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Have you ever checked out the sites when password lists are posted? I have. If 90% of the sites say anything other than "If you join my site you are going to see the same overused plug-ins and content that you have seen on the other ten sites you have joined" they are practicing deception. In addition some of them of them are just terrible in every aspect, from content, to navigation, to 404's, to blind links that lead to popup hell. Just pure crap. I have wondered how so many sites still remain in business at all as I would assume that the chargeback percentage is very high. I also suspect that with the new Visa and Master Card rules the majority of these types of sites will not exist after 2003. There is not anyone that can seriously argue that the Adult Entertainment business is not filled with deception and outright fraud. As for those that run affiliate programs, that are not currently cheating their Webmasters, I have no doubt in my mind if the figures begin to go south they will cheat their Webmasters and we all know that the scripts exist to easily do this. The porn business is filled with the amoral, the unprincipled, the sleazy, the shady and the outright dishonest, whose only concern is the buck. There will probably be those that say the same thing exists in the brick and motar world of business and of course it does, but not near to the extent that it does in the porn business.
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I dont typically post here but this thread caught my eye.
I've heard tale of deception in the adult industry since the day I walked in, I've heard about shitty members sections, free trials not being free yada yada...it's no secret what the world thinks of this industry - and frankly many of the people actively in the industry show it little respect but that's a different thread - it is always assumed that the online porn industry must be fucking both it's consumers and it's supporters, by in large I think this assumption comes from past practices not current ones.
I'm drifiting my apologies
Big business - medium business - small business - any business has one goal, to make money - this being the case all business is fraight with deception and "marketing tactics" that are less than up front. Every industry out there participates in trying to "fool" it's customers. This is not to say that it's a good practice, this is not to imply that it will result in anything less than a big old bite in the ass when someone nails you about the "trickery", whatever it may be. I am constantly amazed that people in this day and age are not actively trying to protect themselves from scams and the like not to mention the naïveté required to express shock when they actually fall for something stupid like "mail this in by Jan 4th and be the Next Big Winner"