one fitty sucky conversions:disgust

It's not all bad.

Here are my daredorm (nastydollars) stats today:

Dare Dorm 3913 6 1:652 $210

I have checked the ratios for sites working with NATS and indeed my ratios are OK there but I send 80% of my traffic to sites with CCBILL as processor and that makes a big difference (since start of 2nd half of May 2010, between May 1 and May 15 my sales were OK)...

It's 14 hours later now... Still waiting?
Or let me guess: they have checked your sites and all is running smoothly...

nothing changed on their side

dont worry i called the surfers
and the signups are back
no more worries

thank you..


anyway the moment i got on icq with paul.. suddenly ccbill sales for my program returned to normal.. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh no shit!!

R U Serious ???

It's NOT Ccbill or Epoch. For the past 5 years I ran my websites successfully with Verotel and the situation is exactly the same here. But how to explain all this traffic coming to our websites without sales? My guess is people can't simply wait to see them without "Members" or "Join" buttons. Just check out these articles:
http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-n...-rules-100520/

http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-n...-rules-100504/

In case you didn't know our content is already on their servers available for 6 Euro. And now these NAZI m-fuckers grew even stronger, they're untouchable now!!

Why would ccbill care if you talk to John? John and Ccbill have a great relationship using John doesn't take away biz from ccbill.

Well I see also some more sales but I cannot yet confirm that the situation has returned like before May 17...

sucks big time for me too :(

Perfect :) Get me on ICQ (5596373), AIM (JohnA1078), or just call the office and we can set up all the details. I think you'll have a much better time than you imagine :)

Adding you now to ICQ. :)

I had some CCBILL sales early this morning so I was hopefull that the situation was cleared but since 12 hours: not any CCBILL sale anymore...
I really don't understand...
I am pushing more NATS sites now on my network and I see good conversions but I am right now only at a 40% NATS and others / 60% CCBILL right now.

Dude, seriously, no BS - that's the SAME thing happening to me. Just got a sale but it was the first since 11:30 am! I get up, see 'normal' sales and start thinking the same way YOU did: "It's getting better/back-to-normal..." then nothing ALL day? Amazing.

You should ICQ me so we can discuss it. LOL Thank GOD for rebills, that's all i can say - and cascading billing. :)

I wonder if people using Zombaio are having this type of problem...

What about those having a merchant account ?

OK I will iCQ you later on [Thursday].
I just checked again. Still the same. Only NATS sales coming in here, NO CCBILL.
Only a few sales of Wednesday morning.
My totals from CCBILL from Sunday till Wednesday makes a very week sales day for just 1 day. But we have had 4 days for it...
I am way too fustrated by seeing this...

Just after my last post here I got 1 more CCBILL sale but this goes way too slow...

Some friendly, non-business, human being advice:

When the frustration level gets to the point where it's more-or-less constant, and you're sitting there SCREAMING at your computer screen knowing there's nothing you do but FREAK OUT, leave.

Get out. Do ANYthing else, even if it feels selfish. Take a walk, go the park, see a movie. If this is still the situation a week from now then we can all look for bridges to jump off. I am taking my own advice here and going out to a cafe now and look at pretty NYC tourists. :)

Exactly.. I SAID OVER and OVER and OVER again... But we, Adult Webmasters, never learned to listen...

Problem is not CCBILL or the processor... The problem is that people are not going to PAY for something that is AVAILABLE FOR FREE... DO I need to say this again?

Surfers go to your paysites to check the name of the last scene OR check the name of that hot pornstar, movie or HD Video you added...

Then they go and get it for free at one of thousands of sites with COMPLETE MEMBERS AREAS RIPPED and Given away for free...

EVEN a GIANT like PAYPAL protects ILLEGAL sites like extreme-board... because they make them money with donations... Try to send a complain to PAYPAL, saying that extreme-board is breaking many of their TOS... You will get a response that they won't take extreme-board account down.... If even PAYPAL protects illegal sites, there is absolutely nothing we do at this point, seriously...

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Today was a little bit bad with our CCBill stuff. Enough so that it makes one pause for thought about what is going on.

Sadly I fear that when the end comes to this industry, it will come quickly.

I think there are many here who will not make it to Christmas doing things the way they have been done in the past.

Oh for Fuck's Sake! What you said does NOT explain why ONE day sales are great then POOF! Gone the next. I am SICK of idiots (no offense) saying this over and over. Sales would decrease, slowly, over time (and they are, compared to the good ole days), but they would not SHUT OFF like a fucking faucet one day, then turn on the next. I run over 20 paysites, have a network with sites that sell consistently. CONSISTENTLY means every single day, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching, like a fucking cash register. Some sites make a ton of sales a day, others only a few. Some do not. But it's those CONSISTENT sites that set me off. Your theory - NO ONE PAYS FOR PORN ANYMORE - is idiotic for two simple reasons:

1. If ppl didn't pay for porn we'd ALL pack up and go do something else, even you.
2. If you're making over 50 sales a day then suddenly you drop to 2 then go back up to whatever, like a frickin' yo-yo, that doesn't mean ppl aren't paying for porn.

