I have a routine most mornings which involves going for a morning jog and picking up the paper on the way home. In my local newsagents this morning I noticed something I'd never seen before, but something immediately familiar to me : paid trial stickers to porn sites. I thought I was hallucinating and wondered if maybe I wasn't due a couple of weeks off.
Anyway, cut a long story short. There are these scratch cards (like the lotto ones) for different pay sites. You pay £4.99 and scratch off the strip and, voila, there's a password to your given pay site.
I live in a small town, very conservative, so there was no way I was about to buy one. But it just struck me as very strange.
Is this something you've seen? Tried?
Since it's possible no credit card details are used, how could it work?
I'm thinking that I'll need to throw on a ski mask and visit my local newsagents.
