How does this affect one's bottom line? Well, I have a site that gets on average 25 signups/day.

Today? -1. That's right. -1. One signup. Two check refunds.

Last week during their whole mess with the court action? 5 signups for those 2 days.

On a site with average 25/day. Coincidence? I think not.

Yes, we all sure would like IBill to stay around. Processor company options are good for the industry. Having IBill around is, in theory, good for the industry. But if they keep screwin' up, they have no divine right to stick around. Your business screws up, you go outta business. It's that way for all of us.

And screwup after screwup after screwup doesn't get forgiven or overlooked simply because no one wants to see IBill go.

I just have a great deal of trouble understanding how they could have known First Data didn't want to renew their contract months and months and months ago and yet here we are at the time it's finally happened with withheld payments (for periods that shouldn't even have been affected! They're withholding payments on money earned prior to all this. Have they no money in the bank? Are they living paycheck to paycheck over there?) and no Visa processing for a week and spotty transactions last week and excuse after excuse.

Bums me out and ticks me off further cuz I know there are some good people at IBill. The guys I've gone to for cust. service issues there in the past have really gone outta their way to help me out and seemed to really care about my business. And they're getting screwed here too. Probably having to deal with a lot of irate clients and even, worst case scenario, having their job security placed at risk by some bad decisions and neglect from some higher ups.

Just because the industry would be better off with more processors doesn't mean shoddy ones do anyone any good.