I am glad I read this thread. I was planning on using
paydotcom for my upcoming product launch. I am looking for a less-anal-than-clickbank affiliate program. If anyone knows of any good alternatives to
clickbank (who I'm quite sure won't allow
*my* offering) or
paydotcom please speak up.
My only experience with
paydotcom was that I bought the "hyperviral" deal with my own affiliate link, and I got my 50% commission. For anyone who doesn't know what Filsaime's "hyperviral" deal was, it was a viral ad widget builder, PLUS
Butterfly Marketing script, manuscript, tutorial videos, and *ALL* of the other crap he sells, including powerlink generator, that viral friend thingy, other assorted ebooks, popup software, and top level memberships to all of his membership sites, all for 500 bucks.
Not bad considering that the butterfly marketing package alone sold for $1495. Basically, for $500 you were getting everything Mike had to sell at that point. Since I got a $247 commission I only paid $250 for the butterfly marketing script, which is really all I wanted anyway.
But in doing this hyperviral deal, and another deal with players with money, I discovered what I call a
"black hat back door" hack that enabled me to sell or buy items that the publishers had already discontinued or temporarily closed (like the hyperviral deal and players with money memberships) as long as the clickbank or paydotcom order pages were still online.
As I suspected, if you could find a way to get buyers to the clickbank or paydotcom order pages, EVEN THOUGH THE PUBLISHER'S LANDING PAGE SAID THE OFFER WAS "No longer available", those publishers (greedy as they are) would honor the orders anyway.
Pretty sneeky huh? You know what? Neither one of them has ever emailed me about it either, even though they were getting orders for products that had been closed for weeks and I was getting affiliate commissions. Crazy huh?
I *would* post the link here to at least one example, but I am new on this forum and it might be misconstrued as affiliate link spam. But I will do a camtasia video on this
"black hat back door" order method soon. Another benefit of using my
"black hat back door" method is that it gets the buyer to the order page without time for him (or her) to get his name and email "squeezed" by the publisher first.
Anyway, back to my subject (
went on a tangent there, didn't I?)... I need an affiliate processor besides clickbank or paydotcom. Please chime in...
Obviously, my ebook/software package is
black hat 
so no way clickbank will approve. Help!
Paydotcom.com!
