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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Yet they haven't.
They continue to grow at an astronomical rate over 10 years, and for a lot of patrons, are the preferred choice on buying porn. So it would seem your 'fail hard' is flawed from beginning to end in regards to not only their business model, but what the CUSTOMER prefers.
Sounds like one more exampled of a webmaster thinking like a webmaster, not like the end user or consumer. Which is one of the reasons for your fail and the current state of the adult industry. Mr wizard webmasters who think they know the consumer, their habits, their preferences, yet are clueless.
No offense.
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The fact that the bullshit clip stores you use are profitable only supports my point. This is a bigger and better clip store and it is coming. You have the benefit of working in microniches so you can currently support $8 clips. Most cant.
Also, I read your other reply. All you see is "rrrghh lower price, bad" but you are missing the big picture completely. No matter how much you can sell under the current systems it will be dwarfed by how much REAL micropayments generate.
As for the 50% payouts being unsustainable, your 3 year old videos still costing you production money? Maybe you were talking about bandwidth that is at an all time low... so low in fact that Tubes can give content away for free and still be OK? I know all about the fees associated with merchant accounts, third party or otherwise. Considering the content was already paid for they are near irrelevant.
And TheDoc, I have no idea what you failed at but I guarantee you it is NOT what I proposed here. Your "Porn can't live on small payments" is ridiculous.
a) Yes it can.
b) Keep your fucking recurring website up then. If they prefer it as much as you say then your cheap videos will only upsell memberships for you all day long.
I am going to say this one more time. The entire point of offering lower price points is to bring in customers that WILL NEVER BUY SHIT UNDER THE CURRENT SYSTEM. All your talk of ratios and rebill percentages are irrelevant when we are discussing new customers or those that have been pissed off by pornsites in the past. Real micropayments open the door to millions and millions of potential customers that haven't paid you a dime in 5 years. Key word, real.