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| 11-19-12 03:06am - 4416 days | #5 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster  Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I think the vast majority of review sites work on a commission basis. I know quite a few won't review sites that won't pay referral commissions. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 11-10-12 03:26am - 4425 days | #22 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Speaking as someone from outside the US, I think the rest of the world breathed a sigh of relief when Obama won. He may not be the best US President ever (I have no idea on that one), but he certainly seems a LOT less scary than that guy named after a glove. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 11-10-12 03:23am - 4425 days | #8 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Porn illegal to shoot? Permits? Licenses? We keep being told that the US is the "Land of the free" etc., but you don't seem to have much freedom at all when it comes to your adult industry. I don't, but if I wanted to I could shoot porn (to sell commercially) in my house, friend's houses, hotel rooms, rented houses/apartments, caravans, private gardens etc. etc.. Obviously we have laws about obscene behaviour in public, making sure the models are 18+ and not causing injury or death, but I can shoot in any county, any town in the whole country (without permits etc.) Oh, and prostitution is also legal here (although street soliciting isn't). It sounds to me (and I am on the other side of the Atlantic so my view of the situation may be somewhat skewed) that you all need to get together and get some freedom back. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 11-06-12 02:29am - 4429 days | #71 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I found myself feeling pleased last week that petrol had dropped back down to £1.337 per litre (If my maths is correct, that's US$8.10 per US gallon). The press here are (hopefully erroneously) predicting that petrol here will cross £2 per litre by the end of 2013 (about US$12 per gallon). I'm not sure I've seen a Prius in real life. If they are around, they are few and far between. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 11-06-12 02:16am - 4429 days | #5 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
What's "the garter thing"? Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 11-06-12 02:14am - 4429 days | #16 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Sometimes I feel like the only person that found Vista to be a big improvement on XP. I've still got a laptop running on XP and it's always been unstable and glitchy. My desktop PC runs Vista and is rock solid. I doubt I suffer one crash a month. The most annoying thing to be honest is Microsoft updates which frequently demand a reboot. Favourite, so far for me, is Windows 7. I've been using that on my main laptop for a couple of years now and I love some of the new features (file filters, pinning files to taskbar applications etc.) I've never tried Windows 8, so I can't comment about day-to-day usage of it, but the screenshots of the Windows 8 desktop look remarkably similar to previous versions apart from the replacement of the start menu (which desperately needs improving in Vista and 7 anyway). Getting back on topic, as far as I know Medion are cheap but sturdy. Don't expect excellent performance but they are meant to be reliable. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 10-26-12 10:27am - 4440 days | #6 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
You know that 2257 only applies to US sites, don't you? Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-30-12 08:38am - 4466 days | #5 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Excellent name for a site! Like a variation on "Eat my shorts!"  Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-25-12 02:05am - 4471 days | #10 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
If your TV won't play them, there are loads of cheap media player boxes out there that will sit between the HDD and the TV and play the videos for you. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-22-12 04:55am - 4474 days | #28 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
They do run a massive net profit for the UK, just imagine all the Royal souvenirs bought in London every year by tourists. I really don't believe that a President would have the same draw. If we got rid of the Queen, does anyone really believe that a President is cheaper? Or more scandal free? Some of the lesser Royals have been involved in scandals but the Queen has remained unblemished for her entire reign. The other alternative would be to have no separate Head of State and have a leader who is a combined Prime Minister and President. When you think through the implications of that one it's scary. As soon as you get someone corrupt into a position of absolute power like that, who knows what law changes could happen for that person's personal benefit? We all know the history of a very famous leader of a country who used an oddly convenient massive terrorist attack as a way to scare everyone accepting powerful new laws to defend the country, reduce freedom and increase military spending. The Queen has no real legal power in the UK, BUT she has constitutional power to make and get rid of Prime Ministers. If a Prime Minister breaks the law, she can remove him/her from office, thus ensuring that they are NOT above the law. I think a separate Head of State is critical, and I think the Queen does a pretty good job of it. I don't believe a President would be better for the country. The Queen may not be an ideal solution, but give me a better alternative? Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-21-12 01:07pm - 4475 days | #4 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
It's a guy's shaved head between two stockinged thighs isn't it? Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-21-12 09:19am - 4475 days | #11 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
