Am I the only one with completly dead CCBILL sales over the last 4 hours?
 

Maybe it's just this damn christmas going on :pimp

I've been getting rebill notices but no new sales. Very slow new sales day for me.

We have been processing sales as normal today, I will check around to make sure there are not any issues though. I would also be happy to put some tests for anyone if they would like.

You are asking people on this board?
Most of them are happy getting 1 sale a week, they dont notice anything in 4 hours ;)

We are right at average for the day. I still think CCBill has a rolling scrub though. So, if it hit you today, it's only a small group getting hit and it'll roll to another group tomorrow or in a few hours or whenever. So you'll never see it industry wide. Or, I could be totally wrong. Just my theory.

Yesterday our new sales were tragic, only around 30% of what i would expect for new sales on a monday, today has picked up slightly but still down on our previous quarters average day. Figured it was just the xmas shopping madness!

I would wager there is the possibility of it being more complicated than a rolling scrub.

We have no Independent way of VERIFYING what happens to our surfers when they leave our tour and arrive at ccbill servers to submit a transaction.....PERIOD

We have their "word" and there very very very very very questionable stats and reporting!!!

Remember the following....

1. There is no such thing as a shady financial organization.----------sarcasm

2. A small group of programmers, salesmen, account reps, and investors with no oversight will always be entitled to full trust and should never be forced to answer direct questions in an open forum.-----------sarcasm

3. Many companies are now in full blown survival mode and resorting to all kinds of crafty techniques to skim and shave.

4. Also remember you can have a person on record saying they were paid by a big name site, to program and code a skip sale/shave function into the software and it is still hard for webmasters to accept that there sales could be going into a separate database.

5. Until sales return to acceptable and believable levels, the processing companies are going to find themselves on the defense because we know traffic is hitting join pages.

6. We are expected to believe that surfers are just clicking on join pages in droves but not buying.

7. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and when one has absolute control over your financial transactions...collecting your money for you in your absence, without your ability to verify...well

8. Yesterday I caught my bank red handed holding a wire that always hits my account on friday and should have hit this past friday.

By purposely not posting and applying the wire when it arrived on friday, they artificially generated almost $200.00 bucks in fees.

They applied the wire on monday, but it had fridays date on the transaction details. When confronted with this, they gave me a bunch of stuttering, and well what had happened was....

So I caught them red handed playing games and manipulating the transaction order to their advantage...PERIOD Its not rocket science....they are in survival mode as well.

9. The game is rigged, and I just heard an appropiate quote on the radio.....we are hear to serve the banks, not the other way around... at least thats the banks position....not mine

Very good info.:thumbsup

CCBill sales are fine last week and so far this week, too - but here's the thing I have learned: whenever you allow someone else to handle your online transactions for you then you are losing a lot of control. The trade-off is consistency, trust and the alleviation of some responsibilities like paying affiliates, etc. If you can't live with these trade-offs then you gotta go merch account. Otherwise......:)

ccbill has been dead for me forever

didn't know people still used it.

been brutal the past couple days