Just what we need, new web browser shows only the pics on a web site.

spazlabz · 2004-05-13, 07:05 AM

Here's my somewhat insignificant opinion on this browser or the other means to bypass our collective selling techniques. I believe these programs are used by surfers who have been around the block a few times. Surfers who have seen that been there all before. In short surfers who most likely wouldn't have any intentions of joining a pay site any way.
It's my belief that those are the types of people who would search out this type of program and exploit it's capabilities. I also believe that they would tell all of their friends about it. But that probably doesn't constitute a huge share of our customer base. Add in the fact that even though the debate about how much we should give away for free on TGPs and freesites people are STILL buying memberships to paysites to the tune of many millions of dollars a quarter, so they want more than what we give them and they will eventually pay for the right to view the protected members content.
So I wouldn't recommend getting to upset about it right yet. What would be something to get upset about is IF someone in the industry decided that this could be a short term cash cow for them and started promoting it heavily. Let's hope that if that happened, insightful TGP owners and LL owners would choose to ban any pages with that being promoted.

sorry for the long winded response

spaz

2004-05-13, 07:05 AM	#1
spazlabz You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Bluegrass State Posts: 963	Here's my somewhat insignificant opinion on this browser or the other means to bypass our collective selling techniques. I believe these programs are used by surfers who have been around the block a few times. Surfers who have seen that been there all before. In short surfers who most likely wouldn't have any intentions of joining a pay site any way. It's my belief that those are the types of people who would search out this type of program and exploit it's capabilities. I also believe that they would tell all of their friends about it. But that probably doesn't constitute a huge share of our customer base. Add in the fact that even though the debate about how much we should give away for free on TGPs and freesites people are STILL buying memberships to paysites to the tune of many millions of dollars a quarter, so they want more than what we give them and they will eventually pay for the right to view the protected members content. So I wouldn't recommend getting to upset about it right yet. What would be something to get upset about is IF someone in the industry decided that this could be a short term cash cow for them and started promoting it heavily. Let's hope that if that happened, insightful TGP owners and LL owners would choose to ban any pages with that being promoted. sorry for the long winded response spaz __________________