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Originally Posted by pornguy
I would think, that anyone who has had a drop is sales is not seeing it for any 1 reason. It is more than 1, and that is what has slammed a lot of the programs.
1. Torrent sites at an all time high.
2. Companies like Zango at an all time high.
3. More free porn from tgp type sites over all
4. Gas is at about 3.00 per gallon or higher in most places.
5. The price of daily staple foods is up. Milk at almost 4$ per gallon
6. The news top stories involve mortgage foreclosures.
7. Bush and his many wars, along with unrest is many countries.
8. Holiday season here, and people wondering how they will pay for toys etc.
And I am sure I have left a lot of things out. Its not one, its a combination of all that, and people sit back and hear about X person that just lost their job.
Just pick up a news paper and read it through, and then tell me you are going to run out and buy porn. Most of these people have enough on their hard drives to get them through.
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continuing what PG is saying......
everything affects this luxury impulse buy. every little thing hurts. if you are a cig smoker, a drinker, paying bills, renting movies at blockbuster, blah blah blah, buying porn, what is going to be the first thing you cut from your entertainment budget? porn is correct. with so much whackable free shit out there, the first thing to go from anyones entertainment budget IS porn. i haven't seen these dramatic decrease that people are talking about just yet, but i do know that being the "luxury impulse buy" that we are, its the first thing to get the shit can. Xmas is also coming and people are looking at those retail interests that they tend to each year as well. there is no silver bullet to why, it just does and will continue to fluxuate forever. the only thing to ever do is work harder, longer, try to identify and thwart shit like zango and fuckers stealing from you and the affiliates and make up for it in volume. i have seen no difference in the number of denials or ratios going askew with any of our processors. i bet almost no one from a program that actually runs it will respond, but i got no problems giving you a no bullshit answer. people know that if there was something i'd be the first one throwing bricks on the board.
