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Originally Posted by patavax
I know CCBILL does send an email each time a transaction is denied.
My 2 main sponsors told me they have NOT received more denials than normal.
However, they conformed both a serious decrease of new sales this week.
Do you, as a program owner, see more denials than normal?
Do you see an increase of emails from CCBILL that transactions have been denied?
I still make good money, and as a matter of fact my income stays about the same as normal but I have to say that the last couple of months I have worked much harder than normal and I have doubled my traffic but I really expected to increase my income but in fact I stay where I was and since this week I am really having my doubts in this bizz (I am in it for 5 years now)...
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Well, the short answer is 'yes' I get emails, and I've noticed a shitload more than usual.
The "long" answer, tho, is more informative:
I use cascade billing, with CCBill first, then Epoch second (and soon to be Zambaio third). I've had some issues with the cascade system - bugs, mostly - and as I do a lot of switcheroo-ing I've been on top of CCBill like on a daily basis sometimes to make sure everything is working properly (including denial emails). (Sorry CCBill for being a pain but sometimes it has to be done.)
More on denials and sales patterns below:
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Originally Posted by stever
Hey MP
just wondering do you have the same amount of join page hits and form submits on a daily basis? or about close to the same daily?
because to be unstable like you mention seems very odd to me
especially when you said 25+ tues and like 4 on wed and back to 18 the next day
that seems fucked up
are most of your sales type ins or from affiliates? whats the split typein/affiliates 60/40 75/25 ?
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First and foremost: 'fucked up'? You bet, which is why I'm paying attention to it so much. LOL
About denials: my sites do very, very consistent numbers. I tweak and tweak the Tours until I get as much juice out of the lemon, so to speak. So some sites do great, some so-so, etc. But at least they're STEADY. So as long as the sales and denials "add up" to my "normal"-ish conversion ratio, I'm more-or-less cool with it. It's understandable why sales are down if denials are up and the number of "join attempts" remains relatively equal. Whats frustrating is, since April, i send more traffic and sales remain steady, but denails are going up. So this tells me it's a credit thing, or a bank thing (almost same thing). Out of my control. It ALSO tells me the new landscape may be: work twice as hard to maintain your average sales. Now, if it gets to be work THREE times as hard to maintain, then FOUR times as hard to maintain, where's the breaking point? A differant answer for everyone, I suppose.
Join hits: On my tours I have two join pages under my control (before the surfer gets taken away to a cc processor's join form). Some tours only have 1. My 'flow' is fucking fantastic as a huge number of ppl who stay on my tours for more than 30 seconds tend to go all the way through to the 'final' join page.
So this traffic is as steady as ever. Now when it comes to the cc processor's Join forms it's a differant story. Wild swings, as stated above. On one of those 'dead days' I described (4 sales after a 25+ sales day) I've had as many as 800+ form hits to Fellucia Blow with only 4 sales. Number of denials: 33 LOL
Okay, that was a record day. LOL But still, wild ratios so it's either THEIR join form is loading slow as shit or the banks aren't letting orders through. Whatever, it's weird and have noticed it now on a weekly basis, sometimes twice a week.
Talk about depressing! You work your ASS off 7 days a fucking week - look at me now, working at 7 pm on a Sat. nite for fuck's sake - and yet it appears like I only get sales 5 days a week! LOL Man, i should start taking weekends OFF...