so i was watching Kanye tell Gavin how if you watch porn you’re a pedophile and Gavin is like " yeah when you see a girl on meth getting ejaculated on by 20 men she’s reliving her childhood trauma " and i’m like " this reminds me of Ria Sunn on GGG ( German Goo Dolls ) video, i need to go FAP ASAP ! "
so i go to Xhamster and search for it and they only have 5 minute clips, but there is the full 30 minute video on FapHouse which is their paid site …
I previously didn’t want to get FapHouse because it doesn’t have dark mode and light mode is blinding at night when i watch porn but then i remembered i can force dark mode using Chrome Flags so i test it in their preview page and it works so i’m like OK let’s give it a shot …
it gives a few options for 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and “forever” and it has like 30% off, 40% off etc for various terms …
i go for 1 month which says $6.99 and some kind of % off …
by the time i get to confirmation page it already says it’s actually $9.99 a month, and $6.99 is just the first month …
i’m like well this is sneaky but at least they’re admitting before i agree to the payment …
so my payment processes and i go to watch the video and guess what ? it’s still behind a paywall ! ! !
i’m like WUT ???
turns out the $6.99/9.99 is just for access to FapHouse site itself …
but GGG ( German Goo Dolls ) is another $35/month on top ! and they only have something like 47 videos total, out of which i might maybe be interested in 2 or 3 of them. so for every producer you would have to buy additional recurring monthly membership. you will be spending hundreds per month that way !
now they can charge whatever they want, maybe it is even worth it, but it should be clearly stated up front how much you need to pay …
instead it was like $6.99 … then 5 minutes later well actually it’s $9.99 then 5 minutes later well actually it’s another $35 on top of what you already paid …
THIS IS NOT COOL
so i wasted $6.99 which is not an issue …
however i briefly considered their lifetime membership option which was $200 …
it appeared as if you would be able to watch almost any full length porno forever for a one time payment of $200 …
imagine paying $200 only to realize mere seconds later that you can’t actually watch any of those videos you thought you were paying for ! ! !
i already feel stupid for being cheated out of $6.99 but i would have felt like a total idiot if i was cheated out of $200.
the moral of the story here is that whenever anybody is trying to sell you on a long-term commitment it is almost always some kind of a scam. it always seems like an amazing deal at the time but soon you find out it isn’t.
the reason is simple - if they didn’t know for a fact that they’re ripping you off they wouldn’t be offering you the deal in the first place.
when it comes to gyms i learned my lesson the hard way ( 3 year membership of which i used a few months ) … i have never signed up for any commitment to any gym again ( it has been 20 years ).
but of course why should it be different for anything else ? commitment is commitment is a trap. doesn’t matter if you’re buying a membership to a gym or to a porno site or anything else.
i can’t believe i considered any options other than the shortest term ( which i actually got ).
the other lesson is - never assume.
i ASSUMED i would have access to the video once i paid for the membership. but it never explicitly said anywhere that this would be the case. is what they are doing unethical ? sure. but it isn’t illegal. just as porn itself is unethical but not illegal.
i guess Kanye was right after all. you’re dealing with people who profit from sexually abusing girls who are already victims of child abuse - why the FUCK would you expect these people to be ethical ?
of course they’re going to screw you a well, in some “barely legal” fashion. and so they did.
here is the link ( NSFW ) that Xhamster provided to FapHouse page for the Ria Sunn German Goo Dolls video, you tell me if it was misleading or not:
OK maybe it wasn’t misleading. Maybe it was my fault for assuming too much.
Regardless the lesson remains:
1 - never assume.
2 - never commit.
commitment is a trap that exploits your wishful thinking. the only reason you think you’re getting a good deal is because you want to believe that you are. but if it was a good deal - nobody would offer it to you.
i can’t believe i almost fell for it.
anyway the lesson was well worth $6.99 IF i can remember it.
i pray to G_d i remember this lesson.