It's not a wise business plan to allow permanent access to content with a one off payment. Such a thing would have to be extremely carefully thought out by the operator or they could be open to ongoing bandwidth/storage costs without the ongoing income to cover the cost. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-20-12 09:46am - 4476 days | #7 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
All I can say is that I used to get a LOT of requests for a streaming option. I have to admit it's good as a preview before committing to download the fullHD version of a video. Overall I haven't noticed any significant increase in bandwidth usage since adding a streaming option to my newer videos, and downloads still account for the bulk of video traffic. I suspect the streaming bandwidth roughly balances the saved bandwidth by users not having to download every single video to find out which they want to view. However get feedback on opinions on that sort of thing has never been easy. My main complaint is that I'm now having to work back through StripGameCentral's older videos and gradually add streaming to them too!  Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-20-12 09:39am - 4476 days | #18 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
As the Royal family costs an average of 65p per year per tax payer and the Queen pays income tax on her private income (not her state income obviously, as that comes from tax) which reduces that cost even further, I'm really not bothered about paying for the Royal family. However I do strongly believe that the civil list should be kept to a tight minimum. If we had some other Head of State (like a President as they have in France) then the running costs in terms of security, staff, buildings, travel etc. would be roughly the same. Most Presidents seem to cost considerably more to run than our Queen and they have a greater element of self interest. I'm not worried about the Queen granting favours to big business to increase her wealth when she retires (like most politicians do) because she's not going to retire. My main complaint about the Royal family is that she is also the head of the Church of England. I'm hoping Charles or William severe that daft link. With less than 50% of the UK population believing in any deity (and still falling) it's time for the Monarchy to modernise and drop the religion link. But then I also believe religions in the UK should lose their automatic tax breaks. That would raise a HUGE amount more money than the Royal family cost us. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-11-12 05:24am - 4485 days | #6 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I guess it can take a while to sort out all the details when it comes to rights and intellectual property. The legals fees to sort it all out must have been huge. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-07-12 02:47am - 4489 days | #9 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
It always strikes me as odd. Here in the UK the right wing parties are associated with increased rights and personal freedoms, and the left wing parties are more about government intervention and control (looking after people and protecting them). During my lifetime the left party (Labour) seem to have been much more anti-porn than the right party (Conservative). Just to confuse that further our centre party (Liberal Democrats) is even more pro-porn. They went through a phase recently when they wanted to decrease the age for adult material (currently 18 ) to match the age for sex (16). Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 09-04-12 02:19pm - 4492 days | #8 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Most people I know have several Facebook/Google+ accounts. There's certainly a lot of adult oriented activity on Facebook, but I don't know anyone who uses their mainstream Facebook to get involved with that. Don't forget that adult sites need customers (a LOT more than frequent sites like this) so they have to go where the potential customers are in order to get them. A few years ago, people used to get online after work, check their mail, browse a few regular sites and then go off surfing for whatever took their fancy. These days people get online then check their social networking accounts. For a lot of people that's pretty much as far as they get - a whole evening will go by replying to friends' posts, playing Facebook games, laughing at funny photos/videos/jokes posted on the social networking sites etc. Social networking takes up a growing percentage of online time and adult sites are suffering because of it. They are trying to adapt and that's what you're seeing. The shape of the Internet is changing and adult sites simply have to change too. Things like Facebook are indirectly censoring the Internet. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 08-22-12 01:30pm - 4505 days | #18 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Weirdly, I'm watching Red Dwarf at this very moment! I think I've watched about 11-12 episodes so far today! I second your recommendation for that one. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 08-14-12 02:54am - 4513 days | #9 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
