Is this legit?

Actually - no, that part doesn't sound scammy to me. If I wanted to sell a product I'd have no problem paying $9 to take a look at how it's promoted and what the lead ins are.


Recently we had a thread where a new affiliate marketer was claiming ' they should be happy to have all the affiliates they can get' - but that's not true. High ticket sellers want affiliates who can SELL and will sometimes vet them.


If I were thinking of promoting this I'd want to know if there is a way to justify the price. Is it possible to sell this product at $1500 or is it worth $750 which is the actual sales price less commission?


Why aren't you willing to pay $9 for an inside look at the promotional process being used by the seller?

The key word here is "seems." You have zero clue as to whether the product is valuable or not if you yourself are unwilling to even take the smallest bite at $9. Based on your unwillingness, I'd question any affiliate pushing me crap they wouldn't pay for themselves. But that's just me.

Do it their way or move on. It's not like they've created something revolutionary like turning water into gas or something. And I say that not even knowing what the product is.

Good luck in figuring it out!
Mark

Those are good points thanks.
It was really the principle of the thing to me.
It felt like if you can't sell your program without pushing affiliates to buy it first maybe its not such a good program.
But its definitely a good idea for me to see the sales process their creating to see if I want to promote it myself I agree with that.

From another viewpoint.....how can you SELL an affiliate product...especially a high priced one...without a thorough understanding of the product and of the person(s) offering it?

The first thing I'd do is make sure that either the $9 tripwire offer wasn't featured on the sales page for the main program, or if so, there was a clear system for crediting you for any subsequent main sale conversion from a prospect you sent - within a reasonable time limit. Otherwise, if your prospects buy the $9 offer, you're just handing over their contact details to the vendor.

The other thing I'd consider is using the $9 offer to create my own report - assuming it was related to the main offer - and use that as an incentive to get prospects signed up to my list. That would be more attractive than the "bonus stack" of PLR products you're asking about in your other thread:

https://www.warriorforum.com/main-in...nus-stack.html

I agree with what Kay King says.

When I first started reading your post, I thought you would
say that they wanted you to buy their $1,500 product first.

$9 is not unreasonable, but if you think it's cheesy and do
not feel comfortable with this company then find something
else to promote.

There are hundreds of reputable affiliate offers and there's
no shortage of high ticket offers, and ones with recurring,
residuals, and all types of profitable payment models.

Look for offers besides JV's like financial services, travel,
luxury goods, etc.

They want you to own that product so that you can see what you are selling to others.

Nothing scammy about that.

It's all part of a business model. Some are free, some are low cost investing and others are high investment. Depending on the value offered is what you should pay. If you think it's going to bring a good return dollar wise or education wise go for it. Another way to look at investing into say a back office is that you are paying to keep a business open and up and running. The lights paid, all utilities, land, etc. Now just make some sales.

Of course its scammy. If they really wanted, they would send you the offer for free and not ask for $9, thats pathetic.


Can't believe there are so many naive people here.

It's only $9.

Heck, I'd be happy to give them $9 just to see their funnel and upsells.

As long as the 'product' is a one-time purchase, the offer you got is probably not a scam

BUT...

If you have to sign up for a recurring membership just to have the 'right' to sell other memberships and get a % of your downline, such schemes can be legally sketchy.

It was a one time - and most likely a qualifier used by the seller. Someone who isn't able or willing to pay $9 to see HOW to sell a product is not going to sell $1500 products.



A reality is that affiliates with a good sales track records are contacted BY SELLERS who want them to 'represent' their product. New affiliates who have never sold anything online are not what most sellers are looking for - especially not for higher priced products.

Lots of great answers here I appreciate every one of them!

What I personally dislike are theses programs that are saying in order to promote them you have to buy their product. I've actually been making money every month as an affiliate marketer since 1996.

I started with pay per click programs as that's what existed almost entirely at the time. Then moved on to pay per sale and revshare programs in verticals like dating, weight loss, and online gaming.

During that time I've referred some seven figure earning affiliates to programs and earned commissions for doing so in the high six figures.

And in that time I've never paid any affiliate program for the privilege of sending them traffic.

This idea of requiring affiliates to buy your software or products each month to qualify to be an affiliate is reminiscent of Amway's multi-level marketing model where the company made huge profits off of people having to preload inventory they kept in their apartments and were strongly encouraged to sell their friends and families the products to make money. The vast majority of these MLM affiliates never got in the black. While of course the first in MLM folks a few at the top did really well.

To me, if your membership site, or software, or whatever it is you sell is strong enough to sell ie a good value it will stand on its own without the company using affiliates as a customer base to sell to.

Ok so the response I expect which is a fair one is likely going to be "If you don't like it then don't pay them to be an affiliate". I agree. Like I said, that's a fair response to my post here.

If the product program whatever is a good enough value I'll buy it!
But, I resent being told that if I don't buy it I can't be an affiliate. I think that's a bad business model.

As to the $9 tripwire sale to gain access to the affiliate link, it was just a way of getting my and other people';s card data on file to make it easier to upsell to the high ticket offer which was the thing I wanted to promote as an affiliate,. And the 3 day webinar didn't reveal anything about the high ticket offer that wasn't freely available on their YouTube channel.

It might be a great tactic to get leads and people's cards on file for future one click upsells and likely makes them a ton of money.

But it didn't really give me the information about the high ticket program I wanted to promote at all.

Thanks for all of your interesting and thoughtful replies.

Have a great Holiday Season!
Joe

some is legit , yea as other claim they want you own the product know yourself thus indirectly you can promote their product since you find it good.