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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Suckered.org


Suckered.org isn't a work at home opportunity, just an affiliate site with a unique gimmick. I stumbled across this site researching my last post and I thought it was a great idea. Suckered.org hosts a vast array of affiliate products and offers to refund your purchase if you are not satisfied with the product after 8 weeks. It's totally free, no registration is required. What a great idea!

Then I read the fine print. The refund only applies if you purchase the product through ClickBank. Which means, they are not offering any additional service that ClickBank does not already offer. From ClickBank's return policy:

Our official return policy for all ClickBank products is as follows:

ClickBank will, at its discretion, allow for the return or replacement of any defective product within 8 weeks from the date of purchase. For recurring billing products, returns for more than one payment may be provided if requested within the standard 8 week return period. After 8 weeks all sales are final.

So, suckered.org is not adding any value that is not already present in ClickBank. But, it would be a great idea for an affiliate site to really offer a full refund if buyers were unsatisfied, out of pocket. That would definitely be something to give customers some incentive to buy products through your affiliate site over another.

The other service offered by Suckered.org is "real reviews." The site indicates they use independent order verification technology to ensure only a customer who has purchased the product being reviewed can post their opinion. This is a good idea, but after clicking through twenty or so products, I'd only seen three reviews total. Two of them literally said, "Good product. Very good."

My opinion on this is that while Suckered.org has certainly come up with a clever gimmick, you might as well make your purchase through ClickBank directly.

1 comments:

dcdcdcdc said...

I think suckered.org IS a scam site. They have affiliates on there which are scams to begin with like mp3downloadnet.com among others. Funny people who use suckered.org end up being the sucker and suckered