This is for the all the Adult Webmaster trying to make a buck online and not wanting to screw the surfer over in the process.

Hidden Cross Sales are bad, ummk? But I’m not talking about those types of Cross Sales, yet.

What I am talking is about knowing how to find out if a Program which offers Cross Sales (xsales) is safe enough to promote or not. Non-checked and/or pre-selected xsales, above the submit button, with nice clean text, is the Industry standard for an xsale. But how do you really know if the surfer is getting screwed over or not?

Programs processing on Epoch or CCbill doing pre-checked xsales:
Any Programs processing with these two Billing Companies have some serious rules to follow. First, any Paysite offering xsales can only have them above the submit button with clean clear text. It also means both Paysite Accounts earn more than 10kish a month, I know that isn’t huge but it tells you they have reached a level.

A larger factor though is the Chargeback(cb) and Refund limits along with the danger zones that both Processing companies have in place. Both Companies will remove pre-checks from unique Sites or entire Programs and even xsales all together, if a Site/Program move into the danger zone or actually breaks the cb/refund limits for a period of time.

How can you use this info as a Webmaster?
Once you have found a program that offers and/or takes xsales, open all the sites join pages and go to the epoch/ccbill billing page.

What you are looking for are the Programs and Sites that offer pre-checked xsales and they have xsales that aren’t pre-checked too. This is a possible problem program that you need to look more into.

First, if all the non-pre-checked xsales, go to the same Paysite, then the Paysite being sold may not take pre-checks or it could be a problem site. It’s for sure worth taking a look at and making your own judgment call. If it’s a legit Paysite, check the review sites user comments to see if the Paysite blows ass or rocks the house.

The Warning Signs:
If a join page offers two xsales, both or one not checked, and they go to different sites. Well, this happens because the processors removed the pre-checks on whichever Paysite that hit the cb/refund danger zones or some other problem is going on, normally both will lose the pre-check option. A single site can actually go over a 1% cb ratio, as long as entire account doesn’t - but it probably won’t have pre-checks on that one site. Again, if you check the review sites user comments, and read about these sites you quickly start to see a trend.

Always check the site being Cross Sold, pre-checked xsale or not, you need to make sure the site being cross sold on your traffic isn’t total trash.

Merchant Accounts:
I have a few quick steps to assist me with finding out if a Merchant Account Program is solid enough for me to promote. First, I don’t promote anyone with any xsales under the submit button, that kills out about 150 programs from the start.

A few simple things to check:

• Go to the billing page of the Paysites and look at the name that will be billed on the credit card. Then make sure the copyright/terms, ect say the same name. Some Programs role merchant accounts, sometimes making things not match up correctly.
• Then do a Whois on the domain. U.S. Domains, have U.S. merchant accounts, at U.S. banks. They can still do hidden xsales, however if they burn the merchant account, they can lose processing with Epoch and CCBill too. Putting them in a rather safe category for me.
• Most U.S. sites/merchant accounts also have Epoch/CCBill - which may have Cross Sales that you can study.
• Euro Merchant accounts have a Company/Office located in Europe, staff in Europe and host in Europe (normally). They may have offices in the U.S too, but the main bulk of people are based at the office in Europe. I find that real Euro based Companies normally don’t have any xsales, let alone shady  versions of xsales.

Some Red Flags to me are Companies that don’t have proper Whois info (paysites can’t protect it) and if the billing name isn’t the same as the Company in the copyright or whois info. Then sometimes you know for a fact a Company is located in the U.S., the domain is owed by someone in Panama, and they process out of Europe. Do you really care if they have hidden xsales or not? It’s your call - I’m just pointing out the facts.

Hidden Xsales and a Ending Story: Several years back I was chilling with some Webmaster Friends and story came out from one of the more interesting mouths of the group. Like many other times, this Friend enjoyed some of the finer social screw-ups in life, like buying whores. I don’t remember exactly how it happened, but this friend ended up finding himself a nice 3^rd word Asian whore. This was no weekend warrior either; she was great looking, sexy body, mouth like a goddess, a great find for any dirty man.

And this is when the story changed. He said, “Let me give you some advice Doc.” Naturally I said okay, when I probably should have just said, No Thanks. Anyway, his little ending reminded me of all the hidden scam cross sales going on in this business today.

Without even finishing my story, it’s the difference between asking for a whore with two legs and getting one with three. Some people don’t mind - they may even like it. But for the average guy it isn’t until you see “it” that you realize you just got screwed in ways you never thought possible.

~TheDoc

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The build up of the Adult Industry legal battle against piracy, tubes, and the sponsors that profit from piracy is going soon to explode wide open. The talk, hype, the Companies wanting to join the fight appears to be growing each day. I expect nothing but the best fireworks when this fuse is lit.But before our Industry runs out and starts suing the Internet, they may want to think about our Industry first, before they think of themselves.

Yes, fighting the legal fight often can have its rewards. Such is the case with Titan Media when they won $1.75 million against blog piracy but in the AVN article they also stated, “We are realistic, and we know the chances of collection on this default judgment are slim”.

