TGP Alliance raising their prices. What do you guys think?
 

What's your impression on this? I'll probably drop them when my partner account expire. Not worth $60 a month IMO. Here's the e-mail:

Dear Partners,

We have been doing a lot of work to TGPAlliance system in the past few months. Our traffic has increased drastically. The good news is that you will be getting more and more traffic from us as we're building our sites bigger every day.

The membership cost had increased to $60/month, with $120 minimum prepayment for two months.

Please don't forget that you can always hit me up on icq or email me if you're not happy with your current rating. The top rating for now is 7 points, which is equal to gold submitter. I'll review your account on your request and suggest changes which could help to increase your rating.

In case you have questions,
my contact info:
icq #2383-4802
email: [email protected]

Thank you.
TGPAlliance Staff

It was $45 right? That's definitely still worth it based on results I've had.

ditto....

What i think? I think it's 15 bucks more than it was. And 15 bucks is nothing, but this week probably 10 people will raise their prices with 15 bucks. Is it worth it yes...is it 60 bucks more than it used to be...yes.

I don't buy from em, so I don't care about it. I guess if you are making more then 60/month from it, then it is still ok since you will be making a profit, just $15 less.

They are not charging enough. They should raise it to at least 200.00 bucks and only deal with the whales.

Right.

So whould every tgp right? So the whales can pay 6k a month just to submit.

What a bs.

So you are saying its ok to charge 200 a month? Because i can make 230 back?

Come on man. Its getting ridiculous.

go hard or go home

I think tgps should do like pichunter does. Charge 100 per year or something liket that.

ONLY $15 raise?

That's a 30% raise, which is HUGE IMO!

Not to mention that their traffic is not that big.

Pichunter charges a 1 time fee of $100. Not $100 a year.

And I agree with you.

I concur, the same with Tommys Bookmarks.

He stoped selling those I think.

I have one and its damn good!

I had good results with TGP Alliance, it might be time to renew it. $60 is not that big of a deal at all IMO

G

Yep, best "partner account" I have

...it's potentially very dangerous to assume something like this is a one-off and not a trend.

Obvious question: is their traffic - quantity and quality - going up? If yes, all might be well, the cake is getting bigger and maybe the price increase just keeps their slice the same size. But if not, your slice of the cake is about to get smaller. Perhaps not a lot smaller, but smaller. And you should expect it to get smaller still in future.

And if that is the future, then the next obvious question: how much do you depend on their traffic? How badly will you be hit if it slows down more or becomes too expensive and how long will it take to switch to another equal or better income source? Depending on the answers, everything may be fine for now. Then again...

i wish every tgp/mgp was like tommys - stop selling passes when you're full.. one webmaster that's not greedy like thousands others..

You studied negotiation techniques, didn't you?

I was just talking about the price increase. I hate to pay just like you do man.

Yep, would be a lot better option.

I had a free account there. I did not opt to purchase a submit pass when they first went to that methodology.

Pink World is $49 a month.

Is their traffic of more value than Pink World?

selena, how can you be comparing a pinkworld pass with the tgpalliance pass??

at pinkworld you can submit 1 gallery a day... at tgpalliance, you can submit 2-5 galleries a day, and they give you a pass to 30+ sites...

there must be some kind of reason behind pinkworld passes being sold out...

quality over quantity...

I think everybody knows the answer to your question.

That's exactly why I said that I don't think their pass is worth $60. I actually thought that $45 was a bit exagerated already.

I'm not really comparing.

Just putting the question out there for consideration. :)

Anyone else?

I think it's fine as long as you submit many galleries daily in different niches. Thats' what I'am doing.
Because TGP Alliance run a lot of tgps...

I submit 4 galleries a day, everyday, and I still don't think it's worth it.

I make a way more than 60 dollars a month with my galleries listed on TGP Alliance.
Maybe you should change the niches because too many webmasters submit galleries in these niches and the galleries are going down fast on the list.
Maybe TGP Alliance doesn't have enough traffic for the niche you are promotting.
Maybe the paysites you promote doesn't convert well with his traffic.
....

It's pretty simple... if you make a profit then it's worth it. If you don't then it's not.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way but if you want me to take a look at your gallery feel free to hit me up.

DAMN!

The submission area of your TGP and your recip links look A LOT LIKE the ones at SunPorno.

:helpme

thats 15 double bacon cheesburgers!! ahhhh fuck!

Okay, I'm going to try again: it isn't, or at least, it shouldn't be that simple.

It is rarely possible to switch from one income source to another without needing time to develop the new one. Thus each time something changes, you should obviously consider the immediate impact, but also anticipate the next change.

Fine, you can handle $60, but will $75 make sense? $90? How much lead-in time do you need to replace this income source? Come to that, are there alternative - potentially more profitable - income sources which you could already be developing?

Change in business is inevitable, but you shouldn't simply go along as a passenger, accepting every change without pausing for thought. You should examine every positive change to see if it can be exploited and every negative change to see how its impact can be reduced. If you are really good at what you do, you anticipate change so that by the time one bandwagon slows down, you are already on another that is accelerating.

These new prices may not be a pivotal point in themselves, but the thought process should go beyond, I can afford $60 so that's okay...

I have nothing to do with TGP Alliance except submiting galleries. Many TGPs and link lists use niche recips.

Off topic..

I'll drop them as soon as my current password expire.

:(

Your recips are EXACTLY the same as SunPorno. You can't deny that.

:disgust

You must be blind, there are so many differences. It's not because we both have our url in the middle that it's the same recip. Some other links lists have the url in the middle too.

And i don't think my submission area look the same as sunporno one.

Eventually, i tried to help you. It's not my problem if you are too dumb to convert on TGP Alliance traffic.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Good luck with your 30 hits/day TGP newbie.

Oh, and go catch those 30 sales per gallery at Sun Porno.