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Originally Posted by BV
sales don't come in regular intervals
for example, say you get 24 sales in one day
do you really think they will come in 1 every hour?
no they don't
you might go 5 hours with no sales then 4 sales in one hour, and the next 6 hours you might get only 2 sales, then the next 2 hours get 6 sales
sometimes i've gotten 6 sales in one hour with 1000 uniques
You think all of a sudden my site magically converted 5 times better for that one hour?
No, It's called averaging.
The smaller slice of time you analyze the more MEANINGLESS it all means.
You are experiencing the same thing everyone else is. 
Cheers,
BV
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Well BV, you make excellent points (as usual), and if I'm experiencing the same things everyone else is then I guess misery loves company, to some extent. LOL
I do understand about 'averages' - this rant is NOT about my bank account - but my concern is more about affiliates, and making sure the CCBill side of things is running smoothly.
I mean, I come on here all the time saying "promote my sites!!" and if an affiliate does, during one of these 'unexplainable' days and they get weird ratios, then I've lost that affiliate.
On another note: are you saying if i didn't switch the cascade these last 3 hours now those 4 sales would be CCBill sales?
Alternately: what do YOU do when you see 10,000 uniques with only 2 sales for a 1:5000 ratio? Just shrug it off and go fishing? If so, I wish I had your life! LOL