Some situations require you to sue and protect yourself, even if you can’t get paid back.

Then other times, suing could be the cause of aiding piracy. How you say? I came across an article titled, BitTorrent use soars as MPAA fights on against P2P sites by arstechnica.com. The article shows and explains how the MPAA, RIAA and IFPI have taken a bite out of piracy, with several victories and enough lobby pressure that some pirate safe Countries my not be safe for much longer.

Then today from Techdirt, MPAA Decides Pullmylink.com Doesn’t Have Enough Publicity. Now as of a few seconds ago did you know of or ever hear of pullmylink.com? As the article says, “It’s a site I’ve never heard of, but thanks to a brand new lawsuit from the MPAA, plenty of people are learning all about the site.”

This may be the consequences of a legal fight. BigChampagne, a statistics and data tracking service for file sharing networks stated, “BitTorrent traffic has increased 24% since November 07.” Yes, some of the traffic increases are from other p2p network technology dieing off, but the real overall sharp increase happens because of…. Free Press!

That’s right, talking about Piracy, mostly the new and powerful Adult Tubes, is making them even more popular. From just about every Adult Webmaster forum to now surfer forums, emails, instant massagers, social networks, all of the Internet people are slowly starting to talk about Adult Tubes more and more.

At least this is staying within the tech driven - mature Internet market. But what do you think will happen when these major legal battles hit the mainstream press?

Even if a Judge forces the sued Tubes to go off line, the word “Tube” or “Adult Tube” will forever be branded into the new, millions upon millions of people. These are the possible surfers that aren’t tech savvy and are the millions of people we don’t want to know about Adult Tubes.

Once the papers and online mainstream media sources publish this information, the online social networks that don’t have adult, will now have “Adult Tubes” blasted all over. This virus will spread across the Internet, into small media sources, every social network, local news networks, email boxes, Christian sites, Cable Television and who knows what else.

I know this will create a massive amount of free publicity for Illegal Adult Tubes. So much free press they may be able to fund the fight back with the new increased earnings. With surfers loving the easy and safe homes of Tubes they will sure welcome them with open arms and all the publicity, it “will” motivate others to open more Pirated Sites. The idea of protecting your assets is quickly slipping through the cracks.

Not even the MPAA and RIAA have really put real a measurable dent into piracy, torrents, or p2p sites. But those hundreds of millions spent have successfully promoted the hell out of piracy methods.

So what is our little industry suppose to do?
Well I believe if we can take them out a different way, then don’t sue at all.

What are some other choices? We have plenty of them. The money spent on fighting piracy could be spent in ways to simply help control piracy rather than try and take on something 100 times larger than our Industry, and the music and movie industries combined.

We are an industry filled with people that have some amazing connections. Something to keep in mind.

• DMCA notices do work. Trying not sending threats or warnings, but just a direct email on exactly what the problem is and that you would like it removed. More often than not, this works.
• Most hosting companies will respond to DMCA Notices or force the client to respond.
• If the host doesn’t work, you can often apply pressure through the various backbones the hosting Companies use and the backbones those Companies use. This is one of the major problems email spammers have.
• Registrars and ICANN: Start working with them and finding out what we can do as an industry. Maybe if we have enough support, proof, or whatever is needed, we could get the domains closed down. This could help with International Piracy but may require a Judgment of some type first.
• As an Industry we can work together and talk with the search engines to remove Websites known to Pirate Adult Content. Showing the proof and an industry backing will produce results.
• Help educate others on how to correctly copyright and protect Movies and Pictures. Then learning the copyright publishing procedures for other major countries. Giving the content producer more power to correctly attack with.
• Educate our industry on DRM Solutions and the major changes it has gone through. When you Pirate or Crack a DRM protected movie, it becomes a CRIME in most developed nations. That’s a big step up from a Copyright complaint.
• Stop letting your members download movies and entire zip photo sets. Restrict what your Webmasters can use and the type of content given out. Limit the amount of Webmasters that can use and abuse your Members only content.
• Work with the Processors and Gateways, as a major group that use these companies we should pressure / lobby them to stop processing Adult Companies / Programs that are directly profiting from Piracy.
• If we can start working with the Processors, we can get our foot in the door with Visa/Mc more. Helping us expand to the individual banks that represent these companies profiting from Piracy.

My idea of this is a legal way to attack Piracy/Tubes without blasting them to every newsreader, television watcher, and radio listener in North America or the World. The amount of Money that will be spent to attack Piracy - could easily be spent to attack them in more logical ways - ways that won’t also benefit the entire Piracy Industry.

I’m all for attacking Piracy - I’m just not ready to give up my money to instantly promote Piracy/Tubes to a worldwide market. They get my content for free and then the publicity for free, and I get shafted out of lawyer bills and my content will still be pirated. Attacking from a different angle just makes more since to me.

My weekly 2 cents ~ TheDoc