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Originally Posted by DamageX
Question is, for how long? Webmasters may be sheep, but they're profit-driven sheep, if they can't break even on the cost of a spot what's there to guarantee they'll keep buying?
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I think the idea is that there will be a never ending supply of noobs to take advantage of with overpriced ad spots. Watch what most of the people selling these spots do:
1. They announce some spots are for sale
2. Some 'third party' (that is more typically someone working for the same person(s) selling the spots) mentions what a great bargain the spots are and that the days of free listings are coming to an end blah blah blah the sky is falling...
3. Someone mentions the low or negative ROI these spots almost invariably produce
4. The person complaining is told:
a) they don't know that they're doing
b) their galleries suck
c) they need new sponsors and should pay for more spots to test the new sponsors on or
d) they should get out of the business
e) a very small % of customers (usually one or two out of hundereds) claims that they had good results and everyone else sucks
It's a pretty tight method of dismissing any valid criticism and considering that there's more noobs looking for an easy way to get listed than there are spots available atm it's unlikely to change anytime soon.
So how long will webmasters still be able to sell this kind of crap? Probably for a very long time.
Most successful webmasters know that "prebuilt paysites" are more of a scam or at best a ploy to sucker in unsuspecting naive webmasters than anything, yet those are still being sold all the time. I don't see this trend as being very different, in fact it seems to be the natural continuation of that very same market; people realize it's easier to get into the biz as an affiliate than as a paysite owner now, so account spots are being sold instead of paysites.
This isn't to say there are no sites worth buying spots on, but the vast majority seem to fall under the above scenarios.