Yes, many people saying it's a combination of things, of course it is, but the topic of the thread is which one do you think is the MOST severe. Which I think is the lack of peoples funds. Free content and the rest IMO take a back seat to the fact that people are strapped for cash and have to settle for the free stuff.
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Originally Posted by The Ghost
But heck who knows how much of the money being spent is from people not making their mortgage payments.
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A relative of mine has a house in Vegas and went to casinos almost daily. She had to sell her house and move because she could no longer afford her mortgage right now. Don't underestimate the financial stupidity of people.
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Originally Posted by marketsmart
i have talked to now less then 50 people about tube sites and they answer is almost always the same.. they say that the content on tubes is adequate to jerk off too and most dont want to spend the money for a site unless its something unique like a certain fetish..
they dont trust porn companies when it comes to fucking them on billing. every person i have ever talked to about billing have all said they had problems cancelling memberships or got cross sale'd with or without their knowledge.. not one person has ever said that they never had some type of billing problem.
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Before tubes existed these people were most likely still jerking off to free porn they found somewhere, it's just "tubes" today because well.. it's the best free porn there is. Like you said, if they want something specific they WILL pay for it.
About the getting fucked on billing. Yes that is true, but ask anyone about any billing for anything be it cellphone bills, power bills, etc. they will all complain about something and say they got fucked over somehow. Yes I agree the porn billing is more fucked up and mischievous but it's something that is apparent in nearly everything consumers are paying for.
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In a world moving fast towards higher and higher definition media, people are going to pay for large HQ videos, as if they don't already, something tubes won't want to offer because the bandwidth bills will be monstrous so they need to compress.
Let's say just about everyone stopped paying for porn and only visited tubes for their fix, all paysites would stop making money and eventually close, they wouldn't be able to fund their tubes anymore and affiliates running tubes would have nowhere to send the buyers and wouldn't be selling traffic anymore either because if no one was buying anything then what's the point in buying the traffic? Producers would close shop and the porn that is out there right now would slowly become dated, all of a sudden there will be a demand for up-to-date porn and people will pay for it. Do you see where this is going? There will ALWAYS be paying paying for porn.
Even if the porn surfing population started cutting the producers out of the equation and there was suddenly a surge of user generated porn of people recording themselves and submitting for the masses to watch, there would still be those who want to see a specific fetish.