There is a lot of crap here about costs.
Let me tell you the factors of pricing in their order of importance, this applies for widgets or porn.
(A) What you can get for it.
This has little to nothing to do with the cost of production. Mt niece is a new artist, good but unknown, she gets $3,000 for a painting that a known artist sells similar for $30,000. Do not compare my porn with a guy that started out last year, do not compare a girl like
ANGIE with a girl like
LINDA. They are totally different and will convert and retain differently. Putting them in the same price bracket is foolish. We pay Linda more then Angie.
Also as I've stated one of the main complaints of sponsors is "Non-exclusive is saturated" this is BS, because if it were true they would not be able to buy sets or videos for $150 to $200 a piece. Unless the producer is unable to open a store or his product will not sell six to ten times. A number that will never saturate a set or video.
(B) Pricing the competition out of the game.
When we first move to Czech there were lots of local shooters and Germans here shooting girls for $300 a day for hard core. Then the big companies moved in and decided to get rid of the competition, so raised the prices of models. It was a simple and effective move, if you can't afford to pay the models move on to other fields.
We use this policy on
www.paulmarkham.com good content that many sites can afford to pay $40 to $50 for a set or video. They like the idea the set is not on 50 sites at $10 a time.
(C) The cost of living in CZ.
If everyone around you earns $500 a month then the econmy is geared to that. If the unemploment payout is $300 a moth you can live on it. If you live in one of these countries where wages are low so is the price of food, rent and all the basics. Your life style is geared to it. If you live in California your expectations are higher, your needs are higher and the pressure of earning money is also greater.
The first thing I noticed here in Czech was the lack of "greed" or need to earn money from the girls. Seven years later as the economy for many grows the greed and need are kicking in. As s shooter who lived in London I would say London girls are more likely to do things for money than Prague girls.