Clickbank Questions – How do you find clickbanks payment system – do you ever get paid?
I made a sale recently as an affiliate of the ‘clickbank’ system, which for the uninitiated is a site which promotes digital only products (eBooks etc). An affiliate is someone who promotes the goods of others and gets a commission for each sale.
After noticing the sale, I queried clickbanks payment method which i never really looked into when i signed up as I am sure many don’t!
Anyway, this was the reply I received from clickbank.com
“Thank you for your inquiry. You have not been issued a check because your
account has not yet met our “Customer Distribution Requirement”, which states
your account must reflect sales made with 5 or more different credit card
numbers, including at least one Visa card, and one MasterCard in order to be
eligible to receive a check. PayPal and e-check purchases do not count toward
the minimum.
This requirement is in place to help prevent affiliates from abusing the
ClickBank Affiliate Program by using their accounts for the sole purpose of
collecting rebates and/or discounts on their own ClickBank purchases.
Please note that once you have met the Customer Distribution Requirement, the
full balance from your account will be paid on the next check issuing date.
Also, please keep in mind that you only need to meet the Customer Distribution
Requirement one time per account (not per check).
You may review our accounting policies by following the link below:
clickbank.com/accounting.html”
end message
This reply really shocked me. If I am understanding this correctly, if everyone I sell to chooses to pay by American Express, or any other of the many alternatives to Visa, Mastercard, or they pay via paypal and echeck etc, then I don’t get paid……….ever..Is this correct??
They say they do this to prevent affiliate fraud but why do they need to go to such extremes to prevent affiliate fraud? If the affiliate buys items and keeps them..so what the company made a sale right? But if the affiliate sells, then requests a refund…then yes that is sneaky BUT only if the affiliate got to keep the sales commission after the refund was made, which with clickbank they don’t! The affiliate has the refund deducted from their account…at least this is my understanding.
So why then all these weird ‘exclusions’ as to why you can’t be paid, or paid regularly.
So my question to you as an affiliate for clickbank, is do you ever get paid?
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Best Answer: Well, Visa and Master-card are widely used cards. You will probably find a client eventually.
The fact that they want at least 5 different numbers (Or clients) is not to make sure you are doing it to get a discount. They could simply exclude you from the system. They have your details otherwise you will never get paid.
The biggest reason for doing so is to gain more clients.
Example:
Take 1000 affiliates. Most people signed up in whim. Only half the people will indeed try and sell an item. Then they find out they need to sell 5 items to get paid. Only 1% of these will actually go further and do it (Oh, and that 1% is a very optimistic estimate).
Wanna calculate: 1000 potential sales people, only half stays on.
Got 500 people left. All of them sell 1 item
500 Items SOLD
Only 1% will continue to sell the other 4,
5 people selling in total of 20 items.
520 items SOLD.
They paid only 5 people and each for 5 items.
They have sold 495 items, without paying a single person.
Of course, this company would rather have everyone selling a single item (perhaps 2, 3 or even 4) and then give up. Like you are doing (Or at least sound like you are doing) and they end up selling all products, without paying a single sales agent.
It’s called cutting costs. Drastic times brings the best up in some of us…