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Originally Posted by Starscream
A question to Taylor, when she pops up here again; just wondering whats going on with the price increase on your videos. When I first started getting your videos I was paying anywhere from $7 to $10 per video, now it seems we are paying $10 minimum and a lot more $20 videos are popping up. Just wondering why the increase?
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I was asked this question at my forum and Bud answered it so here's what he said...
1. A recent escalation in douchebags who feel like piracy is simply a game they like to play with us. IP lawyers are expensive as fuck and we just put one on retainer.
2. We sell clips in a bunch of different communities/fetishes but for whatever reason the Inflation & the GTS Growth community has more fraudulent credit card transactions then all the others combined times 2. For example we recently we had the biggest case of fraud not only in our history but the history of vidown which has 200+ producers and has been around since 2001. We had to refund over $400 worth of sales and got fined by the bank several hundred bucks on top of that for the chargebacks.
3. In every fetish we produce in we have always tried to be reasonably priced VS using the pricing model that most other producers like to use which is "charge whatever they will pay regardless of merit".
The current standard on C4s and other downloadable clip sites for simple POV clips that are frequently "single shot" videos requiring no editing or post production is a dollar a minute.
For years now we have managed to keep that same standard in our BE, Growth and Inflation clips even though many times the time, effort and the prop/wardrobe/specialFX/editing expenses are ten-fold that of any other clips.
We cannot afford it anymore. But we still try and release clips initially at a lower price and then after a month we raise it so keep that in mind if you are interested in a new clip.