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Old 05-30-2010
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Ok, I think I'm fairly qualified to answer this.
Shooting US TS models is difficult and expensive. Finding the models (and customers quickly get bored of the same faces) is somewhere difficult and when escorts get paid almost as much for a 1hr date than they do for a shoot, then it's hard to get them motivated. Why don't we pay them more? Because the budget, determined by the sales, just isn't there. Shooting in the US is fraught with other issues, legal ones, finding somewhere to shoot (added expenses), etc. also. Shemale Yum (and Grooby) are in an excellent position to get US models, that's why most of them start on one of our sites before you see them elsewhere AND the US models (or English speaking models) do return more money than the omnipotent, Brazilian ones. Grooby can do this, because as a company we have a unique set up of being in the industry for 14 yrs, having photographers across the US/Canada/UK and having a great reputation and branding. We also are into the scene and go to clubs and such.

Now, most companies are "corporate" types. They want to buy the content and churn it out on sites. We have some Brazilian sites which do very well and they run at a cheaper budget, the models all show on time and they will do whatever we want, for the camera. They do this because economically it's better for them, because they're in countries with different economies the pay they get (roughly 30-50% of what we pay US models) goes a lot further down there. So companies, without contacts find it easier to shoot there content there, to produce it cheaper and to get it onto their websites. They're not bothered about quality of English speaking as they are relying on numbers of people joining short-term, rather than companies like mine looking for long term repeat business.

Hope this answers your question somewhat.
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