Is This Smart or Sneaky?

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I need to know if I'm being smart or a sneaky bastard.

Some time ago, I bought the resale rights to a website script that I've been successfully selling and making some good dough. The market for this product has quite a bit of competition, but I've been fairly successful driving sales with PPC.

My main competition for this product is the original developer. They sell two different versions of this product through Clickbank, one with usage rights and the other with resale rights. They recommended using a Clickbank tracking pixel on my "thank you" page so I'll get a commission if someone buys the resale rights, which are only available through them. ($50 commission)

I decided to put the tracking pixel on ALL of my content pages and the pages of a new site I created that sells a related product. I did this because I figured that if the visitor didn't buy from me and ended-up buying this product from the original developer, I'd still get an affiliate commission on both the usage and resale rights packages.

So far, this one line of code has made me several hundred dollars more than I would have made otherwise.

I look at this as an opportunity to maximize my revenue and PPC spend, but I wonder if this is this a low-down dirty trick?

...or is all fair in love and war?
 


Its up to them to say. I'm sure they'll just kick you out if they find out and don't like it. I mean you could easily say the person reading your copy on your site helped progress them from shopper to buyer and thus you deserve a commission
 
kingfish said:
I mean you could easily say the person reading your copy on your site helped progress them from shopper to buyer and thus you deserve a commission
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This is exactly why I did it in the first place. I'm really not trying to be sneaky, but I do feel like I deserve something if I paid for the click and presold the customer.
 
If I understand this correctly, you're cookie-ing all your visitors so you get a commission if they go and buy from your upstream. If they've given you permission to do this on your thank you page, I'm relatively sure there wouldn't be a problem with setting the cookies on another page. It is sneaky, but the worst that can happen is they ban you from their program. Personally I've never used clickbank.
 
Cookie stuffing

You will get removed from their program when they catch you.
 
That's good to know, thanks all. I had heard the term before, but never knew what it meant.

I'm taking all the extra tracking pixels out now.
 
If you're asking about the ethics of it on here, chances are you've already decided subconsciously for yourself.
 
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