[android-developers] Re: Transferred my app to a new country - Sales dropped 50%

Hello,

So I guess we are bad luck in midst of transition?

20% decline rate is way too much. Should have done more research
before moving out from U.S. Checkout. :(

On Dec 5, 4:20 pm, webmonkey <webmonke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this only in the past 24hours, because something is seriously wrong
> with the Market this weekend. We are seeing more than 60% payment
> declined orders. See also this thread and please report it:
>
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=03351...
>
> As a non-US publisher we usually only get 20% payment declined, still
> way too much.
>
> On Dec 5, 4:33 am, peter <yellowwin...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > Recently I have transferred my app in from my Checkout U.S. account to
> > an account outside U.S. We notice that our sales have dropped 50%
> > since then. Looked into the sales log it appears the drop is due to
> > the Credit Card rejected.
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> > Our app costs $3US and we sold over 200 apps per day consistently thru
> > out the year. (We are top 50 grossing app in the market). So we are
> > very concerned of the sales drop due to Credit Card issue that we
> > didn't have before. We are going to lose few thousands U.S. dollars
> > every month at this rate.
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> > I wonder if any of you have similar issues?
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> > More country coverage for Android Developer is great but it is no use
> > if majority of our customer (in U.S.) are not able to purchase the
> > app.
>
> > Any suggestion?
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> > We might just keep the app within U.S. checkout even though it will
> > mean very high cost for tax reporting etc at year end.
>
> > Thanks.

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