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Originally Posted by Hell Puppy
Like Toby, I'm not seeing a lot of reasons to be optimistic.
The industry as a whole wont mature on it's own. It's been over a decade now, and you still best be careful where you surf without protection or use an actual credit card versus a virtual.
You cant really force it to be fixed.
Governments dont get it, and the net is international. The FTC moves so slow they're easily chalked up to 'cost of doing business' if you have a good scam. Visa has some teeth, but they're also slow and are essentially playing whack-a-mole.
The processors are in a position to do the makeover, enforce some decorum when dealing with customers, and brand sites they process for as "trustworthy". But I dont see it happening. Why? Simple economics. More work for less transactions.
I've often thought a coalition, cartel or something similar, branded around customer experience, trust, truth in advertising, etc could work. Think of it as the "good housekeeping" seal. Way way back in the day, Ynot actually did this with some success with "Ynot member" sites. But sooner or later when you try to organize a bunch of rebellious personalities, it's doomed to break down, and it did.
Basically the largest obstacle to any of this is overcoming the fact that trying to organize webmasters is like cat herding.
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You hit on something I was thinking about last night, HP - you say it's been over a decade now, and I'm thinking it makes sense we are where we are. The online adult industry is a tween - and I think we all know (if not by personal experience than by living in the world at large) that someone 10-12 years old may make some decisions that are remarkably prescient, and others that defy logic and reason. I see a lot of that in this particular realm as well.
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Originally Posted by rhetorical
I think we tend to generalize on this subject. Some guys like red wine and others won't touch it. If you could answer this question with any amount of certainty, then you could make a lot of money.
I also believe that access is a key. What do you, as a potential customer, have access to? Some guys have no interest in hunting and pecking through miles of crap. When they find what they want, they will hang around for awhile. If you have a network of similar product that he feels safe in, he will migrate from site to site comfortably, removing the uncertainty of the nasty net. That is one of the strengths of aebn. Just one trusted click to keep on keepin on. I admire that business model.
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Thank you, Rhet.
Your remarks about generalisation are spot on to my mind - it's human nature to create a generalised view, because our minds are predisposed to find patterns. So any time a discernible pattern emerges, the natural tendency to is to wedge all things with similar attributes into that pattern, without regard to the unlike factors.
In this instance, we talk about consumption opportunity - some guys like a vast array of variety, others want to know where the pop shot is going to happen from familiarity. Some guys like Claudia Marie's cans, some like Jenna Haze's more modest endowments - some want chicks with dicks. Remembering that although there are some commonalities, but a wider array of disparities is going to be key in a much more 360 way going forward.