Try To Figure Out This Clickbank Mystery!

Hello All,
I have discovered something very strange but it has nothing to do with the clickbank vendor of this product. The product is instantpopover and if you type your clickbank link like this:

clickbankid.instpop.hop.clickbank.net

GO ahead and do it. replace clickbank id with your own clickbank id and the rest and go to the webpage. Now scroll down and click the order button and as you know you will find your clickbank id att he bottom of the clickbank order page.

However if you follow my instructions you will all have the same affiliate id on the clickbank order form and it will be affiliate=mike0346

Does anyone think they can explain this. Start posting on this mystery and I will tell you what I think it is. I already contacted the vendor and it is not him.

Go for it. Are you seeing the same affiliate id on your order page.

Mike

 

It shows mike0346 also when I try to enter a hoplink.

Either:

The vendor is stealing
OR
The vendor messed up during the setup of this website
OR
Someone hacked his site and is stuffing a cookie

 

Vendor stealing I think.

This was reported on the WF a few weeks back and he still hasn't changed it

 

I'm back. I was the one who reported this on the WF. I thought it would be shut down by now but it isn't. It is not the vendor though.

The vendors correct id is affiliate.mcallen1.hop.clickbank.net

If you try this link you will see it works ok and gives you your id on the order form.

I think this may be either some blackhat stuff or maybe its whitehat. The vendor said he was contacting clickbank but its still working. It appears that some affiliate or vendor has added some php redirect or something to their account. It seems like this person is capitalizing on people who can't find instantpopover in clickbank so they guess what the affiliate id is and when it works they think it must be - instpop. But its really - mcallen1

Mike

 

Are some too quick to blame a vendor?

 

It looks like some very shady stuff. He probably signed up as a vendor, and then put up a redirect script w/ his affiliate id to the original hoplink. There's no way that Clickbank should be allowing this one.

 

That explains it.

The vendor instpop is redirecting all the traffic with his affiliate link, to the vendor mcallen1 .

So from the way it looks right now, mcallen1 is not the one stealing, it's the vendor instpop that's doing it.

However, we need to get all facts before jumping to conclusions.

Why can't I find these vendors on the marketplace?

 

I don't think that instpop is in the marketplace. As a vendor you can choose to not show your product in the market-place. However the more I think about it, this could just be a clever way of keeping people from stealing your commission. If he's not putting it in the marketplace, then he's not really ripping off affiliates. So the only people this would hurt are those clickbankers that know to exchange their clickbank ID to get a discount.

If clickbank allows this one to stay, then it could be an ingenious way of promoting the latest IM products. It would keep other affiliates that you promote to from stealing your commission.

 

Cool idea, not too different than owning the cbid 'yourcbid' or 'xxxxx' or 'nickname' but flipping it so it looks like a vendor.

Basically you just found a guy that uses his aff id to mock the real product, if people are not savvy enough to find the affiliates page or contact the vendor for his cbid, it's their own fault really. What about owning an account like fappturbo or 4idiotss etc...? Same shite??

If this guy is going around trying to recruit affiliates to this ID, then sure he's playing dutty and should be removed. If he just found a cool ID and has tricked out his hop/redirect/lp cookie it's no big deal i think. What would be fcukery would be if this dude owned both accounts or was a friends account... And yes variations of this have been done in the mmo sector in the past.

 

It is not the vendor. I spoke with him on another forum. It is some affiliate or vendor that has some kind of redirect. His strategy takes advantage of people who cannot find instant popover in clickbank so they can't get their affiliate link and his site has no affiliate link so they try guessing his vendor id. When instpop takes them to instant popover they think they have found the correct id but they didn't. Like I said the vendors correct id is - mcallen1.

Pretty weird stuff. It may be whitehat. If not its definetly blackhat.

Its sort of like when people buy a domain like ebat.com to get traffic of people who were trying to go to ebay.com but misspelled it.

Mike