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Jak 12-29-2002 10:51 AM

I love these threads... keep it coming!


Jak

Probono 12-29-2002 10:52 AM

I agree with Jennycards. Anyone promoting a site should look at the content before they promote it.

2003 will probably be the year Visa and MasterCard both end auto rebilling for high risk merchants because of these issues.

Now that they have us paying for the right to be blacklisted and chargebacks are tracked per site they can create new rules for high risk merchants.

Those of you dependent on rebilling should be demanding sponsors have quality content that promotes retention not sites that rebill hoping that they will not be caught with a chargeback.

jimmyf 12-29-2002 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by funkmaster
49thParallel, post some of your sites, and let me dig up some dirt in your house ...
Would be nice if you answered his question.:Graucho :2 cents:

p1mpdogg 12-29-2002 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by RottenPug
I would really like to see what pornkings has to say in regards to this. I mean every time a sponsor is brought up they are the first to say use our program (not a dig just the truth).
Ill take over for him.

http://epiccash.com

GET PAID ON FREE TRIALS>>> WANT TO SEE MY MEMBERS AREAS?

http://1-dream.com/members
u: yo
p: yo

please dont abuse me.. im just a newbie :)

jimmyf 12-29-2002 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by UnseenWorld


And, you gotta wonder: how many of the guys defending these practices are the same ones boo-hooing about the credit card difficulties the industry is going through. The chickens are coming home to roost! Unfortunately, it's affecting the good guys as well as the bad.

Well said, I've seen some large 2 big companies go busted, Main stream one's for the same kind of shit some of these porn sites are doing. And you know what, still 2 this day most don't have a clue why they went busted and I'm talking about some companies that were in business for over a 100 fucking years. :1orglaugh

Scootermuze 12-29-2002 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by primo DM

............
this is fucking capitalism at its fucking greatest, your capitalizing on your surfers ignorance, and the person running the program is capitalizing on yours. capitalism is sysnonymous with fucking people, get over it.

and fucking people over is synonymous with ever growing chargebacks..

Kimmykim 12-29-2002 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Probono
2003 will probably be the year Visa and MasterCard both end auto rebilling for high risk merchants because of these issues.
Nah, this is the year those two pull out entirely, not because of stuff like Rogers but because the real culprits just won't be shut down.

While I think Roger should pay more attention to his members areas if this is indeed the case, I also think people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. And I also think the 'overly righteous' should realize they aren't.

MrPopup 12-29-2002 11:33 AM

I've got some old COLLEGE DIPLOMAS lying around, not to mention a few instuction books on HOW TO BECOME AN ORDAINED MINISTER...

You seem like you might be the type that would be interested.

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR AND YOU PAID FOR ALMOST NOTHING!

Just be grateful someone doesnt organize a goon squad to come and beat your ass!

p1mpdogg 12-29-2002 11:37 AM

Jennycards-

I have been inside some of pornkings sites before.. and i think you are confused on something..

I think the popup you got was from a delayed timed exit.. there is not actual consoles inside his members areas.. that popup was from the tour.. MANY MANY sponsors use delayed timed exits.. I think perhaps roger overlooked this by not disabling the popup if they joined...

You are bashing a program that makes alot of money, and pays on time.. and DOES offer the content they say they are offering.. Who cares if you have teen content in a mature sites.. as long as you ALSO offer mature content.. the more content the better right? And what they charge per month is moot at this point, cause its a pay per signup program.

Also, they are no longer your customer once they leave your page and went to rogers site. Are you a customer service spokesman or a business man/girl? Rogers sites are golden compared to 85-90% of the shit out there today. :2 cents:

mpegposter 12-29-2002 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by p1mpdogg


Ill take over for him.

http://epiccash.com

GET PAID ON FREE TRIALS>>> WANT TO SEE MY MEMBERS AREAS?

http://1-dream.com/members
u: yo
p: yo

please dont abuse me.. im just a newbie :)

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /members/videos/ on this server.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.27 Server at 1-dream.com Port 80

:warning I guess that didn't work so well.

nocostporn 12-29-2002 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kimmykim