That means the banks, the processors, Wall Street, SOMEbody, is doing SOMEthing. Especially when you've never seen such wild swings before now.

Whew! Oh, never mind.
LOL

What mr peabody said is right.
I still make cash with porn.
Even today.
Untill now I did send 80% to sponsors with CCBILL and 20% to sponsors with other processors.
Untill May 15 all was very well.
May should have been a normal sales month with my steady income like all the months before...
May 16 was less than before.
But than suddenly... From May 17 till May 25 I see a total cut off for my CCBILL stats. The other sites with NATS and other processors are still steady and my sales are even better with better ratios than the months before...
And I am NOT talking here of just 1 or 2 sales per day but much more...
Since last Tuesday I am pushing more NATS sites (the ratio since Tuesday evening is 40% NATS / 60% CCBILL) and I see a grow in my NATS sales.

Wednesday May 26 was the 1st day since May 17 with more CCBILL sales but not enough to speak in terms of a normal day...

I talked some peoples of this isue and most of them (not all) say the CCBILL sales are cut off. A relative of me who does only promotion for non CCBILL sites had in the time period of May 17 till May 25 one of his best days of the year with 26 sales and 750 USD in revenue that day...

Conclusion:
1.PPL still buy porn.
2.There is something going on with some of the processors (I can confirm this only foor CCBILL but I see messages that it is the same thing with EPOCH and VEROTEL and ...)

Sure... A lot of people still make a living with adult...

We could be making 10 times more if.... yes, that.

Yes that is true. But OK we know this situation and since half 2008 my income has been reduced but it is steady... or was steady untill May 16...

What's your CCBill sales for 05/26?

Got 1 sale (2010-05-26 00:29:47 so it's kinda 05/25)

3400 referred affiliates:
0 sales. 5 rebills

Actually don't remind the last time referred affiliates didn't make a single sale :helpme:mad:

Mail me your ICQ and I will add you and I will discuss this with you. (see my email in sig)

Guys, this ain't a CCBILL only issue.

For instance, my best converting program is doing 1:550 since the beginning of the year, which is awesome these days. Using Epoch by the way.

0 sales, since the beginning of the month and then 1:170 for the past few days. Like if the transactions were not enabled and then the valves were opened ?

No it is clear that this happens to EPOCH too.
So it must have something to do with the billing partner of EPOCH / CBBILL.

My stats:
From May 1 - May 15: 178 new CCBILL sales.
From May 16 - May 26: 18 new CCBILL sales (+ some rebills)

Explain me how this is possible?

I have emailed CCBill yesterday regarding this : No reply until now.

I did send them an email, same reply. " Everything is fine, you can test with live card"

No offense at all, BUT what you say sounds stupid too.. you are not seeing the whole picture here..

If your sales at the end of the month, are fine, then why are you complaining at all??

Now, if you are complaining about day1=40 sales... and day2=2 sales.. and at the end of the month, your sales are overall sucked, then yes... I'm right and ILLEGAL sites distributing your content, ARE AFFECTING YOUR BUSINESS....

If you get 40 sales one day... You are seeing 40 sales that day.. But IT DOESN'T "NECCESARILY", I repeat... Doesn't NECCESARILY mean you got 40 sales that day.. (yes, quote this LINE if you want, I know a lot of people will like it, but I'm not saying anything special here, anyone who owns a program know this already)

And again.. You need to take the WHOLE month in consideration.... Does your MONTHLY sales decreased?? THEN YES.. Illegal sites, are DEFINITELY affecting your business.. and the processor has PROBABLY nothing to do with it...

Does your monthly OVERALL SALES remain the same as always?? Then.. no reason to complain at all... Easy as that, dude...

again you need to open your eyes and see the whole picture here.. Otherwise, you won't fix the problem or be able to move on to another business.

It's a matter of statistical probability. If you have a certain amount of sales each day for 6 months and then it just stops after a certain calendar date then there is a good probability there has been a change somewhere. It's not definite proof of anything, but it warrants investigation.

Sure there is a big influence from tubes etc but this is more of a gradual factor in pushing up ratios overall. It isn't like some tube opens up on May 5 and kills everyone's business outright.

Glad no offense taken because none was intended. :)

Perhaps I'm not communicating well enough here but you seem to be missing the point. LOL But to address what you wrote speicifically first:

Yes, i DO take the 'long-term view'. And i understand about buying patterns, paychecks (when ppl get them), etc etc. Free porn is an overall factor, yes.

