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Originally Posted by will76
I don't think I had more than a hand full of people charge back the $2.95. I would say out of thousands of membership signups I had through trials maybe 10 people charged back the $2.95 trial fee.
Trial members are the cheap fuck people which is the majority of the people online. Not a lot of people willing to pay for porn anymore much less $29.95+++ a membership. The same people who you say are cheap are also typically the same ones that forget to cancel. We all know the whole rebilling model revolves around a good portion of the people forgetting to rebill. So with that being the case, the more people you get in, the more rebills you will have, either because the content is good or they forgot to cancel.
As far as trial memberships making it easier for people to rip your content. It only takes 1 person to rip your whole site and once it gets shared it can be all over the net just the same if 100 people ripped it.
Making it harder for them to rip your site by making your membership fee expensive only hurts you IMO. You get less sales because you are only giving people expensive options to join and your site still gets ripped regardless.
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I get your point I still like to believe that people who pay a full membership
are less likely to upload it to torrent sites so the rest of the world can watch
the same for free....
I believe that the results of having or not having trials depends on many
other factors that lead to be profitable or not. The 2 times I experimented
with trials it didn't had any positive effect on my sales.....to be honest
not having them gets me a lot of more sales in terms of money it doesn't
make much difference. Not having them does save me time and quite a
few headaches that having them would cause me.
People don't plan buying porn memberships.....they surf around and all of
a sudden they stumble on something they like just when they're feeling a bit
horny......once they decide they really need to yerk of to that right now
a few bucks won't stop them from getting sexual relief.
At least that's the lesson I got out of it the times I tried
