Clickbank Commission Fraud

[JohnS0N]

Just a heads up for clickbank affiliates.

I was launching a new website and picked an affiliate who was advertising through the clicbank marketplace. Since I first wanted to test the program, I inserted a proxy and bought a product with my CC through my own affiliate link. No commission was counted on my account.

So, here is a definite proof that clickbank does practice commission fraud.

I've changed my affiliate program now.

[kinitex]

Did you see your affiliate id in the bottom of the order page? Something with the proxy might have filtered the cookie out somehow?

[wicked9690]

A lot of proxy sites strip cookies..

[venrooy]

A lot of proxy sites strip cookies..

I was just going to say the same thing. - Like Kinitex said - make sure that your CB ID is showing at the bottom of the order page.

[JohnS0N]

Yes, the ID was there. It was a proxy from my own network and it wasn't high anonymous.

Could something else go wrong? Otherwise, the case would be pretty much clear.

[venrooy]

Yes, the ID was there. It was a proxy from my own network and it wasn't high anonymous.

Could something else go wrong? Otherwise, the case would be pretty much clear.

You may want to contact the merchant that you were promoting and see what they ended up with. I've had a few affiliates contact me, because their adwords conversion code shows a conversion, but it wasn't showing up in their ClickBank account. Then a few hours later it would show up. I would contact the merchant, and Clickbank to see what's going on.

[Madman340]

He is the merchant, he purchased his own product.

[UltimateFreebies]

Did you see your affiliate id in the bottom of the order page? Something with the proxy might have filtered the cookie out somehow?

This is completely unrelated, but I clicked on your Everloss lander, and thought this was funny:

You will know the discount is activated if you see finditem at the end of the url.
example: ?hop=finditem

LOL

[venrooy]

He is the merchant, he purchased his own product.

I was assuming that he was not the merchant because of this quote from him above: "I was launching a new website and picked an affiliate who was advertising through the clicbank marketplace."

Meaning he purchased a product he found through the CB marketplace. Is this correct?

[Madman340]

Hmm, maybe your right; I guess I just read it wrong.

[wowhaxor]

You're sure you saw your aff id there? Because proxies usually strip it, plus I've never seen this before (bought quite a few products myself).

[Spliffic]

If CB was actually knowingly scamming people, it would probably be some sort of random script so that this wouldn't happen all the time. Pretty tough to catch if indeed true.

[MediaPlay]

Do you think they are stupid ?
They have a great security regarding fraud from your side, so .. in this case, you can be happy that your account is still active !
Do not try to test anything in this way .. better find a friend who can purchase it from his own pc, with his own cc

[getjimmy]

Just a heads up for clickbank affiliates.

I was launching a new website and picked an affiliate who was advertising through the clicbank marketplace. Since I first wanted to test the program, I inserted a proxy and bought a product with my CC through my own affiliate link. No commission was counted on my account.

So, here is a definite proof that clickbank does practice commission fraud.

I've changed my affiliate program now.

Nothing new,they have been doing this from many weeks.Now i hardly promote them.

[DPwebtec123]

The obvious answer, I've seen affiliate links on other networks represented as a string of codes - clickbank could go one step further, and make each hop as an individual encrypted set of codes. That way affiliate id's are always hidden, and encoded randomly each time a hop is generated !

[mill123]

The obvious answer, I've seen affiliate links on other networks represented as a string of codes - clickbank could go one step further, and make each hop as an individual encrypted set of codes. That way affiliate id's are always hidden, and encoded randomly each time a hop is generated !

ive always wondered why they dont do this! one of the first things i would do.

[JohnS0N]

Do you think they are stupid ?
They have a great security regarding fraud from your side, so .. in this case, you can be happy that your account is still active !
Do not try to test anything in this way .. better find a friend who can purchase it from his own pc, with his own cc

It doesn't really matter what I do. I don't have any credit cards affiliated with my clickbank account, so the one who purchased it, might as well be another "first name, last name" from "country 1".

I did contact the merchant, who couldn't find any errors. So as it seems it didn't appear in the merchants stats either.

It just got lost somewhere

I found a better merchant on the CJ network anyway, so I won't waste my time anymore with this. I got my refund, because something also went wrong with the service/product...

[punk007]

I guess this has been discussed elsewhere in the forum too.

[ScoTech]

I think I smell some real bull shit. Just because you can't promote clickbank products wortha shit doesn't mean clickbank sucks, it means your a loser. Just my opinion.

[fallingforme]

I think I smell some real bull shit. Just because you can't promote clickbank products wortha shit doesn't mean clickbank sucks, it means your a loser. Just my opinion.

what a nice guy.