Content is a marketplace like any other. If something is sold at a "too good to be true" price, there is probably a reason why. A lot of newbies will buy what seems like a bargain CD, "!000 pics only $60!" or some such. What they don't realize is that the reason the pics are so cheap is probably one or more of several reasons: 1) they are old tired content; 2) they are unauthorized pirated content; 3) they are photos used in magazines years ago; 4) they are the photos rejected by the magazines; 5) the way the seller plans on making money off the content is by selling it by the dumptruck load.
Anybody who makes good content and sells it in reasonable quantities while it's still fresh is either a piss-poor businessperson or he's insane.
I've taken the position from the beginning that I won't let myself become "the K-Mart of adult content."
Let's face it: If you could buy a Lexus for $13.5K, everyone would have one and it would no longer be anything special.
The key to success, especially for a pay site, is to have exclusive content, regularly refreshed. If you get five joins a day and every other day one of them decides to leave rebilling on because they at last have a neverending source of the kind of content they like, this is how one becomes wealthy in this business.
Having the sort of stuff they can find anywhere without hardly trying is not the way to go.
Either deal with a quality, but small-volume supplier (like myself), or get exclusive material made (which I also do). Otherwise, you're just another "me-too" webmaster without much prospect of getting anywhere.
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