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Old 01-23-2013, 06:51 PM  
sarettah
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Originally Posted by SwirlsGirl View Post
No one wants to come in here and say that stats should be accurate....I love it....you can pretend perception is reality all you want...but reality is reality and in reality stats that do not match and look clean like they should are useless stats.
I am not familiar with the stats that a merchant sees at ccbill so I cannot comment on whether they are accurate or not.

However, the internet is imperfect. There are many reasons for stats to be off from reality. Even if you go to the raw logs level you may not see "reality". Servers go down, requests do not get completed and many other reasons why stats may not match "reality".

So, to say that "stats should be accurate" ignores reality and I believe that is why nobody that knows how things work is going to say that for you.

They should be as accurate as possible but they will never be 100%.
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