Quote from: SNP on August 15, 2011, 13:09

I've just had two dls, one agency....so that helps. but my numbers are way below where they would normally be and I'm getting very similar reports from contributors who I tend to keep tabs with. they're not just down, they are in a dl desert today like me....I'm sure it isn't true for everyone, it never is. and I don't wish it on anyone! thanks for the feedback all...

I got only my third dl of the day but it was an EL 

enjoy! should cover a nice bottle of wine....and maybe postage to Canada for another bottle of wine 

Quote from: SNP on August 15, 2011, 11:06

there is something going on today or my sales are just dried up and that's that. seriously, my sales literally stopped last night. I'm doing my best not to freak out. I'm down by 60% for this time of day and number of dls...unbelievable.

Welcome on board. I'm on this sinking boat since 8th of August.

I'm sorry to hear that. I don't wish sales angst on anyone. bizarrely my dls are now popping in regularly like they usually do....so I have no idea what happened between 11pm last night and 2pm today. hoping everyone else is seeing sales coming in again too.

@SNP
same here, completely shutdown

weird sales patterns. who knows. hope yours pick up too. mine are more normal again as of 2pm. maybe a fluke, but it seems too much of a contrast.

Well it was definitely a holiday in continental Europe - in the case of spain it meant the virtually everything was shut down. Strangely though I had DLs durring European day, but they stopped when the US usually starts to come through.

Sales patterns have been very strange in the last few weeks. My concern is that there is a bug in reporting sales, particularly due to the big drop-offs that seem to periodically happen at the moment. Of course there's never a real way of verifying any of these things.

Quote from: holgs on August 15, 2011, 16:54

Sales patterns have been very strange in the last few weeks. My concern is that there is a bug in reporting sales, particularly due to the big drop-offs that seem to periodically happen at the moment. Of course there's never a real way of verifying any of these things.

You could always organise a group of contributors with similar concerns, pool a few dollars, buy some credits and do some test purchases from each others' portfolios at suspicious times. You'd soon find if there was any bugs in the reporting system.

you may find I'm overly cautious but I wouldn't do this and I'd be careful recommending it. it could be construed as gaming the system, obviously not for malicious purposes, but I wouldn't take the chance. I agree Holger that it's almost as though there was a delay in reporting. to go 15 hours with nothing and then boom, my regular pattern of dls coming in, odd.

Well it was definitely a holiday in continental Europe - in the case of spain it meant the virtually everything was shut down. Strangely though I had DLs durring European day, but they stopped when the US usually starts to come through.

Sales patterns have been very strange in the last few weeks. My concern is that there is a bug in reporting sales, particularly due to the big drop-offs that seem to periodically happen at the moment. Of course there's never a real way of verifying any of these things.

I had a file showing 2 DLs, but when I check the earnings, there was only 1 sale. I wrote to CR, asking what happened to the 2nd sale, but they just said the second didn't happen. Now what am I to do...I can't do sheat, but stay calm a not think about possibly being ripped off

ETA just noticed the same thing happened to Liz

I've just calculated I'm past 60% of my BME. So far so good, with a EL or 2 and pace like this it could be an awesome month and would more than adequately make up for losses at SS due to insane rejections and fresh content not getting online and selling. It looks like in a few weeks my IS port will outgrow my SS port

that's good, well done.

to summarize my sales from yesterday; I ended up with my normal amount of dls all coming in after 2pm Toronto time. So I had a fifteen hour zero download stretch, which has never happened to me on a weekday. I still feel something weird was happening, either with reporting or who knows. I did open a CR ticket to let them know something was up. cheers.

I noticed a major best match shake this morning. One i'm not used to seeing. Hope is for the better.

Interesting that there's been a big shake in your results - with my location & settings there doesn't seem to be a big difference.

I just re-did some of the search terms from yesterday's location test - pregnant, cityscape and food and compared the results.  Using the same locations/machine/browser/cookies and all that, the files returned yesterday and today looked very similar, with little more than a few files swapping position in the best match.

Seems we're gradually moving further away from a monolithic 'Best Match' that's consistent for everyone towards a kind of 'Tailored Match'.  I think that's good in lots of ways - especially if it means no longer having a few files always dominating certain big searches all over the world, all of the time.

Seems to me that a problem with adding more and more complexity to the Best Match is that it becomes even more difficult for HQ to have a clue about the consequences of the changes they make.

My sales are at about 50% of where they usually are for this time on a Tuesday.

that sucks Sean. mine are slow too, compared to yesterday though they seem better. hope it improves, any theories about what's happening?

My sales are at about 50% of where they usually are for this time on a Tuesday.

Trust me it is slow everywhere this week. Yesterday at FT my sales numbers were at weekend levels and today they are not much better. If FT's main market is Europe then they may be hit the most by European holidays.

Quote from: sjlocke on August 16, 2011, 08:42

My sales are at about 50% of where they usually are for this time on a Tuesday.

Trust me it is slow everywhere this week. Yesterday at FT my sales numbers were at weekend levels and today they are not much better. If FT's main market is Europe then they may be hit the most by European holidays.

I'll second that.  Sales across the board were very slow yesterday.  They appear to have picked up somewhat today, but still grim summer numbers.

I just searched Dublin (Ireland - county Dublin) again to see if my fairly recent uploads had risen in the best match. 0 results logged in in Firefox, even after three refreshes and 0 results logged out in IE. I'm sure it's "just a glitch" and that it will be OK in a minute or two, but like the last time (a couple of weeks ago) I wonder how often it happens, and how much it puts off buyers - do they have tactics to deal with it,  'try again in a few minutes' or 'go elsewhere' like you'd do if a shop had a 'back in ten minutes' sign and you were in a hurry.
(The last time, I searched on 'horse', got thousands of hits, then searched on Dublin and the results came up. This time I got the thousands of 'horse' hits, but when I tried Dublin again, 0 results.)
Later: Now working, but that was almost 20 minutes from when I first tried to when I got a result.
Later Still: I SM'd Kelvin to ask him to add it to the bugs list, but as it's unreplicable, I'm not holding my breath for it to be fixed.