The addiction I referenced is a more general thing, I'm not being specific to hbc. For example, one might be addicted to wrestling videos. There's logically no reason to subscribe to utopia's site for more than one month. Every new video is more or less the same as the old videos, just slightly different girls/guys, whatever. (As an aside, grappling girls is the strongmichelle of wrestling websites: they lie in their descriptions and don't post any video previews, roping you into making purchases you regret. I assume they're still in business largely because people are addicted.) Or they might be addicted to "interactive porn" via webcam. Once it's recorded, it's no longer the same as live entertainment. Or they might get addicted to real entertainment they get at a strip club, or to sessions. It provides a high, much like drugs or alcohol. You can see how addicted some guys are to these things. There are guys on here who have apparently sessioned with basically every woman on the planet, or chat with every single new girl on hbc immediately. They get a rush.
I'm also not saying hbc is a rip-off, only that certain women are clearly dishonest there and those specific women rip you off. Among all the cam sites out there, hbc is the best at giving you refunds for entering an empty waiting room, or if you lose money because of connection problems (on a different site, they tried to guilt me by saying "keep in mind this will hurt the girl financially" as if me paying to see an empty room is somehow acceptable or doesn't hurt me financially). But IMO when you have a dozen customers on your public forums saying "michelle is a con artist," to dismiss that with "vote with your wallet" instead of "we're looking into it" is clearly a sign that they care only about money, and not their customers (or the fact that they continue to work with ***** instead of using a service like CCBill that is secure and doesn't steal from customers). Michelle is evidently tricking a nontrivial number of guys into throwing money at her. Or was, I have no idea if she's still active. I haven't talked to her in a long time, but I vaguely recall she was very good at dragging what should be done in 5 minutes into a 30-minute private. It's easy to sit back and judge people for making poor decisions, but there's a reason con artists succeed.