Getting a Refund After Purchasing a “Money Making” Scam
I have read emails and comments from people stating how they have lost money from purchasing either dannys-scam-review package or something similar useless product on the web. They fell for the advertisement or marketing spiel and paid for a product that in the end didn’t make them a dime let alone the thousands these products promised.
For starters, most of these online “money making†products are sold through Clickbank. I have written about clickbank before and mentioned the company in a couple of comments.
When you purchase a product that’s sold through clickbank.com you are automatically granted an eight week money back guarantee through the Clickbank’s return policy regardless of the return policy associated with the products websites.
If you’ve bought a product through clickbank or thought of buying one you would have noticed this at the bottom of the page:
It may be difficult to read but the line thats circled in the above screeshot reads:
ClickBank will, at its option, replace or repair any defective product within eight weeks from the date of purchase. For more detail see our return policy.
Here is the information on ClickBank’s return policy:
1. What is ClickBank’s return policy?
Our official return policy for all ClickBank products is as follows:
ClickBank will, at its option, replace or repair any defective product within 8 weeks from the date of purchase. After 8 weeks all sales are final.5. What is the policy for returns requested within 8 weeks?
Customers requesting a return within 8 weeks of purchase may be approved by our customer service team if the customer provides evidence that their case merits a return.
Publishers requesting a return within 8 weeks of purchase will have their request reviewed and usually approved by our customer service team.
So if you want, you could technically test out the various products and see which ones work or not. Ones that don’t work you could request a refund. But be careful not to do this repeatedly or Clickbank will ban you from making further purchases.
Requesting a Refund
Requesting a refund is actually quite simple. Here are the steps for getting a refund from clickbank.
1. Once you are at Clickbank.com click on the ‘Customer Service’ tab at the top of the page.
2. Scroll down to customer questions and click on ‘Purchase Questions’
3. Fill in the form with all required information including your eight character order number you received just after purchasing your product choose “I would like to request a refund†in the ‘Request’ box.
4. Write out the reason you are requesting a refund in the ‘Question’ box and click submit.
You should receive a notification via email that your refund has been credited back to credit card.
Here is an email I received from someone who requested and received a refund for a product he purchased through clickbank.com:
Dear Customer,
The following purchase has been refunded:
Customer name:
Customer email:Refund date: 2007-02-11
Purchase date: 2006-12-27
Purchase price: $47.00 US
Order number: XKNNS3Z8The full amount of the purchase has been credited back to your account VISA*XXXXXX.
Please note that it may take up to 5 business days (Monday through Friday, not including US holidays) for the credit to appear on your bank statement.
Best regards,
ClickBank Customer Service
http://www.clickbank.com/customer_service.html
_________________________________________________Customer Service Order Inquiry
Order Email:
Email Link: https://login.clickbank.net/orders/?email=Order Number: xknns3z8
Order Link: https://login.clickbank.net/orders/?tick =xknns3z8Subject: I would like to return a product.
Details:
Hi I am requesting a refund on this product. The seller of this product states on his website that “I will refund your money in the first 90 days if you are unsatisfied for any reason.”This product does not work as promised mainly because of Google’s duplicate content filter. In fact I have no doubt that the owner of this product knew darn well that this wouldnt work.
I look forward to my refund in the near future. Thank you.
Also, one of the visitors on this site, Pierre, posted this comment after purchasing one of Mark Warren’s Websites – a product not sold through ClickBank:
I was scammed despite my best jugement – 26-29Jan’07- Now, I’m presing “midphase.com†since 29 Jan’07 for a full refund as per their term of service.
Will submit again when and how I got my money backTime: February 3, 2007, 1:11 am
MidPhase’s refund received 30Jan’07, no glitch, no fuss.
The important thing is to make sure that you request the refund before the 8 week deadline for ClickBank products. Eight weeks should be more than enough time to figure out if a product works or not.
Good post. Many people don’t think its that easy to get their money back. I got my money back after falling for one of those cruel scams. So far I don’t know who to trust.
I very much enjoyed reading your thoughts on Ultimate Wealth Package and Danny’s Scam Review. Danny’s Scam review is, I beleive a scam in itself as in addition to your comments, he changes the two ‘reputable’ schemes from time to time. The information, e-books etc in Ultimate Wealth Package are OK, but it is the ‘free’ website which is a waste of time and certainly not free. I cancelled with both Clickbank and Midphase with no problem. They both seem to be reputable companies. Why they deal with dubious schemes like the ones mentioned above only does them harm in the longterm.
Joan, John,
Glad to hear you got your money back. Its hard to tell who to trust.
While Clickbank is fairly reputable, they do make good money of these products. That’s probably why they have a good return policy.
Hi,
Your reviews are interesting.
I admit here,Clickbank has a solid refund policy,but unfortunately asking for a refund get me in trouble with clickbank,
I purchased a lousy scam product titled”Get Google Ads Free”,after the purchase,I found it not worth even the time to look at it,I asked the vendor for a refund the same day,and he replies by an email contains a link to clickbank refund department,I contacted them,the next day I got a reply that my refund is in process,and it may take up to 5 days for the refund to be completed.
I was satisfied,and before the 5 days period ends up,I go to clickbank again to make a purchase for a product I know to be great and need it,to find that my credit card is not accepted by the system!!
I made a couple of purchases before,and the mentioned refund was my first request for a refund ever,I don’t know how much it will take for my credit card to be accepted again by Clickbank,I’m very sad actually,being scammed and punished because I asked for my rights for a refund!!
http://www.hsonlinesuccesssecrets.com/ was a piece of crap.
Why? Their ebook is a rewrite of the rich jerk.
This guy should be banned from clickbank.
He gives 100 free products, but they are essentially just things found free on ebay.
Piece of shit. I’m glad I requested an refund.
It doesn’t even sound like it’s written by a 17 year old!
I want to get my refund back from midphase because I bought into the stupid UWP thing. But now it seems like it’s impossible because I forgot the midphase client I.D. Anyone know how I can get them to refund my money back. I’m really threating to sue.
What do you mean that you forgot the client ID. You should still be able to get your refund if they have you credit card information and contact details.
what if i used my paypal account? would it be possible i have my money back?
scammed from nick marks superaffiliate site , treasure hunt marketing., couldn’t even get the site up and running,(no support) just addt’l attempts to get add’tl $’s from me for addt’l products. requested refund thru swreg. will notify when /if refund comes thru. should i have my bank pursue this , since it was done on a visa bank card?
I was sold a service by the company called Flexi Club in South Africa. They’ve already taken +/- R7000.00 from my cheque account and Credid card. How do I go about getting a refund? I’ve sent them a letter of terminating my membership of which they refused. Please respond.
I was sold a service by the company called Flexi Club in South Africa. They’ve already taken +/- R7000.00 from my cheque account and Credid card. How do I go about getting a refund? I’ve sent them a letter of terminating my membership of which they refused. Please respond
this is the 2nd time i have had these con men catch me. Last time i cancelled with click bank did not get my deposit back but did stop the payments. A lot of these cons i have found have the same people behind them.The same people answer the phone.
I also request for a refund, they said it would take 5 business days to be transacted but it 2 weeks already and i still didn’t gat my refund yet.
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