Ok, so I've seen many posts asking if there was a way to steal someone's commission... unfortunately there is. I just got this info from WA Forum, originally the video was posted on Warriors. Check it out: http://www.keywordthinktank.com/public/adware/clickbank_adware.html
I would suggest reporting EVERY ONE of them, although it's kind of hard to catch them if your PC is not infected with such adware (spyware?)... As you can see in the video, the guy's PC is infected hence he is able to see the affiliates stealing his commission - I am sure he reported them.
nothing really new here. If someone is able to report and sees some action taken on such affiliates - please update this thread. This is interesting
Nothing new, I recall a thread regarding Zango stealing commissions somewhere. Here is a thread about Zango: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=688462&highlight=zango.com Funny how in the person's sig he state he makes over $500 a day with Zango... jeez I wonder how... Here it is on the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zango What a joke...
I think at least 20% of sales are lost because of the tracking issues. I am not even talking adware here, many people's PC's are set to block cookies...
clickbank not interested in solving problem, because it looses nothing. With toolbars clickbank gets even more than without them because toolbar has direct link to clickbank products. and main reason - it is possible to solve this problem - by generating for each and every affiliate and product unique link so, that toolbar / adware can't correctly modify the link. Clickbank can even stay with old tracking system and this one, affiliates who wanna use new one - will use. But .. as i told you, clickbank not interested, and looking at last clickbank "actions", it has no brain at all
Search the "Affiliate Programs" forum on this very site for Zango, and you will find many people here making a ton of money from Zango by requiring their visitors to download the Zango adware popover gateway before the visitor can even view their site. Zango is paying out big bucks to get this crap on as many computers as they can.
I never liked zango anyway...I always hated how it wanted you to install it to view some bs site...what a joke!
This is what I've been trying to get across in a few of the pro-Zango threads here. Unfortunately, it seems like some people are just unapologetically greedy and have no problem pushing Zango even when it's been shown SO OFTEN to have this sort of result. The irony is that those people pushing Zango may be tricking themselves out of other affiliate sales; there's no guarantee that their own affiliate codes won't be replaced by an infected computer. People who promote Zango need to learn how to think long-term and realize they're helping to rip off not only other affiliates, but even perhaps themselves as well.
Affiliates should know the product and its impact before marketing a product. Refrain from Marketing products such as this.
As a publisher with reasonable daily sales volume, I can observe affiliate commission activity much more easily than affiliates can. Unfortunately, affiliates are often blind to which other affiliates are also getting credit. I think it's easy to overestimate the impact of Zango and other spyware. I use StatCounter to track where my traffic from every affiliate comes from, and all of my sales are generated by affiliates who use PPC, articles, squidoo, and other legitimate sources. I haven't yet seen affiliate IDs associated with clicks or sales that I can't track, and this is after thousands of sales. What I can admit to is that about 5 to 10% of my sales have no affiliate even though I'm not promoting the product myself, which means that some buyers' browsers have cookies disabled so the affiliate tracking system won't work. I'd love to hear from other publishers about whether they have similar experiences.