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IFRIENDS.NET - closed their doors today :(

10-17-2018, 11:13 AM

Sad to hear that one of the oldest cam sites has closed their doors today

In case you have links promoting them you might want to update.........

https://www.ifriends.net/thankyou

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10-17-2018, 11:18 AM

Wow, they were the reason I fell into adult nearly 20 years ago. Used to get my weekly cheques delivered (internationally!) via fedex.
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10-17-2018, 11:40 AM

Wow, this is stunning. Then again, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised - when was the last time you heard of ifriends.net?

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10-17-2018, 11:44 AM

Originally posted by rowan

Wow, they were the reason I fell into adult nearly 20 years ago. Used to get my weekly cheques delivered (internationally!) via fedex.

yeah me too.. my first cam job was on their site!

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10-17-2018, 11:55 AM

"So long and thanks for all the fish."

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10-17-2018, 12:00 PM

They were the first affiliate program I made 7 figures with. The reason Lori had a huge rush of traffic from shortly after she began is because I had over a thousand chatbots pushing to her page (and about 3 others)

Al Hadhazy liked to fuck up good things though so then I moved operations to Trafic Cash Gold.
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10-17-2018, 12:18 PM

Wow, this is shocking. Just updated my links, thanks for the info, Lori

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10-17-2018, 12:33 PM

Originally posted by Mr Pheer

They were the first affiliate program I made 7 figures with. The reason Lori had a huge rush of traffic from shortly after she began is because I had over a thousand chatbots pushing to her page (and about 3 others)

Al Hadhazy liked to fuck up good things though so then I moved operations to Trafic Cash Gold.

I did very well there..thank you my friend

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10-17-2018, 12:44 PM

iFriends was once my big payee each month.
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10-17-2018, 12:50 PM

End of an era

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10-17-2018, 12:50 PM

RIP, iFriends! You guys were pioneers, and pretty damn cool too.
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10-17-2018, 12:51 PM

Sad... they were one of my very first checks as an affiliate.

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10-17-2018, 12:55 PM

Wonder why they just closed up shop instead of selling?

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10-17-2018, 01:06 PM

Originally posted by Vegas Ken

Wonder why they just closed up shop instead of selling?

Yea, that is interesting.

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10-17-2018, 01:16 PM

One of my 1st adult paychecks as well.

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10-17-2018, 01:19 PM

Originally posted by Vegas Ken

Wonder why they just closed up shop instead of selling?

Maybe they sold and got closed.

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10-17-2018, 01:27 PM

Damn...sorry to hear...yes visited it long before LiveJasmin and all the other sites.

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10-17-2018, 02:37 PM

Crazy. They were one of the first I received checks from way back when also.

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10-17-2018, 03:38 PM

oh man, so sad news :S

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10-17-2018, 06:14 PM

These guys where the big players when we first started out.

opinions are like assholes.................

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10-17-2018, 11:17 PM

Originally posted by LoriAnderson

I did very well there..thank you my friend

They were great days indeed.
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10-17-2018, 11:26 PM

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10-17-2018, 11:40 PM

a legend has gone

i remember they were always one of the set examples in the LJ office

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10-17-2018, 11:55 PM

Sad news for the industry. So where do you guys move your traffic now?
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10-18-2018, 12:52 AM

Originally posted by adultchatpay

So where do you guys move your traffic now?

Whats left and whos realy behind that?

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10-18-2018, 02:56 AM

I used to promote them like crazy back in the time. It is sad to see them go.

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10-18-2018, 08:18 AM

ifriends WOWWWW ......

I used to be an affiliate back in 2004 or something....

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10-18-2018, 08:29 AM

Originally posted by CaptainHowdy

"So long and thanks for all the fish."

You slay me

On a serious note, they and I share the same 20 years in this business. Godspeed iFriends. Going out with class and grace.

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10-18-2018, 12:34 PM

Originally posted by Vegas Ken

Wonder why they just closed up shop instead of selling?

I was just going to say the same thing. There are both obvious buyers in the space who might pay a substantial premium and most remaining affiliates would even probably be willing to pony up a decent amount. I can't imagine how much they'd have to ask to be unable to sell.

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10-18-2018, 01:23 PM

Oh wow! They're old school'! RIP!

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10-18-2018, 01:41 PM

they had a good run
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10-19-2018, 05:53 AM

wowsers. well they lasted longer than xpics

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10-19-2018, 02:08 PM

damn they definitely had a good run
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10-20-2018, 08:03 AM

Originally posted by rowan

Wow, they were the reason I fell into adult nearly 20 years ago. Used to get my weekly cheques delivered (internationally!) via fedex.

We used to do well with them RIP

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10-20-2018, 03:27 PM

God damn shame.. One of the all time greats.

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10-21-2018, 05:04 AM

For my personal opinion read below:

Good! This should have happened 20 years ago!

