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Old 03-16-2012, 10:36 PM  
Paul Markham
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Not wanting to put it into one post, so here goes. Probably wasting my time here, still it's worth it to show people how the real world works.

12 years of generally short changing customers worked while new ones came online with a decent credit card. Then we got hit is a short period of time by a treble whammy.

Tubes created a huge black hole if sign ups. The increase of traffic on their sties, of people with the ability to pay, was at the cost of other sites. Traffic chooses the free model because it's better for them.

Economy we have gone into hard time. Not as much of a decline as online has suffered so when the recession is over. Don't believe it will go back to the good old days. Like magazines they are gone.

Traffic from countries we can bill. It's just not like it was, new people with no experience of online porn are not coming online holding a credit card, like they used to. They come looking for the free porn and today that can get it easier than in 2005.

It took 8 years for the Internet really cripple magazines. It will take less time for it to do similar to paysites and affiliates. Some will survive, just not like they used to.

If the cost of a service out weighs it's advantages. The cost or the service has to go.

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