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Nautilus · 10-05-2002, 07:52 PM

Just speculating, hehe

But, speaking theoretically, are we as defenseless as to just give head and swallow?

Suppose for a second the vast majority of adult sites stopped to accept VISA. Somebody said porn is about 2% of their volumes, a mere scratch on their balance sheet as it seems. But we're not selling toothbrushes either, so nobody won't give a damn what we're accepting or not. We all know the demand for online porn is there, VISA could say all they want but it's not going anywhere. People NEED us, that's why we're still here despite all the problems.

Now one day Joe Surfer wakes up and realizes he could not access his favorite paysite anymore, just because we don't accept his VISA. There are a couple of links conveniently posted telling terrible stories how VISA is the evil of the world seeking nothing but to get deeper in people's pockets, and how MC is the knight in shining armor saving poor little guy (that's bullshit of course, they're same shit as VISA, but that's not important). What would he do? Go get MC, right. Partially because of the horror stories about VISA, but mainly just because he needs our stuff (and these horror stories would be more for his kins so he could say "look hon what they say about VISA, I think it's time to get our MC").

Result? Plain and simple. Small but proud adult industry gets it's miserable $30 signup, and MC gets the rest of the pie - $300, 3K, 300K, whatever the guy has. So my prediction is that if adult industry will claim war on VISA it will cause "domino effect", and VISA will loose lot more than 2% of the market. 20-30% perhaps. MC as their direct competitors will surely embrace this tendency, start to look more and more favorably at our industry as under normal circumstances they could not even hope to get such a large share of the market from VISA. Sooner or later VISA will HAVE to through the white sponge.

War with VISA will be costly of course... And, yes, I understand, not in this world not on this planet where webmasters would not agree what GFY colors are better. But still... Whatta you guys think? Do we stand a chance warring VISA, or is there some fatal mistake in what I'm saying?

Idea looks tempting, provided that we have at least a small chance for success. Once we tested this weapon we may keep it in the barn to start shooting at however of the big 2 is toubling us.

10-05-2002, 07:52 PM
Nautilus Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,631	Adult industry BANS VISA Just speculating, hehe But, speaking theoretically, are we as defenseless as to just give head and swallow? Suppose for a second the vast majority of adult sites stopped to accept VISA. Somebody said porn is about 2% of their volumes, a mere scratch on their balance sheet as it seems. But we're not selling toothbrushes either, so nobody won't give a damn what we're accepting or not. We all know the demand for online porn is there, VISA could say all they want but it's not going anywhere. People NEED us, that's why we're still here despite all the problems. Now one day Joe Surfer wakes up and realizes he could not access his favorite paysite anymore, just because we don't accept his VISA. There are a couple of links conveniently posted telling terrible stories how VISA is the evil of the world seeking nothing but to get deeper in people's pockets, and how MC is the knight in shining armor saving poor little guy (that's bullshit of course, they're same shit as VISA, but that's not important). What would he do? Go get MC, right. Partially because of the horror stories about VISA, but mainly just because he needs our stuff (and these horror stories would be more for his kins so he could say "look hon what they say about VISA, I think it's time to get our MC"). Result? Plain and simple. Small but proud adult industry gets it's miserable $30 signup, and MC gets the rest of the pie - $300, 3K, 300K, whatever the guy has. So my prediction is that if adult industry will claim war on VISA it will cause "domino effect", and VISA will loose lot more than 2% of the market. 20-30% perhaps. MC as their direct competitors will surely embrace this tendency, start to look more and more favorably at our industry as under normal circumstances they could not even hope to get such a large share of the market from VISA. Sooner or later VISA will HAVE to through the white sponge. War with VISA will be costly of course... And, yes, I understand, not in this world not on this planet where webmasters would not agree what GFY colors are better. But still... Whatta you guys think? Do we stand a chance warring VISA, or is there some fatal mistake in what I'm saying? Idea looks tempting, provided that we have at least a small chance for success. Once we tested this weapon we may keep it in the barn to start shooting at however of the big 2 is toubling us.