As irrelevant as this is to the conversation, I need to get in on the gas price convo. Gas prices are just as expensive here in the US. Under $4 is only in a few places that are not as expensive to live. But it's $6.59 for gas here in Cali, and it's just as expensive in all the larger cities all over the country. And as far as politics goes, the whole world is in a bad political state, and this is why we need to distract ourselves with as many pies to the face as possible to have a few moments of blissful fun and relief from the dread
In response to the more relevant original topic of this conversation, sales fluctuate wildly for me all the time. There are several factors, certain times of the year are lower because of major holidays that are expensive. Months leading up to tax season is always low. At other times the demographic of who's buying has changed and the people spending money aren't into me or what I'm doing. There's also a lot of followers who are married and hide their kink from their spouse and share bank accounts and that can deeply affect sales. At other times I find out that someone is pirating my content and it has completely put my sales down. You should check Reddit and Pornhub for WAM videos and see what comes up, you might find your content there. But right now the whole world is really struggling financially, these are just hard times. Maybe take some polls to see what content people are really interested in or to see what kind of prices people can afford to buy.
CreamMeAgain said: As irrelevant as this is to the conversation, I need to get in on the gas price convo. Gas prices are just as expensive here in the US. Under $4 is only in a few places that are not as expensive to live. But it's $6.59 for gas here in Cali, and it's just as expensive in all the larger cities all over the country. And as far as politics goes, the whole world is in a bad political state, and this is why we need to distract ourselves with as many pies to the face as possible to have a few moments of blissful fun and relief from the dread
Note when UK people talk about gas they don't mean gasoline - we call that "petrol", Gas here is methane, which runs our central heating boilers (I think you call them furnaces) and is used in gas cookers. Petrol for cars in the UK is currently around $9 per gallon, but the big increase has been in domestic energy (gas and electricity), the combined bills for which have really shot up because of price spikes on the wholesale markets caused by the war in Ukraine. Here at the Hall we're largely independent but there's mains gas in some of the estate gatehouses, and the South Lodge's domestic energy bills have gone from £60 a month to £260 a month, and may well go higher.
Plus just today, in a humiliating climb-down for the new Prime Minister (many of her own MPs are now saying "she's toast"), the new new chancellor of the exchequer has axed allmost all of her tax cuts, re-instated planned tax rises, and scaled back the energy bill protection that had previously been promised from two years to just six months - just enough to get through this Winter basically. After which the South Lodge bill may well rise to £500 per month if wholesale energy prices don't drop.
CreamMeAgain said: As irrelevant as this is to the conversation, I need to get in on the gas price convo. Gas prices are just as expensive here in the US. Under $4 is only in a few places that are not as expensive to live. But it's $6.59 for gas here in Cali, and it's just as expensive in all the larger cities all over the country. And as far as politics goes, the whole world is in a bad political state, and this is why we need to distract ourselves with as many pies to the face as possible to have a few moments of blissful fun and relief from the dread
Note when UK people talk about gas they don't mean gasoline - we call that "petrol", Gas here is methane, which runs our central heating boilers (I think you call them furnaces) and is used in gas cookers. Petrol for cars in the UK is currently around $9 per gallon, but the big increase has been in domestic energy (gas and electricity), the combined bills for which have really shot up because of price spikes on the wholesale markets caused by the war in Ukraine. Here at the Hall we're largely independent but there's mains gas in some of the estate gatehouses, and the South Lodge's domestic energy bills have gone from £60 a month to £260 a month, and may well go higher.
Plus just today, in a humiliating climb-down for the new Prime Minister (many of her own MPs are now saying "she's toast"), the new new chancellor of the exchequer has axed allmost all of her tax cuts, re-instated planned tax rises, and scaled back the energy bill protection that had previously been promised from two years to just six months - just enough to get through this Winter basically. After which the South Lodge bill may well rise to £500 per month if wholesale energy prices don't drop.
We could go for a whole lot of those, because don't forget your pants actually what we call trousers