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Old 04-04-2004, 12:50 PM  
Paul Markham
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This is what is wrong with the content business, buyers who have little or no ideas and think they can pick it up for nothing. Here is a recent email correspondence I had.

His first to me.

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I'm looking into buying exclusive rights to some videos and was wondering what options / prices you offer. In particular I am looking for gangbang and rough oral videos.
Suspecting him to be looking for a "Deal" I replied.

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We can produce these videos anytime and with the girls we have here as many as you like.

What are you looking to pay?
To which he replied.

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I've been paying $300-$450/hr for BJ scenes and want to move into some different types of content. If you can give me similar prices then me and another guy would like to buy some videos. For gangbang and rough oral I am looking to pay about $600-800/hr.

I don't need edited footage, raw is fine. I run an amateur porn site so the footage doesn't have to be perfect.

Do you use any big name models or ones that have done a few movies so I might be able to preview some of their work?
And my reply.

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BJ movie will sell for about $1,000 from our site. A gang bang for about $2,000

Think of each model costing us around $150 a scene, good boys are hard to come by.
The girl for a gang bang unless she is a girl no one else wants to shoot will be asking $500 for the gang bang.

Pass your supplier onto me and I will give him lots of work.
Like I said, these clowns that work for nothing are idiots or buyers think content providers are idiots. For your education a boy girl scene that is not worth $1,000 as non-exclusive content is garbage. I can sell them on film all day long to magazines for $1,000 a time a good one is worth $5,000.

I just realised this guy quoted prices by the hour, I thought he meant by the scene. He's a bigger idiot than I thought.

The surfer is screaming out for good content, they are sick to the teeth with cheap skate sites looking to rip them off. Give him what he wants or leave the table.

Screw all content producers into the ground and you play yourself right into the hands of the Hustlers and Vivids of the porn industry. It will not matter one jot to the surfer if you've been here since 1995 and can drive millions of hits to your site. If he's used to be treated as a valued client he will soon charge back if you do not.
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