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GeorgeTH · 05-19-2003, 06:52 PM

This might sound like a weird question to start with but I'm asking myself this question on a regular basis:
are US companies aiming to dominate the market for internet porn?

· for years I'd been always surprised how little consideration is given to overseas webmasters AND visitors to paysites with little or imperfect knowledge of English (I'm one of them)
· how transactions in US Dollars dominate this business
· even European sponsors keep the US$ as their currency
· how few paysites actually cater for countries like Germany (decent pay-for-porn market!), where the use of credit cards is not that common, and systems like EC checks and cards are in place instead (basically these people can't sign up with most sites, and dialers have such a bad reputation in .de that not many will be stupid enough to see them as an alternative)
- the list can go on!

That I'm finally posting this has been triggered by an email I just received from tripplexcash. They inform their webmasters that they changed their advertising program (it doesn't say clearly on their pages, but it looks like they're now using their own processing) - they used to be with CCBill!
I as a foreign webmaster and not that many sales with tripplexcash will have to drop them as sponsor, because
· seperate payments of small amounts is not economical with inflated bank charges on foreign currency transactions!
With the processing though CCBill it didn't matter that much, because tripplexcash is just a slice of the big cake!

I'm sure a good number of foreign webmasters will come to the same conclusion! I don't know anything about their particular figures, but I know from several programs that o/s webmasters make over 30% of their volume in sales - and many of these sales to fellow country people (= foreign country sign-ups)
= meaning you can lose a good slice of you income by not taking the interests of citizens from other countries into account!

05-19-2003, 06:52 PM
GeorgeTH Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: too much in front of my monitor... Posts: 367	US aiming for world domination in internet porn, too? This might sound like a weird question to start with but I'm asking myself this question on a regular basis: are US companies aiming to dominate the market for internet porn? · for years I'd been always surprised how little consideration is given to overseas webmasters AND visitors to paysites with little or imperfect knowledge of English (I'm one of them) · how transactions in US Dollars dominate this business · even European sponsors keep the US$ as their currency · how few paysites actually cater for countries like Germany (decent pay-for-porn market!), where the use of credit cards is not that common, and systems like EC checks and cards are in place instead (basically these people can't sign up with most sites, and dialers have such a bad reputation in .de that not many will be stupid enough to see them as an alternative) - the list can go on! That I'm finally posting this has been triggered by an email I just received from tripplexcash. They inform their webmasters that they changed their advertising program (it doesn't say clearly on their pages, but it looks like they're now using their own processing) - they used to be with CCBill! I as a foreign webmaster and not that many sales with tripplexcash will have to drop them as sponsor, because · seperate payments of small amounts is not economical with inflated bank charges on foreign currency transactions! With the processing though CCBill it didn't matter that much, because tripplexcash is just a slice of the big cake! I'm sure a good number of foreign webmasters will come to the same conclusion! I don't know anything about their particular figures, but I know from several programs that o/s webmasters make over 30% of their volume in sales - and many of these sales to fellow country people (= foreign country sign-ups) = meaning you can lose a good slice of you income by not taking the interests of citizens from other countries into account! __________________ Spam me with design ideas for my signature - LOL!