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The Hun · 06-04-2001, 02:23 AM

I saw this promoted on one of the galleries I got submitted. Bad tactics. It's sites like these that is oil on the fire of people that want to put adult porn to a stop. Blindly advetising dialers as being "free". I surely hope the FTC will crap all over this one. porn4nobucks.com will no longer be accepted as a sponsor on any galleries submitted to the Yellow Pages of course.

It's sad to see so many sites using tactics that get more and more agressive each time. And at first it seems to work, but it seems people forget that the real money is not in signups, but in renewals. If people keep screwing their visitors with bad content they soon will not click on any banners anymore.

There are people that think they can continue 'cause of all the newbies that come on the web every day. Sure, a lot of people become 18 every day, so every day there's a big chunk of people that visit the web for the first time. But there's about 18980 times more people that already have been visiting the web before. Statisticly targeting newbies is targeting 0,0005% of the audience. Right now that number might be higher 'cause people of all ages start using the web, but this number is what it's going to be in the long term. And the number right now isn't much higher... and even if it was a 1000 times higher than still newbies make up for half a percent of the total audience. I think it's smart tactics to make those half percent feel they're getting their money's worth. That way you'll get a 99.5% of a market that every now and then spends some money on things 'cause they know it's safe. The way things are going right now we'll end up with a 99.5% market that's too afraid a click on banners 'cause it will give 'em console hell or blind dialers, and that will NEVER trust ANY website with their creditcard details.

06-04-2001, 02:23 AM
The Hun Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,207	porn4nobucks.com pulling a scam I saw this promoted on one of the galleries I got submitted. Bad tactics. It's sites like these that is oil on the fire of people that want to put adult porn to a stop. Blindly advetising dialers as being "free". I surely hope the FTC will crap all over this one. porn4nobucks.com will no longer be accepted as a sponsor on any galleries submitted to the Yellow Pages of course. It's sad to see so many sites using tactics that get more and more agressive each time. And at first it seems to work, but it seems people forget that the real money is not in signups, but in renewals. If people keep screwing their visitors with bad content they soon will not click on any banners anymore. There are people that think they can continue 'cause of all the newbies that come on the web every day. Sure, a lot of people become 18 every day, so every day there's a big chunk of people that visit the web for the first time. But there's about 18980 times more people that already have been visiting the web before. Statisticly targeting newbies is targeting 0,0005% of the audience. Right now that number might be higher 'cause people of all ages start using the web, but this number is what it's going to be in the long term. And the number right now isn't much higher... and even if it was a 1000 times higher than still newbies make up for half a percent of the total audience. I think it's smart tactics to make those half percent feel they're getting their money's worth. That way you'll get a 99.5% of a market that every now and then spends some money on things 'cause they know it's safe. The way things are going right now we'll end up with a 99.5% market that's too afraid a click on banners 'cause it will give 'em console hell or blind dialers, and that will NEVER trust ANY website with their creditcard details.