CzechBoys Gets Face Lift
Thsi week CzechBoys announced the launch of their new site tour, and claim it is the largest multi-language tour in the history of the gay adult on-line industry. The new tour also features video previews of their vast collection of exclusive videos. Several hundred previews are currently on-line for prospective members to watch, with plans to have previews of their complete collection by year’s end.
CzechBoyBucks, the CzechBoys affiliate program, has also re-launched and is now offering free video hosted galleries and monthly affiliate cash bonuses. The free video galleries will roll out along with the new tour videos. CzechBoyBucks expects to have available over 1000 free video galleries by the end of the year.
CzechBoys claims they are the European leader in on-line gay erotica, since 1999, and publisher of the Internet’s only gay erotic daily magazine, yet they still seem to think it is appropriate to use multiple processors, with out cascading billing. This practice of siphoning off webmaster traffic, without paying for it, suggests a reluctance to let go of old school Eastern Block mentality.
Everyone knows European on-line consumers prefer debit card transactions. A multi-lingual tour and an alternate processor to except Euro debit cards? Dig through all the hype, and guess what jumps out?
I would like to address the concerns raised here about our use of “multiple” processors and siphoning off webmaster traffic, since obviously our intention is not and would never be to not give proper monetary credit to each and every sign up directed to us by an affiliate through his hard work to get quality traffic. We use a single alternate processor, 2000Charge, not multiple processors. The sales generated through 2000Charge (which we use ONLY for direct debit, not for credit card sales) represents less than 3.5% of our total sales, that figure has not changed since the multi language tour went online. We were delighted recently when CCBill announced that they would begin to offer European Direct Debit so that we could finally use only one single processor. Unfortunately the CCBill EU Direct Debit system requires a 3 day waiting period, something that customers looking for instant gratification in online porn would not accept. The minute that CCBill offers reliable EU direct pay we will offer it so the less than 3.5% of sales “siphoned” from webmaster traffic will no longer be “siphoned”.
Comment by Jaroslav Smetana — September 19, 2007 @ 2:02 pm
CCBill and 2000Charge are two processors = multiple processors without cascading billing.
Affiliates have no way of verifying your 3.5 percent figure, but assuming it is accurate, how high would that percentage need to grow before you would determine it unfair to your affiliate base - 4, 5, 10, 15, 20 percent?
If it truly is 3.5 percent, then its really equivalent to 7 percent plus rebills, because you are not paying your affiliates a commission on those sales.
Comment by Dr Bill — September 19, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
Hi Dr. Bill - that figure has been consistent for five years so it would be very unlikely for it to grow as more and more Europeans each and every day embrace the use of credit cards. You twice in your comment questioned the figure of 3.5% - obviously I do not lie and it’s insulting to be questioned like that, but as I wrote in the first comment, it’s LESS than 3.5% so that is equivalent to less than 1.75% for affiliates, not doubling the figure as you did since we pay affiliates 50% of sales, not 200% of sales. The fact that we offer prospective members 2000Charge as an alternate to the minute % of people who do not have a credit card should obviously not be a factor in an affiliates decision to work together with us.
Comment by Jaroslav Smetana — September 20, 2007 @ 1:12 am
Then you should have no problem putting, on CzechBoyBucks, an easy to see statement that you use an alternate processor, and affiliates will not be compensated for any sales, or rebills, made through 2000Charge.
Comment by Dr Bill — September 20, 2007 @ 1:26 am
That’s actually a good idea Dr. Bill, I’ll ask that it be done
Comment by Jaroslav Smetana — September 21, 2007 @ 3:00 am