Yes, and I sort of expected it because it's a Friday, a payday.

The next few weeks will be very much Goldfish's roller coaster because of Spring Break. Typically a spotty time because school's out for a week.

It's been a little better the last few days for me. The mysterious scrub machine always makes me nervous though...

Sales are back to normal today. So strange.

Nothing special happening here.

things did get better as of late, weren't squeezing the water hose as tight.

Turn those emails OFF!!!!...I did it years ago..

Believe me, you don't even miss the emails and you're spared the grief....The ONLY stat that I really care about is the weekly check amount.

Only those two things? Man, Are you really not aware of the current situation of the adult business.

Just a hint: WHO Will buy something they can get for free?


:2 cents:

and someone say i have so much time on my hands

Well then, why do my sites and the other sites I promote that use other processors like Verotel still convert as good as ever??

Yes, its mainly the 2 things he mentioned. Tubes don't have much to do with bank denials and surfers spending less on porn. But keep blaming them for your bad sales, if that helps you.

Thanks, you said it for me. I don't think the tubes have much to do with the CCBill "Roller Coaster."

Well I can't answer that and I wish I knew the answer because if I did I'd jump over to Verotel, pay $750 for yet another VISA approval crock, and feel good about the investment.

Since I monitor all the declines, I'm not seeing a lot due to scrub or bank refusal. So, at least for me, if my sales are down right now, it's A) the economy, B) me. I don't see how switching processors is going to help in this case.

I'll be keeping an eye out for strange CCBill behavior, but unless they are suppressing the scrub emails, then people just aren't hitting the Buy Now button.

If CCBill IS suppressing scrub emails, then that's clearly fraudulent. I'm NOT calling fraud, just pointing out that would be a serious breach of ethics, and likely actionable legally, up to and including some nasty class action lawsuits. For this reason, I doubt they are doing it.

There's no reason for them to take that massive amount of business risk, so about the only thing remaining is 10 people wanted to sign up to my site yesterday and did, and so far only two people wanted to today. Why the huge difference?? Don't have a clue.

BTW, the site in your sig is getting flagged by Firefox as a "Reported Attack Site." Google has it on its Shit List, as well. Safe browsing tool shows the site as not currently suspicious, but says "Of the 844 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 8 page(s) resulted in malicious software". The Shit List warning is still on the Google page listings, and Firefox is still blocking access.

I have a big problem with CCBILL right now...

My problem will be on this board if not fixed ASAP...

Mark, Paul, whoever... Please fix my problem!!!

1) I never blamed the tubes, in fact, I don't think they have any impact in sales at all.

2) My sales are not bad. Maybe yours are. In fact, I'm sure yours are, ANDREJ. So, keep that bad attitude over the boards, if that helps at all.

Made the move last week and yep sales went back to pretty much normal. Came back to ccbill as primary yesterday and my form submissions were 1.19% for 1 sale. I'm going to try some form changes and see if that helps but this will be my last attempt if nothing changes I'll be forced to move to the other processor.

I know when I switched from CCbill to Verotel a few years back the sales jumped immediately and have stayed consistant ever since with no chargeback issues. I think if CCbill keep scrubbing like this many more will be leaving for greener pastures...

last two weeks were good, weekend was great, no chargebacks, everything fine at the moment. Hope your problems get fixed soon mmcfadden, the ccbill support is fast in most cases.

I noticed something else the other day... we get on average 1-2 telephone sales per week - they are basically non-existent, we had a poor credit card sales day on friday but 4 telephone sales in 1 day - that is unheard of in our entire history... what does that say?? my theory is people were struggling to signup and take the telephone route to pay as a last resort as they get fed up - anyone else ever experienced this?

good luck, bro.

yes to the telephone

I'v had a thought that perhaps is not helping matters too..its a long shot and not saying this is the main course for lack of signups...

Recently banks have upped their security checks when you make a purchase online, and will use myself as a example, say I order a domino pizza onlne, after submitting the order I will get a page come up with my bank logo (the visa verified thing which has been about a while now) and enter my password that I used to login to my online banking to complete the transaction, thing is I have never signed up to a ccbill site so don't know if a surfer gets this with ccbill or does it depend on the surfers bank/cc card and will always get that verify page up regardless of what or where hes buying? so wondering if thats the case, you are getting the click to form show up in your stats but no signup...

The other thing my bank does now, if I made a few online transaction in a short period, I get a phone call asking if I can verify that it was me that made those transactions, and they rattle off the list of last 5 transation names that appear on my statements...just wondering what would happened if I said no (when it was me) and ask to be rufunded for it? hence giving someone a chargeback on that transaction?

not saying this is the problem but add it to how things are going its not boding well...

Same Here!!
Never seen that in the last 3 years?!

Why are you jumping on me? My sales are good and I never blamed bad sales on tubes, so whats your problem with me?

:2 cents:

Awful march and awful april.
Very sweet January with another sponsor.
I'm nearly sure there is something wrong somewhere.

ccbill needs money more than you :2 cents:
everything is fine for them as they always say

PaulK has all the answers. He can make sure all your sales stay where they are at. Give him a call or icq and know that you will now be in good hands

amen ...

i'll try to vote with my hits

Sales are low all around.

yes but no...

It's sometimes more than decent with other sponsors (i have two good example that i won(won't post here), but with ccbill i have -30% since March or even January.

this is what i see:
The previous years and usually i had nearly the same amount of sales as now.
There was just a tiny difference:
From time to time instead of having a 1 or 2 new sales per day, i had 4 to 7 sales per day, without a correlated traffic (it was pretty frequent).
I suppose here that some transactions were checked and added to the stats.
The problem is that it don't happens anymore.
So what could happend ?
I bet that these transactions are now .... declined ?

March has been very slow for me.

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I get more and more "declined transaction" emails from CCBill.