Did gas prices suck the life out of adult sites?

[plateman]

I think everyone would agree that there ratios arnt what they should be

yes I do believe that high everything prices except porn is the major thing holding things back a bit

put your self in the shoes of the average US consumer and aug is a bad month for most places except retail clothes and school supplies ect.

I remember when I first started working on cars at the dealers and other shops that aug was every year the worst for biz

my wife took my girls shopping for school clothes and she told me you wouldnt believe the deep discounts the stores had to get people to buy, and most stores she was in (not walmart) good quality clothing stores and she notices that everyone was buying only what was needed

and believe me the average US family that has kids is gonna be saving for xmas extra early this last quarter of the year

so you gotta work extra hard in the next few months to glide over the dips that come in this biz

promote under promoted sites and programs, target different people that have money left on there cards

the problem imo came years ago when credit was to easy to get and most over bought and now the last few years after you buy your everything expensive now and pay your 4 or 6 credit cards and people see month to month that after they pay those cards not much play money is left if any

things will get better, but google isnt helping much by showing the surfers the tube sites and such, but you really can't blame them

sales are way down for me this month, but I took a traffic hit

also my brother married and divoriced a stripper and a popular stip club in my town and even from what he tells me that the girls are seeing way lower tips from the drunk customers there, since the extra cost of gas, then most of those customers are smokers and cigs are taxed high so that = less money for the girls

same thing in our biz right now, unless you can find something that will sell with better richer surfers