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Old 10-14-2011, 10:35 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Jon Oso View Post
Paul, just because you can't afford to shoot for 5-600 bucks doesn't mean that's the norm.
The rest was Blah Blah. So no need to repeat it.

On a casting we had all sorts of girls turn up trying to get some work. If they had IDs and not good enough to sell to a better market, we shot 20-30 images of them. We sold these non exclusive to UK, US and other places magazines + Internet, as "Readers Wives." What Kenny is looking for is exactly what we shot.

The sets costs were 500 CZK to the girl, todays rate $27, then $20-$25. With the repeat sales we would make $300 to $500 a set. That we still own.

Online porn has devastated most of offline and now devastating itself slowly, for more and more it's dead.

Because we could sell for more we didn't bother selling to people like Kenny. And I can afford to retire.

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And your point?
Is simple. When you lower the bar you get a flood of little people rushing in screwing up the business trying to make a buck with little thought for the long term damage it will do. Read that as damage it has done and continues to do.

Putting up a website is pretty easy.
Driving traffic even easier.
Starting in online porn. Dead easy.

All these can be done to an acceptable standard. Easily and for low costs.

The one thing that can't be done easily and for low costs is shoot porn that's worth buying. That could of been the high bar that kept out people who had the other skills, which face it can't be hard as there are so many of you. Saturation of people and sites has hurt online porn.

If you can't play at a better level, you're out.
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