What's wrong with Clickbank sales??

I don't know what to do...I've been getting traffic and sales to my websites on several different niches on Clickbank products up through December 2008 and early January 2009. Now my sales are down to nothing for about ten days but I'm still getting the same amount of traffic to the websites.

I've gone to some other forums & they say that they believe that Clickbank doesn't always give the affiliates credit for their sales. They say that Clickbank tends to "shave" the profits for themselves...

And from what I've been reading about Clickbank and the rumor that they tend to take the profits for themselves after the affiliate makes some sales does makes me wonder and feel suspicious.


Or is it because of the economy? Don't know what to think!

All I know is that Clickbank makes it difficult to contact and discuss matters with them.
I am so discouraged. I have only been doing these websites for the past year, so I fairly new at this. I also feel like I've done all the work of building my review websites for nothing now.

Wish there was an alternative for information products besides paydotcom.

If anyone has any opinion on this and Clickbank's reputation, let me know! I feel like dropping the promotion of their products and start over again.