What percentage of surfers fall for cross sales?

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  • ItBurnsWhenIpee
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    • Jan 2003
    • 1288
    #1

    What percentage of surfers fall for cross sales?

    Just curious if paysite owners here would know. Do most people uncheck the box if there's a cross sale, or is it like 50-50?

    Paysite owners also never really seem to mention this as a source of revenue when they're talking about how much they can afford to pay webmasters.
    Last edited by ItBurnsWhenIpee; 05-05-2003, 11:17 AM.
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    • foe
      Confirmed User
      • May 2002
      • 5246
      #2
      not enough thats for sure

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        • chupacabra
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          • Sep 2002
          • 3626
          #3
          personally, i think cross-sales are bullshit, and aren't good for our industry as a whole... the entire concept seems to be based on the surfer not noticing that he's going to be charged more than he initially thought, i hope to see this practice driven under fairly soon by chargebacks and such..
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            • AmeliaG
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              • Jan 2003
              • 10680
              #4
              It seems like it would be a cool feature if surfers did not have to re-enter their info to buy additional memberships with the same biller and it seems like maybe the cross sell tech could be used that way to make the surfers happier and more likely to buy. For example, if I buy a book at Barnes&Noble's site, I do not have to re-enter my credit card info to buy another one later. If someone bought one site membership billed by Globill and then could just use some sort of personal key to buy a membership in one of my sites or better yet another one of my sites, I think that would be cool.
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                • heymatty
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                  • Oct 2001
                  • 2188
                  #5
                  I get about 20% take up.

                  Thats cross selling a trial for another one of my own sites at a discount. Box is unchecked by default.

                  Rebills from cross sales are slightly higher than rebills for a normal trial.

                  I am sure if the box is checked by default you could be looking at 40-50% take up especially if its a free trial. But I don't really like that tactic too much.

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                    • Interlude
                      Confirmed User
                      • Feb 2001
                      • 1147
                      #6
                      I like the cross-sale-on-approval page option that CCBill has now... allows you to use them without scaring off potential buyers. Regular checked-boxes-on-join-page cross sales just look too sleezy IMO.

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                        • detoxed
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                          • Jan 2003
                          • 17798
                          #7
                          cross sells on approval is a good idea

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                            • TDF
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                              • Mar 2002
                              • 27296
                              #8
                              i almost fell for it a couple of days ago...damn thing was hidden behind some text of the same color
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                                • magnatique
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                                  • Jan 2001
                                  • 1830
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by chupacabra
                                  personally, i think cross-sales are bullshit, and aren't good for our industry as a whole... the entire concept seems to be based on the surfer not noticing that he's going to be charged more than he initially thought, i hope to see this practice driven under fairly soon by chargebacks and such..
                                  do you run a paysite?


                                  Just wondering..

                                  we've been running ours since november roughly...

                                  Credits/Chargebacks have been steady...

                                  I haven't had one single member come to me bitching about getting billed because he hadn't unchecked them...


                                  What I did get though was users asking me what their passwords to that free trial to another site they just signed up for was... got a few of these..

                                  got a few thank you for the free offer...

                                  They get 3 emails sent to them... 3 of them detailing how to cancel, what they got, etc...

                                  I thought it was shady at first, but after trying it, I changed my mind from the responses

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                                    • chupacabra
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                                      • Sep 2002
                                      • 3626
                                      #10
                                      do you run a paysite?
                                      yes, only paysites... however, in hindsight i shouldn't have made that such a blanket statement, i was really referring to the scammy uses of cross-selling systems, like TDF mentioned above... the new 'on approval page' system that ccBill is offering now i have no problem w/ at all, seems totally above board. i think the word 'cross-sell' has probably developed a bad connotation to me due to the massive abuse of some webmasters, i should have been more clear about that.

                                      it was probably the title of this thread that made me think the discussion was geared towards the ripping-off of surfers w/ cross-sales..
                                      ...promise her a defamation, tell her where the rain will fall..

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