Current "sponsor" prices

I feel they are a little steep for what you get . If the prices were more in the 30USD area I would definitely fill my credit card details in. As it stands I just think that it is pure profiteering as it is truly not much more benefit out of paying for the membership as it is just remaining a free member. How does everyone else feel about the current WBW prices?

There are a lot of benefits that I think you're overlooking...

Check out this link...it's got all the benefits of a sponsor membership:

http://whatboyswant.com/membership/

As far as the site goes, it's something like 4 euros a month if you buy a year long membership, or you can just get a single month member ship for less than 20 bucks and see if it's worth buying/extending it.

Yeah believe me I've looked at that membership page about 3-4 times before writing this original post.
I just do not think there is enough to warrant spending $78 USD (I'm australian and it converts to about $85 for me) a year for such a little amount of extra features.
Particularly when other sites are already offering your extra features for no charge.
I mean no offence by these posts I'm just hoping that the owners of WBW will take notice and lower the prices so I can happily give them my credit card details.

The price is fine ! I believe I am on my 3rd sponsership and I will sign up again when this one is up ! Shop around and you will see this is reasonable ! By the way did you know there is a CAR section ? You should check that out !

I wouldn't count on the prices being lowered. Times are tough, and we have to make money to keep the site going. I think the prices are fair for what you get.

You want to pay 30 bucks for an entire year?

That's not really all that much honestly..

We're mods here..so like, you can't really take our opinions as unbiased..but, you get a lot of content for the price.

Like..a shitload. I mean, as far as porn goes, this is really the only porn site I've ever belonged to..it has anything you want at an affordable price.

Sorry to hear you don't feel it's worth it, because it is an excellent site..but the prices are what they are man.

The vid section and the amateur porn pic section alone have more content then you alone could possibly go through.

I'm not one for long stories, I've been here about 18 months. In those months I've had 2 one month sponsorships awarded. I've truly hated that I can't afford to pay for it after each one! The difference is Night/Day!

YES, It Is Worth IT

I love being a sponsor member. My favorite "perk"? The babe movies vid player preview (and unlimited credits too lol).... I love the fact I can quick-preview a movie without wasting my time downloading the whole thing.

I’ll level with you guys about the prices.

Yes, they have gone up, but none of the money from the increase has gone into our pockets. The cost of operation has increased significantly, and well a considerable amount of the staff was let go just so we could continue to operate. It isn’t always pretty, it isn’t always fair, and we are trying our best to try to get our recent—and quite steady—decline of sponsor membership to come to an end. We have tried using ads to help negate some of the costs of operations, but too many people have used ad-blockers to make them viable.

Consider the fact that colocation requires an excessive amount of resources. For a similarly spec’d machine that WBW uses, it would cost $428.91 a month. Now multiply that by 8, and that is the cost of just hosting our servers. Then add another almost $626.13 for the database. That alone brings us to $4057.41 a month without an internet connection; to continue to push as much data as we do, we have a 1Gbps symmetrical line, that costs $1387.80 a month. And that as at an enormous discount from what is offered over here in the USA which a 20Mbps symmetrical line starts around $1525.

So to complain about $6.47 for a month seems kinda trivial to the cost of $5445.21 that we spend a month just to host the site. That isn’t even factoring in the fact that office space costs, utilities, communication, and just basic supplies add another $1200 to the cost. Not to mention the cost of affording the people that have dedicated their time to working on the site.

Right now we can just barely afford the hosting.

So to complain about something like that when you get access to probably one of the largest data stores of pornography on the entire net just seems kind of petty. I can’t think of any other site that offers you over a million pictures, and over 48,000 videos.

I'm not saying your prices are not reasonable, but one thing that might help is adding a few more options. I cannot afford $78 a year or even $17 for a month (even though I do agree that it's pretty cheap). I'm thinking an affordable price would be around $5/mo that could buy us a given number of credits for movies priced according to the amount of bandwidth the movies take. I feel like there are many other individuals in my position that, although are very interested in the movies, we can't afford these prices but would be completely willing to pay around $5 for access based on credits. This option could not only draw in customers who can't afford the full priced service, but alleviate some of the cost of bandwidth. Another idea would be to charge for x amount of credits, instead of a month-by-month charge.

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Originally posted by Kanzen

I'll level with you guys about the prices.

Yes, they have gone up, but none of the money from the increase has gone into our pockets. The cost of operation has increased significantly, and well a considerable amount of the staff was let go just so we could continue to operate. It isn't always pretty, it isn't always fair, and we are trying our best to try to get our recent - and quite steady - decline of sponsor membership to come to an end. We have tried using ads to help negate some of the costs of operations, but too many people have used ad-blockers to make them viable.

