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mbaya (Disabled)
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Worse yet this is a trend that is spreading across the porn world. When business is bad you have two choices to become profitable.
One is raise prices. That sounds good, but you get less business. People may think your product is not worth it if it is not a necessity. Porn is not.
During the recession people stopped buying porn.
The other solution is to lower prices and make it up on volume. 100 percent of a small number is better than 0 percent of a bigger one.
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02-09-20 12:52am
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BubbaGump (0)
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REPLY TO #1 - mbaya :
Hello.
Yes I suspect the prevalence of Free Porn has created serious market pressures.
I am not cheap and it's not having to pay more for a subscription that irks me. Eventual price increases on goods and services is a fact of life. The issue I have is with the 'sneaky' approach to going about adding such price increases. Just be up front with it. A site like Brazzers is high quality and one of the few sites that I have any interest in. I have no problem paying a higher rate. But I don't like feeling taken advantage of with tricks.
To be fair, the fine print somewhere probably did indicate the rate policy and the extra fee required for downloads. But it probably was tucked away in the very fine small-print.
But it still makes you feel like you are being toyed with. You sign up in good faith for a subscription of $29/month just like old times. Browse around a little to see something that catches your eye. Then you go to download something to watch later. Then you get this:
"Dear valued customer. Your current access does not allow downloads. Please click the Upgrade button for a list of options." At this point you realize you have to upgrade and pay another $14.99 to be able to download anything.
You mutter a couple cuss words at the screen-- &^#@ *# *&$^%#*%$#
Again, it's not about the fee. It's about the sneaky factor.
And this leads to the second pet-peeve--'pre-checked' boxes. Not just one but a couple and they are at various locations on the screen. Before you click the 'Complete Transaction' button it behooves people to review everything very carefully or you might unknowingly have also subscribed to some off-the-wall third-party sites like 'Corn-Holed Grannies' or 'Fisting Midgets'.
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02-10-20 02:09pm
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snickelb (0)
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REPLY TO #2 - BubbaGump :
The entire network that Brazzers is on (PornPortal) is unclear about which sites are streaming-only and which have downloads. Some of them don't have downloads even for an extra fee.
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07-25-20 12:33pm
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Trump2020 (0)
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REPLY TO #3 - snickelb :
Porn is just going downhill fast. The tube sites have ruined it. Everybody wants 2nd rate ripped of porn free from a tube site and all these studios aren't making any money. I feel like in 10 or so years that there will be like 3 main mega sites out there, similar to Pornhub or Adulttime, and that's it. I only started getting into porn online a few years ago, and back then it was mostly around about 30 dollars for a month to most sites with downloads included. Now most sites charge that for streaming, add about 15 dollars/month for downloads, and I see a lot of them are doing away with the monthly subscriptions now, trying to force 3/6/12 month subscriptions on us. My personal favorite site(s) was Greg Lansky's network of Vixen sites (Blacked/Tushy/Vixen/Deeper/Blackedraw/Tushyraw), but he has left and even those sites now are getting shady, its such a shame what is happening.
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08-24-20 04:45pm
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