How do I stop Clickbank merchants from...

This doesn't really answer your question Shawn, but is this really such a significant problem? I mean, are you expecting or have you experienced a significant amount of type of transaction? I don't know if there is an easy way to prevent this, and the effort involved may very possibly not be worth the reduced amount of income you might be experiencing.

I agree that a certain amount of this might occur however you maybe overestimating the frequency. I might be wrong on this - but just a thought.

> ...getting a discount on my products? I am a
> Clickbank merchant and sell products to
> other Clickbank merchants. The affiliate
> program pays 50%, but how do I ensure that
> only affiliates get this commission, and not
> the customer. And, I certainly don't want
> the customer to steal the commission from my
> affiliates by replacing the nickname. I know
> of affiliate cloakers for Clickbank, but
> these are in place to protect the
> affiliates. Is there something that protects
> the merchant from customers getting a
> discount by referring themselves? I don't
> know if this can be done, so I may just have
> to remove the affiliate program altogether,
> unfortunately.

> Thanks!

As far as I see it there are a limited number of Clickbank merchants so, unlike other products that promote to a wider audience, there is a finite amount of sales to be acquired. 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).

The only other way around it that I can see is to bump up the price by the amount of the commission, thereby offsetting this practise. I don't really want to do this though, since it puts the price up at first glance. Most customers will realize that they won't actually be paying this price, but it still doesn't look as good. You see?

> This doesn't really answer your question
> Shawn, but is this really such a significant
> problem? I mean, are you expecting or have
> you experienced a significant amount of type
> of transaction? I don't know if there is an
> easy way to prevent this, and the effort
> involved may very possibly not be worth the
> reduced amount of income you might be
> experiencing.

> I agree that a certain amount of this might
> occur however you maybe overestimating the
> frequency. I might be wrong on this - but
> just a thought.

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