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Old 07-10-2003, 10:13 PM  
tootie
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I just wanted to say that I can understand why surfers are unhappy with sites. After having seen several members areas in the past few years, I was appalled. Most of those that advertised exclusive content had very little of it, maybe 25-50 sets, MAX. Those that offered downloadable movies usually had 100 or less downloadable clips (usually poor quality and low resolution) and thousands of crappy streaming movies that took forever to load and were too small to see even at broadband size.

And most of the plugins are a JOKE. The movie plugins basically offer stReaming loads of horse shit. The picture plugins I looked through had thousands of pictures, sure. But the largest pic I saw in ANY of the picture plugins I saw was 600 pixels on the longest side. I could get this from TGPs for free! I know they have to keep bandwidth costs down, but this was absolutely ridiculous.

The single best paysite I have ever been in (and the ONLY one I would ever have considered rebilling to had I been on a paid membership) was Busty Amateurs. They had exclusive content, large images and even downloadable zips of all the image sets for people who wanted to look at them offline. Now THAT was quality. I was a webmaster, though, I wasn't paying. But yes, I have joined several paysites and no, I didn't rebill to any of them.

I joined on movie site once a few years ago that promised thousands of downloadable movies and once inside I found ZERO downloadable movies. I looked for around 2-3 hours. Not only did I cancel my membership but I asked for a refund of the trial price just 3 hours after joining.

I have not been into many paysites recently, mostly because I'm afraid to. I don't even want to waste $5 or less on a trial only to risk cancelling 5 seconds too late and being rebillied if the site is total crap.

I can only imagine how many surfers are afraid of the same thing.

Last edited by tootie; 07-10-2003 at 10:15 PM..
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