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Originally Posted by Axeman
Paul, because there is always a decent photographer who is hard up and will take less. If every top photographer decided to raise the prices, there will always be an up and comer with talent that will undercut the guys and earn the business since profit margins is key for all. After awhile the top guys see their orders decrease and have to adjust. In a free market society its all about the the competition can do to force your hand. Look at AOL for example, they were slow to adapt and they lost a stranglehold one something they dominated. Slow to drop dialup prices that others were willing to charge. Brought in broadband to slow and to high of a price point and it was it.
Now why more photographers don't also shoot extra sets of girls to use for non-exclusive rights in addition to the exclusive sets they do is another question. But like Mutt said, the top buyers like Kim and Louis make sure their top guys are not doing this so that the content and girls themselves dont get saturated. Not much good to have 10 exclusive sets of a girl if there is another 20 sets of the same girl on a nonexclusive basis with just a different t-shirt on.
Round and Round. Supply and Demand as you put it. Pure competition in a free market.
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Very good points and would apply 100% if we were selling Heinz bake beans. However we are selling porn.
Is one designer the same as another?
Can an affiliate come into the business and send the same quality traffic as an affiliate working 3 years.
Is a programmer fresh out of college going to be the same as one who has been working 3 years?
Is a pornographer who has just started going to produce content that converts as well as Eva, Max, Aaron or me?
I don't think so and neither does the surfer. Alsscan come to Europe to shoot, they have top quality equipment, they stay in the best hotels, they shoot the best girls, they pay top money and they have a gift at what they do. They spend a lot more than $150 a set. THEY CONVERT BETTER AND RETAIN BETTER THAN MOST OF THE SITES.
Alsscan are not the only ones to be doing this, many are finding that in a competetive market traffic is only half the answer, conversion is the half.
Porn production is not a level playing field that some noobie can pick up a camera and produce the members that someone shooting 5 years can do. You insult us by assuming it is, if I was to say a noobie could compete qwith you in your field what would you reply?
And lastly if this good photographer was a good pornographer he would not be hard up, unless he had some expensive habits.