You are FAR from alone in making that sort of mistake in a review, Markdc1, but you're head and shoulders above most for correcting it and owning up. I can't count how many reviews I've had where a reviewer has got the average length of my videos out by a large factor, has said something totally misleading or plain wrong. I got a review recently (not here) which complained about the complete lack of zipfiles on my site when in fact I have zips in the members' area for almost every photo update since the middle of 2010. There's even a zipfile button in the left-column menu to give quick access to them, but somehow the reviewer missed that. That sort of thing used to make me angry, but it's so commonplace that I rarely bother to complain (most sites ignore complaints anyway in my experience).  Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 08-08-12 07:08am - 4519 days | #9 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Pretending you're in a country you're not could throw up interesting tax problems. Systems are coming into play soon which will enforce local tax rates. For example, sites which are VAT registered within Europe will have to charge European customers the appropriate rate of VAT (and declare it to the tax authorities). If you fake your location on the purchase and evade paying that tax, I believe that is an offence? To be honest I can't see anyone chasing up something like that (yet), but I couldn't recommend it as a course of action. Governments and tax offices will eventually get wise to tax. While I agree that CCBill's method of regional pricing is unfair, I don't agree that the principal of charging different amounts in different countries is fundamentally unfair. If the costs are different then I don't see the problem in adapting accordingly. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 08-03-12 11:43am - 4524 days | #26 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Do you mean I should try selling the videos to other webmasters? Apart from that would have negative knock-on effects for me, very few sites are buying content from third parties right now - the market is really down. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 08-03-12 11:40am - 4524 days | #17 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
My understanding is HD is 1280x720, FullHD is 1920x1080. If you were selling a television only capable of 1280x720 and advertised it as FullHD it would be an offence (in the UK - don't know about the US - I don't know if you have an equivalent of our Trades Descriptions Act?). SD is trickier as there never was much of a standard pre-HD. I used SD to refer to videos which are 720 pixels wide (usually 405 high for widescreen or 576 for standard DVD resolution - but even that varies around the world). Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 08-03-12 05:14am - 4524 days | #23 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Personally I think Clips4Sale sets too high a minimum price. I sell a lot of my videos (from StripGameCentral) on Clips4Sale to give customers an alternative way of getting them, but I have them all set to Clips4Sale's minimum allowed prices and they are still two expensive. I'd like to move the collection to MallofErotica, I started putting videos there too, but they have no real customer base yet. They allow shop owners to set much lower prices, so maybe as the world becomes aware of that, the market will shift accordingly? Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 08-03-12 05:07am - 4524 days | #15 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
When I encode FullHD videos for my website, I use 2.25x the bitrate I use for HD (1280x720). It's really not worth the higher pixel count without the bandwidth to support it. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 08-03-12 01:06am - 4524 days | #13 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
That's why I still provide all videos at SD resolution too. I think it would be unfair not to supply that. My PC's monitor is 1920x1200 (24 inches) so I find that 1920x1080 looks noticeably better than 1280x720. Whether it's worth the extra storage is a debatable. I know some of my customers playback StripGameCentral videos on their FullHD LCD televisions (40+ inches) so they always want the FullHD version where available. Other customers always play them netbooks or small laptops so the lower quality versions will do. I've got a 2 year old 11 inch netbook that can comfortably cope with playing HD video files, so I think PCs that can't cope with HD must be a reducing minority, but while they are still around, I will keep catering for them too. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-31-12 06:47am - 4527 days | #7 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
StripGameCentral has FullHD videos at 1920x1080. Most members seem to go for the 1280x720 HD option instead. I'm not sure if that's because they don't have screens with a high enough resolution to display 1920x1080 or they prefer smaller video files either because of download time or storage considerations. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-29-12 10:36am - 4529 days | #11 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Sorry, absolutely no idea. Might be worth checking the many plugins for Chrome, there's bound to be something like that out there. My PC itself is locked to any other users so I've never really looked at passwording individual things like the browser. Transferring from Firefox to Chrome was a pain as I could never get Chrome to detect that Firefox even existed on my PC. It would offer to import settings from Opera or IE but never Firefox. I have to keep Opera (very nice browser but lacking some features) on my system to use the CCBill webmasters' interface. It doesn't run properly in either Firefox or Chrome. They actually recommend using IE but as that takes almost 3 minutes to start up I can't be bothered. Opera starts up in about 6-7 seconds and works faster too. Currently I wouldn't like to have to use just one browser, they all seem to have significant drawbacks. If one of them finally sorts out all the problems, then maybe I will. It would certainly be easier. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-28-12 05:36am - 4530 days | #4 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Seems to happen a lot on my Vista PC running Firefox, but considerably less often in Chrome. My Windows 7 PCs seem to be less affected, but Flash Player still seems to be slightly unstable. Of course, I've never known it to be totally reliable for as long as I can remember. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-26-12 02:32am - 4532 days | #19 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
