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Originally Posted by andrej_NDC
Thats true and I wouldn't think of any other reason, IF my own card wouldn't get declined on bad sales days, too. I can pay just fine with my own cc online. But there are days when sales are almost dead and when I try my cc on such days, it always gets declined. So there has to be more to the story.
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Depending on your processor... for sure more to the story. But if your decline ratios overall aren't blown out, then that wasn't the issue.
Internet health can easily, globally or locally change sales. The banks are online too, the host, you... and the surfer. Any connection, hop, anything that is slow - costs you sales.
So if DC is getting hammered from Russian dos attacks, our online sales in America slow down. When cox cable has issues, we all have lower sales. When any major backbone is down, our sales are lower... if your host sucks today, your sales/traffic is lower.
This is a huge reason why we see pulses and sometimes all at once we say... holy shit it's fixed - but I didn't do anything.