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Originally Posted by LB-69
What % of Germans speaks good English and trust adult sites in English? I'm just surprised recently when someone told me that only 20% of German customers speaks English enough to understand and trust English speaking adult sites and only 50% of German webmasters will promote international programs. Is any true in those claims?
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According to the
Zeit which is a reliable newspaper source 52% of the German population speak English.
German customers are pretty fussy and cautious about picking adult sites. So popups for example can refrain a German customer from joining your site. There is a large amount of German customers over the age of 40. They do not search for the average adult site but prefer niches such as SM and easy to navigate sites. And those are solvent customers.
It´s a baseless rumour that german customers do not use credit cards and stick to phone billing and other types of payment. Numbers for last month are 20% online check processing, 70% credit card and 10% phone billing. Numbers vary a bit each month, but nothing significant. So it is not true that German customers prefer phone billing. It´s just the opposite. Phone billing got pretty unpopular related to dialer abuse. So if a program redirects German customers to phone billing only sites, this may prevent them from joining the site.
Regarding German webmasters, they have legal problems to promote international sites because of the mandatory adult verification for German customers which is not provided for almost every international working program. I can´t provide any verified numbers here, so 50% is just a guess.