sales This Weekend...

How will they be? I am thinking a bit slow as many are out of town.

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So far July has been better than any two days in June. I imagine that a lot of folks are not going too many places because it is so expensive to travel and may be staying closer to home. Travel has gone through the roof. My tickets to our loft in San Diego never exceeded $320 bucks. They are now over $700. I costs as much to fly coach to NY as it does to fly to Paris, but the cost of hotels in EU is out of sight. A room that I used to pay 350 a night is now over 800 which is not in the budget.

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My boyfriend’s cousin who lives in a loft in SoHo and has plenty of friends with what many would be consider to be “ideal” lives said his friends are using a new word - “staycation”… It’s a vacation where you stay at home 'cause you can’t afford to go anywhere. Apparently “everyone is doing it”.

Of course, the $27,000 they spend to have their kid go to a private school for kindergarten might have something to do with it as well! It’s just convenient to blame it on the cost of gas.

The point being that if people like that are affected, then we can hope others are staying at home and consoling themselves with $30/mo porn memberships! Guess we’ll find out soon enough.

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Staying at home alone is one thing. Staying at home with friends is another.

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Staying at home alone might be better for OUR sales for sure.

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I LOVE to hear of people staying at home and possibly being a little bored! Because pretty soon their mind turns to porn :smiley:

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I hope so, I have to say Im loosing the will to live will sales, or lack there off. I seem to be working twice as hard and not seeing harldy any increase, in fact im seeing slow sales. Ive set up with a couple of new sponsors so Ill see if that helps. If not ill pick out my carboard box and nice place to put under a bridge with the other homeless guys!

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I’m expecting a lot of people will be staying home this long weekend. And with lots of them doing Pride last weekend, they may be in for a little R&R in front of the computer.

Michael

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Oh and I also hope the actor strike goes ahead - so no HBO for them either … more reasons to watch porn!

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i have been doing good with sales, all week, even the 4th, and i have been asleep through most of it got some kind of wierd bug and just couldn’t wake up :frowning:

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ahhhh 4th of july… that explains the lower sales. I totally forgot.

But yes I do think this weekend will be a bit slow.

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Funny how easily Brits forget about the 4th of July… lol

(I know, you’re not really a Brit, but it seems to have worn off on you… Then again I have a hard time remembering Canada Day and my boyfriend’s Canadian.)

Sales are weird this weekend. One group of sites in particular is selling like crazy (in the last 2 1/2 days I’ve sold about a 1/3rd of what I sold all last month with them). Other sites are doing OK or a little slow…

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Friday and Saturday sucked. But today (Sunday) is making up for it. :smiley:

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My sales have been strong all weekend.

Michael

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we’ve had a good weekend in member sales and brick and mortar as well - and, our community has done extremely well in spite of the “gas crisis” - all hotels and restaurants have been packed and lots of people are paying cash in stores and using debit cards

plenty of people shopping too and carrying bags around town… that’s always a good sign…

oh, and in spite of the doom and gloom in the housing industry, our area has seen a good, strong increase in sales - mostly families leaving the big cities to the north and south for the greener pastures of the central coast where housing is more affordable… (as long as you can stay clear of the burning forests!)

go figure - why do we tend to stay ahead of the trend? let me see, where’s my crystal ball for eco-friendly energy alternatives…

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Sunday turned out to be our best day ever. Definitely weird sales this past holiday weekend.

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our June sales figures are now in front of me and DVD sales were extraordinary for the month - truly amazing! always pays to run a special “june pride month special” - gay men do buy DVDs…

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We actually had great days on Friday and Saturday but Sunday sucked :rolleyes:

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It was a strange weekend for sales. Affiliates did great one day, our direct traffic did great the other.

Today is just weird.

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I’m off to a bit of a slow start this month. :frowning:

–Chubbs