Apr
Did you know that many ClickBank merchants are blatantly stealing your commissions from right under your nose?
It’s true. And the modus operandi of these thieves?
Simple … the float in subscription form.
Imagine the scene: You have just been charged $0.25 by Google Adwords for a click that has sent someone through your ClickBank affiliate link to the product sales page. When they arrive there however, a form slides into view asking for their email address in return for a free download on the same topic, such as a sample chapter, a related ebook by the same author, or a demo version of the software.
As potential buyers, many visitors will want to look at this before making a purchase decision. So they surrender their email address and are forwarded away from the sales page to one asking them to check their email now for the download.
Moments later, “your” customer is reading an email they have received directly from the ClickBank merchant and are are clicking back to the website with the vendors own link, and in so doing, overwriting your ClickBank cookie with their own. Bye bye commission!
The solution is but one: Stay away from these vendors.
That means remembering to check the product sales page before you sign up, and looking at it again a few months later if it’s something you’re actively promoting.
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, affiliate-programs, clickbank-affiliate, clickbank-merchants, commission-theft, right-under-your-nose, stay-away, subscription-form
This is happening on too many sites! It does it on the get google ads free page and i even wrote to the ggaf people to tell them it was happening. I used to be an affiliate for ggaf but made absolutely nothing. Being a beginner i thought it was my own fault until i started wondering what the pop up page was for, i then realised that it is exactly as you described above. i even thought that it was the owner of the site that was doing it to earn a hell of a lot more than he is already earning! It’s not fair, how do you stop it from happening? i may as well give up on trying to make money on the net due to these scumbag thieves!
Hi I am writing this because I am tired of CB jacking my money and falsifying the tracking of sales and I want others to be aware.
I am what is known as a super affiliate, and click bank has been stealing at least 1,000 bucks a day from me. I know a lot of people are sick and tired of this company holding back their funds til they reach the threshold. But that is not even the half of what they have been doing.
I have over 10 active accounts on CB and they all are making money, but what these snakes are doing is beyond what I have seen any other company do. On a daily I have noticed unexplainable patterns in my sales based on geographical locations. Yes , it’s true they steal the majority of my sales from the USA, and it has me so mad that I have begun documenting this in short video clips that I will be pushing across the web.
I am one hell of a internet marketer that will definitely make my information known to everyone looking and searching for the click bank website. That’s not all I am working on turning my evidence over to the FBI for embezzlement .
Some of the proof I have is indisputable,on these video clip the world will be able to witness the double order sales being split to 3 different accounts, that has no relation other then the vendor’s ID. being promoted on all of these accounts. The tracking shows that the customer had to purchase the product from 3 different websites in a matter of minutes.
Also the videos will show purchases made from within the USA from my accounts using my friends and family members credit cards, and once again not giving me credit. They can not argue and say that it was spyware or that they should have cleared their cookies before purchasing, due to the fact that the videos will clearly show my affiliate ID at the bottom of their order page.
I have even more overwhelming proof that I really shouldn’t go into at this time, since I am working with a private investigator whom I hired to gather even more incriminating evidence against this company. This is also the reason why I have yet to release these video clips. But in time I assure you the truth will be posted on every major video site on the internet.
Thanks for reading this info, and please if anyone else has noticed any other criminal behavior from clickbank.com please share your stories so we can get the word out.
HI
Just wondering if you could help me, I want to start promoting a clickbank product called mp3suite.com. The thing is though I noticed on the clickbank form that they have a pay pal option. The question i have is how do we get paid our commision if the buyer opts to pay with pay pal ?
It would be much appreciated if you could assist me with this
Thank you
EDWIN
Speaking of popups – I have a merchant stealing commissions, too. It’s a web hosting company. As you know, web hosting is a very competitive market with those big fat commissions. I’m no super affiliate by any means, but I went from making over $3000/month to $0.
I have exclusive coupon codes for this one company. If a customer uses a code, I get the sale. The company recently put a popup on the site offering a large discount. If the mouse so much as touches the browser’s address bar, up comes that slimy popup.
Should the customer accept the offer on the popup, it completely nullifies my traffic generation efforts to the site. Circumnavigation is an affiliate’s biggest enemy, yet the very company I’m promoting is doing it to me. When affiliate cookies are ignored and the coupon code field is hidden, I don’t earn. Plus they made that discount offer bigger than some of the coupons I have. When they dangle such a large carrot in front of a customer’s face and they accept the offer, regardless of my efforts to bring them to the site, that’s stealing from the very hands that feed it. That’s an underhanded, evil tactic. If they’re going to have an affiliate program, they can’t screw over their affiliates like that.