Nah, this is the year those two pull out entirely


doubt it,They will roll out tiers and tiers of regulations until it seems impossible they cant control us scummy fucks lol... I give that 3-4 years... I do agree with the cutting of rebilling

Spoonie Luv 12-29-2002 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jimmyf
Well said, I've seen some large 2 big companies go busted, Main stream one's for the same kind of shit some of these porn sites are doing. And you know what, still 2 this day most don't have a clue why they went busted and I'm talking about some companies that were in business for over a 100 fucking years. :1orglaugh
Arthur Anderson?

p1mpdogg 12-29-2002 11:43 AM

shit... i have password protection!

let me think on this for a sec...

mpegposter 12-29-2002 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by p1mpdogg
shit... i have password protection!

let me think on this for a sec...

Hope you have someone else to handle your members area design for you.

I got that from clicking a link in your members area, genius.

Sad day when the lowly 'tgp posters' have to tell a 'program owner' how to correctly assemble a paysite.

:2 cents:

Kimmykim 12-29-2002 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by nocostporn



doubt it,They will roll out tiers and tiers of regulations until it seems impossible they cant control us scummy fucks lol... I give that 3-4 years... I do agree with the cutting of rebilling

Keep banking on that.

Pornkings 12-29-2002 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jennycards
I just joined PornKing's Porn4aBuck program and decided to have a look at their member's page before starting promotion. Here is what I got for spending $1 at http://www.agedladies.com

- part of their "Top 5 Features" is teen content (instead of mature)
- part of their "Top 5 Features" would show "Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource" error message
- most of the other content on that site is all but mature
- many more error messages like "We are sorry, but we cannot authorize you to enter Flirt4Free" or "Access Denied"
- never-ending pop-ups (on a member's site!!! :Grrrrrr )
- Last update on their "XXX Pix" page: May 29, 2002

By the way: The second month would cost me $37 ... so I assume I could expect some decent content for my money.

Are you this much of an idiot.

we feature the mature content then we have all our other content in the members section for when they get tired of mature most surfers are just curious when they join so we give them everything.
And its a $1 trial for a month then turns into a full memebership
Never ending pop ups in members are you crazy.

any webmaster who wants to see our members section is welcome we have more content then most. just shoot me an email and check it out for free I'm not worried.


my first reply I will continue to read

Probono 12-29-2002 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kimmykim


Nah, this is the year those two pull out entirely, not because of stuff like Rogers but because the real culprits just won't be shut down.

While I think Roger should pay more attention to his members areas if this is indeed the case, I also think people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. And I also think the 'overly righteous' should realize they aren't.

Although the thread started with Roger, I did not refer to him. I have no idea nor specific interest in his sites. My comment was a generic commentary on the industry and a prediction for 2003. You might also be correct, if you are it is time for all of us to seek new vocations.

I do believe you can find a sweet spot that provides adult content to adults who will believe enough in the value that a significant percentage will renew without autorenewals. To do that you need quality not necessarily quantity and good customer support. Sounds like real business and it is.

As to the future with the charge card companies your crystal ball is as good as mine meaning neither of us know for sure but either scenario is possible.

Incidently did you ever make the move back to AZ?

p1mpdogg 12-29-2002 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mpegposter


Hope you have someone else to handle your members area design for you.

I got that from clicking a link in your members area, genius.

Sad day when the lowly 'tgp posters' have to tell a 'program owner' how to correctly assemble a paysite.

:2 cents:

wow.. you are an asshole.. you are going to talk shit just cause one link isnt working? Is it possible that I am only human, and have 12 sites to manage?
idiot.

SABAI 12-29-2002 11:53 AM

what kind of member's area is this?
only leased feeds and upsells....

if as a surfer i ever joined i would certainly charge back....

leased content is supposed to be a bonus not the whole content of a site in my opinion

nocostporn 12-29-2002 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kimmykim


Keep banking on that.


so what to turn to? checking as the only primary billing? Something new on the horizon you're aware of?

