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I know there are a ton of garbage products for sale on ClickBank, but every now and then, a product will be released that catches your interest. If you’re going to purchase the product, you have a couple options. You can:

• Purchase the product directly, giving commissions to the merchant or an affiliate that referred you (the most ethical)
• Purchase the product with your own affiliate link, effectively getting an instant rebate (nothing wrong)
• Purchase the product with your own affiliate link at a hidden discounted price (a little sneaky)
• Purchase the product with the intent of requesting a refund instead of actually paying for it (stealing)

What many people don’t know is that ClickBank merchants routinely create multiple price points for their products. This could be done for price testing, special offers and promotions, or for no reason at all. Because ClickBank does not encrypt the information that is passed to the order page (they do encrypt personal order information), anyone can modify the order details to purchase at another [merchant defined] price point.

All you have to do is edit the item variable in the order form URL. It will usually be set at 1, but you can try changing it to any other number (such as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc) in order to see if the merchant has any other price points available. Take a look at this screen shot to see what I am talking about:

Lets take a look at “Project Black Mask” for an example of this technique. The regular price, as advertised on their sales page, is $97. If you change the item number in the URL to 2, you will get a price of $67. This means you can save $30 buying the product directly, or since they give 75% commission, you can get it for about $16.75 if you buy it at $67 with your own affiliate link. That’s a huge discount from the original $97!

I have seen merchants with 9 different price points, some higher than advertised and some lower. You must be careful though because some merchants (such as WeddingSpeeches4U) actually sell completely different products (not just different price points) from the same account. If you change the item number on these merchants, you will end up receiving something different than what you wanted. If this happens, just send the merchant an email telling them that you purchased the wrong product; most will send you the correct one.

It is up to you to decide if you want to use this trick to get ClickBank products at a huge discount or not. I’m sure none of us would like such a thing to be done if we were the merchant, but really, the percentage of customers who do this has to be so low that it doesn’t make a difference.

I hardly ever purchase ClickBank products. When I do, however, if I can’t find it available for free, I will always use these methods to get a maximum discount. If the product is of decent quality, I have no problem paying the small price for it, but if it is complete trash, I am not shy about sending an email to ClickBank’s refund department