When I made my first sale to guy selling on the Internet, must be nearly 20 years ago, his main complaint was that there was
TOO MUCH FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET. He was talking about Newsgroups.
When I first wandered over from a Vegas AVN show to the small Adult Internet show (Internext?) the main complaint was too much free stuff available. And still today the complaint is
TOO MUCH FREE STUFF ON THE INTERNET.
And what do most people on the Adult Internet concentrate most of their efforts, innovation and money on? Yes you got it, putting up more free content on the Internet. And still the cry is there is too much free stuff. In fact the answer to "Not enough sales" is usually replied with "not enough traffic". And the only way most can get more traffic is to give away more free content.
One of the main problems is the people selling don't understand the people buying. They may understand the people looking at porn but they are not always customers. Ask anyone who runs or ran a porn shop or mail order business what is the mainstay of their business and they will tell you It's the same people buying over and over again.
These people are no longer buying and not because their is free stuff available.
It's because the sites offering it for free offer more than the sites selling. Until that is put right the customers will keep moving away.
If you're selling hamburgers and someone opens next door giving them away you change your product to a better model or close down. We only bitch that the guy giving them away is getting the meat for free and doing nothing else. And this needs to be done by all of us, not a few sites. We all need to change the way we do business.