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Originally Posted by ctggls
Deltav you are right and I'm not saying CCbill is forcing paysites to put cross-sales but I think that they should ban sites that do this. After all the surfer is paying for a certain product not for every cross sale.
Also I think is more convenient for certain paysites to put CCbill since most software solutions developer know how to implement CCBill.
Still I think that the decline in the industry is also fault of the payment processor.
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Dude, just don't promote sites that precheck cross-sells like it's 1999. You're in control of who you do business with.
Also, far as "decline in the industry" being the fault of payment processors - do you remember what payment processing was like in the industry's "heydey" once upon a time?? Pretty much the Wild West, tons of unethical paysite practices, tons of fly-by-night processors pulling all sorts of shit and going under with webmasters' money, etc. Neither surfers nor webmasters trusted most of the processors then (and rightfully so), it's 10x better now.
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Originally Posted by SwirlsGirl
p.s. no extra traffic,no extra affiliates......simply removing ccbill payment option....there have been steady sales for about 4 months....with no more 0 sales days!!
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This is indicative of a certain mindset, I think - low volume sites have a natural fluctuation in sales, when you're not processing a ton of transactions in general you're going to have "low days" where sales are minimal. This is natural. And webmasters then create theories about what happens, often there's some emotional component because they're pissed they're not making money and they see that big fat 0 on their transaction summary, so they look for a scapegoat. Payment processors are a convenient one. Or theories like the graduation one above.
Again I will fully agree CCBill needs to update their system. But to blame them completely for your sales magically declining the 1st 10 days of this month - I dunno about that. My sales have pretty much been normal for that period, or a tick above.