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Perhaps one of the reasons porn webmasters are screwed at such regular intervals is because blind optimism seems more prevalent than business sense.
Reasonably, everyone should have dropped iBill like a hot brick when they didn't make those Web900 payments in full. There was a message loud and clear that here was a company unwilling to dip into its own reserves (if indeed it had any) to avoid passing its problems - in full - along to its customers. For the past year or more, even if you discount all of the most colorful invective and 50% of the more reasoned criticisms, there is no way anyone could accuse iBill of having been a stable, well-run, customer-oriented business.
We all experience bumps in the road and some loyalty can pay off if it allows a basically sound business to get back on track. But when does a sensible degree of loyalty turn into a rationalisation for doing nothing?
I realize that people who have a lot of money tied up with iBill don't want to see the company fail. Why should anyone want that? It just seems to me that there are rarely any consequences in this business for poor management, dubious ethics or whatever may apply in a given situation. If the individual or business hangs on, even screwing a few webmasters in the process, it is generally welcomed back with barely a reduction in the size of the cheerleader section.
Surely if we demanded higher standards, instead of being so willing to excuse them, we might actually get higher standards?
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