from the pirates-give-away-their-booty dept.
Media distributor VODO recently packaged up a few items into an Otherworlds bundle and popped it up for sale. One of the places they advertised was The Pirate Bay, with the folks there being generous enough to replace their site banner with the link. There were several payment options (beat the average, pay what you want, be generous) and the bundle was advertised through a number of other sites as well as social media.
Interestingly, Pirate Bay users mostly picked the latter option. In total, 232 Pirate Bay visitors chose the most expensive "beat the premium" option, paying $18.11 on average. Another 72 visitors went for the cheapest option with an average payment of $10.61, and 67 people ended up in the middle with an $10.61 average.
Across all paying Pirate Bay visitors the average payment was $13.52. Interestingly enough, this is more than the average paid by people who came from other sites, or social media.
That said, TPB users weren't clicking through as heavily:
King notes that the ratio of incoming visitors to buying visitors was relatively low, about a tenth of that from other sites.
However, per user, they paid the most among all buyers.
