The phone card model of distribution is a good one, but it has problems matching up with adult the way business is currently done.
First off, the retail merchants only want to stock your lowest denominations. The big seller is the $20 card. Now the retailer wants a cut of that, there are a few ways to deal him his cut, but suffice to say that $20 face value is probably going to be more like $17 by the time the poor guy goes to use it.
Currently webmasters do not like to sell memberships that cheap. So that's one problem. We haven't even talked about trying to carve off a transaction fee for the processor on top of all of this. And also keep in mind that it is an absolute bitch to setup recurring with a pre-paid model.
It is a good solution for micropayments....I can see some real use for a one time viewing of a video or something like that.
No one has solved the pre-paid equation for adult yet. I have a few ideas on my shelf that I'd like to test that are variations of the theme, but they require more of a time, money and technical investment than anyone is currently willing to throw around. GonZo and I tried it with some mainstreamers last year.....we wont be doing that again.
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