The pattern I notice is this:
Beginning of the month (the 1st - 8th or so) people pay their cc bills, rent, mortgage, car payments, school dues, all that shit. Then, the middle two weeks sales are steady but then the last week of a month sales flucuate like wild: up,down, down, up.
So this month has seen that pattern, and i try not to panic when i see sales are shit for the first week of a month. Now, if this continues the 2nd/3rd week, then I get concerned.
CCBill seems to be scrubbing more this month, too, or maybe it's the banks because Epoch sales are down, too. Declines are up 52% from the same time period last month. Anyone else seeing this?
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