Which one CB or PayDotCom ?

PayDotCom has less fee than CB and pays directly to your paypal
but still I find many of the top IM gurus using CB.
there must a reason for that.
so if you don't mind can u please share your experiences ?
and tell me your reason for using one service and not using the other.

Free affiliates Vignesh!

That's what CB has! They have a lot of affiliates who can just start promoting your product even without you nowing it!

I recommend CB, but that's just me...
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Hmm... interesting choice. Clickbank has most affiliates. Also, for affiliates it's certainly harder to find your product at PayDotCom. So, I would opt for Clickbank as well.

but clickbank has a higher fee than PDC and further PDC pays directly pays to your
paypal.
wheres clickbank pays by check which takes atleast a month to clear here in my country

Guys...

It really depends on a few factors.

- What kind of product are you selling?
- What kind of brand/name recognition do you have?

All I seem to be hearing is that CB is great because of the TONS of affiliates they have...

..thing is, most people never SEE those affiliates!!

- So I'm asking you...what product do you have and in what niche?

Let's face reality ok. It's very unlikely that you'll gather a ton of affiliates if you're just starting out. Plus, the refund rates that you get with products hosted on Clickbank are DISGUSTING.

It's not even about the quality of the products. People take Clickbank as a FREE RIDE...and they KNOW they can get an instant refund...and a fair few sign up with the pre-meditated motive of refunding after consuming.

SO....

I have personally started to use Paypal more...and that means going with Paydotcom. (I have nearly all of my products so far on Clickbank).

With Paypal (PDC), as least consumers cannot get refunds so easily, and I love it. At the end of the day, it means I get to keep more money in my pocket whilst keeping the serial refunding scumbags at bay.

Summary

I recommend that you start off on Paydotcom.com - for the sake of your sanity (I've had it with the lame excuses people requesting refunds make)!!


Best Regards in your endeavours,
Adeel Chowdhry

One concern I've found among PDC affiliates is that they can be reluctant to
promote unless they know for sure you are going to pay out.

With PDC, it's up to the owner to pay out commissions, and there have been
cases of vendors just never paying out, and keeping all the money for themselves.

Granted, this is a minority of people, but I know some people prefer to promote
CB products for this reason.

When it comes down to it, both are viable options, but you should sit down and
weigh up why each one may or may not work for you and your situation.

Richard

Is there any restriction to use one or the other? For example Ebay won't allow Google Checkout? Will CB ban you if you PayDotCom or vice versa?

Paul

As far as I know, there are pros and cons of each...

For ClickBank, the good thing is that there are much more affiliate marketers there - as we can see in many Internet Marketing guides - most of them revolve around promoting ClickBank products - so if you have a product in ClickBank, then chances are, you're going to get more affiliates to promote for you - which may mean more cash for you as a merchant! :)

Also, I heard that the affiliate system in PayDotCom is not as good compared to ClickBank - this was what I've heard... I can't verify this statement though as I've not promoted anything in PayDotCom before...

However, ClickBank merchant fees are more expensive compared to PayDotCom - IF I'm not wrong, for every product they approve, you have to pay $49.95... However, for PayDotCom, all you need to pay is a one-time fee (which is about $20+ if I haven't remember wrongly) and you can put up as many products as you like - and it is instant approval... However, for ClickBank, you have to wait for 3 - 5 business days for the ClickBank product approval team to go through and verify whether the product adheres to a list of conditions they have...

Also, another downside for ClickBank is that, for every sale, they will deduct from the merchant $1 + 7.5% as ClickBank fees... However, for PayDotCom - the fees is much lower (I'm sorry I can't remember off hand how much exactly they'll deduct)...

If you are deciding where you want to put your product in - I would suggest you try submitting your product to ClickBank for approval first... If they do not approve your product, then you put it in PayDotCom...

Anyways it's just my own personal two-cents opinion... And hope you'll find it useful... :)

Good luck!

Cheers,
Jun Yuan

- Paydotcom fee is $3 for each transaction.

Adeel

I would have to agree with Adeels earlier post about Clickbank, in respect to returns they have a very liberal policy.

As far as affiliate marketing finding a product to promote is much easier on Clickbank than on PDC.

As far as finding affiliates to promote your product (if you are a newbie with out name recognition) you will get the same response from Clickbank or PDC.

The one affiliate network I don’t see mentioned here is Commission Junction…

What do you think of them as compared to Clickbank and PDC.

Al

My own opinion:

If I want to sell a product with affiliates and JV.
Then I will go for Clickbank. They are well recognize
and your affiliate or JV partners (especially those
bigger list) will trust that they get paid for their promo.

If I just want to sell to my own list then I will
go with PayDotCom. Immediate set up and
my paypal account is not being risk.

Very interesting thread. Thanks for all your insights!

Hi Vignesh,

Below is the link that you can see the comparison between paydotcom and ther leading affiliate merchant processors.

http://paydotcom.com/compare.php

Regards,

Kingumar

I personally have never used PayDotCom, but I love Clickbank as a retailer. They have a fairly seamless system with decent stats scripts and I don't have to waste time calculating or paying any affiliates.

Systems will always win over human error when it comes to payment tasks!

I have noticed some very lame excuses for refunds also...but there are just people like that everywhere, you can't let it discourage you. Just stay true to your path.

Besides...no reason you can't try both?

I'm happy with Clickbank in all honesty:)

-Jay Salvati

I've used both and in my opinion both have their pros and cons. I'm not thrilled with the fact that you have to pay so much in fees and setup with CB, but you have so many more affiliates willing to promote for you and their systems are a bit more stable.

PDC allows unlimited free products, but their system is unreliable and I have personally seen it crash on the day of big releases.

Jeff

Am I right in thinking that it is impossible or at least very difficult for PDC affiliates to buy through their own link? That in itself seems a good reason for using them.

Alan