Today i went to clickback homepage and i realized that the clickbank earnings counter increments every time with the same amount: 7. How fun is this ? [video=youtube;KcbmVeBC9gE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcbmVeBC9gE[/video] Source: http://www.flamescorpion.com/2010/12/the-clickbank-counter-is-fake/
How do you suppose such a counter could actually be real - with all the variables involved, not to mention statistical variance? What, do you think there would be some kind of bell in the CB headquarters which rang everything someone purchased something? Maybe they would even have a pet monkey whose sole job would be up-keeping that counter by pressing a button every time the bell rang? As you may realize, this is not by any means a realistic proposition. Realistically speaking, they probably just calculate the average sales from the last quarter and it turned out 1 sale every 3 seconds or something like that. So then they just set up that animated counter to increment $7 per second. With that in mind, I wouldn't say the counter is "fake" but merely a representional estimative... not unlike similar counters - even the one at the gmail homepage showing the ever-increasing total storage space per account.
I can generate the reports with all earnings for my account, you can do it for your account, there are moderators and administrator that they can see money earned for every account. This data is in a database distributed on every computer. In the same way a new commision can trigger all the proccesses needed to be done after a sale is made: updating database tables with numbers, earnings, refferals, sending emails to affiliate to know that he generated a new commison, in the same way a number can be incremented somewhere and from there it is easy to be read.
it adds $ 7 per sec .... earlier it was $ 6 per sec .. They are actually showing their monthly sales/seconds in month... It might not be accurate but its not fake
Did you actually make a video of this? lol - All you have to do is look at the page source... $('#counter').jOdometer({ heightNumber: 17, widthNumber: 15, delayTime: 800, increment: 7, counterStart: base_amt.toString(), numbersImage: '/scripts/jquery/images/white_numbers.png', spaceNumbers: 1, speed: 300, offsetRight:-1}); It's not like they're trying to fool anyone. They basically average out their sales over a given period of time, and set their counter accordingly.
It's understandable why it is fake. They couldn't just recalculate this every second. I guess they did some calculations and found out an average per second. Then this was implemented with an elegant auto counter.
I figured it out, but the reaseon why i looked at the counter is not that i wanted to see if it is real, i wanted to see how big commisions are. There is no point for a counter while they could have wrote the number down.
I doubt it's fake...They probably calculate the amount earnings per week or per month and just convert that into earnings per second. Clickbank is a reputable company with a lot to lose and they aren't going to ruin their reputation with a mistake like this.
It looks like the same technology that is displayed in every casino in Vegas. It's not what's actually happening, just a graphical representation.
Not to feed the conspiracy theories or anything, but today I happened to notice something interesting... the CB counter now seems to be incrementing random numbers. Check it out! It's almost as if... they're now trying to make it look more realistic !?! I wonder it the technician who's responsible for that counter happened to come across this thread. Ps - I still think it makes perfect sense the counter is merely a representation of average profit per second.