I love CCBILL, but maybe regional pricing is fucking things up....
 

Here's a thought, coming from a surfer point of view. I like this site, so I get to the join page, and go through the motions and it's telling me one price all the way until I hit the CCBILL join page. Then, once the CCBILL join page loads, it gives me a completely different price, almost double in value than what was advertised, and a feeling comes over me, like... disgust, and that i'm being ripped off...

I don't know about you, but when you advertise $2.95 for two days access and I hit the join page and it comes up $4.39 USD for 2 days (non-recurring), i'd say that is VERY significant and is probably contributing to another reason why ratios have gone to complete shit with CCBILL. :disgust:disgust:disgust

You're right to feel ripped off since that's pretty much what regional pricing does. :2 cents:

I jackoff to regional pricing

As long as it's not a pre checked cross sale, it's all good. Right? :winkwink:

There are so many scams in this business, this is just one more of them, wrapped pretty by some upstanding guys with a solid business.

I always wondered about this. Is the extra money really worth it? I got a $112 sale yesterday for a $79.95 membership. I still don't understand how that works, I just like the extra profit. Is this standard practice I wonder? Do most sites use regional pricing?

i don't do regional pricing and won't

I read a thread on a surfer forum and this came up as one of the things surfers hate.

Thanks for the input. I'm really considering stopping it, I just need to know a bit more about it first. To me it kind of feels like I'm pulling a fast one on the customer but yet I still get so many foreign sign ups.

According to all those Epoch-bashing threads, CCBill is the end all and be all.

We tried it.
Did not like it and dropped it.
I am sure some are making ground with it but for the exact same reasons mentioned above (the price adjustment 2.95-4.39 etc) we decided to abandon the whole idea.

Regional pricing is a CHOICE. You don't HAVE to use it. So the three options you have are:

1. use regional pricing and don't put any price on your tours
2. don't use regional pricing
3. leave it the way it is

I think people using regional and localised pricing need to remove the pricing from the tour.

It's very fucked up from a customer pov, but I doubt that's the reason why CCBill converts worse. I think it's more a scrubbing issue as declines always seemed higher at CCBill.

agree
regional pricing sucks in the way it's now

doesn't the surfer see a local price & not a price converted to USD? if you have a tour promoting a USD price then yeah thats an issue. but if you just let the CCbill join page provide the price then who is the wiser?

This works :2 cents:

surfs up.

The canadian prices are always the weirdest because it's as if CCBill thinks they are still in 2000 with a 1.6x exchange rate...

:Oh crap

Yes, it really sucks. It sucks that a car that costs $30k in the US costs 30k euro in Europe. Where have the world come to, billing each customer a different price, this must be something new, as just yesterday the same product did cost the same in every country in the world. Oh wait, it didn't. Sometimes you just need to think, to use your brain.

You missing the point.... my point is if that car has a price tag on it but because all of a sudden at the last minute you learn i'm Canadian and then decide to change the price to add 40% more... that's what it's like right now....

But I think the solution has already presented itself, by avoiding putting any pricing on the tour, it doesn't set an expectation, and that I think will help conversions. :thumbsup

The car can have a price tag, just no currency.

i think it would all depend on what you're selling, it would work for some and not for others

that is - IN FACT - what happens to me as a canadian when i buy a car - americans get them for about 30-40% less

No one gives a shit about 'surfers' other than traffic guys.

BROgrams, and site owners should only care about consumers who BUY. Not all freeloaders are buying customers, and it is just one more excuse as to why they do not sign up.

Looking at your customer base like it is one collective of all the same intentions, and interests, is part of the problem in this business. As if ALL consumers think the same. More over, I do not think the vast majority of sites out there actually DO regional pricing on their cascades.

It is one more scapegoat for having shitty content, banging in credit cards, ripping off members, or promoting sites that have not been updated since 2001 and/or being out of touch with what the BUYING public want in their content.

It is not to say regional pricing does not have some effect in the grand scheme of things. But considering what I just mentioned, along with economy, and credit crunch/declines are bigger factors by far.

:2 cents:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

When an astute surfer rejects ccbill's exchange rate and decides to buy in USD instead, then sees the price is something unusual like $USD3.58...

How do review sites cope with regional pricing? That's got to hurt some of their sales.

I can't believe it's gotten so bad to where people are actually blaming regional pricing for low sales.....If the owner of a site you're pushing with regional pricing puts his price on the tour, then he's a fucking moron and you shouldn't be promoting it in the first place.

I've NEVER placed a price on my tour....It's my job to sell the customer to the point to get him to click on the join link.....You never tell the price until you absolutely have to and by then, you should've already sold the customer enough to where he/she will accept the price...

The other day, I got a $141 sale off of my $99 option....I regularly get $40 sales from my $29.99 option.....Europeans will pay 99 euros just like Americans will pay 99 dollars.....However, the person who has his price on the tour with regional pricing is just shooting himself in the foot.

Here's what a regional pricing sale looks like...Just got this from my email inbox..

Transaction type: Rebill
Date order: Tuesday, October 28th 19:47:04 2008
Product:
Total price: 42.32

This particular customer was from France.....That was an affiliate sale so he gets 60% of that......And I'm sure that he would rather get a cut of 42 rather than a cut of 30 and as you can see, it's been rebilling for over a year now......In these times, it is a definite plus to see sales like that come in.....It's nothing but free money....I've turned it on from the beginning and haven't looked back....

I was under the impression that regional pricing was configurable...

I'm fine with charging the same in euroes as in dollars... It's when they start doing higher price points for Canada, Australia etc that I think affects sales from those countries.

yes, it can be configured as needed.

Its funny that people are giving CCBill grief about an optional tool that they offer that their clients can use to increase their revenue potential :)

I've been using regional pricing on my own site since the feature came out, and it's been great. I don't mention a price on my tour, just tell the customer exactly what to expect. so by the time they get to the join page, there are no surprises.