Tried Offline Payment/billing At Your Paysites?

02-05-2003

Western Union is a pain, you have to deal with verifying it, then adding the person and noting when to delete them, unless it's a long-term membership, it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble. Besides, you have to provide the user with your real name, I wouldn't like that.

I used to take mail in payments on my website. I got about 5-6 a year that way. Haven't had one in quite some time, frankly don't even know if Trevor has the link up anymore, but it is a hassle for very little return.

Porn is an impusle buy. Anything that doesn't give them instant access isn't going to generate much income. After years of running a phone sex service, I found the same was true with that. Payment in advance just didn't happen. I would think that dialers would work much better, as long as you have a dialer that pays out, )unlike Dial2cash, which utterly ripped me and I'm sure many other webmasters.:angry: )

I developed an honor system for the service that worked very well, I was paid 99% or more of the time, but I got so much information on them and verified it before giving them a call (including work telephone #'s, etc.) that it was easy to track them down. I doubt anyone these days wanting to view a porn site would want to give out that kind of information.

People are paranoid. I even had one long-time member who just switched to PayPal write me today to say that he thought that PayPal was sending him mail from Hustler and other adult companies. I seriously doubt that PayPal is selling people's home addresses to porn snail-mail spammers.

All in all, over 4 years with my site, I perhaps made about 1500 dollars in offline payments. Not worth the hassle, in my opinion.

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02-05-2003	#6
originalheather Guest Posts: n/a	Western Union is a pain, you have to deal with verifying it, then adding the person and noting when to delete them, unless it's a long-term membership, it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble. Besides, you have to provide the user with your real name, I wouldn't like that. I used to take mail in payments on my website. I got about 5-6 a year that way. Haven't had one in quite some time, frankly don't even know if Trevor has the link up anymore, but it is a hassle for very little return. Porn is an impusle buy. Anything that doesn't give them instant access isn't going to generate much income. After years of running a phone sex service, I found the same was true with that. Payment in advance just didn't happen. I would think that dialers would work much better, as long as you have a dialer that pays out, )unlike Dial2cash, which utterly ripped me and I'm sure many other webmasters.:angry: ) I developed an honor system for the service that worked very well, I was paid 99% or more of the time, but I got so much information on them and verified it before giving them a call (including work telephone #'s, etc.) that it was easy to track them down. I doubt anyone these days wanting to view a porn site would want to give out that kind of information. People are paranoid. I even had one long-time member who just switched to PayPal write me today to say that he thought that PayPal was sending him mail from Hustler and other adult companies. I seriously doubt that PayPal is selling people's home addresses to porn snail-mail spammers. All in all, over 4 years with my site, I perhaps made about 1500 dollars in offline payments. Not worth the hassle, in my opinion.