When Ifriends started I knew a lot of girls, most of them single mothers, trying to make a buck and they were all lining up to be cam girls. Well Ifriends brought in that "voyeur view" that gave away for free the webcam shows and those girls got screwed over for a living.

I'm (was) an old school pornographer and was making smut before most of today's industry were even born. On the best of days like me were greasy at best and total scumbags at worst but the rules were simple..

1. You give nothing away for free. A man wants to jerk off he's going to pay for it because he's no different than a hooker's trick.

2. A producer could be the biggest piece of shit on earth but you never fuck over anyone for the money.

Far too many of the ** Internet Porn Boys ** have never filmed smut and/or they've never fucked in front of the camera. They throw up a platform and then they sucker others into working for them for free. Honestly someone needs to dig a hole in the desert for these self-important ass wipes.

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10-21-2018, 05:29 AM

Originally posted by notinmybackyard

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Good! This should have happened 20 years ago!

When Ifriends started I knew a lot of girls, most of them single mothers, trying to make a buck and they were all lining up to be cam girls. Well Ifriends brought in that "voyeur view" that gave away for free the webcam shows and those girls got screwed over for a living.

I'm (was) an old school pornographer and was making smut before most of today's industry were even born. On the best of days like me were greasy at best and total scumbags at worst but the rules were simple..

1. You give nothing away for free. A man wants to jerk off he's going to pay for it because he's no different than a hooker's trick.

2. A producer could be the biggest piece of shit on earth but you never fuck over anyone for the money.

Far too many of the ** Internet Porn Boys ** have never filmed smut and/or they've never fucked in front of the camera. They throw up a platform and then they sucker others into working for them for free. Honestly someone needs to dig a hole in the desert for these self-important ass wipes.

stealing from someone to make money is a different thing - but according to your logic there would have never been cars just to protect blacksmiths...

when I have a business idea that I think works better for me, I don't care what you think about it.

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10-21-2018, 05:41 AM

Originally posted by StefanG

stealing from someone to make money is a different thing - but according to your logic there would have never been cars just to protect blacksmiths...

when I have a business idea that I think works better for me, I don't care what you think about it.

blah.. blah.. blah.. I've heard it all before

The porn industry the Johns have created is pure shit and the proof is this here "business" forum where the only things being discussed are Trump and Democrats.

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10-21-2018, 06:05 AM

Originally posted by notinmybackyard

blah.. blah.. blah.. I've heard it all before

The porn industry the Johns have created is pure shit and the proof is this here "business" forum where the only things being discussed are Trump and Democrats.

there are other places where business is discussed nowadays - places that are kept free from trolls and harassement.

the fact that shows like European Summit are only growing shows that the industry overall is doing fine, just different.

people have become more professional, they are not interested in coming to this place where trolls run rampage.

the state GFY is in is the result of how it's run.

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10-22-2018, 09:07 AM

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10-22-2018, 01:59 PM

Brings a tear to my eye.. My first sponsor back in 1997.

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10-22-2018, 10:29 PM

Originally posted by Vegas Ken

Wonder why they just closed up shop instead of selling?

Yeah doesn't make any sense, there must be more to it.

They were even growing the last few months:

And they were still actively buying hardlinks in the past months where they paid for a full year...

They mention ''legislative developments' and 'costly patent litigation' on the closure page, maybe they got issues with law enforcement or got sued and their only option was to close down to get out of it.

Very strange, they could easily have sold for a lot of money, so it must have been something pretty serious for them to just close shop out of the blue.
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10-23-2018, 01:46 PM

Originally posted by Konda

Yeah doesn't make any sense, there must be more to it.

They mention ''legislative developments' and 'costly patent litigation' on the closure page, maybe they got issues with law enforcement or got sued and their only option was to close down to get out of it.

Very strange, they could easily have sold for a lot of money, so it must have been something pretty serious for them to just close shop out of the blue.

This... or the head shits finally just gave up. They stopped competing years ago.

I imagine their decision to close had something to do with Flash being exterminated (soon) and the cost/hassle of properly converting everything over to HTML5.

iFriends was limping along on old ideas, old programming, and old technology (as they have since ~2007-2008). And since they waited so long, the expense of upgrading to a competitive level would have been prohibitive -- especially since they averaged only 50-60 models online at a time -- down from 2000+ a decade ago.

It's a shame that the industry's top dawg couldn't/wouldn't compete against fledgling upstarts like MFC and CB. It was clear that the game was changing. But iFriends refused (for years) to adapt.

Sad.
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10-24-2018, 01:40 AM

Originally posted by adultchatpay

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10-24-2018, 03:45 AM

Sad to see them go. ifriends was a great.
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10-24-2018, 03:47 AM

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10-24-2018, 03:51 AM

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10-24-2018, 04:10 AM

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