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How the big programs are helping the little guys?
Was chatting last night with an agent about the situation with models here, prices and shooting custom. Was very interesting.
The price for someone flying into Czech and shooting starts at around $400 a half day for solo, two girl, boy girl can be more depending. It can go up to $1,000 a scene for anal HC. Pierre Woodman and Gabbi Pontello pay more sometimes for a 2-3 hour scene.
Now you got to wonder why this is in a country where a secretary is paid $400 a month and a shop girl $300. Plus the girls are happy to work for less.
The reason is simple the big guys, Private, Hustler, Wicked, etc. Have worked out that if they keep prices low to increase there profits, it has the opposite effect. It brings in hundreds of little guys who can compete at $100 to $300 a day, but can't at $400 to $1,000 for half a day or a scene. So they ae left with less competition.
Yet on the Internet many the big programs are driving content prices down and down so the guy with $5,000 can buy enough to start a site and compete with them.
How many guys could have started paysites if the average price for a decent set was $100. Or an exclusive set was $600 or more?
I think we make more money with the market as it is. We just have more clients to sell to, better to sell a set 20 times at $35 than 5 times $100.
The big guys missed the boat, they could have shut the door on the little guy and dominated the business. Now they are fighting the other 80% of sites for traffic. Paying out fortunes to webmasters, entertaining them and coaxing them all to get traffic.
Anyone got any thoughts on it?
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