PornBox.com • View topic - What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Page 1 of 1

What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 11:18 pm

by TheVulture

This isn't a gripe about the cost of scenes but more this weird change to 2 decimal places with the ticket prices that has come about fairly recently. It's all a bit weird - what's the reasoning behind it?

I always thought even having 1 decimal place was a bit odd. I would have thought there would be a way to differentiate between scenes for 6, 7, 8, 9 etc. tickets without needing that. But adding the extra decimal place just seems totally unnecessary.

Part of my issue with it is that I'm very OCD and have a thing with odd numbers (don't ask). I can just about cope with the concept of, say, 9.7 tickets but 9.47 tickets is a total "fingernails scraping down a blackboard" vibe with me.

Not saying it's a deal-breaker or anything. I'm sure I'll live. But it sure as hell is odd.

Can anyone explain what is going on here? Would anyone else favour a return to at least a more palatable 1 decimal place like me?

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:34 pm

by poldijk

looks like chemonro5 has been kicked out!

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:42 pm

by Ultra-Gape

If you look on Analvids when logged in you get 5 decimal places on some scenes. Maybe producers are setting a price in dollars and the ticket prices shown are calculated from that?

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:35 am

by dap-addict

Ultra-Gape wrote:Maybe producers are setting a price in dollars and the ticket prices shown are calculated from that?

Thats the case as far as I understood all price discussions from mid April onwards.
But why should I care if its 9,9 or 9,89 or 9,89163 tickets? Its all the same for me: Expensive, but too hot to skip or expensive and too expensive to buy.

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:10 am

by vvvv84335

It's pretty simple IMO. U buy something, or u don't buy something.

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:58 pm

by TheVulture

Ultra-Gape wrote:If you look on Analvids when logged in you get 5 decimal places on some scenes. Maybe producers are setting a price in dollars and the ticket prices shown are calculated from that?

Hmm but that doesn't explain how they always used to be 1 decimal place, does it? What has changed?

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:05 am

by TheVulture

dap-addict wrote:
Ultra-Gape wrote:Maybe producers are setting a price in dollars and the ticket prices shown are calculated from that?

Thats the case as far as I understood all price discussions from mid April onwards.
But why should I care if its 9,9 or 9,89 or 9,89163 tickets? Its all the same for me: Expensive, but too hot to skip or expensive and too expensive to buy.

I get that but it does become a bit confusing with too many decimal places, doesn't it? Before it was easy to calculate what I could afford. For example, I've got 12.6 tickets left so this 7.8 ticket scene leaves me 4.8 tickets (with which you could generally buy something). Now you have to be Stephen Hawking to work it out. And I've no idea if the 4.7996 tickets I have left (or whatever) will get me anything.

It seems to round up or down in your ticket count anyway, doesn't it? I think if you buy something for 8.216 tickets it charges you 8.2, for example. I haven't checked that closely, I'll be honest.

I'm just a simple guy (and one with OCD to boot). I just like things kept simple.

(A shrewd observer might note that I only used even numbers in the above. I don't even like typing odd numbers

)

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:46 am

by corth

TheVulture wrote:This isn't a gripe about the cost of scenes but more this weird change to 2 decimal places with the ticket prices that has come about fairly recently. It's all a bit weird - what's the reasoning behind it?

I always thought even having 1 decimal place was a bit odd. I would have thought there would be a way to differentiate between scenes for 6, 7, 8, 9 etc. tickets without needing that. But adding the extra decimal place just seems totally unnecessary.

Part of my issue with it is that I'm very OCD and have a thing with odd numbers (don't ask). I can just about cope with the concept of, say, 9.7 tickets but 9.47 tickets is a total "fingernails scraping down a blackboard" vibe with me.

Not saying it's a deal-breaker or anything. I am sure I'll live. But it sure as hell is odd.

Can anyone explain what is going on here? Would anyone else favour a return to at least a more palatable 1 decimal place like me?

Understand you about OCD and these numbers, suffer from that too

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:49 am

by Ultra-Gape

TheVulture wrote:
Ultra-Gape wrote:If you look on Analvids when logged in you get 5 decimal places on some scenes. Maybe producers are setting a price in dollars and the ticket prices shown are calculated from that?

Hmm but that doesn't explain how they always used to be 1 decimal place, does it? What has changed?

The question was about the current situation. I'm very happy with a scene costing say 2.5 tickets rather than 2 or 3. it's getting to a second decimal place that is when it get's pointless to me.

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:14 pm

by dap-addict

vvvv84335 wrote:It's pretty simple IMO. U buy something, or u don't buy something.

+ 1

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:55 pm

by xxxVIPERxxx

dap-addict wrote:
vvvv84335 wrote:It's pretty simple IMO. U buy something, or u don't buy something.

+ 1

+2, I either buy or don't and pay no particular close attention to the number of decimal places...

