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dar2112v
Joined in Dec 2007
920 post(s)

New VIP status / New price

Everything about iStripper
July 28, 2023, 209 answers
but if more are "sold" as a result of the SECs then that makes them profitablet. Of course if the average cost of winning a card is greater than that for buying one the effect of SECs will be even higher.

I think we agree

I look at very simply. It's not about the price of the card sold or the number of cards sold; it is about the revenue a card generates and the time it generates revenue. In other words you can sell 10x of a card for $1,000 and have $10,000 in revenue or sell 100,000 of a card at $1 each and generate $100,000 in revenue. Totem has to figure their way on the curve selling the max number of cards at the max price. I'm not sure what my max price would be but it is well below $1,000 and even if the cards were $0.01 (1 US cent) I wouldn't buy the all because I don't want all of them. That's just me, quite obvious everyone will have their own limits.

And really it has nothing to do with the shows themselves but the credits required to buy them. It's not complicated if they are adding buyers and current members are still buying then revenue is increasing organically and if not then revenue is declining or stagnant and possibly not keeping pace with increased expenses .

I don't care about the price increase; in fact if it made the exclusives go away I would welcome it. As it is for me now, it simply means I'll skip a show or two I might have bought or spend a small precent more to get all the shows I want. The exclusive cards do annoy me so I'm not buying anything right now.

Getting back to the topic, why would Totem keep doing exclusive content if it's not generating enough revenue to avoid having to raise the price which if obviously is offending more than a few members. They are taking many of the best cards out of the catalog so those of us ***** to participate in the 'games' (for lack of a better or nicer word) can't buy them at all and shrinking the catalog. Loosing members and limiting the catalog probably isn't good for revenues so one has to hope the exclusives can compensate,

I have no insight to the balance sheet so maybe loosing a few members or some members buying less but getting more per card will work out. What is offensive is the possibility they need more revenue to pay for its latest 'game'.
domino006
Joined in Nov 2008
65 post(s)

New VIP status / New price

Everything about iStripper
July 27, 2023, 209 answers
Well *****, good thing I didn't renew my Premium Status @ $60 the other day. I thought about it but this hobby is hard enough to afford as is and I'm not in the best of finacial status. I keep up my collection because I don't want it to get behind. All I'm missing of the Istripper cards is some SECs but I still have a bunch of old Virtuagirl cards not collected yet. Standard cards cost me 13.75 currently with the overpriced "special" cards costing 16.50 (many of which leave me questioning why they command the extra price). So now in order to keep up with my collection I'm now going to be paying 15 credits each and cosplay will be 17.50? Are credit card and paypal buyers going to be given a better deal than the 600 credits for $50 on bonus sales? Because this is starting to sound like something becoming unaffordable for the same standard product already being offered at a lower rate. It just seems illogical that your company costs have inflated considering there is no physical product or shipping. It's all digital and can be deleted at the push of a button. Are we getting bigger porn stars like Angela White or Lana Rhoades? Or is it because the big bosses in the company need a second yacht or a 4th vacation to Dubai next year? The 50% off thing is better than my current 45% but is it really when it will cost me an additional 37.50 credits per month? When I had premium I was paying 11 credits each so this is going to be an additional 4 credits each or 120 per month for the same product offered at current rates. Fyi, increasing prices on the same exact product is not good business sense. You should be offering a better product to match that increase otherwise you lose customers en masse. Does this seem right to you?