When You Aren't Paid Affiliate Commissions It Sucks

The great thing about affiliate networks like Clickbank is that the whole business of earning commissions and then actually being paid those commissions is placed into the hands of a third party.

As I understand it, when you list a product for sale on Clickbank you are actually giving Clickbank permission to sell it.

Affiliates can make an affiliate link in seconds and then get to work promoting your product in no time at all. When they make sales the commission is reflected in their account pretty much immediately. As the product owner you don't need to do anything to pay affiliates, Clickbank do it all.

Every two weeks Clickbank sends payments to the affiliates and vendors and everybody ends up happy.

Contrast this with promoting a product where the affiliate program is "in house" i.e. the product vendor also runs the affiliate program.

When this is the case you really need to trust the vendor.

Let's say the vendor uses the Butterfly Marketing script to sell the product.

You join, log in and get your affiliate link then promote the product. When you make sales you are counting on the product vendor to be decent enough to regularly pay you.

If they don't, there's little you can do except try to contact them and ask for a payment.

This has happened to me recently - the vendor is seemingly ignoring me completely despite owning me over $800 in commissions.

So, I've documented the entire story on my site.

Check out my story about Willie Crawford dodging payment on affiliate commissions for his Internet Marketing Inner Circle.

Willie has a very good reputation online as he has been selling in the internet marketing niche since 1996.

Sadly, my experience shows that he's not good at paying people for selling on his behalf.

Here's the real story:

Willie Crawford and the Internet Marketing Inner Circle