Don’t Be a Clickbank Douchebag
When you put a product out on Clickbank for sale, it is done usually for ease as well as for access to the affiliate network. You don’t expect people to take advantage of you.3DayMoney.com is my first product sold via Clickbank. So far, I’ve been happy with the experience. You have to jump through some hoops and pay them $49 for the setup fee, but they take care of order processing, affiliate payments, even refunds. Nice and easy.
Unfortunately as I am finding, it also opens you up to Clickbank douchebags. What makes them a douchebag?
They sign up as a Clickbank affiliate and then BUY a product as their own referral, thereby making the commission back. So, in essence, they’ve found and are using a sneaky back door to get a product at essentially half price (since most products offer 50% or more commission).
These people are douchebags. Sure, I still make some money and it is money I wouldn’t have made beforehand, but I look at it as cheating a product creator.
When you walk into a car dealership, do you turn yourself into a salesman so you can save money? For businesses that offer finder’s fees for referrals, do you walk in there and have the balls to say you referred yourself and demand the fee? I mean, come on!
There are people out there working hard to create products. Many of these info products are cheap as they are. I mean, while I was in San Diego, 3DayMoney could have been had for $47. I highly doubt anybody is going to suffer financial ruin over $47. And I spent quite a bit of time assembling that course. When a douche buys it, I end up making only about $21 on the sale.
The most ironic part is that these people are buying my course in order to learn how to make money on the Internet, and in the process they cheat to get the material. I know full well they would not be thrilled if the same happened once they got their own product out there.
I’m not sure how often it happens. It has happened several times to me.
So, look people. Don’t be a douche. If you’re not willing to pay the price for a product offer, then don’t buy it. But, don’t pull shady crap. You get back what you give. If you’re going to seek out how to make money online by cheating others out of their fee, you are only destined for failure anyway. You don’t find online success by stomping on the efforts of others.
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I'm David Risley. I've been making my living as a blogger for over a decade. Blogging is my business and how I support my family. With this blog, I'm just gettin' REAL and telling you how this business works.









