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Clickbank Scam Alert - Must Read
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Clickbank Scam Alert - Must Read

Clickbank is a well-known, well run company that allows anyone to sell digital products online. All the products sold on Clickbank must provide instant access to purchases, so people can get their purchase within seconds of making the purchase. Their business model has allowed some well known personalities to become wealthy online, simply by selling a product on Clickbank.

But did you know that Clickbank is home to one of the biggest running scams of all time? The biggest scam on Clickbank works using a bait and switch method.

Here's how it works: Someone comes up with a way to make money online, but for one reason or another, they don't keep it to themselves and continue making money. What they do instead is create an information product that describes (hopefully) the method they used to make money online, and they list their product online using Clickbank, where thousands of affiliates can promote it for them.

Then thousands of people buy the money making guide, try the method, and get some limited success. Usually, they don't make the money they had hoped for, and may wonder if they did something wrong.

Sound familiar? What went wrong? Was the money making guide all a scam? In reality, it's a two-fold problem. First, the money making method probably wasn't really designed to make millions of dollars , but most likely does have some sort of ability to make some money.

Second, no method of making money continues to work the same way once a million people know about it - the results get diluted.

So, the ideas are not infinitly scalable, and the market for the money making scheme has a limit - a ceiling on the profits that can be made. When too many people are doing the same thing, this upper limit is reached quicker.

So, why did this person who found a way to make money online decide to release his secrets, rather than just make money?

It's because he could make a ton more money selling an information product, with a lot less work, than with any other type of make money systems.

You see, the guy that releases a make money product on Clickbank is following the only reliable, proven money making system that is used by every online millionaire.

If you wanted to make money, wouldn't you want to do what every online millionaire does? Did you know that there are sites that will show you the easy way to follow this proven system, even if you have no technical skills, and even if you have little money to get started? Look around, and you too can get started making consistent money online.

Jack Sinclair

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1. de (23:09, 29.01.2009)
here\'s a phone number to reach clickbank.com for those that have been having trouble to reach them to speak to a live representative. I\'ve dealt with clickbank before and they\'re not what they seem to be, and now I have found a big way to close them down by law that will take a few months. I\'ve always wondered why they don\'t disclose their phone number? I still don\'t know, but here it is: 1-800-390-6035
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2. MMOfh (15:34, 07.07.2009)
What you have said here is very true. There are thousands of sites that will show you the easy way to follow a proven system, even if you have no technical skills, and even if you have little money to get started. If the people that trust in that entity, then participate in the offer and they don't honor that offer then can't that be called a SCAM? Is it considered ethical business practice to fool the people like that in order to Make Money for One's self and not the person who trusted them? Aren't there any honest business people out there who honor their commitments in these times?
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3. TJ (13:09, 11.09.2009)
It is no surprise that there are people out there who sell "get rich quick" scheme that aren't as "easy" as the sales letter has been. To call them scams makes sense. However, if you're buying an information product, you're opting in to be TAUGHT what self-acclaimed, successful business owners have done to get a successful step in the market. That is exactly what you bought. You bought a digital product that is for educational purposes.

I have bought products similar what this article mentions that sell on Clickbank. It is everything from marketing techniques, product enhancing techniques, sales conversion techniques, etc. I use all of that knowledge for my own gain. I study a lot of that information even today - even though I bought it years ago. If I had a problem and needed a refund, it was easy. I didn't even need to ask Clickbank. The seller had no problem with it. If I had a question, it got answered by the seler usually within 24 hours.

Are all Clickbank businesses like that? No. That doesn't mean all of them are not. There ARE ethical businesses that provide the purchased information it advertises, answers questions, and honors refund & other policies. Some also have DISCLAIMER and ACCEPTABLE USE policies that you should READ before you buy their information.

Businesses that fail to meet these requirements certainly are borderline scams. Business that DO meet these requirements ARE NOT SCAMS. If doesn't matter if every person on the planet decision to write about how they make money, find thousands of affiliates, and sell it. If the information is EXACTLY about HOW_THEY_MADE_MONEY, and provided the fair customer service and policy practices, calling them scams is unfair - and perhaps straight-out stupid.

This ridiculous, poorly written, under-researched article stereotypically targets this niche in an unfair way. If it targeted unfair business practices AMONGST this niche, then this article would have been pure genius because THAT is true and needs more attention from consumers AND Clickbank. Instead, this article just scrutinizes a niche of information marketers.

People, use common sense. Use your brains. THINK. Stop trying to victimize yourselves and cry foul. The word "easy" isn't the same degree with everyone. What is easy to THEM to use the marketing and money-making techniques is NOT always considered easy to YOU. Don't base something so subjective on "honoring the offer" because that's how fools think.

There are people who integrate SEO and Article marketing tactics into a module that, when utilized properly, can create potential profit. Millions of articles are on the internet for this intention - INCLUDING THIS ARTICLE. I will also bet that millions of people know that good search engine ranks for a properly disciplined website with proper keyword optimization and policy adherence can create potential profit.

I think it is safe to say that millions of people know this information. This article claims that millions of people knowing a money making concept dilutes the value of the concept. If that was truly the case, this article (using keyword optimization, anchor text optimization, a back link, AND indirectly drags Clickbank's TRADEMARK and its users through the mud) wouldn't even exist.
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4. some one whom been cheated. (04:00, 21.04.2009)
All those programs online won't let you earn . after sign up they will email you . teach you . ya they did teach but it's unless . they teach you just for show . no pain no gain . no one earn so easily .Don't get temp just reading their stury or comments. that irene lim from simplyrich.sg is fake . think twice before paying those sign up fee . it's scam
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