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Old 02-16-2005, 02:00 AM  
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Originally Posted by washiez
I have experienced the same thing with HSN with the switchover to Ifriends. My conversion ratios tripled. Unfortunatly, I had to pull all my links to HSN because of this situation. I also pulled all of my Ifriends links as well. Ifriends could never compare to how HSN was converting. $/unique was awesome..

I cannot ever trust Ifriends with my traffic again after this whole fiasco. I don't believe that they are shaving.. but something just is not right with them. Seeing my conversions with Ifriends quadruple in the last few months... to HSNs downfall.. Im done.

Sure do miss working with ARS though. Patiently waiting for their revamp.

Will. No matter what you say.. People are not going to trust Ifriends these days. Its just too risky. Maybe you should put your energy into talking them into having an actually have a real webmaster program with actual support.. so some of us could feel better when things go rough or get some reassurance. That is a major problem.. and I think I can speak for others about that.

Im doing well with Streamate
by the way for all who need a new place to send your traffic.
Hey Wash, its xxxbiz from the ARS board. I hear ya, I really don't want to leave HSN as they've been really good to me, but I think ifriends processing is going to drive me crazy. I'm hoping Marc De works out something and I respect his decision as this is business and didn't expect him to lose money because their backend wasn't producing.

I don't really ever throw the shaving word in relation to CC because I don't have any proof, but it seems many webmasters feel they do. I just know after what I witnessed first hand with their processing in January, it answered questions regarding my plunging ratios and concerns other webmasters have expressed for years with them. I feel that they control weekly signups from a cash flow stand point by tinkering with the processing.

I'll give mtree/streamate another shot as I did very well with them a year before I switched over to HSN. The conversions used to rock with them when they had tricams as their backend and the great promo material. When they left tricams and went to streamate my ratios dropped. Are you linking to their join page directly and are they still putting cross sales on the cc verify page? Their live cam teaser chats look like they will convert well.
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