That is dodgy. Stop right away.