Pornkings 12-29-2002 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jennycards
As I said ... second month for the SAME content is $37 ... this is NOT a free site.
And: I think EVERY affiliate should "stick his nose" into the business he decides to promote.

xxxpix is not our members section but a 404 error page for hacks

and our sites are not free its a $1 trial for a month that rebills at a full price after a month

Pornkings 12-29-2002 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by charly
101% agreed.

If they will rip off their customers what do you think they will do to their affiliates. More people should DEMAND a password into a site before they send traffic to it.

I would because if I ran a paysite. It would be genuine and I would have nothing to hide.

No problem I will show any webmaster our members sections
we don't rip our customers off or any webmasters
infact we give them a month trial for a $1 what more do you want.

we have enough content inside to keep them busy for months daily. and our chargebacks and credits are under 1%

we have been doing paysites for 7 years I think we understand what we are doing.

funkmaster 12-29-2002 12:06 PM

"You don't have permission to access /members/videos/ on this server. "

... itīs the only error there is, nice membersection, pretty much like ours ...

" I have been inside some of pornkings sites before.. and i think you are confused on something..

I think the popup you got was from a delayed timed exit.. there is not actual consoles inside his members areas.. that popup was from the tour.. MANY MANY sponsors use delayed timed exits.. I think perhaps roger overlooked this by not disabling the popup if they joined...

You are bashing a program that makes alot of money, and pays on time.. and DOES offer the content they say they are offering.. Who cares if you have teen content in a mature sites.. as long as you ALSO offer mature content.. the more content the better right? And what they charge per month is moot at this point, cause its a pay per signup program.

Also, they are no longer your customer once they leave your page and went to rogers site. Are you a customer service spokesman or a business man/girl? Rogers sites are golden compared to 85-90% of the shit out there today. "

... fucking hell, 800 posts of pure crap and bullshit and out of a suddend this guy starts making sense ... never make your judgements too fast, me enjoyed that post !!

p1mpdogg 12-29-2002 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by funkmaster
"You don't have permission to access /members/videos/ on this server. "

... itīs the only error there is, nice membersection, pretty much like ours ...

" I have been inside some of pornkings sites before.. and i think you are confused on something..

I think the popup you got was from a delayed timed exit.. there is not actual consoles inside his members areas.. that popup was from the tour.. MANY MANY sponsors use delayed timed exits.. I think perhaps roger overlooked this by not disabling the popup if they joined...

You are bashing a program that makes alot of money, and pays on time.. and DOES offer the content they say they are offering.. Who cares if you have teen content in a mature sites.. as long as you ALSO offer mature content.. the more content the better right? And what they charge per month is moot at this point, cause its a pay per signup program.

Also, they are no longer your customer once they leave your page and went to rogers site. Are you a customer service spokesman or a business man/girl? Rogers sites are golden compared to 85-90% of the shit out there today. "

... fucking hell, 800 posts of pure crap and bullshit and out of a suddend this guy starts making sense ... never make your judgements too fast, me enjoyed that post !!

lol all my posts have been crap? come on man!

I have had atleast 5 good posts in my career as p1mpdogg :)

MagicksAntics 12-29-2002 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jennycards
But it IS my problem if they are charging $37 for poor content and screwing my customers. Or am I the only one in this industry caring about CRM??
I was under the impression that once the surfer purchases a membership to the SPONSOR'S site that they are the SPONSOR'S customer. The sponsor is responsible for surfer support, content, billing, and any other problems that may arise. You are not...thus the surfer is their customer, not yours.

However, the surfer IS yours up until you send him somewhere else. If you do not agree with a sponsor runs his or her program, then it is your responsibility to not send your surfer there.

You don't like it, then don't send your traffic there, simple as that. If you can't find a sponsor that you do like, then you can go get a domain, find reliable hosting, pay for the site and banner design, buy the content, set up the billing, build the member's areas, build the exit structure, answer all complaints from your customers, update the member's areas, deal with spam complaints from your affiliates spamming your site, deal with fraud, absorb your own chargebacks, pay for your hosting, pay for your bandwidth, deal with uunet, track your upsells, promote it, pay your graphics designers, programmers, PR and marketing people, oh, and I almost forgot: Try to make a profit.