I work my butt off drumming up business for them. I deliver that customer to their front door. They open the door, grab the customer and instead of letting me earn from the very affiliate program they invited me to join, they slam the door in my face. It’s unethical.
I’m the one paying the advertising bill for these jerks. I expect to be rewarded with a commission when my efforts make a sale. I could just spit blood.
Whoa… this site is pretty awesome
your layout is really well designed, and your blogs are (judging from what i’ve read) very interesting. heehee… consider yourself favorited. 
I have been with clickbank now for about a year and a half. Im a small time affiliate. And do this for extra income. I myself have “noticed” some funny stuff as well…Like I noticed a pattern of times going up to 10 days with NO sale at all, then I’ll have a week..maybe a little more of sales. Sometimes 3 days will go by with a sale each day, then it will go to a sale every OTHER day then nothing for another week or so. I checked my “Analytics” for the past 30 days and I had over 2,300 Hops..I grossed 11 sales with 2 refunds..So..I had a net of 9 sales….9 sales out of 2,300 hops?!?!? YEAH…RIGHT! That is LESS than 1% production..Actually..It’s even less than .5%..I don’t think so. Now..to explain my name. Yes, I am in law enforcement and have been for many years. And to the guy thats working with the investigator, I’ll be happy to give a statement on what I feel is going on. Good Luck to you.
Hi, has anyone ever had a problem with a merchant cash advance advertiser? I’m working with one and have sent them a lot of leads and have supposedly only made one sale. Merchant cash advances tend to have a high approval rate. One thing about being an affiliate for advertisers of loan products is that you have no way of knowing if the customer actually filled out an application, and then you have to rely on the merchant to let you know if the app was approved. Is there anything I can do to track that sort of activity? So, basically it would be third-party tracking. Thanks!
Heather
Any updates on this?
The guy who hired the investigator, any developments?
Thx
Dave
Hello I believe the clickbank has been hijacking my commissions for the longest time and I have figured out their newest method.
Effectively immediately my relationship with them is over!
Anyway read the email I just wrote to them; it illustrates how they’ve been hijacking my commissions:
Hello I wish to know if you routinely change hoplinks without informing your affiliates.
I am shocked to discover that hoplink 1 below which I pasted onto my website a month ago suspiciously stopped promoting with my affiliate link.
THE DIFFERENT HOPLINKS:
1. http://f6f84i-ehjoc1veori1jew2s4g.hop.clickbank.net/
2. http://df3e5a41hapc0o6rv6qorv0p6y.hop.clickbank.net/
I got suspicious after viewing my Google Analytics Goal details which informed that there had been more than 8000 clickthroughs to the site I was promoting without a single sale.
So I decided to compare the promotion code with my affiliate link that was currently available on your website to the old one I had pasted a month before on my website that was responsible for those unique clickthroughs.
And shockingly I discovered these are two entirely different hoplinks the new one on your site “apparently with my affiliate code,” (for how long one wonders) the old one no longer!
I would seriously love to know what is going on here because the obvious conclusion is that this is commission theft right from the source!
I have always wondered why I was able to make commissions with Commission Junction but never with you guys…now I know
Anyway I think my only course of action is to stop promoting your products and report this to the appropriate authorities…and judging by a little research I am not alone in questioning your conduct!
I get huge amounts of visitors everyday, huge amount of submits with clickbank and no sales. Same thing, like 1 percent sales and a loss to hundreds of submits and I am at a breaking point. I sense serious theft from clickbank AND MY BIG QUESTION IS…WHO DO WE GO TO INSTEAD OF CLICKBANK? Commission junction? are there any other companies that dont rob your commission and give us the opportunity to make money?
I just don’t know what to do. I get 20 to 30 hops a day and go 6-8 days without a sale (usually longer than that). After reading all this on the internet, I’m certainly ready to give up on clickbank. So much thievery going on. You can’t trust anyone. It is so frustrating. You can’t pay any bills with money coming so sporadically. I can see why people are pounding the pavement looking for jobs. You can go weeks without a paycheck from clickbank, and with no money your advertising stalls. I am really tired of trying to make a decent living online. There are just so many crooks. And they seem to come up with new ways to steal your commissions. I work hard and getting no where very fast. These crooks need to be prosecuted and jailed!