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Old 04-29-2003, 07:06 AM  
Tipsy
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Originally posted by 49thParallel
And now for a completely different synopsis...

Paysites make a significant portion of their profit from upsells /cross-sells to other sponsor's programs. Now that VISA has come down hard on a couple of the major scamming programs ...(insert Porncash's name here)...and even companies like sexpromote are having to get a little less scummy in their sales approach..sales will go down...

It's a natural progression when consumers are given the opportunity to make informed purchases, instead of being tricked into buying a membership.

So, is this the consumer's fault....nah...just the signs of a corrupt industry self imploding.
I tend to agree with that too. It's finally slowly becomming hard to get away with putting up shit with no decent content, using shady billing to earn money because the content is so bad and still manage to succeed. We're not there yet but it gets closer each week. Long term it can only benefit everyone in this for the long haul and the sooner the better. However, there's still no reason a good site can't make a fairly high averge amount of $'s from each join. Mind you the important word there is good. There's still unfortunately far too much crap about.
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