I'm considering promoting click bank on my sites and looking through their marketplace of publishers. If I'm wrong shoot me, but many products do not seem legit. An example : a psp download site offering cinema movies like superman 3 and 300. Most of the products appear like scams because they make crazy offerings : unlimited movies, 800 million games, etc. I'm not saying all products appear to be scams; some just appear to be from some terrible 1980s infomercial : how to turn 15 bucks into 150, lose weight in 9 easy steps, fire your boss. lol Am I entirely wrong?
There are many types of products on Clickbank. Some are very high quality ebooks, and some are low quality service sites. However, keep in mind that if the refund rate for a product gets too high, it would probably be removed from the marketplace by Clickbank's staff. Zach
Some of the services and products are not that good. Alot of complaints have been written about some clickbank products. Not all but some have bad reputation.
Also with clickbank the customers do get the reputable customer service from CB. I haven't tried all the products from clickbank but the one's I have tried were legit and customer service from the website owners and clickbank was awesome. laterz
I'm sure there are many fine publishers of e-books (many from this forum, of course). And your argument about refunds makes sense (which leads me to wonder if the sites are, indeed, not legit and allowing surfers to download spiderman . . . or else surely, not getting what they paid for, they would refund?). My overall impression, a seasoned webmaster looking at clickbank for the first time, is a bad one I have to say. I've heard people successfully monetizing with clickbank and this has prompted me to consider them. I'm just genuinely curious about the quality and honesty of the products / services on offer.
You're right -there's a lot of products that are pretty shady. For instance, like you said, I'm pretty curious how multiple random CB merchants have magically attained access to a secret vault of 800 million movies that can legally be downloaded. Does YouTube even have 800 million "movies"? heh. A lot of times the download MP3/DVD/Zune/Ipod/PSP/Games/Movies programs are nothing more than a how-to guide showing you how to download bittorrent or other P2P software and use it to find warez/movies/games/music on P2P networks. What I find amusing is the pages that actually advertise being able to legally download movies like you said, Spiderman 3, 300, the Matrix, etc etc that are clearly copyrighted - without paying for them. Legal, maybe, if you're the MPAA... Anyhow, there are a lot of other legit programs on CB. It takes discernment to find out what's quality and what's not, but generally if you can compute the refund rate, you can determine what sells well. For instance, I've sold around 200 copies of one of the products out there, and I think maybe had 1 refund ever. That shows that the majority of people are pretty happy with it for the price they paid, which in the end is what really counts. This product has some pretty crazy claims, too, yet continually converts without refunds. So, that's generally what I measure to be how 'scammy' or not a product is quantitatively - are its claims backed up by a low (under 7%) percentage of refunds, with a reasonably high (40-100+) gravity.
I agree that some of the products seem on the iffy side. I haven't purchased them and certainly don't intend to, so I can't say if they are scams or not. There are lots of products that are legitimate, though. They might have infomercially headlines, but people still seem to buy into that (I had a job processing orders for infomercials, so I know how it is). I haven't sold hundreds of products as a clickbank affiliate, but so far no one has requested a refund of the products I've sold. And if I haven't read or used the product personally, I don't recommend it, I mention it as an additional resource the potential customer might be interested in.
Thanks for your thoughts guys. I'm certainly encouraged to research more into cb (thanks for the pointers Telmari!).
Because of the scam programs... CB got bad reputation see here http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/clickbank.com
Be careful promoting such downloading services. Actually they get a high gravity but Telmari tells you exactly what it is. You just learn how to download protected and copyrighted movies or mp3s. They might say their service is legit cause they are just providing a software or a way to find movies. Of course the software is legal, this is the way you use it that is illegal.
nope a lot do like scams, look for ones with obvious tangible goods. Chances are if you don't exactly know what you are buying, before you buy it, then Its a scam
CD and DVD burners were made for copying. And guess what ? Hella lot mp3s and movies were copied with them... and everyone knows it. Go sue them. Clickbank will sell p2p-software while it's legal. And yeah, SuryaPuthran, for $2 (x1000000 sales/year)
Hello mindlesspuppet, you are not entirely wrong. There are many good high demand sites as well as scam sites in CB. Choose right products and you can earn good amount of money according to your promotional efforts. Simply do not bother whatever site you feel as scam. All the Best