Consider the fact that colocation requires an excessive amount of resources. For a similarly spec'd machine that WBW uses, it would cost $428.91 a month. Now multiply that by 8, and that is the cost of just hosting our servers. Then add another almost $626.13 for the database. That alone brings us to $4057.41 a month without an internet connection; to continue to push as much data as we do, we have a 1Gbps symmetrical line, that costs $1387.80 a month. And that as at an enormous discount from what is offered over here in the USA which a 20Mbps symmetrical line starts around $1525.

So to complain about $6.47 for a month seems kinda trivial to the cost of $5445.21 that we spend a month just to host the site. That isn't even factoring in the fact that office space costs, utilities, communication, and just basic supplies add another $1200 to the cost. Not to mention the cost of affording the people that have dedicated their time to working on the site.

Right now we can just barely afford the hosting.

So to complain about something like that when you get access to probably one of the largest data stores of pornography on the entire net just seems kind of petty. I can't think of any other site that offers you over a million pictures, and over 48,000 videos.

That sounds fair and reasonable. Just one thing you mentioned that may be go "huh?".
"we are trying our best to try to get our recent - and quite steady - decline of sponsor membership to come to an end."
Okay, I understand that you are trying to battle a decline of sponsorship members. That would worry me too given the same situation. The thing that struck me as rather strange is.. Wouldn't you lower the prices so that it is more affordable and more people will jump on the band wagon? If the sponsorship numbers were declining, raising the price would just decrease the total number of sponsors even further.. Even if you were offering $60usd a year instead of the current $78 (a measly $18 discount) it still looks so much more appealing than the current price.

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Originally posted by CIZZO

I'm not saying your prices are not reasonable, but one thing that might help is adding a few more options. I cannot afford $78 a year or even $17 for a month (even though I do agree that it's pretty cheap). I'm thinking an affordable price would be around $5/mo that could buy us a given number of credits for movies priced according to the amount of bandwidth the movies take. I feel like there are many other individuals in my position that, although are very interested in the movies, we can't afford these prices but would be completely willing to pay around $5 for access based on credits. This option could not only draw in customers who can't afford the full priced service, but alleviate some of the cost of bandwidth. Another idea would be to charge for x amount of credits, instead of a month-by-month charge.

I also feel that this is a very viable option instead of lowering total prices, offering different payment methods, such as buying credits to spend freely on whatever you want to.
This would surely raise your funds given that it was done the right way.

I don't mean to tell you how to run your business, and I am sorry to hear about the trouble you are having with cost management. I just like to offer my opinion and alternatives for pricing.
Thanks for listening!

From a yearly standpoint, I really can't understand your concern. On one hand, you said that $78 is "a little steep for what you get" (which is unlimited everything), but then suggested that you'd be OK with $60 ( $5 x 12) for some sort of limited access.

A single month paid membership is also a very good value IMO considering it's truely unlimited access to the movie and picture galleries, although I can't imagine why anyone would continue to extend their membership by one month at a time after they've experienced the benefits of sponsorship considering how cheap a 1 year membership is.

Are you referring to "CIZZO" or me? If you were talking to me then by quoting CIZZO I meant that a credits method would be also be a viable option. Not to me personally, but to WBW to try and raise some funds from those who can't afford the full priced options.

Edit: An afterthought. A trial membership! Say you spend $1 on a 3 day trial, and then if you sign up to a full year membership from that, you get the full year for $77usd (because you already paid the $1 for the trial)
This would allow people to see what you get with the full access without actually having to sign up to a yearly membership.

I was referring to both of you because you indicated that CIZZO's suggestion of $5 to by some limited number of credits is a "very viable option"

What about something like this?
http://whatboyswant.com/forum_read/4840797/1/10/Credits.html

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Originally posted by stevles

Edit: An afterthought. A trial membership! Say you spend $1 on a 3 day trial, and then if you sign up to a full year membership from that, you get the full year for $77usd (because you already paid the $1 for the trial)
This would allow people to see what you get with the full access without actually having to sign up to a yearly membership.

There's no way $1 for a single day, let alone 3 days is gonna fly. Keep in mind, a paid membership is "unlimited" access to the movie and pic galleries, so while I'm sure it is appealing to you to be able to download a few dozen gigs worth of movies for a buck, that ain't gonna happen. On the other hand, I'd actually be in favor of applying the biggest portion of a monthly membership toward a yearly membership for anyone that wanted to upgrade an active membership.

just a question = do guys like brownell profit from whatboyswant?

intead of moaning about the price why dont you start uploading content and earn credits. that way you get your credits and your making the site bigger and better for everyone