Yeah, 1.4M in 7 years is 100K a year. Apparently you don't understand dates or math really well.
This is your business? Yeah, that's why you left and came back again after a few years, and the only way you can sell your POS sites is to hide charges on other people's join forms.
You're "in this business" the same way a leech is "in someone's anatomy"
Your insults "might" sting a little more if you didn't use the exact same ones on everyone who has ever disagreed with you or questioned the exorbitant value you've placed on yourself.
As it is, I could take over your account and post for you, and nobody would ever know the difference.
All due respect Dave but you don't know what you're talking about.
That site has been online as a tube for about 6 months, and was done as an experiment. The videos aren't HD, they're SD.
I made my money the same way you did, by teasing the surfer and making him pay for the good stuff.
The tube phenomenon crushed my business model the same way it crushed alot of people's, but on my way out the door I decided to try one, just in case the conventional wisdom on them was wrong. (There were alot of people, people like you, who said that TGPs were destined to fail for the very same reasons, and alot of fortunes were made there)
I wasn't able to make it work, at least not at a profit margin that made it worth the time and labor for me to run the site.
If I had tried my experiment by making a tube with nothing but 30 second clips or something, then that wouldn't give me very good data on how the big tubes perform in terms of ad productivity and pageviews per sale etc. I had to mirror the surfer's experience at a big tube in order to mirror the ad productivity and sales behavior ofthe big tube.
I'm sure that if we all agreed to put all hardcore porn behind an AVS like yours, we'd all make 10 times more money.....but that ship has sailed and it's a brave new world out there today.