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Old 10-02-2005, 12:30 AM  
latinasojourn
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
While we have been ok with sales we have had some rather odd days.. With that we started to update more yet retention seems to slowly be slippin down the drain.. So I started to talk with Steve Lightspeed and a couple others about the problem and found out some nasty info...


Over 200 million reissued cards this summer..

40 million from Master Card's frauded..
http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/17/news/master_card/

Higher minimum payouts on credit card payments. "Average household credit card debt was about $9,300 last year"
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05273/580132.stm

Credit card hacks are on the rise so reissuing cards is on the rise.
http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...tml?from=r ss

And now the rising price of gas..

Moreless this means a decline in rebills and a blow to fresh sales..

very accurate analysis. and you are seeing plenty of guys signup and immediately cancel their recurring so they don't forget---on great sites with lots of content.

single big ticket non-recurring packages are doing OK.
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