I operate a few places, and beleive me there is. Theses kind of businesses operate on such low margins that a 10-20 % drop in affluence is a very hard financial hit. Competition is ferocious, and it's getting harder and harder to make money for everybody. You have to scale and organise everything as much as you can.

the economy will soon be getting better.

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LOL j/k

Correct. I'm saying that charging less is NOT a way you can retain members.

I've raised my membership fee by $10 and give my members better quality video and regular bonus updates. Not only am I retaining better then when I had prices lower, I'm making more money a month on one site then I did on two sites in 2006 at my peak! Affiliates like making more per signup as well and promote me more heavily.

It has to do with the consumers perceived value. Prices on EVERYTHING have gone up, gas, milk, produce, everything. They expect things to be more expensive, and they retain much better when they are getting more at a higher quality along with that price increase.

Welcome to Adult

I stopped reading the thread at this point, because this in a nutshell defines the route of the problem.

suesheboy porn doesn't exist to feed you.

Sites shouldn't be priced to feed you.

Memberships shouldn't be recurring to feed you.

Sites shouldn't be shaped to feed you.

You exist to feed this industry, if that's even needed.

For 10 years the cry has been to every problem, get more traffic. Which meant more affiliates, more spent on them, more free content and worse members areas.

The shit has now hit the fan. Customers choose not to pay for porn because porn's not worth paying for. Why don't sites up their members area? The cost of guys like you mean they can't.

But when 99% walk away it's fine. :upsidedow

Sweetheart, you're an affiliate. You shouldn't be dictating the price, you get what ever is given.

The reason adult is in the shitter is the affiliate program. For some absurd reason the fools who got online porn going thought they needed guys like you to sell porn. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

They didn't, but over the years by over paying them, breast feeding them the affiliates became a barrier to paysites, then it was needed. Now the damage is clear, over priced shitty sites, with a nice design in HD. :1orglaugh

If every single affiliate got swallowed up into a black hole tomorrow, online porn would survive and do a lot better. Sites could be built to suit customers, content shot to suit customers, people working for the sites could work to help customers and there would be less free porn.

The bullshit spouted by morons of "Try getting a sign up without any traffic" is typical. Ito them it means try getting porn sales without affiliates. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Try stopping men looking for porn. Affiliates are a hindrance to sales.

you sell gay. gay is the only growing porn niche.

your comments are irrelevant to this discussion.

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You are out of your mind. A good symbiotic relationship benefits both. As soon as it turns parasitic, it is doomed.

WOW its always fun seeing a paysite owner bash affiliates like that

Well, you have to realize that
1. Paul doesn't care about his paysites all that much. He is retired.

2. Unless your name is FreeOnes, The Hun, or Pichunter...there aren't any affiliates with any juice left.

Nice, well apparently it can work both ways, since someone has posted that they're doing much better with a lower price point and you posted you are doing better with a higher price point. I wonder though have you tried the lower and that other guy tried higher?

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Whatever Paul :1orglaugh Keep calling the entirety of online porn morons on an online porn forum. See where it gets you.

Sorry to hear that man, well, porn is free nowadays, no need to pay, you will find everything at tubes, full length and in HD too. What a pity there was no tubes when I was teenager, I would masturbate all day long, each time to something new.

I bought bacon today and prices were $7-8 / pound! The economy has to really be in the shitter for me stop buying bacon.

Any bacon paysites out there with free content (free bacon)??!?

Squirtit sells gay porn. it doesn't relate to this discussion. gay porn sells 20x more than any straight site. i see gay sales coming in all day long. every hour.

if u sell gay u can price it however u want because its still an active market.

pricing in straight porn has leveled out. anything too high just makes customers jerk to tubes.

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Agreed.

You and I must think it's a shame that the relationship between affiliates and sponsors was such a parasitic one with affiliates sucking off from sponsors.

Over paid.
Free content.
Free tools.
Free hosting.
Members areas built to affiliates requirements.
Affiliates dictating how sponsors do business.
Over indulged.

Basically shaping the industry as we know it.

Quoted for the truth.

Now one affiliate show you have to suck up to them as well. Never tell them the truth. They might get upset and not send you traffic. Is cybermike typical?

Well what does it matter, when you can't vote ;) I certainly did not in any way influence the US election, if it was up to me Arnold would be president :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

But wtf do I know. I just like to make money, ride bikes DH, barbecue shit and fuck my gf :pimp

It might be worth trying using a lower price point.

I see one of these threads on GFY about once a month... while there are a few people in here that know a couple of things... the great majority of posters in here are time wasting know-nothings. In my opinion, anyone that makes a business decision such as reducing their pricing by 60%+ based on a GFY thread isn't a smart business person... pure and simple.

The Adult industry is so completely ruined to the core that it will never ever recover. It will get worse and worse and much much worse.

I always laugh when I see affiliate progams giving away 50% of their money to people or 70% of their money to people... or $200 bonus days. Plus recurring sales? What the fuck is that shit? :1orglaugh Try finding stuff like that in Mainstream. Your lucky to get 15% of a sale there which is exactly how it always should of been in adult right from the start. Instead you had everyone raking in money like there was no tomorrow and handing it out like there was no tomorrow and now those ridiculous payout amounts are considered to be "the norm".

And people wonder why the Adult industry failed....beyond giving away all their stuff for free of course. :1orglaugh

They should use the Adult industry as a perfect model of how not to run a business.

he's a clueless old man who should have been taken off to the glue factory a long time ago.

Saw that coming a mile away ££££££all the way/