Well considering Stocktrader has to ask legal questions on GFY, can he afford a lawyer, and has to lie to get attention. I reckon he's a broke idiot.
I never said charge more for the join and repeated it when this had clearly flew over his head. It was my response to a thread about new ideas for paysites and is still true.
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1045581
Coming up with a new idea for a paysite theme is easy. Producing the product properly at a profit is hard, if not impossible for most. Simply because as I illustrated in another thread about the costs of running a paysite the profit margins aren't what most think they are.
As a content producer I see a different picture than affiliates. They see people prepared to pay out after a join is made, offering large payouts, if you hit ratios they don't expect, or shaving. OK a few come good.
I see the same people coming to content providers telling them they can't afford to spend much, asking me for my best rice, employing shooters who could never work in a better paying field. Today some do, as the better markets have shut or pay just as badly.
ST took my post to mean we charge more for the join. when I never said it. Even re-posted an explanation for him that was easy for him to take in. Seems he's not that bright.
It's easy to come up with new ideas for paysites. Problem is few can afford it on their budget for the product. Cheaper to give away free porn and payout after the join is made. Now clowns can name a few sites who can afford and ignore the 99.9% who can't and think that makes them right.
This situation did not only apply to us and ST knows this or an idiot. It applied to every site paying peanuts for the product, compared to what others did pay for the same product. Today those other markets are gone and some good shooter are working for peanuts. Happily we don't have to. We made enough by not taking peanuts and let the other monkeys have them.