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Originally Posted by will76
That is pretty much a given. I wouldn't assume that because people are discussing this ( or crying about it as you put it) that they are not taking steps to try to make their site more appealing and add things to their site that people can't steal (chat rooms, messageboards, etc.. anything interractive).
Getting rid of the trial membership is dumb IMO. If someone wants to rip your site they will do it at $29.95 and then charge it back . IF you do away with the trial memberships now you are really forcing people to go look for it free. If people can get a membership for 2.95 they will likely do it. If their only option is 29.95 I bet more of them will say fuck it and try to find it for free.
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I am one of a few who never believed in having trial memberships if you run
an above average quality site. Trials sure won't stop this problem I agree on
that but it does make it easier to do it. Members that pay for a month also
aren't so eager to see everything the site has got in less than 3 days which
in case they don't make it to be sure they'll download everything that's there.
Trials can be profitable in some situations but I know for a fact they don't
ALWAYS be profitable. People that just pay the full membership aren't
willing to bother spending 70% of the time looking for ways to get it for
free.
People that happily just pay are the same people that download an mp3 and
still buy the album if it is what they like. Trial members are mostly cheap
cunts that will do ANYTHING if they can get it for free.
I have chosen to not go after these people as those are the ones that
make up 80% of your chargebacks.....even though it's cheap they still
take the effort of charging their 3 bucks back.