These days I rarely link to any other sites unless there is a clear advantage for me - I can't afford the page space otherwise. All my outgoing links either gain me a significant of return traffic, or earn me commissions. Have a look at the way StripGameCentral is structured. The front page doesn't appear to be full of advertising, in fact it's meant to look the opposite, but there are about 8 outgoing links which aim to make additional revenue. It's only a small portion of site turnover but it all helps in this recession. The most difficult thing later has been having suitable sites to link to, to earn those commissions. So many sites have gone under in the past few months. I've had to removed about a dozen from my outgoing links so far. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-26-12 02:24am - 4532 days | #10 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Practice, practice and more practice. Like everything else, the more you do it, the better you get at it. If you're doing it 10-15 times per day instead of 2-3 times per week, your mental and physical control/stamina improves. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-26-12 02:21am - 4532 days | #7 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
lol - everyone I know around here seems to have at least 2 kids. I've got 3, 2 of my friends have 4 kids and 1 has 5. I'd got the impression that we were heading back into the trend for larger families. I thought it was because everything else is getting more expensive, having sex is cheap entertainment. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-25-12 02:02pm - 4533 days | #20 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I can blame them, certainly, but that doesn't do anything to improve the situation. Sadly unscrupulous sites ruin it for all the others. They directly AND indirectly damage the experience for customers too. For example, if I lose potential customers because of someone else's dodgy-dealing, then I have a lower budget for new shoots. That affects quality in the long run and my customers suffer (although they probably won't be aware that I would like to spend a lot more than I do on producing new content - until they read this!). Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-25-12 01:59pm - 4533 days | #15 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
They don't make money like a paysite, no. But then LOTS of things don't make money in the same way as a paysite. Lots of sites make money (or extra money) from advertising, commissions, royalties etc. But that doesn't change the fact that they make money. No-one willingly runs sites that lose money. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-25-12 06:21am - 4533 days | #18 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I'd always recommend Verotel first but they are considerably less well known than CCBill. I have to make it clear I offer CCbill too or a lot of potential customers won't buy a membership simply because they haven't heard of Verotel (or TicketsClub as they used to brand their billing). I suspect adult sites fight the biggest up-hill-battle of any industry when it comes to customer distrust. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-25-12 06:15am - 4533 days | #12 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
It constantly amazes that anyone thinks the tube sites don't make money. Why would anyone open a site which is expensive to run and then continue running it at a loss year after year? Of course they make money! Any tube sites which don't make money will go bust. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-25-12 06:12am - 4533 days | #2 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Talk to your credit card company. They should be able to block it and refund the previous ones. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-23-12 04:39pm - 4535 days | #6 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I think a lot of sites would jump at the opportunity. So many are running at a loss right now. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-23-12 10:36am - 4535 days | #4 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
They don't own any of my sites either. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-21-12 05:52am - 4537 days | #4 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Verotel have been reliable for years now and they don't do regional pricing. I wish more sites would use them so more customers had direct experience of them. They offer a range of advantages, not least that they offer payouts to webmasters in a range of currencies. Nice to not have to pay conversion fees from US Dollars. I keep pushing CCBill to offer that feature but they are obviously not even slightly interested. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-03-12 03:56am - 4555 days | #34 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
The main problem is that customer ask for such a range of things that it's impossible to please everyone. I try to cover as much as possible but with so many interests split down the middle I fragments too much to keep even a majority happy. For example some people like my stripgames to have male and female players, some just female. I've tried using some of each but that doesn't work, lots of people will not join the site if there are male players at all. Then there's the shaved/unshaved thing, then ethnic mix, should I include mature players or not. Some people want these things, some don't mind, some are completely put off. To please all my potential customers I would have to open about 15-20 variations on StripGameCentral.com - that would cost way more than could be supported by membership fees. Years ago there wasn't so much variation available so people tended to be more accepting of stuff which wasn't precisely what they were looking for. But now there are so many niches that everyone expects stuff to be exactly how they want it. For another example, if I include closeups in my videos I get complaints. If I don't include closeups I get about the same number of complaints. If I try to compromise and just include some brief closeups that doesn't really please either side. It feels like I can't win! Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-01-12 12:38pm - 4557 days | #3 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
