Lynn,
Thanks for the good review. I like it when reviewers mention the pros & cons, rather than just saying "It's great- buy it now!"
I've been using Clickbank for years & am just starting with Paydotcom. I think people should realize this doesn't have to be an either/or decision.
I have some ebooks that sell well through Clickbank, have affiliates promoting them, etc., so obviously I don't want to ruin that... here's what I'm doing:
I'm making a copy of my sales page, naming it something like pdc.html, & changing the links to go to Paydotcom. Then I'll put that page in the Paydotcom marketplace, leaving the main page of the site set up for Clickbank. That way affiliates from either site will be able to promote it, without confusing the customer... since I don't really care which page they buy from. And setting up this page shouldn't take me more than half an hour per site... if I type slow.
I figure since I've sold thousands of ebooks already, it's well worth $29 to be able to add ALL of them (plus future products, not to mention physical products) to another marketplace. There are probably some PDC affiliates who don't use Clickbank at all.
It's such a no-brainer to do this, that I don't know why there is even a discussion. I'm not saying everyone has to use Paydotcom exclusively, but at least add it as an option. I mean, $29 is a day's worth of Adwords clicks for some of us... if I find one good affiliate, it's well worth it.
Clickbank is a dinosaur to me- they seem unwilling to improve or even to listen to the concerns I see merchants & affiliates posting on forums all over the web. Every time I visit their site, I hear a Prince song, because it reminds me of 1999, not 2006. They remind me of General Motors in the 1970s... right before the foreign automakers started cleaning their clock by providing what customers wanted to buy.
Why can't they pay us electronically, provide better stats, follow their own stated rules, give us a way to contact affiliates, provide a search function, make it harder to "hijack" affiliate commissions... I could go on & on.