:)

Pornkings 12-29-2002 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by funkmaster
... take from pornkings site:

- For each dollar trial join, we pay you $25.
- Initiate 25-49 joins, get an extra $100.
Over 50, get a bonus of $250!
- No deductions (*they may sign up for a trial and cancel without renewing -- but you still get paid as soon as the signup occurs),
- Easy stats and payments made twice a month

... so whatīs the problem, it does not say you will get payed on recurings, and I guess itīs their damn right to reccure at 37$ when paying out $25 to affiliates, well if they donīt reccure their members ... it ainīt your problem.

... and to add, itīs nothing new that most membersections are more than just poor. I am not talking about pornkings here (the errors you got look more like a database fuckup than a ripp off to me). damn it, when I started back in 97īI used to send thraffic to sites that didnīt even have a membersection and nobody cares, does the name xpics ring a bell ??

... I would agree with you if you were going to send your traffic to a reccuring partnership program, thatīs a complete different story ...

exactly funkmaster

Infact I'm proud of our members section how do you think I can give them a $1 trial for a month 45% rebill after the month.

infact this is just one of the ezines in our members section 5% of the content we have in our members section


we are going to start updating this ezine again and we are giving this to our webmasters for free
http://www.strokemag.com/members/
the first 5 links in nav bar are upsells the issue's have a ton of content we updated it for 2 years and stopped a while back
this only refeclts 5% of the content inside

if someone wants to see the members section no prob but we pay you on trial no active or revshare

funkmaster 12-29-2002 12:13 PM

... well, it reads 802 under your nick ... that still leaves you with 2 decent posts ... maybe "800 posts of crap&bullshit" was a bad call ... make that 780 ... hahaha ...

Fletch XXX 12-29-2002 12:18 PM

Hey Roger, where did you get all the horoscopes?

I am looking for something like that.

http://www.strokemag.com/gallery/mag...pornoscope.php

http://www.strokemag.com/gallery/mag...pornoscope.php

Pornkings 12-29-2002 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by nocostporn



Obviously you dont, but some people care about where they send their surfers...You should think about it from a surfer standpoint and maybe you might be a better webmaster :2 cents: and like the title says,yes that kinda shit hurts the industry...If you have to rely on terms of service loopholes and small print to make your money,you DON'T belong

Have you seen our members section they get there money's worth.

plus most surfers will cancel no matter what. we have had members sections with every single piece of content and some with barely any and it didn't matter

plus we have had exclusive amateurs with them chatting and it didn't retain more.

the only company that I know of that has more content then us is FM's sites he buys everyone's content.

mpegposter 12-29-2002 12:21 PM

If you honestly think chargebacks/refunds/ratios aren't tracked by account on a PPS you can continue to send hits to sites that offer nothing in the way of content (or all plugin content that is listed on millions of other sites) you are out of your mind. Pimpdogg's site is a good example of that, except he removed the pw access after I pointed out the errors. Should really clean your own house before you try to show it off.

Sending good surfers to sites that suck will result in refunds/chargebacks. They will be passed along to you in the form of account termination, shaving sales to make up for refunds, etc. I don't see anyone who runs a program with exclusive content sticking up for PornKings. If you want to cut costs and go with common plugins, broken links, and tons of upsells, be our guest. But don't expect to be praised for the quality of your sites.

:2 cents:

Kimmykim 12-29-2002 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by nocostporn



so what to turn to? checking as the only primary billing? Something new on the horizon you're aware of?

The truly forward looking site owners have been diversifying their billing processes for the past year, credit cards are not the be all, end all of the business model you know.

Before there were cc's online, there was porn online, and after the cc's are gone, the porn won't be. That much I will promise you.

probono, I'm back in Phoenix, have been for a couple weeks, where are you again?

As for the gripes about Rogers site -- let's all contemplate this point.

At least Rog is smart enough to put as much content into his sites as possible. It is FAR WORSE, MUCH WORSE, for a surfer to buy a membership and find out a site has 2000 pics and 10 videos and this is what he's being billed 30 bucks a month for, than to have a site with additional content that's not identical to what the tour promised, provided there is adequate content to satisfy the tour claims.