That's why my main site (StripGameCentral.com) costs approximately 1/3 of the first month for recurring months. Bizarrely I still get people sign up for a month, cancel and then come back a month or two later and sign up for another 1st month. Over the years I've tried all sorts of pricing patterns, what works or doesn't work doesn't always follow any sensible logic. Recurring prices are a nightmare to get right. Price it too low and no-one seems to want to go for the recurring membership option. The most sensible model is to price per content and not offer memberships, but this doesn't seem to be very popular amongst customers. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 07-01-12 03:51am - 4557 days | #32 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I think the Windows 8 DVD thing is a wise move for Microsoft. Firstly there are many free DVD playing apps around, it will save them money on licensing, but more importantly DVDs are on the way out anyway. They must be looking at the percentages of how many instances of their OS is installed on a machine which either never plays DVDs or does not have the hardware to play them. I use 3 PCs and only one of those (an older desktop machine) has an optical drive anyway. I doubt I use that more than once a month, and that's usually for burning a backup DVD. Lots of new laptops don't have built in optical drives and do any of the tablet form computers? Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 06-14-12 12:13pm - 4574 days | #28 | |
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Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I SO wish that everyone thought like that. I totally agree with you. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 06-14-12 11:23am - 4574 days | #31 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I guess it depends on what you're used to, but I find going back to WinXP really irritating due to all the interface features which are missing. Throwing windows, the show desktop hover function, filetype filters etc. are all things I used frequently and it's annoying to go back to not having them. And Win7's taskbar is a colossal improvement - even Vista's is annoying in comparison. It took a while to get used to the new approach but once you get there it's a much slicker experience and much quicker to use. Being able to pin files to applications, for example, is such a time saver. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 06-10-12 02:28am - 4578 days | #14 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
My memory of Windows through the years seems to be somewhat different. Windows 2.4 - pointless Windows 3.1 - poor Windows 3.11 - better (networking a plus) Windows 95 - Massive improvement - finally felt like an OS. Windows 98se - Good Windows XP - Unstable, had to reinstall every few months Windows Vista - Much better Windows 7 - Magic I got to Vista about 15-18 months after it was released so I missed out those problems it had a launch. Currently I've got one PC on Vista, one on Windows 7. Both get very heavily used (12+ hours per day) Windows 7 simply does not crash, Vista is a big improvement on XP. I've got an old laptop still on XP (sp3) and it's a nightmare - crashes daily when used. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 06-10-12 02:18am - 4578 days | #13 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Neither of my last two PCs have had optical drives so it's really not a feature I would miss. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 06-04-12 04:18pm - 4584 days | #17 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Most of the tube sites seem to make money by referring visitors to paysites. I won't list names here, but lots of them allow paysites to post example videos and then the tube site makes a commission by posting links/adverts beside/over each video. They can also make a little money by gathering information about you and what stuff you like to watch. Then there's the popup/popunders etc. Tube sites cost a lot to run and they obviously wouldn't do it if they didn't make money from it. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 06-04-12 04:13pm - 4584 days | #14 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Me too. Doesn't matter how many times I read and re-read it. I won't see typos until I hit submit. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 05-16-12 04:28pm - 4603 days | #28 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Don't even mention currency conversion fees . I lose a scary amount of money every month to conversion fees and unfavourable exchange rates (Banks are quick to move their rate against me when the bulk rate moves that way, but always seem to hold their rate for a day or so when the bulk rate moves in my favour!) While I am not condoning CCBill's approach with regional pricing, I don't see the idea of regional pricing as unethical in theory. Any business prices its products according to a range of factors, not least of which is "what customers are willing to pay" (Just look at Apple!). Shops, even international chains, adapt their prices according to their geographical region, so in theory why shouldn't websites do the same? However displaying one price and then charging another is simply wrong, and usually illegal. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 05-12-12 03:00pm - 4607 days | #16 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I don't use the regional pricing option, and never will (as long as it is an option - I do fear it might become mandatory however). Costs technically do vary according to the customer's location, but currently no systems support the sales taxes which are meant to be supplied. Technically I should charge VAT (at 20%) to customers within the EU and not to those outside. This is clearly impractical and even the Inland Revenue seem unsure of how to apply it or enforce it. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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