Pure Vanilla - No Credit Card Processing ?
 

Im hearing rumors that Pure Vanilla lost their merchant account?

Only thing Ive seen is a cryptic merchant email from last Friday and KB referring everyone back to the email.

Whats the real story?

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damn! I just finished setting them up on 3 sites to test them out. They have not sent notice to me of anything.

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This is the email

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what you heard is correct

dont know if they will get it back...they are in a downward spiral I dont think they will recover from

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All that hype and advertising down the drain.
Until they I could go buy one up the street I wasnt very convinced it would work out. So Netcash will be the next to fall.

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HMMM I just looked...I got NO deposit from PV in aug.

can you say IBill?

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Uh oh... :(

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Man that sucks, I hope they get it all worked out .

I mean I really like those guys at My virtual card too before they went under and they pulled the disapearing act too.

just goes to show you contracts sometimes dont mean shit ! It is the players and people involved that make or break a deal.

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Yeah, MyVirtual took off with some money from me too (refferal) ... how's a man supposed to get a leg up??! LOL

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they were a bunch of fucking clowns

why anyone would trust their hard earned cash to a bunch of guys that act like 15 year olds at shows and on the boards is beyond me

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That is exactly why I never got involved with IBill.

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guess KB is job hunting again.

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apparently a common past time in this business. Very few jobs but a gazilliion opportunities.

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OH COME ON now bro! No one was clairvoyant with iBill man, they were a very respected 3rd party biller. I processed hundreds of thousands of dollars with them back in '98 '99 time period. I dropped them when the Visa fee came out and they wanted to charge me it for the 900# processing and I cried BS on that one... then is when I felt they were going to circle the drain and even so it took a year or more for them to be obviously bad. During that time new paysites were STILL signing up to have them provide billing.... I am sure you never saw that shit coming until the Visa Fee went into effect like everyone else.


of course I could be wrong but c'mon now


spaz

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You are kinda wrong. I never thought they would tank so badly, but every IBill guy that tried to pitch us was young and dumb. There was no way I was going to let those clowns near my money. I did however, use 2000 charge as a secondary and they tanked. So I am not prescient by any stretch, but IBill gave me the creeps. I am very happy with netbilling who I have been with since they started. Good, honest folks who run a tight ship. We all had start up issues back then in the stone age, but only the strong survive and Darwin kicked in.

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I hear that... I have to say out of all the billing processors I have come into contact with the best one by far has had to have been Epoch/Paycom... Others results may vary but in my experience they have been the most helpful to Royal Cash & myself


spaz

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I am using ccbill as my secondary and affiliate processor. They seem functional and pay us and our affiliates on time. No real complaints and affiliates trust them, but I would not want to necessarily rely on them as a primary. I think they scrub too hard.

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Yeah that CCBill scrub is legendary. I had them as my primary with Apollos Temple but I kept seeing a decline in sign ups from the same traffic. It got to 25% and I said to hell with it. And I have a great relationship with Epoch and enough secondary processors to give potential customers loads of choices.


spaz

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any opinions on Verotel? I use them as primary on 5 sites, no complaints from me, but I really only used them to avoid the VISA charges. I use their affiliate program for 1 site... "just to test it" .... which is my mantra for all things new to me. I just set up with PV recently..."just to test it"...and I see where that is going...I did use CCBill back in '99, but have not tried the others you guys are talking about.

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I switched from CCBill to Verotel several years ago for about a week and then switched back... i had a 70% drop in sales during that week, switched back to CCBill and they went right back up. I have no idea what was wrong but I haven't touched them since nor have I recommended them to anyone else


spaz

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WOW! Hate to think I'm missing that much sales for using them. :(

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Pure best in ice cream.:nyanya::nyanya::nyanya:

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Update... Pure Vanilla now has no KB.

According to his post he resigned yesterday and went backstage to party with Velvet Revolver.

My guess is if you got stiffed on your last months revenue you will see it right after Ibill pays you out!

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How long did they last?

My usual criteria is a year, but we've had a couple recently circle the bowl a few extra times before going down. I might have to extend my time line.