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What to do with CB Affiliate

by TallyDon
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Hi,

recenly i noticed that a user purchased a product trough my site via clickbank. The problem is, is that iam getting strong cues that he isuing his own affiliate id for a discoount. Obviously, this is disallowed.

Do you guys encounter this too?
How should I proceed, just let it be, or report this matter to clickbank?
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  • Profile picture of the author yestyle
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    I've not ever got this problem but I think you should report to clickbank to have support.
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  • Profile picture of the author akashbd
    I think you should report to clickbank support team immediately.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by TallyDon View Post

    recenly i noticed that a user purchased a product trough my site via clickbank. The problem is, is that iam getting strong cues that he isuing his own affiliate id for a discoount. Obviously, this is disallowed.
    It isn't disallowed at all.

    ClickBank permits this.

    The two replies above are both mistaken. ClickBank doesn't want to know about this, and can do nothing about it. It's perfectly alright with them if people do this. And don't blame them or criticize them for that, either: making it "disallowed" would be completely unmanageable and unenforceable by them. It would be an impossible situation. To all realstic intents and purposes, they have no alternative but to allow this, because they couldn't realistically do anything about it anyway.

    This is the primary reason (there are many others, of course) for not promoting, as an affiliate, any ClickBank products in "IM" and "MMO" markets: a significant proportion of the targeted customers for those products are themselves already ClickBank affiliates, and clearly they're rarely going to buy the product through your hoplink when they can perfectly legally buy it through their own. :p

    On my list of 10 or 11 attributes that a product has to have, for me to be willing to promote it as an affiliate, the first one is that it mustn't be an IM or MMO product. If you promote those, there's just no way of knowing how many you really sell, how many you get paid for, and so on. This thread may help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

    In other niches, in which your prospective customers are not exisiting ClickBank affiliates, ClickBank's carefully thought-out and highly necessary "Customer Distribution Requirement" protects you as an affiliate, and means - in effect - that this doesn't happen. So it's normally a problem only for IM and MMO niches.

    But take no notice of people advising you to "report it to ClickBank". This is based only on a misunderstanding, and leads nowhere.
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  • Profile picture of the author lowelly
    Originally Posted by TallyDon View Post

    Hi,

    recenly i noticed that a user purchased a product trough my site via clickbank. The problem is, is that iam getting strong cues that he isuing his own affiliate id for a discoount. Obviously, this is disallowed.

    Do you guys encounter this too?
    How should I proceed, just let it be, or report this matter to clickbank?
    I've never worried about this stuff, but don't get it, what if he purchases the product and then starts promoting it as an affiliate? I have some CB products myself and several affiliates, so I could use the info. Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    Buying a product through your own affiliate link is a simple way to maintain your clickbank earnings when your account is dormant. There is no CB rule that says it's prohibited.
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    • Profile picture of the author SunilTanna
      Originally Posted by TallyDon View Post

      Hi,

      recenly i noticed that a user purchased a product trough my site via clickbank. The problem is, is that iam getting strong cues that he isuing his own affiliate id for a discoount. Obviously, this is disallowed.

      Do you guys encounter this too?
      How should I proceed, just let it be, or report this matter to clickbank?
      1. It's not disallowed

      2. Unless you are the vendor (or the credited affiliate), there is no way to know which affiliate link (or any affiliate link) people purchased from, or even if they purchase.

      Somebody could have not purchased at all, purchased through their own id, through somebody else's id, or purchased through nobody's id, and you wouldn't know.

      3. The reason that many people (like Alexa) don't promote Make Money and Marketing prodcuts in CB, is because they believe customers are likely to be ClickBank affiliates themselves and can substitute their id.

      4. One thing you can do to reduce the chance of this happening is to cloak your affiliate link. You can use this free script (or thousands of other solutions) for this
      Link Cloaker - Cloak your affiliate links and stop "commission theft"

      5. Cloaking your affiliate link is not enough, because customers who want to substitute their own id, can also see the vendor's id in the payment link on the product pitch page. Ideally you would want the vendor to cloak the payment link too, and keep their affiliate id a secret. Of course not all vendors do this.
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      • Profile picture of the author wtatlas
        What does it matter? If you're a vendor using Clickbank to process orders then you are giving affiliates a commission anyway so if they buy through their own link you still receive your share.

        Who knows, the affiliate might be purchasing to check the product out to see whether it is worth promoting.
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  • Profile picture of the author commerce cat
    A customer is a customer - if they want your product so badly that they'd go to all that trouble for a measly discount, I'd let them have it. They've still given you the same amount of money that someone else would have.
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    • Profile picture of the author itkmastermind
      I have never heard of click bank not letting someone purchase products under their own affiliate ID. If they want the sale that bad I say let them have it. It is up to click bank to regulate anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    I don't understand, you did get paid for it right, they did purchase it and didn't circumvent you in anyways. I know its not against the rules I just can't seem why people have a problem with it as long as they don't lose commissions over it.
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