Originally Posted by john FVC

I have been with CCBill for ten plus years and have seen many different patterns. 10 years ago I used to get sales piling in one week then as soon as it hit the start of the next pay week they totally died. Like someone flicking a switch to off as someone said in this thread. I mailed them umpteen times and got the standard reply we all know. " We are not seeing any problems"

This went on for ages then it suddenly changed and things started to even out. There were not the great weeks but there were also not the bad weeks. It all evened out.

Fast forward a number of years and another pattern started where you would get a few weeks where sales were rocking, followed my another few flat ones, yet on the flat weeks you would get other webmasters saying their sales were brilliant so everyone thought it was down to their traffic.

CCBill will always say that there is not a problem and I have built up my own theory how it all works purely based on what I have seen and experienced.

CCBill will have to meet quotas with CC companies in terms of how many charge backs are allowed. If they are nearing their limit then they turn up the scrub level so as they can stay within their quotas. However, if they were to hit all affiliates at the one time with the scrub that would not be good for their company image amongst webmasters, so what I reckon they do is they section off affiliates so some don't get the scrub whilst others get heavily scrubbed.

Its quite a clever idea really as when the subject of poor sales comes up in forums there are always others saying their sales are great.

Fraud will be a major problem and its growing at a furious rate leading to heavier scrubbing.

These are just theories of mine and I would never expect CCBill to ever reveal the truth, and if was in their postion I would do the same.

They are hurting like everyone else in this industry.