Worst sales week of 2007
 

sales for both myself AND my sponsors have been DISMAL this week...down over 50% from last week...I hope to God shit picks up next week because this is BULLSHIT!!!...

This is easily the worst sales week of 2007...Fuck!!!

i heard the same from alot of people this week.

YES, last part of May has sucked something horrid. This is by far the worst month

yeo my friends and I also noticed a decrease

that's the rumor.

not sure...

im experiencing the same thing with my sponsors

its really fucked up :(

agreed, shit is down, overall ratios dropped :helpme

Same exact here 50% off :)

i made jack shit this week.. kinda upsetting seeing my best sponsor go from 1:300 last week to 1:1200

I am hurtin' at the moment.

Doesn't seem you are alone, everyone seems to be talking about dismal sales. Time for everyone to think outside the box and work just a little harder :)

Fact is, the weather is good, the economy is bad, prices are up, unemployment is up, interest rates suck...and people are getting too scared to spend

conspiracy: Maybe all the sponsors start scrubbing around this time and blame it on summer.

maybe when everyone gets paid around the 1st things will start looking better...

We saw a drop in sales (increase in denials) during mid week but saw it ramp back up somewhat yesterday and today. Last week on the flip side was rocking so go figure.

We had one bad week in may, the rest average. That one week was at 50% loss - but its yo yo season.

Right....Since October 2006 there have been wicked scrub issues happening at all the processors..

sales has been pretty.... shit

Lots of surfers gearing up for a long weekend outside of the net

yea im hoping its because of the holiday weekend

Mine have been HORRIBLE too, down 50% is about right

I wish that the major processors would provide some sort of guideline as to what is going on - without revealing actual numbers, perhaps to show relative values of "sales - rebills - declines - chargebacks". I don't even need to know what the scale is, just how this week compares to last week, etc.

It is really fucking annoying to think your shit is screwed up, only to discover that everyone else is having a hard time giving stuff away. This week has totally blown. It especially sucks because my actual click thrus and sponsor click counts are UP this week compared to last... but I too will likely take about 50% of last week. The surfers are there, how come they can't seem to buy anything?

It has been suggested to me that the current CC processors, especially the third party processors are either scrubbing to heck or potentially have hit some sort of limit on their ability to process, as things have just hit a wall.

Does anyone from the CC side of things care to comment on something like this, and potentially give us some guidance as to what is going on?

Oh yeah, program owners: The last thing I want to hear is the old "end of college year slow down". There seems to be a bullshit excuse for almost every other week of the year now (after christmas,got the christmas cc bills, mardigras, spring break, easter, cinco de mayo, international don't buy porn day... it's like there is an excuse every fucking week for why stuff don't sell - yet we were all selling in the past). I noticed the price of razors at the store went up recently, I am wondering if there has been a run on them?

Come on folks... what's the deal?

Check your join page click to buy ratios....Compare pre October 2006 with afterwards. You can certainly deduce that there is an issue, but no one is certain about the cause. And this is across the board on all the processors.

Blaming it all on Zango or Russian Codec installers is just bs...This has become the industry's imaginary bogeyman. It's all about the scrub.

Based on my personal sales history, Memorial Day weekend/week has always been shit for the past 10 years. Aside from that, everyone IS bitching about lower than average sales. I doubt its some kind of grand conspiracy, but who knows.

I don't think those things are imaginary. :2 cents:

Good sales for us lately. :thumbsup

Well not imaginary...But their impact is highly over estimated IMHO.

I am 20% up compared to last month. But I work more ;)

Maybe it's the season.
Maybe it's the higher gas prices.
Maybe it's that the sun is in occupation and the moon waxes.

Or...

Maybe it's an implosion of re-hashed bullshit that this industry is made up of.

My traffic is increasing everyday.

Are you having bad traffic or bad ratios?

too much freecontent and FHG are all over the web so this is the result...

i can't compare i have just restarted, so for me it is of course better than before.

zango wuz here may 2007

holly shit i'm using a sponsor owned by the russian mafia and my ration is very low:
1 sale on 1000000 i'm pretty sure it is zango...

Yeah my traffic is up 40% and my sales are down 80%. What the FUCK yo. :Oh crap :Oh crap

RawAlex: Word dude. I'd say more but I am ready to pass out.

no change seen. see sig? ;)

Do you know the url the the qc webmaster board?

Traffic is stable or up. SE traffic is up. Sales? Toilet time.

Something isn't right, something has gone seriously to shit... time for the processors to come out of thier holes and attempt to explain the situation. It's getting tough to FIND a sale.

Our sales have been great this entire month.

Mark

bvf we are getting better every week throw some traffic are way ill give you a great deal! We also are doing PPS $30 on #1 trials greta with ethnic traffic!

I was kicking ass about a week ago... right now, not so much

my sales have been great this month

I've had a couple of sponsors just die on me, got 0 sales on cc-bill the last 3 days and AFF has sucked balls all month... Some sponsors are doing as usual thou.

It is.

Typically around the holidays, especially in the summer months, it happens. I had a decent week, but overall the month's off about 15%.

Best month ever... ;)
Finally seeing growth again...
But having ALOT of issues with chargebacks since getting both of my sites on the first page of google for some great keyterms..

Down around 30% for me this month. May has sucked hard!

What he said.

Nor do I. I think they are very real and fucking this business up for affiliates. :(

I don't think people are referring to adware/spyware as the main cause of slowing sales, but adware / spyware installers sure don't help the cause either. Even if adware / spyware cuts into 3% of my profits, that's still theft.

And, even if it is only 3% right now, what will that percentage be in two more years with the obvious SIGNIFICANT increase in adware / spyware activity in OUR industry? I mean, a decent sized portion of this industry is in that game.

So yeah....the boogeyman might be just be a bedtime story for now, but i'll tell you what...i'm still scared shitless of it.

Kastle Archives has been down a little for us, but probably only about 10-15% - not too drastic.

We chalk it up to the usual summer holiday trends. Seen it every year since '99.