Surfers are a curious lot, if they weren't then why in the hell would guys taking a straight tour click on a gay link off the exit console????

Darin 12-29-2002 12:25 PM

I keep forgetting to push Rogers programs. This thread reminded me, THANKS!

:thumbsup

Pornkings 12-29-2002 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by nocostporn


won't be going that far but I'll be unvieling a program soon,was supposed to be the first of the year but I really slacked off lol ... $25/month no trial,no crossbilling no upsells,$25 PPS or 60/40 revshare to the webmaster...absolutley no bullshit will be implented in my program,in the end its just going to end up being a hassle so I'm going to make it as simple and clean as possible...I've noticed there are A LOT of people on the come up that are succeeding using the simple and clean approach...

if I fail,bring this thread back up and laugh at me... but I doubt it :glugglug

Trust me I will

I'll be the first to test it out. and post how it converts.

surfers have plenty of time to cancel if they are unhappy they have a month damn.

Pornkings 12-29-2002 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RottenPug
I would really like to see what pornkings has to say in regards to this. I mean every time a sponsor is brought up they are the first to say use our program (not a dig just the truth).
And I will say it again use our Program. LOL
Best conversions on the net.

I had someone wake me up for this.

Any webmaster talking shit right now I would be more than happy to have a contest on our members sections with. lets see who can talk the talk. I'm not worried

the battle of the members sections who's on?

Pornkings 12-29-2002 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by nocostporn



so what to turn to? checking as the only primary billing? Something new on the horizon you're aware of?

thats for us to know and you to find out.:Graucho

Probono 12-29-2002 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kimmykim


probono, I'm back in Phoenix, have been for a couple weeks, where are you again?


In Tucson. I would enjoy buying you lunch and learning a bit about your perspective on the future. We have been at this in our own quiet way for seven years and still have a great deal to learn.

Drop me a note with your email at lee at dreamnet.com

Pornkings 12-29-2002 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MagicksAntics


I was under the impression that once the surfer purchases a membership to the SPONSOR'S site that they are the SPONSOR'S customer. The sponsor is responsible for surfer support, content, billing, and any other problems that may arise. You are not...thus the surfer is their customer, not yours.

However, the surfer IS yours up until you send him somewhere else. If you do not agree with a sponsor runs his or her program, then it is your responsibility to not send your surfer there.

You don't like it, then don't send your traffic there, simple as that. If you can't find a sponsor that you do like, then you can go get a domain, find reliable hosting, pay for the site and banner design, buy the content, set up the billing, build the member's areas, build the exit structure, answer all complaints from your customers, update the member's areas, deal with spam complaints from your affiliates spamming your site, deal with fraud, absorb your own chargebacks, pay for your hosting, pay for your bandwidth, deal with uunet, track your upsells, promote it, pay your graphics designers, programmers, PR and marketing people, oh, and I almost forgot: Try to make a profit.

:)


Right on:thumbsup

Kimmykim 12-29-2002 12:50 PM

probono, you've got mail :)

Pornkings 12-29-2002 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Fletch XXX
Hey Roger, where did you get all the horoscopes?

I am looking for something like that.

http://www.strokemag.com/gallery/mag...pornoscope.php

http://www.strokemag.com/gallery/mag...pornoscope.php

Fletch sign up and I'll give you stroke mag for free.
its not the greatest but it has a lot of content that will help your retention stroke mag goes deep and we are going to start updating it again in 2003.remember stokemag is only 5% of our content inside our members section

I will find out where we got the horoscopes on monday for you.
hit me up on ICQ to remind me 161759738

49thParallel 12-29-2002 01:02 PM

Marks'...I'm still waiting on an explanation of your"questionable" T & C's. And as far as showing you my sites...go to Dannicash. That's who I use...no trials...no b.s. and top rate quality. And pure rev share.

The rest of my traffic I actually do send to History Killer / Popup Killer sites.

My own small site that I tried was also a no b.s. $9.95 a month site. And my ad was a complete and accurate screen shot of the members area. But, I can make more using Danni's sites..so why bother.

So go ahead...start digging for dirt...


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