So un-fucking-predictable. How does a program go from...
 

So un-fucking-predictable. How does a program go from a steady 1:400 to a pathetic 0:2300 in less than 2 days with the same damn traffic? Movie traffic! How? How?

Man that burns me up! There are always ups and downs but 0:2300...arrrghh :mad: .


Ahhh, Feel better now. I needed to get that out.


Ray

We usually refer to those guys as shavers. Was it PPS?

I feel your pain - same thing here - from 1:240 steady to 1:1500 in 2 days - wtf?!?

My buddy also, said the past 2 days have sucked ass(in a bad way).

As for shaving, I dont think so. These guys are a real nice bunch. They "prob" would not do that.

still counting 0:2500 , I think im gonna cry



Ray

ARS? Topbucks? heheheheh I suggest changing your ads first then switching to text, etc but its no guarantee. I've had $2500 ARS weeks then suddenly skid to $300 a week. Same traffic, same way of sending traffic, same ads.

It happens with many other big sponsors.

Yeah I know the feeling but then all of a sudden you get like 5 sales in a day and you are back down to 1:500.... You can't look at things from day to day. You have to look at the big picture. Month to month...

Just my :2 cents:

DH

Hey Equinox, icq me when you get a chance 161375873. Ill be on later, gotta go BBQ some steak now...mmmmm :)

Hmmm, your sponsor would have to be as stupid as all these pictures being posted to do that kind of drop on you in that short a time if they were really shaving.

Maybe processing issues, maybe your traffic sucked, maybe hosting problems, who knows.

I do know if you send good traffic and get a nice check every week, NO sponsor wants to lose you, so I'd email their support staff asap about it.

I thought you'd like em :(

:1orglaugh they've been doing it for quite some years now
and nobody seems to mind..

If it was a 20% percentage shave people would do some
calculation and say: "that sponsor shaves!"

Sponsors like ARS just shave 50-80% and everybody says:

"nah.. if they would shave THAT much.. they would be stupid"
bitch a little more and continue using ARS...

Being "nice" doesn't pay for that vacation to Spain.

Ain't ya heard about the Law of Deminishing Returns yet? This can be applied in a variety of ways. Often the pattern is great conversions for first month, cut in half the second, by the third month you are lucky to see a dime (despite no difference in traffic!).

The 48 Hour Law Of Deminishing Returns is when you are doing just fine and converting well - then hit these "bad spots" - It is often needed to have two spreadsheets for this, one for you, three for me :-)

OK.. if ya gotta resort to swearing.. it's called "shaving" :Graucho

I was sending Program X a little traffic, about 3k monthly. It was good for about 6-9 sales every month, like fucking clockwork. All of a sudden, September had NO sales. None. Same traffic, same sites, same search engines. Emailed support, no answer.

Sure, 6-8 sales a month isn't much, but dropping it down to nothing was pretty stupid. This month is running at about 50% with them...

this stats can only come from ARS

take out your own credit card and signup under your own link.
See if a sale comes up in your stats.

Ive had some programs never show the sale.

Well, one thing I can say about ARS [as erratic as its performance maybe on a day to day, and YES, on a month to month basis] is that if PASSES the Boneprone test above.

Umm did I mention ARS anywhere in my post :) . Its not ARS, its *********. I wont say who, this board is to strong I dont want them to have a bad rap due to 2 bad days im having. Im sure it will pick up, and if it is due to a stats problem, im sure they will fix it soon. As for shaving, I highly daught it. If at any time I would even remotley feel im being shaved i would pull the proggy pronto.

Oh and its not the sponsor in my sig.

Still zero and counting :(


Later,
Ray

post your link and the whole board will signup under you

nobody will notice it

I know you've been around the block, miss (not in a bad way...heh heh) but the fact is sponsors shave like a motherfucker. They do.

I split my traffic between several sponsors, a bunch of the majors and one where I happen to know the owner very well. He's a cool guy and is very honest with me about the problems he has, etc.

When everything's fine my traffic with this guy converts at like 1:300. Every month for the last two years, if everything is working okay he manages to convert about the same, tho globally the ratio has dropped steadily from 1:200 to 1:300.

When my ratio skyrockets, I know something is wrong, he'll tell me exactly what's up. 90% of the time there was a processor or server problem.

Moral of the story?

How do I know most everybody shaves? Easy, because I know one person who doesn't.

Am pretty sure I know who he's talking about... and I've been thinking about taking all there links and banners off all my pages... Only thing I still find it hard to believe they would shave, but who knows.. I want to believe what KimmyKim says. I've also read some other stuff about who am talking about...

I have a sponsor who stops counting stats for an hour somewhere between 2:30 AM and 4:00 AM EST daily. Whether they are shaving or simply performing "maintenance" during this period is beyond me.