Call to action: contacting clickbank

by edge83

Posted: 13 years ago 4 replies

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I've noticed a number of threads recently about downright garbage clickbank programs with outright lying sales pages.. programs that still seem to turn a big profit in the end for the creators. One of these, which I purchased (first product I ever refunded) still shows up incredibly high in clickbank searches and seems to have high numbers. Of course, buyer beware, but speaking of high numbers - this now has a more than 65% return rate. 65%!

I'm sure that most who buy directly from the product creator/affiliate website's capture page do not see that number, perhaps even know how to check it.

Many have hoped that clickbank would start factoring the return rate in and perhaps even boot off programs that reached a certain point. I'd like to suggest that those of us interested in this all send them a message with this as a suggestion. A few hundred/thousand emails coming in a short period of time would certainly send a message.

#action #call #clickbank #contacting

Tony Dean 13 years ago

I agree, potential buyers should be told the returns rate before they buy.
I refunded a purchase a couple of weeks ago simply because it was software which would not run on Vista, and Clickbank agreed to refund the money to my Visa card. The only thing is, it's a DEBIT card and I live in the UK. The support ticket is now closed with a message to say "refunded" - I've still not seen the refund to my bank account.
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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by edge83

this now has a more than 65% return rate. 65%!

This information is not disclosed by Clickbank.

I don't know where you've got it from, but whoever claims to have worked it out, they have no information about the product that you or I don't have, from what Clickbank publishes openly. Many such claims are made. They're all fictitious.

Call me a skepchick, but I don't believe it, myself. Because of the processing and administrative costs, Clickbank would be losing considerably more than their theoretical 7.5% retailer's cut of the retail price, and would have removed the product from the marketplace by now with a refund-rate anything like that!

(You're not perhaps looking at the "%rfd" figure, are you? That measures the proportion of sales referred, i.e. accredited to affiliates, and has nothing to do with refund rates at all. Just saying ...).

Originally Posted by edge83

Many have hoped that clickbank would start factoring the return rate in and perhaps even boot off programs that reached a certain point.

Clickbank has indeed been doing exactly that for a decade. They're not there to lose money, and with a refund-rate like that, that's exactly what they'd be doing.
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- edge83 13 years ago
  
  Interesting- yes, this came from an online discussion about the particular product.. perhaps someone was looking at the %rfd, but I did not realize that they would have no way of getting that information (i'm assuming they don't work for clickbank
  
  This particular product, it seems everyone on the WF who bought it returned it, but that may say little in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps a certain percentage of refund rate would be worth them mentioning to users.. a # that goes past the token amount of serial-refunders, etc.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by edge83
  
  perhaps someone was looking at the %rfd
  
  That's what's turned out to be behind every previous similar discussion I've seen resolved on this subject.
  
  Either someone's confused between "referred" and "refunded", or they're inadvertently quoting someone else who was confused between "referred" and "refunded". :rolleyes:
  
  This information is simply (a) unavailable, and (b) not remotely plausible, anyway.
  
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