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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Which is why the industry is going to have to change. We are mostly trying to see a 30 day membership to a guy looking for a 30 minute thrill. But everyone else has it wrong.  |
Well as an affiliate that's what I have to promote. I don't choose how a program decides to sell it's ware's. Hell I think the whole idea of recurring is actually hurting sales because surfers have been fucked over in the past with cancelling and still being charged. If you're site gives the surfer what he needs then he'll renew anyways.
Also the prices are often too high. Yes compared to the late 80's early 90's when I was paying $6 for Hustler with no actual penetration and $5 to rent ONE movie for 24 hours at the local porn shop $40 a month access to hundreds if not thousands of hardcore porn scenes is a great deal. However s guy is not going to shell out $400-$500 a year on porn when he's got to pay for rent food and other bills.
Very few program promote they way you describe. AEBN does with their PPV, but their pricing structure is off too. Sure if you buy in bulk $50 for 575 minutes is only 11.5 cents a minute and if you only jack off for 10 minutes then it's nothing. But if a guy is going to pay $50 for porn why not just get a monthly membership somewhere and just down load all of their movies during that 30 days? At the other end they charge $3.95 for 17 minutes. For $3.95 I can get a 3 day trial to a porn site and download hundreds of movies in those 3 days for use later. They also have a "download ot own" option but those movies are $20 to do that. I can buy most for these DVDs at the local porn shop for $10-$15. Surely a download has a small cost than an actual DVD which has to be manufactured and packaged. So they need to lower their prices.
Also AEBN only pay 25% only pays once a month. If they'd paid better and more often I'd probably promote then more. I think they're a good program so I'm not trying to pick on them I am stating like all programs they over estimate their value to Joe Factoryworker who has no desire to pay $40-$50 a month on porn. I could burn though that 575 minutes in about 2-3 weeks easy.
I have a couple of other issues specifically with AEBN like no linking options for directing linking to specific movies or pornstars or even sex acts which you'd think would be a natural thing to do. But that doesn't have anything to do with the topic on hand.