micropayments.

[adultweb]

Is there anybody out there using this new payment system?
It looks cool but I'd like to know if surfers like it.
Bye.

[leg3]

the idea makes alot of good sense....

but does this company have it structured correctly?

[DannyW]

Hi AdultWeb,

It looks cool but I'd like to know if surfers like it.

It's too early to say yet. Only test sites are up at the moment, and not having traffic pushed to them. The first main sites will go live over the next week or so.

Surfers will not sign up on the basis of a single site - that's too much like an existing subscription payment. They will sign up (we hope) when they can see that their $10 could be spent across a wide number and type of sites, and they can see real "per-click" videos etc available. The service will need high exposure, then the surfers will come. It won't be overnight.

Regards,
Danny

[DannyW]

the idea makes alot of good sense.... but does this company have it structured correctly?

Leg3 - that is the million dollar question.

The structure is set up to reward early-adopting webmasters. It is front-loaded with commissions so that it is worth building and listing hybrid-galleries on TGPs even though the initial income will be slow. Once the number of surfers builds, the early adopters will do very well from the commissions - earning money from webmaster referrals, surfer referrals, and from traffic trading.

We've capped the commissions to give us flexibility to alter this structure according to results, without pissing on the early-adopting webmasters by changing the terms.

What are your views?

[adultweb]

Hello DanniW

I saw your site. It's cool for english traffic but I plan to use micropayments for european (especially italian) traffic. With your sistem surfer need to use their credit card at least 1 time to buy credits. As you may know, european surfer don't like to use credit card on internet. In europe micropayments are billed with a telephone call on their telephone bills. Surfers are given a password by telephone or instantly by e-mail, then they get access to content simply introducing the password given. Charges are from ? 2,5 to ? 10.
Bye and thanks.

[DannyW]

Hi AdultWeb

Yes, at the moment surfers do need a credit card to fund their PAYC account. In the future we would like to introduce some alternative funding options so the system is appropriate to countries where CC usage is low.

The important point for us is that the user doesn't have to enter a password or make a phone call - it is just done with a click. But alternative funding options are very interesting, and if you have a solution you think would work for us, please get in touch.

Regards
Danny