Originally Posted by Bake

Lenny think about this most of the really big tgp's who are sold out, These spots are mostly taken up with programe owners who make 100% of the sale so they can make less sales and pay more for those spots. The prices on these tgp's are getting out of reach for even the pro gallery guys because at best they make 60%. This means those big tgp's have more or less have the same galleries on them from the same sponosrs. This means bookmarkers come back less and tgp owner has to buy traffic to keep the numbers up.
After a while this takes it's toll and the tgp traffic is worthless.
The tgp's that still take some free submissions are fresher and keep there bookmarkers.
I used to budget 3k a month for buying gallery spots but I no longer as I cant make enough back to justify it these days those same tgp are now more expensive and there traffic worse.
When I buy positions now I look for tgp's that have a good mix of free and payed spots.