Originally Posted by blackmonsters

You have to go back to 1998 or so, when many porn sites were fake and didn't even have a members area.
They would say "Enter credit card info for age verification only, this site is free", and
then bang the credit card for $60-$120; but the password never worked because they
never built a members area.



And then came "Pre-checked cross sales". That exploded the chargebacks on sites that actually had a members area.