David says:
September 19th, 2005 at 4:21 pm e
I HAVE TIRED TO BUY SOME OF YOUR VIDEOS. YOUR PAYMENT METHOD IS VERY BAD. FIRST WHY REQUIRE FAXING!! WHY NOT USE PAYPAL? SECOND THE FAX NUMBER DID NTO ANSWER FOR THREE DAYS. tHEN IT DID AND i FAXED THE FORM WITH MY CREDIT CARD INFO. I GAVE VALID CREDIT CARDS AND THEN GOT AN EMAIL, AFTER MORE THAN A WEEK, THAT SAID THE ORDER WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT PROCESS THE PAYMENT. THEN LOW AND BEHOLD I GOT A CHARGE (FOR TWICE THE AMOUNT OF THE VIDEO) THAT MY CREDIT CARD SAID WOULD BE PAID IF I DID NOT CANCEL IT ( WHICH I DID OF COURSE BECASUE IT WAS ALMOST 4 WEEKS FROM THE ORDER DATE TO THE PAYMENT DUE DATE AND I HAD NOT RECEIVED THE VIDEO. OF COURSE BY THIS TIME I WOULD HAVE DROPPED ANY OTHER CONTACT OR ATTTEMPT TO BUY WITH ANY OTHER PRODUCT BUT YOU ARE SO SEXY THAT I WOULD STILL LIKE ONE OR MORE OF YOUR VIDEOS. YOU SHOULD FIRE YOUR PAYMENT PLANS AND GET AN EASY ONE TO USE. I WILL TRY TO BUY AGAIN IF I GET PERSONAL CONTACT AND INSTRUCTIONS.
DAVID EDSALL
David, I have addressed this issue so many times over the past two years. Paypal does not process any transactions on behalf of adult-theme products or content anymore. Since they dropped this bombshell early 2003, I have been searching for a new and better way to accept credit card transactions. It has been quite an ordeal. Read my article on The Rise and Fall of Amateur Porn.
Frankly the only headache I get from making my porn sites has been figuring out an effective way to bill people for products and/or content. I’m guessing I’m not alone, considering AVN Online Magazine devoted this month’s issue on billing.
I appreciate your continued support in spite of the fiasco you went through with YowCow. However, getting a billing system that is easy to use on both your and my end is a job in itself. Since referrals are the best way to really find out if a payment processor is good, I just check out other girls’ websites and see what they use. Often I don’t find out if a company sucks from the user end of it unless I hear about it from people like you.
Before I dabbled in the semi-pro adult world, long ago when I was a true amateur just posting my porn online for free, I swear J and I had so much more fun. *sigh*
Anyway, we’re out of town on vacation right now. I’ll be back at the end of the month. I’ll figure it all out when I return. Thanks again!
I find the iTunes payment method is the easiest I have ever encountered. Someone should create an iPorn store where people would be able to download porn clips for $0.99. It could have categories for amateur, anal, asian, bukkake, pissing, gangbang, shemales, etc. I could do a search for MayLing Su and your videos would popup with all the available clips for purchase and download. That would be good.
Nigel
That’s actually a good idea, and being done right now by a company called PayPerClick. Not as huge as the iTunes network, but it’s porn! I’m a little leary of it because the company is based off shore, so I don’t know if I’ll get my checks. And the design looks kinda cheesy…
Speaking of not getting my checks, YowCow still owes me a couple hundred bucks for videos I’ve sent out and they’ve taken money for. This sucks rocks!!! I hate having to work to get what I worked for. A couple hundred doesn’t even seem to be worth the effort of bugging them by email and by phone, but I can’t just let them get away with this. It’s wrong!!!