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Daruma 09-03-2009 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A1R3K (Post 16274961)
I LOVE PIE!!!!!!:thumbsup:thumbsup

Thank fucking god!!!

http://icon.v3o.net/pf_04/pie/porn4pie.jpg

Wizard21 09-03-2009 07:59 PM

Francis promised $10,000 in prize money for the InterNext Bikini Contest--did anyone see $10K?

JFK 09-03-2009 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Wizard21 (Post 16275052)
Francis promised $10,000 in prize money for the InterNext Bikini Contest--did anyone see $10K?

well to be fair, there was supposed to be 2 k cash I think and an 8k Modelling contract:2 cents:

JFK 09-03-2009 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JFK (Post 16275074)
well to be fair, there was supposed to be 2 k cash I think and an 8k Modelling contract:2 cents:

re the modelling contract, this is just off my icq, the contributor wishes to remain anonymus...................

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

PornMD 09-03-2009 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wizard21 (Post 16274735)
In late May, iPorn?s Alexa ranking was 201,000. A few weeks later it was 2,986. This type of meteoric growth is nearly impossible.

Just wanted to say that it would/should be obvious from the "time on site" stat on Alexa that the traffic was junk. Looking at it even now, avg time 1.3 min/day definitely makes it obvious it's probably mostly shit traffic. Look at what other high Alexa porn sites are.

SleazyDream 09-03-2009 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wizard21 (Post 16274735)

In late May, iPorn?s Alexa ranking was 201,000. A few weeks later it was 2,986. This type of meteoric growth is nearly impossible.

I stopped reading there.


idiot. :2 cents:

RevSand 09-03-2009 09:07 PM

Bump for the scam... man o man..

ShellyCrash 09-03-2009 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JFK (Post 16275158)
re the modelling contract, this is just off my icq, the contributor wishes to remain anonymus...................

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

That is seriously dissapointing to hear :disgust

Thanks for posting this.

pornlaw 09-03-2009 09:49 PM

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.

Wizard21 09-03-2009 10:03 PM

...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.

wargames 09-03-2009 10:05 PM

This industry constantly amazes me :Oh crap

rowan 09-03-2009 10:09 PM

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?

JustDaveXxx 09-03-2009 10:24 PM

This is good!! Gets better and batter!!

billyb 09-03-2009 11:04 PM

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.

Porno Dan 09-03-2009 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wizard21 (Post 16275333)
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.

While I might not see eye-to-eye with Francis this is incorrect

I was there when the door was kicked in

The guy who kicked the door in was wasted, and was just fucking around trying to make Francis come out his room, where he was camped out with one of the models



Quote:

Originally Posted by rowan (Post 16275348)
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?

He was actually shooting them for his mythical POV cream pie surprise site, which would have been fine if such a site existed.

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. :(

rowan 09-03-2009 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Porno Dan (Post 16275525)
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. :(

Too much information! :Oh crap

Honez 09-04-2009 12:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D-Money (Post 16274889)
I bet those models at the bikini competition were all trannys too!

Got us again!

Who cares. Those bikinis were hot!

JFK 09-04-2009 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Honez (Post 16275610)
Who cares. Those bikinis were hot!

these bikinis ?:winkwink:

http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/galle...228/z04214.jpg

http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/galle...228/z04211.jpg

InternetIsForPorn 09-04-2009 01:58 AM

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.

ShellyCrash 09-04-2009 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by InternetIsForPorn (Post 16275783)
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.

Quoted for truth. :thumbsup

Mickey_ 09-04-2009 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atominder (Post 16274820)
A decent media buyer can tell from the Alexa's detailed stats the quality and primary sources of the traffic.

:2 cents:

CamJack 09-04-2009 04:22 AM

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.

seeandsee 09-04-2009 04:43 AM

i fuck girls like this for dinner

ilbb 09-04-2009 05:27 AM

thanks for info

DWB 09-04-2009 05:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JFK (Post 16274967)

DWB confirmed. Not a single tranny in those pics. :2 cents:

Klen 09-04-2009 05:49 AM

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.

12clicks 09-04-2009 05:54 AM

um, any "top companies" that were scammed because of alexa rankings aren't really top companies.

2MuchMark 09-04-2009 06:04 AM

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.

Dirty D 09-04-2009 06:05 AM

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!

JFK 09-04-2009 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy (Post 16276241)
DWB confirmed. Not a single tranny in those pics. :2 cents:

Dayumn , you're good DWB, here is your prize:thumbsup

http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/galle...911/z02497.jpg

Davy 09-04-2009 06:48 AM

Thanks for posting, Wizard21.

Janessa 09-04-2009 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JFK (Post 16275158)
re the modelling contract, this is just off my icq, the contributor wishes to remain anonymus...................

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

Funny you say that JFK and its so true I was so disgusted by him. I was barely home from Internext on the Sunday he had already blown up my cell phone offering me the 8K contract and asking me that he wanted ME to be the face of Iporn and wanting to be "partners" of my site ROFL. I told him that I wouldn't sell him a sliver of my site to Iporn for 1M dollars! He at that point said I was a fool for not doing it and I told him to BEAT IT! He wouldn't stop calling me on Monday and now I know why LOL

JFK 09-04-2009 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janessa (Post 16276486)
Funny you say that JFK and its so true I was so disgusted by him. I was barely home from Internext on the Sunday he had already blown up my cell phone offering me the 8K contract and asking me that he wanted ME to be the face of Iporn and wanting to be "partners" of my site ROFL. I told him that I wouldn't sell him a sliver of my site to Iporn for 1M dollars! He at that point said I was a fool for not doing it and I told him to BEAT IT! He wouldn't stop calling me on Monday and now I know why LOL

Thanks for posting Janessa, the info came from a rather reliable source , with no axe to grind. Thanks for confirming it :thumbsup

jay23 09-04-2009 07:40 AM

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.

Hank_Heartland 09-04-2009 07:52 AM

Flash, Dash and Hype over substance and results = Adult Industry every time:thumbsup:pimp

troncarver 09-04-2009 07:57 AM

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?

2MuchMark 09-04-2009 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by troncarver (Post 16276662)
there was definitely some fucking of the models going on after the biking contest - i am sure of that :) --

How come I never get to have sex with bikini models at Internext? It's my big nose, isn't it?

Hank_Heartland 09-04-2009 08:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by troncarver (Post 16276662)
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?

What happens in Florida stays in Florida...Don't you know the rules:Graucho

GonZo 09-04-2009 08:03 AM

I agree with Drity D and Mark Prince AND 12clicks....
nuff said.

GonZo 09-04-2009 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Porno Dan (Post 16275525)
While I might not see eye-to-eye with Francis this is incorrect

I was there when the door was kicked in

The guy who kicked the door in was wasted, and was just fucking around trying to make Francis come out his room, where he was camped out with one of the models





He was actually shooting them for his mythical POV cream pie surprise site, which would have been fine if such a site existed.

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. :(

You know its bad when Porno Dan wont even go after you AND calls you an assclown!


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