Chase FisherFounder, Affiliate Automated · Architecting Human UGC Systems That Scale to 400+ Daily Videos | BOF Performance | TikTok Shop Partner

I actually got “got” by this and bought something without seeing it…

12 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Chase Fisher shows how TikTok Shop pulls a bait-and-switch: a product shows $10.98 at checkout but charges $29 as a hidden subscription. He calls it one of the sneakiest rebill schemes he's seen and warns that creators profit from recurring charges even without commission boosts.

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TikTok Shop has officially gone full black hat mode. Please just watch this. Tried to buy something on TikTok Shop, not this, but I tapped the orange shopping cart, I press buy, and then with Apple Pay— okay, cool, $10.98, that's a great deal, right? Awesome. Wait, what is that? It instantly scrolls away and then it's $29. Look, there's definitely a lot worse out there, but it scrolled away instantly. It is one of the sneakiest rebills that I've seen. But the problem for us affiliates, we just don't get a commission boost when we actually get somebody to subscribe. But look how good of a deal that You actually get rebilled every couple weeks here, so just be careful of buying more stuff off TikTok Shop so people like us that post hundreds of videos a day on TikTok Shop can make more money. You want to learn how to build a creative engine with human creators that does hundreds of videos a day on any platform? Drop me a follow.