But when sales go UP then DOWN like a yo-yo, and they have NEVER done this before 6 weeks ago, then something is amiss. Again, when you have a site that is amazingly consistent - 500 visitors WHAM a sale, over and over again, for months, with over 2.5 million visitors to the site - then somethings wrong here. Across the board wrong. Tubes and free porn were arund last month, In March, in January, last year....Yet traffic remains the same, the sources are the same, everything is the same EXCEPT - UP and DOWN wild swings.

Honestly now, if I DIDN'T raise my eyebrows at this then I wouldn't be a very good businessman, now would I? Just trust that all will 'even out' at the end of the month and don't worry about. Okay, maybe this is a good strategy if you're responsible for yourself alone, or for a small number of partners. But I run over 20 Paysites, and am in business with over a dozen models & producers. So when sales go down guess what? My phone rings, my ICQ goes DING DING DING and my email box gets flooded: Mister Peabody, WTF?

So what do i do then? "Don't worry about it honey, take the long-term view, all will even out..." Shah, YOU try talking like that a freaked-out model who just realized her weekly paycheck is going to be 65% LESS than it was last week.

And then, how long does this model (or any of them) stick around? The trust factor starts to go way down. "I USED to make X with Mister Peabody, now I'm making X...hmmmm....where's the money going? In Mister P.'s pocket?" Shit like that.

So there are many, many, many factors here, my friend. So please don't tell me I'm not looking at the 'big picture'. By year's end I'll be a million-dollar company, and I didn't get there by short-term thinking. LOL

True but most people don't understand that and don't understand how to review their stats. I'd love to see a good sample of the data and then I'll say if something is off or not.

Sure thing. There is a big probability there has been a change somewhere. There are just too much webmasters that say the sales were suddenly cut off arround May 17...
And I miss the same patern with sites using NATS...

I sent some MASS traffic to two of my best-converting sites overnight and sales seem to be returning to normal (thank Jesus). But if other Webmasters are experiencing what I have been it makes me think we may have a 'rolling blackout' situation here.

Remember the 'rolling blackouts' in California a few years back, courtesy of Enron? There would be a blackout in SF, then later on the lights would go on in SF then there'd be a blackout in Santa barbera, then in LA, then in San Deigo, then back to SF. Maybe this is what's happening with the banks? Turn off submits (or reduce them) for this block of accounts, then move on to another block, returning the previous accounts to their 'normal' ratios.

I always try and think: what would I do if I were running Epoch, CCBill, etc and I was facing "pressures" from banks, shareholders, the economy, etc? LOL So my comments (here and elsewhere) are never directed AT one company or the other, in an accusing way. Rather: I just want to COMPREHEND these patterns so I, myself, can 'adjust' various aspects of my business and personal lifestyle. I mean, that's reasonable, isn't it? :)

On my end it is also slightly better now (even yesterday was my best CCBILL day since May 17 and today it is a good start already) but I cannot confirm yet that things are normal...

Dude, it goes up and down all the time. I get panicky all the time too, but at the end of the month it usually all works out.

I MAKE FUCKING SALES ELSEWHERE :mad:

You are right but there is NO way I am going to save this month. This is my worst month since when I 1st started and till May 15 I was on track to have a normal month... At the end of this month I am going to miss some K of $...

Got to agree with that 100%
If this is "the way" fine, wtf can i do about it anyways then get it in the A$$ WITHOUT EVEN TO HAVE to BEND OVER NOW :1orglaugh
Before, we saw it coming but now...

I shouldn't laugh tho :mad:

And now.....no sales for five hours. LOL I mean seriously - since last sale: 6,000 visits. LOL Unless a TON (15+) sales come flooding in in the next few hours - batch, anyone? - the weirdness is back.

Could it be my posting on GFY or am I just extry-paranoid these days?

CCBILL IS GREAT EVERYONE PLEASE USE THEM!
EPOCH IS WONDERFUL EVERYONE PLEASE USE THEM!

Can i have my sales back now? LOL Just kidding - I know I don't deserve them, I've been bad....:(

Suck it up and do it or get out of this business

http://wallstreetpit.com/3203-using-...s-as-an-excuse (check the title, only the title...)



"adapt or die": ok, we will see :mad:

i've been suspecting for a while now that, due to the current credit climate, somewhere in the billing arena an extra level of "verification" has been put into place to confirm transactions before they are credited. it would explain the fluctuations in sales.

but again, just a suspicion

that's what i have on my mind too

personnally i think that they drop a level of verifcation:
Now it is just denied...

so there is something more brutal verification that doesn't show up as a denial message... hmmm