E-Junkie Review

While I was researching pricing and all that for my Psst - wanna work for yourself? e-book, I kept coming across E-Junkie links.

You might not notice these if you aren't paying close attention. These things almost always redirect you to the splash page where the actual item is being sold, so you wouldn't necessarily know that E-Junkie is involved unless you looked at the properties of the link. I do that; and I kept seeing "e-junkie.com".

E-Junkie's main page tells the story: "We help you sell online". That's what they do, and they do it well. I've used some other selling methods in the past; E-Junkie seems to have fixed everything I didn't like about those.

You can use E-Junkie to sell your own products or get affilate payments for other people's. If you are selling your own thing like an e-book or a video, you just upload your file or files, set the price and the payment methods (PayPal, Google Checkout, etc.) and that's pretty much it. They give you the code for your website and when a buyer clicks it and makes a payment, they get an instant download link and the money goes immediately to your PayPal or Google Checkout etc. account. No waiting for your money, no having to process the order manually. They have all the extra stuff you might need: discount codes, inventory managment.. options for size, color, all that..

If you just want to sell other people's stuff, you get the code for your site and put it up. For example, if you wanted to resell my book, you'd sign up here, put the code on your website, and wait for me to send you money.

There are problems with that, but it's not E-Junkie, it's the people selling the stuff. First, as I said, you have to wait to get paid. More important is that the sellers are apt to screw you up by changing things on their website. Let's say you find this great little e-book that you really like and you want to recommend it to your readers. You get the code from E-Junkie, and put it on your website. When your readers click on that, they get taken to the other site's selling page. If they actually buy, you get credited with the sale. That's ok, right?

Yeah, but what often happens is that two months from now that splash page isn't about the e-book you liked. They've changed it to something else, moved the book page somewhere else, and forgot to update E-Junkie. Your readers click on the link for this e-book that you've praised up and down but they get sent to some page selling some other thing entirely - maybe something you absolutely would NOT recommend.

There's not much you can do about that other than watch who you sign up with and check your links regularly. As I said, that's not E-Junkie's fault, it's the other sellers.

How do you know you'll get paid? If it's other people, you really don't. Again, that's not E-Junkie's problem. They don't owe you money; the other affiliate does. If it's YOUR product, you get paid immediately (and if other people are promoting that, it's up to you to pay them!).

If you've got something to sell, consider E-Junkie.