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Originally Posted by Robbie
No, CC Bill is still in my cascade. And I use them exclusively for my VOD. We put the merchant account with netbilling as the gateway first in the cascade for the paysites because CC Bill charges an outrageous percentage for processing because they handle everything on their end. We make a lot more money by having netbilling up front with CC Bill and Epoch as backups.
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This is exactly what I want to explore for my company. Not only for the benefits you mentioned but because it's the only way I can see that I can control my own billing more. CCBill and Epoch are great companies but I know they must be...ahem, how can I put this? Taking their foot on-and-off the gas pedal, so to speak. Or perhaps it's their merch banks doing so (a more likely culprit). But I also assume that Epoch etc have what YOU must have: some control over the scrub rate, the put-through ratio, the fraud detection, etc etc etc. So, if they do, then it's reasonable to assume there are times when they ARE touching these aspects of billing. So why let them have that control and not me?
Of course, convenience goes a long way, and many affiliates will ONLY promote CCBill sites, so it's a trade-off, i guess. Or I suppose it might be possible to setup "double processing choices" for affiliates: let them send their traffic to CCBill Join pages, if they prefer, or to NATS pages, if they prefer.