Hi Shawn

I am an affiliate marketer and think you are looking at it the wrong way, see the whole picture

you said...

And if every sale is an affiliate sale (why wouldn't it be?) that means that on every single sale I'm only getting 50% revenue (50% affiliate payout, obviously).

If that affiliate did not send you the customer, that ONLY 50% revenue would be zilch!

I don`t know how many affiliates you have who`ve sent you customers, but if they had not, would you have found those customers without them?

Would you even have any affiliates, if your product wasn`t on Clickbank?

If you want to stop people using their own links to purchase, take it off Clickbank and only allow people who have bought to be affiliates.

Shawn, your successful affiliates are working to sell your product, your customers sent from affiliates are not there by chance, they have cost time, effort and probably money i.e. pay per click on your affiliates part.It could well be costing them half or more of their 50% cut to get you a customer.

As for putting up the price, I don`t know the product, so I can`t really say. But I do know affiliates and those who are very good won`t work for less than 50%, please remember it costs them to send you customers.

yours

Roger