European webmasters. Revenue decrease? Please make a comment

[adonis]

European webmasters using Ibill EU or CCbill EU...

For 6 weeks my signups decreased dramatically. Especially from night till morning (when it's evening time in the USA), it used to be peak period of day in the past.

One year ago 40-50 signups a day was ordinary for me. Thanks to billing companies and fraud shields my average count decreased to 30-35 by this fall...

And when Ibill&CCbill started to work with European banks, my signup count suddenly decreased to 20-23 starting from November 19th. This can't be a coincidence... I never had 4 hours intervals between signups until this date.

How is your revenue affected after mid-November? Is this only me?... Do you think I should run a US company so that I can get rid of European banks? (if that's the problem)

[doeser]

--billing companys reject more and more,so i noticed less sales aswell (-10%)
--ibill needs now more fee's than before (+2%...for no additional work)
--but the most important point for me is the decline from the us-$ to my countrys money ( http://finance.yahoo.com/m5?s=USD&t=CHF&a=1000&c=1 )...-30%

by the way,i have a us-company,but don't do billing over this company,otherwise the taxes would eat me up.
it was just another $800-expence...for nothing.

but all in all i'm happy,i use more sponsors in the ?-area,so all is ok,and i do well with it.
2002 was a great year,but not for the us-billingcompanys;-)

[Calvinguy]

I'm on IBill EU and CCBill EU and haven't noticed less sales

[Ian]

I talked to CCBill and was a bit shocked to hear him say that a 30-40% decline rate is about average for the industry.

[Que?]

I talked to CCBill and was a bit shocked to hear him say that a 30-40% decline rate is about average for the industry

And the reason?
More scrubbing or pre Irak war depression?