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Originally Posted by wehateporn
Still waiting on a 2 sales to appear from Saturday and no new sales despite really good day for traffic. I've contacted them so as they can investigate
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How many threads does it take to hold your favorite billing company to task for their perfunctory conversion ratios?
Here's a small list of the over simplified reasons why we keep going round and round about this very phenomenon...
1. Well Paid Public Relations specialists, come in and hypnotize you, the observant webmasters, by saying..."these aren't the droids you are looking for"
translation - "We are unaware of any problems at this time,send me your account details and we will investigate"
2.The Power of Suggestion... how many times have you seen a webmaster come in and say "this is the best day in sales ever" or "stop bashing billing company your tour and content sucks...hehe"
translation - divide and conquer tactic, one of the oldest in the book. Keep the webmasters bashing each other, and distract them from the subject of the thread.
3.The foolish webmasters are beginning to talk about lack of sales...we better hit the sales on switch now....
Translation - Throw the "sales on" switch at the right moment, and the fools will think they were just in a dry spell, see it was just a few slow days, sales picked up suddenly today so everything must be fine...just my own paranoia about slow sales..nothing to see here move along
4.Plausible Deniability - don't blame processor its the tubes, its the economy, its the FHG's, its your traffic, the dog ate my homework, your niche is saturated,blah,blah,blah
translation - there are many factors that "could" account for slow to no sales and as long as those factors are out there we can pass the blame for slow sales on eveything else for as long as we wish! Besides the webmasters are too lazy, ego and money obsessed to think critically, and analytically about their stats, and connect the dots.
conclusion - There is an old axiom that says "let he/she that is deceived, be deceived"
When other entities are present to collect your funds at a point of sale transaction, you will never be able to say with 100% certainty that you are being credited with what you rightfully are owed!
The best you can do is have "faith & trust" in the ones who you pay 15-20% to collect your money for you!
You have no independent way of verifying what your surfers do when they leave your tour to go to another server to submit their transaction!
All you have to rely upon is your admin stats, and the "word" of account reps PR specialist!
Those with foresight and intuition no how questionable admin stats and PR personnel can be!
remember in a world where image is everything, it is better for a corporation to protect the image of the company above and beyond the concerns of individual company clients.