Most marketers use Clickbank because it’s the largest Internet marketplace for digital products and affiliates who want to sell them, but if you don’t sell a large quantity of products then you end up paying them if you have money in your account and you haven’t met their CDR– Customer Distribution Requirement.
If you have a Clickbank account I would advise you to read their Accounting Policy. I posted about this awhile back for those that use Clickbank and didn’t realize why they weren’t being paid even though they had the payout at 25 dollars. I have been paid in the past until they made these changes and I couldn’t understand why they kept deducting and not paying me so when I did finally get around to rereading as I was directed to do I then saw why.
I know lots of people use Clickbank and I have had an account for several years, but I haven’t really been promoting my website that I sell e-books on for quite sometime. Every once in awhile I get a random sale and I have it set to pay out at 25 dollars. I never had a problem until the end of last year.
They require 5 different credit cards during the year before they will payout and many people use their paypal account instead of a credit card so they don’t count that toward the requirement. I did have 49 dollars in my account which they started deducting a dollar every 2 weeks simply because they can. They do this with dormant accounts and since my sales weren’t very active my account was considered dormant.
I didn’t have enough purchases by credit cards so the money I did have in that account was a donation to Clickbank. In my opinion that sucks, but if I pushed for more sales then I wouldn’t have that problem. At the end of last year the same thing happened also and the few measly bucks dwindled fast and the last 2 payments instead of a dollar they took 4 and then 5.
I need to decide if I want to get rid of the account I have used for so long since I have proven to myself over the past couple of years that I’m not a very profitable affiliate marketer. I would have to delete everything I have connected with them and that’s going to be a pain. I hate when you go through all that trouble to set stuff up then a couple years later everything unravels.
Just like my original websites when I set up different ads through CJ and some of the others, lots of the companies that advertised through them would cancel their affiliate accounts and you have to go through and remove all those stupid ads, what a pain. I am going to soon go through those sites and move all the information to my main site and just delete them all. What a waste of time.
