Originally Posted by METStaff
See, that could be your impression. It's not that we do not get that kind of comment, but it's a scattered one, and after all, we sell soooo much more than Hegre, that somehow, we do something right. Our growth ratio, is also much higher, and we've been here 7 years, not 2, or 3. We should be the ones recessing, not the new, and superpromoted sites. I think you're just judging based on your taste, and common knowledge. Maybe you're clouded but your perception of what sells. You might be worng. Exactly like the common stereotype that softcore does not sell, and then it turns out it can sell better than porn. Believe us, with our mega crappy design, compared to Hegre's flashy one, with a lot less bragging (well, we're bragging now), a lot less marketing, a lot less cloning, and copying (yes Mr. Hegre owes almost everything of his success to MET, down to tiny details. Did anyone know Hegre before him being featured on MET???), we still blow them away. Something we do, must be right, for customers, I mean. We retain more, we sell a lot more. On boards where consumers can vote, we beat him 92 to 67, or something similar. I believe that we know what we're doing. Yes super clear, sharp images can be fun sometimes, and we have a bunch of those too, but always the same thing...always the same background...always the same light, and most of all, an entire series where the girl moves a muscle in 200 shots, that can be deadly for signups, and retention. Believe me, in softcore, we have no competition, not even a slight one. You're overblowing someone, that has really few merits, professionaly speaking. Roy Stuart, who won the same prizwe, as Hegre, just wrote us asking us to remove the mention of that award, labelling it as: "Pathetic thing". He ashamed of winning it, not proud. Stuart is an example of a real photographer, that sells real books. Some legendary photographers shot soft focus forever, and sold millions of books, not a few thousands, like the kings of sharpness. That should make you think. We sell more on soft days, than sharp days, always. That's another freebie to the numerous MET clone sites. Courtesy of MET ART. Hope I don't sound too arrogant, but let's dismantle some myths, and legends about what sells, and who really sells.
MET Staff
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