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Old 06-01-2004, 09:02 AM  
Brad Mitchell
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Originally posted by Veterans Day
Exactly, offer what you tout on your font pages, stop treating surfers like dumbfucks who arent gonna notice the same fucking plugins at every fucking paysite and youll be just fine, we dont do huge volumes but we offer a rare "real" product and give to you what we tout on the front pages, nothing more nothing less. Result = 0 cb's for us anyway
I agree. But... We all also have to agree that there is a certain population, however small, that purchases memberships without the intention of ever paying their bill and ultimately charging it back because they know they can. Anyone who has ever taken customer service calls can attest to this. Similarly, there is still a real issue of organized crime with credit card fraud and affiliate accounts. Not too long ago we got hit with what CCBill determined was about 50 fraudulent transactions all from one affiliate in the SinBucks program in a short period of time, despite the scrub. So, inevidably, these types of bad transactions ultimately end up hurting even the most honest of merchants.

Do these transaction counts add up to 1%? No, probably not. However, they both represent real issues that could be better handled by some updated policies at Visa and Mastercard that address the inevidability of even the best merchants being defrauded despite scrubbing and other preventative practices.

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