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Clickbank – along with a new look-and-feel – have released a hoplink encoder. So now, they’ve resolved the issue where people can read in plain text what your affiliate ID, insert there own ID, and visit that new link.

So not only do they rob you of your commission, but they effectively get a discount by having the commission paid back to themselves.

Now, the link will be something like http://2aa72ltysjn9hr9y0mzyx5-5rb.hop.clickbank.net/

Much harder to work out who the affiliate is and insert your own link, wouldn’t you say?

I say! Well done Clickbank! About time too!

Oh…

Wait…

What’s that….?

Ah.

It’s a decoder. So now the thieves just enter the encrypted URL, read off the affiliate ID, insert their own ID, and…. blah blah blah, same old, same old, you know the story.

[Exasperated sigh]

Come ON Clickbank. It’s really not that difficult!

What’s that

After years of hearing about Paypal scams and managing to avoid every one, I got caught out this week…

… by Paypal themselves.

They’ve spent a long time saying “If you end up at a domain that is not Paypal.com, don’t do anything, as it’s not our domain”.

When I now go to Paypal.com, I end up at https://www.paypal-business.co.uk/ , which IS a legimate paypal site.

But it took me a long time of scouting around to confirm that it was legitimate.

Why, Paypal, why?

Blimey.

I’d forgotten how long it took to get a product ready for sale.

Setting up the product in JV Manager ready for sale.
Setting up the subscription form for customers to receive update notifications.
Writing and testing the first few mails with hints and tips on the new product.
Getting the sales page, thank you page, and subscription confirmation pages set up.
Finishing the user manual.
Dotting those I’s and crossing those T’s.

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