Review Sites lose surfer trust?

[abostonboy]

Could it happen with geo-ip pricing?

The surfer will either blame the paysite or the review site.

The ONLY remotely possible solution would be for review sites to intall maxmind and have in a db the current prices of each paysite and display ot in the country that the surfer is coming from. Not totally accurate. Better than nothing I guess.

[basschick]

well, review sites can post both eu and us prices or to boldly post US next to the price. that won't help the paysites that use the geop pricing, but it will keep the review sites from losing all their regulars. some paysite owners will no doubt be pissed about this, but being caught between angry paysite owners and losing all of my bookmarkers, i'll have to risk the paysite owners.

[abostonboy]

Max mind db is the only real solution. Review sites will have to geo ip their surfers.

[HunkMoneyLuke]

I am prolly gonna get shot down for saying this, but....Its the paysite owners prerogative decide what to charge and they have the right to change that to improve conversions and bottom line income figures. Review sites have to recognize this and change their ways.

[Relentless]

I am prolly gonna get shot down for saying this, but....Its the paysite owners prerogative decide what to charge and they have the right to change that to improve conversions and bottom line income figures. Review sites have to recognize this and change their ways.

I think you are misreading this thread. Review sites don't set the pricing a paysite charges and frankly most don't care what a paysite charges.

The issue is, when a site geotargets its pricing a review site may be saying "this site costs 29.99" and the surfer may see the price is actually 21 EUR. The simple solution is going to be for review sites to list a base price and note that the site geotargets its pricing.

[milivanili]

I am prolly gonna get shot down for saying this, but....Its the paysite owners prerogative decide what to charge and they have the right to change that to improve conversions and bottom line income figures. Review sites have to recognize this and change their ways.

It's misleading Luke, obviously you don't understand what everyone is saying... it's misleading to say on whole tour $ 29,95 and when an european surfer goes to join page he gets 29,95 EUROS...

That is misleading... nobody is even arguing about paysite owners setting their price...

[gaydemon]

I really cant see ANY review sites fiddling around with Geo ip targetting on their surfers. Its hard enough to keep up to date with prices in 1 currency, let alone trying to present different surfers with different versions / prices.

I dont think it matters what currency a review site uses, what does matter is that visitors do not see a 1:1 conversion between currensies.

Besides, from my experiance what review readers are interested in is what the site has to offer, if they can download the videos, how much content is on offer. Pricing i dont think matters until they actually get to the join page.



Max mind db is the only real solution. Review sites will have to geo ip their surfers.

[Adam Mason]

I really cant see ANY review sites fiddling around with Geo ip targetting on their surfers. Its hard enough to keep up to date with prices in 1 currency, let alone trying to present different surfers with different versions / prices.

I dont think it matters what currency a review site uses, what does matter is that visitors do not see a 1:1 conversion between currensies.

Besides, from my experiance what review readers are interested in is what the site has to offer, if they can download the videos, how much content is on offer. Pricing i dont think matters until they actually get to the join page.

1:1 or 1:50 or 1:0.5- if the prices differ then the surfer has a reason to bail and be wary. But the simple issue here is what review sites post about pricing. If it reallt doesn't matter until the surfer gets to the subscribe / processor pages, why post it in a reveiw? Also, let's not get caught up purely on the ratio - review sites need to see the bigger picture. What I don't understand is why these threads aren't developing into a solution / way forward. Instead, we're dividing again instead of working toward a simple solution together.

But at least we're having a discussion of sorts on the issue... other boards seem to have their heads in the sand :bang::bang::bang:

[abostonboy]

One of the issues that review sites are going to face is the review sites that base part of the review on "value for money". If the prices are all over the place, how can you determine that. Take the MAP as an example. In European countries the value is not as strong as other sites (like UKNAKED MEN as an example).

Review sites should post prices. But, it's a tough call to say what price.

List the US price and say the site geo-targets I guess is the bast way.

[abostonboy]

Pricing i dont think matters until they actually get to the join page.

But then there is that value for money. Value/Price.