Warning: Clickbank anything else than Customer friendly

@The Old Coot - thanks a million for supporting my article. Point is, that someone who wants to sell his product does not like to have all the huzzle with payments, refunding etc. So for the seller it might be easier to sell the product throughout a place like CB. But there are other places, much more convenient for the seller and promoter too!

BTW - as this behaviour of CB is criminal, I invite everyone here to report them at "The Internet Crime Complaints" and "eCommerce Complaints". I am n

Hi, Aderemi, I never doubted it which is why I sugested that the terms were applied country by country. In Spain, where I live, we can often have our affiliate commissions paid into PayPal rather than Clickbank, because it is a fully regulated bank. Many affiliate programmes will pay direct to PayPal so if you want to promote a Clickbank product, go to the original owner and become his affiliate.

I see that the significance of my reply on the technicalities has not been acknowledged. Let's say you have a balance of $40. A>Clickbank inform the tax office B>A 30% tax payer sees his tax liability rise by $12 C>You are charged $40 by clickbank BUT you cannot claim against tax since it is a penalty - you lose $12 in tax relief. Your $40 balance will cost you $64 and you will have nothing to show for it. Clickbank have your original $40 and then charge you a further $40 - a nice little $80 ear

Aderemi, the changes relating to penalties for not having enough money in your account were notified to me less than two months ago. Maybe they were applied over a long period, country by country?

Hi, Rieke, that reply by Clickbank makes no sense at all. If they are concerned about dormant accounts with balances below minimum payment, they only have to create a Journal entry to transfer the balances to an Unsecured Creditor's Contingency Account. Commissions due to affiliates, once recorded are ALREADY PART OF THE TAX RECORD. The only tax due on these commisions is payable by the affiliate and EVEN IF THE COMMISSION IS NOT PAID TO THE AFFILIATE, THE TAX OFFICE WILL ASSUME IT WAS AND LEVY

@The Old Coot - right when you don't agree to the changes you cannot access.

In the meantime CB replied that they will payout the amount on this account. But I will leave CB as I don't trust them, although until now I don't know how I can quit. Have to study it again. :)

As said before, I reported this to the "Internet Crime Complaint" and "eCommerce Complaint". I am also looking for s.th. else. Here's a quote of CB's answer:

"We charge a Dormant Account Fee so that the earnings we are

I, and presumably every other Clickbank member, was asked to agree to the new terms and conditions because they represented a radical change (reason to read them, no?). I did not agree to the terms so I am now unable to log in to my Clickbank account - since I sell nothing, no great loss, but I am surprised that other Clickbank clients did not spot these terrible penalties for being unsuccessful (as if that wasn't bad enough!). It is disturbing that I was not given the option to refuse to accept

Ulrike, please top Cindy's comment, it adds info to your article and so is required reading too.

BTW.... I just checked mine and they have new rules for people who have products listed with them too. I would guess that if they don't comply they will be gone and if your promoting one of those products and not checking the links they may be going nowhere this is the message......Updated Promotional Guidelines: As of August 1, 2011, all ClickBank clients are required to comply with our updated Promotional Messaging Guidelines (Product Promotion Guidelines). All new products are immediately

Thanks for posting this. It is very important that people know this. Also you have to jump through hoops to get your very FIRST paycheck from them. Cindy

For me ClickBank is not affiliate friendly, as all our efforts seems to mean nothing to them. They are only after the money after all, either from vendors and of course us affiliates. That is why I moved to PayDotCom.

Thanks, I just checked. My Clickbank balance is reducing by $1 each pay period. I was not aware of that before. Soon there will nothing in it!

Thanks for the update!

Can we delete our dormant accounts and create a new one in order to avoid the penalty ?

I am reporting Clickbank with an IC3 Complaint Report!

Well, I used to have a Clickbank account, but I closed it because they took all my earnings faster than I was making them. It's hard enough to make cash online sometimes, without this!

This article is required reading for everyone. Who doesn't have a Clickbank account ?