[Carrie]

'02 summer internext in Miami there was a group there pushing pre-paids. I believe it was called 6card.com. Cards looked real nice, had huge porn stars on the front of them with enough clothing on so that the cards could sit right next to a register at a kid's eye-level at 7-11 and not have anyone screaming.

Quite a number of problems with them. Paysites don't want to join the list of sites that accept that card unless there's a certain number of cards currently in use. It's just not worth their time to do the coding. And without a big list of sites you can use the card at, you have a hard time getting footmen to do the distribution for you. They want a product they know will sell, something they can slap down on the counter and say "Look, for $20 your customer gets access to 200 full-fledge porn sites"... not "...access to 10 full-fledge porn sites".

The store merchant gets a cut, the footman gets a cut, the regional distributor gets a cut... add webmasters into that mix with the percentages they're demanding these days and you may as well count on pennies per card once it gets back to your bank account. Although the webmasters *would* cut out the footman and the store merchant; the distributor could just mail it out direct.

The real juice to what Duocash is doing is that you can *also* use it as a genuine phone card. That's gonna be the kicker. There's already a ton of phone card distribution going on; the footmen who can walk in with a card that has a bonus of being able to use it online is going to have a hot product on his hands from the merchant's point of view.
This *could* be big; depending on the consumer's reaction to it in the brick-and-mortar stores.

R_n is the *only* person I see making a visible push to put a porn credit card into the hands of the surfers, with his CyberAgeCard.com site. AFAIK you can't use it anywhere else than on his sites, but it's a start. (Slightly off-topic but close enough... it's cards.)



Last edited by Carrie at Dec 11 2003, 03:04 AM