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Francis promised $10,000 in prize money for the InterNext Bikini Contest--did anyone see $10K?
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i knew they scammers man, all they wanted me to do was send girls to their hotel room to win the *modeling contract* they were even rude to Janessa, telling her she should leave her boyfriend because he was rich and good looking...I was a bit disgusted.......he=francis.......she was contestant #1 they were saying the winner would be announced on Monday so that they could *judge* the girls all weekend monday came and they never posted who won that i could see...but they def were implying whoever partied with them and fucked them would get the contract winner to be decided on the following monday? WHY??? why not right then...well i know why |
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Bump for the scam... man o man..
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Thanks for posting this. |
I will 3rd or 4th that Mike Weiss is a great guy and could never figure out why he didnt bail on Francis Maddoff sooner.
I will never forget the first time I ever talked to Francis. It was before Iporn was even known, something like 5 yrs ago. He called me up asking for my client list so he could talk to them about bringing them investors. He couldnt understand why I wasnt willing to give him my client list. He never did understand how the industry worked. Too bad as someone else said if he had done it the right way, he could have made a lot of people a lot of money, including himself, and could have been well respected. |
...and then there was Berlin
rumor had it at last year's Venus fest in Berlin, an iPorn employee had to bust down the door to Francis' hotel suite to rescue a drugged out model that was being molested. Bad behavoir keeps getting worst.
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This industry constantly amazes me :Oh crap
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I remember earlier posts about Berlin... something about him "testing" that the girls were suitable to perform on camera by cream pie'ing them in a private room?
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This is good!! Gets better and batter!!
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You know the old saying"don't hate the player, hate the game". FMK has gotten millions of dollars from his endaveours, I guess the big companies he bilked were to stupid?, or to lazy to check out his past?.
FMK for Senate 2010, hell! he should run for Governor here in 2010:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh. Some companies should just close their door if they have to deal with people like this. |
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The issue was insited on doing a POV cream pie scene with every girl before anyone else could work with them. He then got upset when he found out the agents were charging him for every scene and none of the male talent, myself included, wanted to work with girls after he cream pied them. The Euro porn girls we worked with didn't believe in using a douche. :( |
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Referring to the OP.
This happens every single fucking day in mainstream. Many "new media" companies do exactly this - buy chunks of junk traffic to show OMG HUGE RESULTS to suits from big corporations. Every. Single. Day. And I bet that this happens a lot in porn, too. But it's incredibly hard to prove. So my question is, how can you prove everything you've said? I have recently won a case in court similar to this one, but with a lot of hard-on proof, and it was still difficult to prove to the judge. And again, I repeat myself that buying lots of junk traffic to improve Alexa is nothing new, nor is keeping advertisers happy by occasionally redirecting higher quality traffic. |
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I met the guy at the Miami show and smelled a scandal within minutes. The site looks like it runs on a $300 script. The movie rights for this story is worth more than the advertising you could buy on the site.
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i fuck girls like this for dinner
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thanks for info
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This story have sense,i'v seen this happening when i was in ptr industry,then was piece of cake to manipulate alexa rank to reach up to number 1000.When people will realize alexa is not valid info of site traffic.
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um, any "top companies" that were scammed because of alexa rankings aren't really top companies.
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I may get flamed here, but -
I met Francis and a couple of his partners years ago at Internext Miami and they seemed like ok people. At the time they were selling a service that would have introduced us to possible investors. I declined the offer but not because I smelled a Rat, it was just something I wasn't interested in at the time. Good meeting, learned alot, nice people. No hardcore sales tactics. I met up with Francis again at Internext Vegas. Again no hardcore sales of any kind. "How's it going?" etc etc. Thats it. Same for Internext Miami this past summer. A couple of weeks ago though, I received a phone call from a sales rep who told me he worked for iPorn. He was extremely bad at his job. I don't know who I felt more badly for: Him, or whoever his boss was. He was terrible. He was offering me advertising on iPorn for I forget howmuch. $5000 I think. When I asked him what kind of value I was getting for my money though, he could not answer me. What are the stats? How many views will I get? Is this Pay Per Click? Exactly what are you trying to sell me? He had no idea. So then I asked him if I could test his traffic. "Let's put an affiliate code up for a couple of days - paid if you want - so that you and I can test the traffic together to see if we can convert it. If so, I'll buy in". To me it seemed like a perfect offer. I did not suggest that his traffic would not covert, instead, I said "Let's see if WE can Convert YOUR traffic". (I was careful to say it exactly this way). He refused, and instead kept falling back on who the other advertisers were. "Look we have Video Secrets up there! We've got to be good! Why would they advertise with us if we weren't good?" I tried to explain to him that this was exactly the wrong kind of sales pitch to toss around. I went on to explain that we will gladly pay for advertising as long as we can convert it and make money with it. I told him we did the same with Wildline and spend $30k a year with those guys and we have been their FAVORITE client for the past 3 years already (Hi Johnny!) It really wasn't his day. I was READY to spend money. I was in a GOOD MOOD, ready to try out a new source of traffic, etc etc. Francis doesn't have the best reputation in the industry but then again so what we've all had shit thrown around at one time or another. If the numbers made sense, I was ready to rock. But nope. This poor guy just kept digging his hole ever deeper. He was the worst salesman I had ever talked to. Anyway, thats my story with iPorn. I sincerely hope that all the stories about them aren't true. Maybe a post from one of their reps in this thread may help clear things up a little. If anything, there's lots of lessons to be learned here. Always trust your gut. If a deal seems to good to be true it probably is. Try hard to make the best product possible and offer it at a fair price and you'll do alright. |
LOL at the companies that bought traffic from this train wreck.
I had 3-4 online sales people hitting me up for weeks trying to sell that shit. A quick look at Alexa shows that it is completely bogus traffic. Anyone that gave FMK any money, either as an advertiser or investor deserves what they get.... Nothing. This Douche is making the porn industry look bad... Which is hard to do! |
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Thanks for posting, Wizard21.
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When they started they wanted me to sign-up to their data base of investors, i was not even looking for an investor. Then i got a proposal for 60K that said they will market my company to investors. Too bad they did not know i spent 10 years in wall street.
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Flash, Dash and Hype over substance and results = Adult Industry every time:thumbsup:pimp
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there was definitely some fucking of the models going on after the biking contest - i am sure of that :) --
so to confirm no model was awarded the contract? |
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I agree with Drity D and Mark Prince AND 12clicks....
nuff said. |
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