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Mutt · 02-11-2003

Mike Babenet has always had their own merchant accounts, i can't think of any other company doing the amount of dollars they do that has been able to do this, no idea how they keep them but i got an email from a video biz person who said Babenet is ......... hmmmmmmmmmmmm...........well let's just say they're well connected in many places. Meaning they have carte blanche to do whatever they want with somebody's credit card once they have it, a sign up is worth more to them than to a company that plays by most of the rules and has major costs.

Nobody seems to exactly know who Babenet is. I always thought it was owned by VCA, one of the largest adult video companies whose roots go way back, but there are more people involved in Babenet than Russ Hampshire who owns VCA. I don't think he probably has anything to do with Babenet's operations.

Also dont forget that Babenet pays nothing for content, what little they do have in the members areas is probably from VCA.

If you go into a Babenet members area take a look at which big boy gets the traffic. No customer is going to stay a member of that shithole website, there are ads lots of ads pushing them to other websites.

So your friend might be wrong, they might be paying out enough to these 'front' operators who are heavy heavy into spamming to be able to afford paying them $50 maybe even $60 per signup. So they can turn around and pay out $40 to their affilliates.

02-11-2003	#54
Mutt Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,087	Mike Babenet has always had their own merchant accounts, i can't think of any other company doing the amount of dollars they do that has been able to do this, no idea how they keep them but i got an email from a video biz person who said Babenet is ......... hmmmmmmmmmmmm...........well let's just say they're well connected in many places. Meaning they have carte blanche to do whatever they want with somebody's credit card once they have it, a sign up is worth more to them than to a company that plays by most of the rules and has major costs. Nobody seems to exactly know who Babenet is. I always thought it was owned by VCA, one of the largest adult video companies whose roots go way back, but there are more people involved in Babenet than Russ Hampshire who owns VCA. I don't think he probably has anything to do with Babenet's operations. Also dont forget that Babenet pays nothing for content, what little they do have in the members areas is probably from VCA. If you go into a Babenet members area take a look at which big boy gets the traffic. No customer is going to stay a member of that shithole website, there are ads lots of ads pushing them to other websites. So your friend might be wrong, they might be paying out enough to these 'front' operators who are heavy heavy into spamming to be able to afford paying them $50 maybe even $60 per signup. So they can turn around and pay out $40 to their affilliates.