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Old 12-27-2004, 08:48 PM  
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Originally Posted by Marc De
Because of some decisions that were made in previous years, those sites were in chargeback trouble. The high level of chargebacks caused many issues with those sites ability to process, including the use of x sells. We felt that many changes would be FORCED upon this industry, unfortunately that never came to be. With the drastic change it allowed us to do some other things, including have a closer relationship with our content site operators. Storm Media is our new partner and my sister owns the company and that helps tremendously. It also allowed us to avoid the HUGE iBill problem that would have more than likely bankrupted our company (or been close). In the end, it was a VERY tough decision, but in the end it was most definitely the right decision. ARS still does great volume and still makes money and that will allow us to do the things we are working on doing!

In the next few months you will see an ARS that is bigger and MORE capable than any previous ARS and that will be in a large part due to our new relationship.

BTW, I appreciate your comment on our honesty. That is absolutely key for us! We know we'd be nowhere without our webmasters, therefore they are our most valuable asset and we take care of them!
That was my guess, that the Global sites were in chargeback trouble and wouldn't be able to process.

BYOT was a great idea and made for great sales numbers...unfortunately it was just impossible for anyone to put together a back end to support it.

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