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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
As for Robbie making sense. Let's talk about it.
He produced one DVD title, made $25,000 and his distributor told him he wouldn't make that with the second one. Plus those sales cost him more than $25,000 in sign ups on his site.
You know something about porn valley, know of a distributor who takes only one title?
How does the distributor know he won't make more with the second release which should be a month or at most 2 after the initial release? Either all the punters who bought the first one came back and said they wouldn't buy that title again or the shops still had it on their shelves.
Sorry BM but if you knew anything about this business you would know a distributor is clueless if a title will sell after 1 release, unless the shops didn't sell it. A DVD that sells the first time gets re-bought by the shops, it's the second 1 that doesn't sell. Because the guys who bought the first 1 don't re-buy. It's like members re-billing. You must know that after 10 years unless you only worked for Internet companies.
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Paul you are twisting my words.
We put out "Claudia-Marie Big Titty Southern Milf Vol. 1" at the very beginning of 2008. Piracy was really just beginning to do major damage to the business. Not as bad as it is now...but enough that the OWNER of IVD told me before the DVD hit the stores that it would be nothing close to the sales that it would have done 5 to 10 years earlier.
Actually doing the DVD took up a ton of my time. I designed the box cover and worked on the graphics with people and agonized over the scenes I wanted on it and what order to have them.
Then I spent a bit of time hammering out the deal to distribute it so I could keep internet rights for VOD and PPV.
It took a lot of my time Paul. And in the end...I netted about 25 grand. The amount of time I spent doing the DVD wasn't worth it to me in the end. I can make a lot more than 25 grand with that same amount of effort and time.
And then I saw those scenes immediately ripped and on the torrents...and THEN I started seeing ALL our scenes from the members area on the torrents. In other words, I put myself on their radar in my opinion. Or maybe it was just coincidence?
IVD is ready anytime I want to release as many DVD titles as I'd like. But it's not worth the time and effort for me. I make more money doing the things I'm doing online. And DVD sales have dropped even further across the board for all companies since two years ago. So it would most likely generate even less sales.
So on one hand YOU would say I'm leaving some money on the table by not putting out DVD's. But from MY perspective, time IS money. And I can make more money that rebills for a long time with my online work.
Believe me...IF piracy finally gets a lid put on it legally where they can't do what they are doing to all of us now...then I promise you I will be putting out a nice DVD series. I'm perfectly capable of shooting EXACTLY what big tit fans out there want to see and we have the fan base to make it happen...IF the title isn't available for free within hours of it's release for everybody to download and burn their own DVD.