Clickbank Sucks

I was reading this and thought that it was quite a well thought out theory on Clickbank problems. The problems seem to be very intermittent and seem to effect people differently, which seems to reflect my experiences with it. People could be having record sales while I was having troubles and vice versa.

No one will ever convince me it is "my problem" or the "economy", when I go from a record profit weeks to straight zeros for 7 straight days. No fuckin' way. Than when I email them to complain, they reply stating it's my problem and sales start 6 minutes later. If I'm not mistaken, people were complaining on forums about poor sales during the first half of September, while I was making record profits. This seems to add more validity to this theory on fraud protection gone completely ass wrong.

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I have noticed a trend with Clickbank as of late, and I am simply questioning how they process sales. The following statements are based on my personal experiments with traffic flow on more than one CB account.

Sometimes hops just look way off from what they are in reality (as per my stats) or the hops are there but sales are just not matching their historical average.

Ok, I can accept variances in sales... that's life.


But at seemingly random points in time, some "mysterious" event occurs at Clickbank and all sales comes to a complete stop on what we'll call account "A".

And not just on one product, but all hops for all products on that given AFF account.

Nowadays when I see this anomaly I route all traffic for these "blacklisted" products to account "B". And BINGO, sales come back to their historical levels.

Then it happens again (7-10 days later) on account "B". Sales just come to a stop. I repeat the process and route traffic back to account "A" - BINGO again!


I believe there is something to the theory of over-zealous fraud detection at payment processing which puts a block on products / accounts for a given period of time when ONE transaction gets flagged.

There are so many factors involved in making sales that one can't look at the above phenomenon as an absolute, but it makes me wonder if I am chasing ghosts.

Clickbank almost always claim their system is operating properly, but don't give us anymore info to go on that could explain the odd occurrences that I and many of you are experiencing.