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Originally Posted by cashcows
This is not an attack on your just a rant on dating sites.
Dating sites are a huge scam bordering on fraud... Even Match.com got sued and accused of paying women to go out on dates with men. And those sites work for only about 5% or less of all of their users.
I actually review them and they are all a fucking joke I pickup women on facebook and myspace. Dating site are filled wit ugly fat women. I feel like a con man promoting stuff like that. Cam and porn I'm fine with it a legit service, you pay to watch people fuck or masturbate and talk to you.
Sites with live interaction is the way to go! Naughty America has or had a live interaction area which made is someone unique.
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Actually I mostly agree with you. The problem mainly seems to be that it is very difficult to get real women to participate in these types of sites and the ones who do usually gravitate towards those with more of a relationship focus. That it only works for 1 - 5% of the guys signing up isn't something I have a problem with. It's more the fraud which is commonly used in order to entice them to upgrade or the use of fake profiles (this one is probably a lot harder for new dating sites to avoid).
Perhaps the model itself needs to change in order for a more legit dating site to be sustainable? Instead of seeking to upgrade them to a premium membership try to upsell (but without the shady practices) other related goods and services and try to become more of a portal. It's probably still sustainable under the affiliate model but perhaps at a much lower PPS rate like $10 or $0.25/$0.50 per free (no CC required), $1 free (CC required).
I know I could send free signups to dating sites where no cc was required in huge numbers and wouldn't have a problem with $0.25 per free under those circumstances. I'd probably do far better than under the current model. Of course fraud would be the issue as it is now with PPFS.