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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
Sir,
With all due respect you are wrong. Of course those piece of shit $9.95 per month porn sites failed. They aren't worth two cents a month. The price difference between $10 and $30 is not enough to change ratios very much. In the big scheme of things it is exactly the same price point.
Now, when I say we need lower price points you take this to mean some $5 or $10 per month memberships. I do not suggest ANYTHING that is a new version of the old, worn out bullshit. Lowering monthly membership fees is not going to help anything, it will just reduce your income.
This industry needs an overhaul. There are much better ways to get money out of a surfer. I am well aware of what they are willing to spend since they regularly throw $5 per minute to watch a damn cam show. What less and less of them are willing to do is sign up to any site with recurring billing because there are 100 or even 1000 sets of content inside. The model sucks, it is dying and you and everyone else here knows it.
You can hang on to the old school videos and pic sites, fight piracy all day long and whatever else you dream up as a play on the same old shit but win or lose the fight sales will never be the same. That doesn't mean one company won't make the same money but they won't do it on one site that is exactly like the last site that was exactly like the site before that.
Bookmark this comment, check it in a year or two. Check it again in 5. It is the absolute truth and we will be seeing huge changes in the near future. Not everyone is going to keep on plugging away with Steve Lightspeed while the industry passes them by.
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I have A/B tested my sites TO DEATH over the past 6 months. With prices as low as $9.99 and as high as $39.99, and everything in the middle. Wanna know what overwhelmingly made the most sales and what price point retains the most? The winner is.... $29.99
A cheap price has very little to do with it. I have 6 months of data and 1000s of sales to back this up. A consumer is willing to pay for something he WANTS. Thus the trick, giving them what THEY WANT. If you can do that, you don't have to whore out your product.
I've tried making the sites interactive. It failed. Most members do not leave comments. Most do not want to talk to each other. Most do not want to be interactive. Most all of them just want to beat off and go about their day, and if you have what they want, they come back to beat off again and again. If they want friends, they will login to Facebook, not a porn site.
Porn is not rocket science. Piracy, saturation and credit issues are the main issues hurting this business. If you can deliver what your customers want, price has nothing to do with it.