ya, it's been pretty heavy this week, it would seem.

Fuck CCBill. :321GFY

Right on Stewie, if some of you had attended the Billing seminar in Phoenix, you would have them explain this very situation. They Do not have days when they turn up the scrub. :2 cents:

Our sales are the same as usual. We do not use CCbill though.

YOU'RE A FUCKIN SCRUB!

what annoys me is it seems like they're constantly playing catch up
nearly nothing until 5-6pm and then sales flood in
ive also noticed at 2-3am my sales may equal $500 for the previous day but around 9-10am the jump up about %15

yes they scrub to prevent things like CBs and refunds. However he is correct, they take a portion of you profits. You dont make the sale they dont get a share. So dont be so critical, he is correct as are you. One thing to remember. They arent going to scrub harder to avoid fines. Fines are based on a percent of volume, chargebacks take time to come in so they are delayed but sales are not. If they srub hard today it wont matter because their scrub from months past is what matters for chargebacks today. Its just not logical.

i have major traffic changes last 3 weeks or so.
Traffic way down , sales are up and down.
I suspect (still checking) there was a major changes in the upstream providers network configuration, probably some other but BIG ISP changes in US and probably EU.
Also, with this slowdown of traffic i considered a very bad product from trades. I spoke with a few TGP owners and they have the same situation with their sites as well.
Plus, you can add to this issues another well known: during slowdowns "somebody" always buys millions of Asian traffic and this traffic going to trades and you get this traffic from your affiliates and this traffic affects your conversions.
My conclusion:
this slowdown is not related with Pope funerals, taxes time etc and it just takes time to prove - it's a major tech issue + some country/ISP started to filter particular IP's of well known adult hosts or even filter adult content.

"Fines are based on a percent of volume, chargebacks"

You just said it yourself, once again I am correct.

Yeah Ok :321GFY :321GFY :321GFY

Fitty scrubs

50 people that think processors control scrubbing :1orglaugh

What he is referring to is this: banks look at chargebacks on a monthly basis, your chargeback rate for April is composed of chargebacks that are coming in from transactions that occurred in Jan, Feb, March, etc...as well as the sales that are happening in April, therefore, if you do something to restrict the sales that are coming in April(while you have no control over the # of cb that are coming in), you reduce the denominator of the equation, which inadvertently raises your chargeback % for April.

Regarding this thread, there are times of the year which, by their own virtue, are slower than other times, tax time is one of them. This is the time of year where, in preparation of submitting their taxes, consumers scrutinize bank and credit card statements in preparation for their taxes. I know that I spent the last week pouring over my receipts/statements, etc, called and questioned some charges, canceled 2 recurring charges, and made sure that my finances were straight. A slight slowdown around tax time is a trend that is seen every year and once over, things generally pick up

Your late, and we dont think. We know.