I did okay on the envelope. Paid 57.6 credits and got 5 cards, of which there is 1 that I might download. The other 4 will remain permanently grey.

I also got 100 credits from the scratch card, so in the end I am now 5 (basically free) cards closer to triple diamond status and have 42 more credits than I started with.

Well i spent over 2,5k credits and never got lucky from over 7 chances i got to get the special card

I'm sorry i might be stupid but i just spent over 3k and yet i didnt got the special card. Nice win percentage.

I'm sorry i might be stupid but i just spent over 3k and yet i didnt got the special card. Nice win percentage.

You probably did not get any special cards, but you did get anywhere from 250 - 300 cards that you did not have before, and it is entirely possible that you may, in fact, enjoy some of those new cards.

And, as should be evident, a responsible adult should know when to quit where 'games of chance' are involved.

@hblanco88

i agree with you on only 1 point...
Totem makes it's money Selling the Credits used to purchase the cards..

If A Valued Customer start with 0 credits
and a new Customer starts with 0 credits

Who will Spend the Most to buy enough credits to buy 30 cards?

The Valued Customer already knows the best value is the 500 credits for $49.99

But the new user might look at it..
This Promo of 5 cards will cost 94 credits, I'll buy 100 credits at $14.99

And they will do this 6 times to get their 30 cards..
$14.99 x 6 = $89.94

The Valued Customer will Buy the 500 credits 1 time for $49.99 to get the same 30 cards.

Also, don't forget that income and profit are too totally different things.
@hblanco88 - when you buy credits - that is income for them, not (entirely) profit
If you buy an old card, which has been bought by several hundreds of other users before you,
then most probably they have the production costs of that card already returned, so then it is good profit.
If you buy a new card, then you are one of the first ones, where their cost start to return, probably zero profit for a while. Not saying, that it wouldn't be important, because it is.
With this logic the higest profit is to sell older cards for new customers.
BUT it shouldn't be forgotten, that in not so much time you can become an "old" customer from a new customer. As a "new" customer you buy those cards without the high discount, that "old" ones have now. Now that they (the "old" ones) have bought very many of those cards.
We can go on with this forever. Let's just agree, that both customers are important, loyal "old" customers and new ones as well. Buy many cards and then you get high discount and become an "old" customer :)
As for your logic for not good promotion: every promotion is different, this might not be good for you or to me, but I am sure, it was good for some others here. You decide to take it or not. Good thing you will have another choice in one maximum two weeks later...

@goodwolf
I used the word "profit" in the same context as @Wyldanimal used in a previous post, for simplicity. I understand the point he was trying to make about how Totem is getting its profit.
Just for clarification, when you buy credits, that is "revenue" for them. Net income is what remains of that revenue once expenses are paid (includes salaries, production cost, debt payments, etc).

You also are thinking that profit comes from selling cards.
When you buy a card, are you paying with real money or credits?

Credits, correct? If I follow your logic that credits mean profit then I will be scratching my head, thinking how can be possible that credits (a virtual currency created by Totem) cover production cost or turn into profit.
Totem don’t need to wait until I buy a card to get a revenue. Revenue is not higher (newest card purchased) or lower (oldest card purchased). They already got the revenue when I purchased the credits. If I spend $50 to buy credits the revenue for Totem is $50, regardless of how many cards I buy or how old the cards are.

Definitely, what they want me to do is to spend my credits as fast as possible, so I can spend more money to buy more credits, hence, for them to get more revenue out of me more often. Totem can try it in several way.

1) Promotions: 20% reload bonus and 4th-card cashback are the best in my mind. I'm not saying the others aren't good ones for the rest. These others promotions were offered many times already which proves to me that they are very popular for many other people. It is just this others promotions don’t attract me. But for the ones I mentioned make me spend money (20% reload bonus), or spend my credits (4th-card cashback).

2) Producing more shows with popular models. I'm a member since 2016, but didn’t buy credits until January this year (I blame Ginebra Bellucci for that, heheh). And I spent $50 (not that 6 x $14.99 @Wyldanimal example, lol). There is no secret that models such Ginebra, Merry Pie, Viola, Valeria, Melena Maria, just to name a few, have so many takes. They are popular. There will be more people investing in popular models than not. My $50 reload is either covering the production of any given show, or profitting it if is already covered. I would say, producing more shows with high rating models while maintaining variety would keep me investing more of my money on iStripper. Of course there are some of us who likes "regular" type of model (for the lack of better word), it is also a good idea to maintain in list.

There probably are many other ways, but these 2 are the ones I can think of.

Lastly, I will not fuel any further the debate about New Customers vs Old Customers. Neither of us have the real data to support our thoughts. So, I will leave it here.

P.D.- English is my second language. Apologies for any grammatical mishap

Man Totem saved the hefty's for the purchase full month pack it seems...should have seen the coming DOH!

@hblanco88

1) Promotions: 20% reload bonus and 4th-card cashback are the best in my mind.

I also find these to be the most attractive promotions, However, if they were to be offered every week that would be almost equivalent to a permanent lowering of the price which would probably result in lower income for Totem. By offereing them only occassionally Totem can be expected to get a better response each time that they are offered than if they were to offer them frequently.

They are popular. There will be more people investing in popular models than not.

This also is true, but the conculsion you draw is not. Consider producing two sets of cards by one model versus producing one set of cards for each of two models. If each of the two models will attract different groups of people then this option is likely to result in higher overall sales than producing two sets of cards for a single model.