Paul Markham |
08-09-2016 07:13 AM |
https://gfy.com/20504422-post23.html
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It was becoming clear that my partnership was going to fall apart. For example, when Visa lowered chargebacks from 2% to 1%, this literally wiped out a lot of cams, dating and adult sites. With competition increasing and transaction volumes decreasing, CBs spiked for many at the very worst time. My partners attitude was basically "well, who cares, we can always find something else to do". I started to panic and I started developing and testing stuff on my own. I built a whole new cam system and this time, I built a very slick solo model system - each model i chose, having her own site, her own content, her own members and having the opportunity to really make a great deal more money if she wanted to work. I made a test site around one girl. It looked like a solo girl site, really selling the personality, except it was focused on her being live. When she was on cam, that was displayed on the main page, when she wasn't, her "girlfriends" were. The sites required an email join, i started buying ppc traffic to them wiht my partner which was doing 1:5... and converting to paid members at about 1:20. The numbers were crazy. We were excited. We had a lot of money and wanted to create them 10 at a time.
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So his partnership was breaking apart and he was going to start again? Anyone know this site?
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I began to play with hiring photographers in St Petersburg to shoot content. It went horribly. There were a few amazing photographers who were known and either ran their own sites or shot for big names (club seventeen etc) and charged western prices.
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Club Seventeen were bad payers. Most of the magazines steered clear of Russians producers. They questioned the validity of IDs.
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Many content guys pushed back with answers like "i am not going to shoot for lower rates" etc. Which is fine. Paul and a few others agreed to do them in large packages - like 10 girls at a time. Russian girls could get Visas to CZ, everything there was cheap. I'd just rent a couple apartments for a few months for a few hundred a month in Brno. It was a nice treat for them. I could get all my content. Life would have been nice.
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Who closed their businesses in 2004 when we were all meant to be doing so hard up? He saw the studio, the staff, he must know that costs money. We had the same studio and staff until we closed because of Eva's accident and my fight with cancer. He met us 5th May 2004. $ years before we closed due to health reasons. Anyone else know of Brno apartments that go for a few hundred a month?
The Czech immigration services are very wary of single Russian girls, 16 to 30, coming into Czech. Because? They get involved in porn.
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I reached out to a few Czech guys and other producers
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He was talking to other producers, he couldn't name them.
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I flew there with a manager of mine who would be dealing with him directly after we started biz. We drove from Prague to Brno, met him and he suggested we go to a sort of Euro Hypermarket type shopping place and sit and have coffee and talk. From the moment we sat down, it felt like he was someone that had just escaped from the local insane asylum, was off his meds and was posing as a business person.
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We were both mortified and extremely embarrassed. It's not like almost no one speaks English and couldn't understand him. We had to make excuses and get out of there, agreeing to meet later. Anyway, long story short, it went from bad to worse.
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Paul and I agreed to a price per package. Something like $2500.00 each. What he said specifically was that Eva would shoot, not him (because he was too amazing and too expensive).
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After he had found out I was so obnoxious, he still wanted his girls to come over and work in my studio and do business with me.
Who goes to dinner under these circumstances and who does business with person like they described?
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*NOTE: In one thread on this forum, i actually got him to admit that a good month for him was 5k USD.
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Can he point us to the thread?
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I described a lot here. This thread is kind of funny.
is Paul Markam the village idiot?
Dinner was kinda awkward. Though i am a bit dickish here, i am super cordial and polite and well mannered. I don't really fuck around in other peoples homes. I respected the fact that he invited me to his home with his wife and child to have dinner and wouldn't do anything to make that weird.
Basically, we got to his house, already our heads are spinning with one "what the fuck" experience after another with him. I mean seriously, it would have been less awkward taking that String Emil guy to Catholic Mass with the Pope than spending an afternoon in public with Paul talking about how awesome he is at the top of his voice, only pausing to leer at a girl walking by and saying how he'd love to rub his face in her crotch at the top of his lungs.
By the time we were at his house, we were already wanting get back to Prague, have a little fun and move on. We just wanted to be polite and get it over with.
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I think he was there begging me to turn my studio into a webcam studio. Because he couldn't afford to and the "partnership" wasn't dissolving. He was an employee thinking too big or getting kicked out. He never had a studio he could claim he owned, never posted a link, never showed who did the work and goes on and on about me being an asshole, nearly broke and till hangs around and says he agrees on a price with us. The biggest BS is his $2500. The studio and staff were costing a lot more than $2500. He says he saw both. https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-pr...+village+idiot
He won't come back because he can't prove he's anything. Not even that he bought traffic.
I suspect he failed to make it in online porn and was just bragging about himself.
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