Let's say you rarely make much sales as an affiliate or vendor, but all of a sudden, you build tons of traffic, press release, and your affiliate site became viral. It got distributed on the front page of Yahoo and Digg. Now, you're making $1,000+ a day. So, would CB get suspicious and close your account -- thus, losing all your profits???
I don't see any reason why they would? CB would be making money too and also the who ever is selling the products wouldn't be to happy with CB. It would be a dumb thing for Clickbank to do. The only reason I could see them doing it is if you were using some illegal means of promoting the products.
They may ask questions to make sure it's legitimate, but they won't close your account. Lots of people use "dead" ClickBank accounts to launch new products, which almost-instantly drive thousands of dollars into their account.
I would highly doubt it, unless you were conducting some kind of massive fraud - the top 20 clickbank products get at least 50k traffic a month - some in the several hundreds of thousands and I believe a few even more. I don't think traffic / revenue is the issue - I think they would shut you down at whatever level you were if you were breaking rules or doing something illegal though.
As long as you keep it legal and safe, your account will never be closed. Clickbank makes a %tage on every sale! They will be making money too you know.
This is no joke, but a few years ago I had a $20k+ day on a fluke. Because one of my adwords happened to line up w/ a major event on that day. I had a large $5k adwords bill, but I didn't mind that one bit. And yes Clickbank paid me my check, no questions asked.
Thats crazy, well done to you mate!! As long as everything is kept legal I really see no reason why there would close your account, your still only getting a percentage of the sale. Plus any of the products you are an affiliate to would also be getting the sale so in theory there account could close. Hope that make sense...
Clickbank has enforced a complicated enough anti-fraud measures to prevent publishers and affiliates alike to scam them, so unless you really enjoy the challenge, it's fairly pointless to make funny gesture against the Clickbank system. So my point is that since it's a fairly bullet proof system, everyone in it are decent enough. You can rest assure that Clickbank doesn't have to enforce extra measures to hold up anyone's money (besides what they're already holding up) to make individual publisher or affiliate miserable.
So you think that getting on the front page of digg or yahoo buzz would get you a lot of sales on Clickbank, eh? Good luck with learning to tell the difference between traffic volume and traffic quality.
It goes without saying that your scenario was hypothetical, since otherwise this thread would never have being created, being that you would have known for a fact that traffic from social bookmark websites - regardless of being abundant, generally converts rather poorly into sales or even clicks/hops, mostly because a) it's highly untargeted b) it's substantially comprised of web savvy users who are averse to buying info-products and of course c) it's very unlikely you'd get a clickbank-driven website on the front page of digg, in the first place. Also, here are some real examples that might shed some light on your worries: 1) clickbank sales have a particular way of being highly seasonal and erratic; meaning people will easily get drastically different sales volumes, even when it looks as though all possible variables remain static. 2) it's relatively common for CB affiliates to get a MAJOR sales boost given the right cosmic alignment - such as catching the wave on a new product release. 3) just as long as there's no foul play on the affiliate side, CB wouldn't care less about having too much sales. In fact, they'd probably be happy about it and willingly pat your back, weren't they too busy being an info product behemoth marketplace with dozens of sales taking place each second. Hope that helps. I get an (ad)sense I know where your doubts came from in the first place, but you can rest assured CB will be very unlikely to punish you for getting legitimate sales, ever. That said, feel free to go ahead and make a gazillion sales in the next very week, but remember to come back and send me a tributary commission for the inspirational drive and all-around ultimate enlightenment extreme, eh? (-;