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:20 am

by GatosNunez

TheVulture wrote:... is a total "fingernails scraping down a blackboard" vibe with me.

I feel you. I currently have "140.38" tickets left and it drives me mad.
For the "buy or don't buy"-people: You didn't really read the OP. He is not complaining about pricing in general.

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 5:04 am

by dap-addict

GatosNunez wrote:For the "buy or don't buy"-people: You didn't really read the OP. He is not complaining about pricing in general.

I know! But dont have we other problems here as users than decimal? Is it really that important whether a scene costs 11,55557 or 11, 56 or 11,6 or 12 tkt? Open even a thread for it, when we could discuss girls performances and thus help directors/studios instead?

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 5:59 am

by GatosNunez

dap-addict wrote:
GatosNunez wrote:For the "buy or don't buy"-people: You didn't really read the OP. He is not complaining about pricing in general.

I know! But dont have we other problems here as users than decimal? Is it really that important whether a scene costs 11,55557 or 11, 56 or 11,6 or 12 tkt? Open even a thread for it, when we could discuss girls performances and thus help directors/studios instead?

No, 100%, it is not that important.
I suppose that was why OP mentioned "don't ask" ... OCDs are hard to explain.
A friend of mine stopped riding with me in my car because the volume of my radio always sat at the "15" setting. He could not bear it.

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 1:18 pm

by TheVulture

dap-addict wrote:I know! But dont have we other problems here as users than decimal? Is it really that important whether a scene costs 11,55557 or 11, 56 or 11,6 or 12 tkt? Open even a thread for it, when we could discuss girls performances and thus help directors/studios instead?

That's an oddly dismissive tone for you. "Oh come on - there are more important things!"

Don't I also do those other things you mention? Is this really an "either/or" thing?

As others have said, I did make light of it myself essentially. But OCD is a genuine thing. Surely it's valid for me to raise this, isn't it? Wouldn't everyone benefit at least a little bit if AV/LP went back to 1 decimal place pricing? Is there anyone here thinking "Yeah - 9.8864 tickets! About time we had that kind of precise definition!"?

Again....just to be clear....I'm not suggesting it will bring down currently high global inflation, resolve Israel/Palestine etc. etc.

No-one has actually explained why this has come about either, which was really the crux of the thing. That would need a moderator I guess.

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 1:28 pm

by dap-addict

TheVulture wrote:No-one has actually explained why this has come about either, which was really the crux of the thing. That would need a moderator I guess.

I tried to explain it based on what I know: Studios set a price in $ they want per scene. Since most users buy videos with tickets and conversion rate from tkt to $ had been adjusted mid April a new course is taken to convert the tickets. This has apparently lead to more precise tkt prices, which indeed look odd at times.

Can you live with such an answer? (you might wanna read back dozens of posts of me, YumYum and others trying to work this out with xxx, Gio, Oscar Batty etc.) Or do you need xxx to come here again and explain it?

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 1:39 pm

by TheVulture

dap-addict wrote:I tried to explain it based on what I know: Studios set a price in $ they want per scene. Since most users buy videos with tickets and conversion rate from tkt to $ had been adjusted mid April a new course is taken to convert the tickets. This has apparently lead to more precise tkt prices, which indeed look odd at times.

Can you live with such an answer? (you might wanna read back dozens of posts of me, YumYum and others trying to work this out with xxx, Gio, Oscar Batty etc.) Or do you need xxx to come here again and explain it?

I still don't really explain why it didn't used to happen though. What happened in April exactly?

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that this came in quite a while ago but only with the newer fringe content. Up until very recently, Giorgio and Gonzo held out and still had the 1 decimal place thing - sort of a beacon of sanity amongst the chaos - but then finally succumbed maybe a month or 2 ago.

I'm just interested as to why the change has come about and why it happened incrementally rather than in 1 clean break (so to speak). You haven't really clarified that precisely, although I suppose I guess the stables installed or changed their recording/conversion methods at different times?

The bigger question then - is there a way for them to do it differently (ie better)? Is it something that concerns them? If I were them I would want to tidy it up just to create a less messy pricing system for the paying customers but that is just me.

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:19 pm

by dap-addict

TheVulture wrote:I still don't really explain why it didn't used to happen though. What happened in April exactly? (...) The bigger question then - is there a way for them to do it differently (ie better)?

I can just repeat myself.
Its a lot thread, though. Go for the meanwhile closed threads first, it will be a bit faster.

dap-addict wrote:(you might wanna read back dozens of posts of me, YumYum and others trying to work this out with xxx, Gio, Oscar Batty etc.)

Re: What's with the weird ticket pricing?

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:52 pm

by vvvv84335

I have OCDs as well and the best way to deal with OCD is face what scares/bothers you. It won't get any better by avoiding it, believe me I know.