I have recently fallen foul of clickbank because i did not have any sales for a number of months they started charging me and after a period of three months without sales the charge went up. So be warned if there is any money in your account and your account is dormant clickbank will take money from this every month This is just a warning as i fell foul of the rules
This rule is part of clickbank's effort to make sure only serious marketers get credit for the sales. This rule is an effort to stop link hijacking by customers. Because even if a customer replaces the original affiliate's link with his/her own nickname, he/she is bound to fall within the dormant account rule, because he/she is not involved in active promotion.
I understand clickbank is trying to safeguard accounts i just wanted to point out that i hadnt read the rules properly so others may not have done either thanks for explaining why they do it that is usefull
I was also surprised when I noticed this happening to me years ago, I was wondering where my money was disappearing to- lol.
I had no idea. That's crap. Funny how the best solution to combat fraud is to take an affiliate's money. God forbid you're a novice or not considered "serious". Of course, you should always pull your money out as quickly as you can. Clickbank isn't a real bank after all.
I was also charged a sum of $1 if you do not make a sale in 3 months and you should immediately make a sale and you will be safe for another 3 months.
I remember this happening to me before. Lost about $60 because I didn't check my account for a longggggg time lol
If you make no sales then there is no problem (that means no deduction). Your account balance remains zero in that case. But if you make a sale and then make no further sale for a long period then you would fall within the dormant account rule. This "long period" means 90 days have passed without any further sale, and then amounts are being deducted from your account. If i am not wrong, then the dormant ac rule is:- $1 deduction from 90 days onwards of making the previous sale ($1 deduction for per 15 day pay period) $5 deduction from 180 days onwards ($5 deduction for per pay period) $50 deduction from 365 days onwards ($50 deduction for per pay period) And this will continue until your account balance becomes zero or you make another sale.
Assuming for a moment that someone has more than US$10 in a particular ClickBank account that's not getting used, why not just close the account? Here's some information straight from ClickBank's website:
I think this is a pretty crazy rule by Clickbank. Maybe they're going it to keep their affiliates motivated to drive more sales, but the novices will suffer big time. So yeah, take out the money before the bank swallows it
I have kind of the same problem - only I can't get my money because most of the sales were made with Paypal and CB don't count PP towards the 5 or so sales from different CCs one has to get before being paid. It's not easy getting started with CB!
No, it is not as easy as it used to be when first starting out. Do yourself a favor, and start selling physical products. Much easier, no BS to put up with, and you don't have to worry about getting a bad reputation for selling crap products.
If CB doesn't count PP as individual sales but you only need 5 sales to activate payment, that should not be a problem. I like having a credit card account available so I can get any sales coming in. Sure it costs a little, but I got the sale... and the commission.