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Originally Posted by goldfish
There is something wrong at CCBill, whether it is the scrub or a system that was never meant to handle the sheer volume of consumer, affiliates and sites, or whatever, but with this many ppl saying something is screwed there has to be something going on.
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Maybe you're right, but I don't think CCBill is billing for many more sites than they were at the end of 2007 or early 2008. Probably fewer because a bunch of sites have disappeared.
No one complained about CCBill then because people were still buying things. I regularly had $800-900 days, and once a week had $1500 days. Not bad for a one-person site and only internal organic traffic.
Maybe CCBill has turned up a scrub setting, though I'm not getting that in the denial emails I review. I DO believe they are processing the same or even fewer sites than two years ago. That leaves two things:
1. Consumers aren't spending because they don't have the money. That's MY situation, so why wouldn't it be for other people too? I'm eating in tonight because I can't afford McDonald's.
2. The banks are tightening up. This worry keeps me awake at night. Wife and I tried to get a few thousand additional credit line so we could redo a bathroom. Got turned down, despite never being late on a payment, and having the card for some 20 years. Bank rep apologized, and said it was the result of the current economy. Banks are being more careful.
BUT... I do agree we shouldn't blindly assume everything is okay at CCBill. My first post on this talked about manually reviewing data and inspecting our accounts. That only makes sense, and I think we should all be mindful of watching over out respective castles.