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Reply of
Drooler's Poll
Websites exist to make money. That means they need need enough subscribers to cover costs and make a good profit.
A site that runs short of models can still do well with good marketing if it has a decent level of content. A stagnant site will lose subscribers, but it also saves a bunch on content costs.
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09-24-07 01:00am
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1627
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Reply of
Rick's Reply
Rick, I feel sorry (not!) for the poor bastards with the lousy ripoff sites. You guys are really making life quite miserable for the low-enders and are rewarding the guys who work hard at putting together the great sites.
Nothing like "sunlight" to make the rats scurry. Great work.
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09-21-07 06:17pm
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1628
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DDF Busty
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Reply of
sullivan's Review
Just checked the site and there is no mention of any videos, just image sets.
TBP says there are 550+ 10 minute clips. Does each and every model have a video clip?
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09-20-07 06:41pm
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1629
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Wicked Pictures
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Reply of
VetteFreak's Review
Thanks, VF. The super price and the large number of pornstars almost had me signing up. Your review saved me money because I have no interet if I can't d/l the videos...and I also hate the no name nonsense.
Looks like these guys don't really care.
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09-20-07 06:27pm
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1630
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Reply of
Rick's Poll
I found it yesterday and wondered why I hadn't seen it earlier. Now I know. It's new.
And it's great! I must have spent an hour just looking through all the features.
As I've said before, TBP is, in my opinion, the Consumers Reports of Porn Sites. And it gets better every day.
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09-20-07 08:05am
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1631
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Danni.com
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Reply of
exotics4me's Reply
For what it's worth, the recent site redesign was nicely done, but there are many other sites that are better managed than Danni.com.
In 2004 the site was outstanding but really went to Hell in the late summer of 2005. It's better today but not even close to its heyday.
If you want a trouble free experience I suggest you try another site. If they return to a reasonably responsive customer support function, fix the plethora of broken links, and install a functioning search function (it's been there for more than 3 years but it doesn't work), they may be returning to being in the top 10 porn sites.
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09-18-07 06:52pm
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1632
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Busty Adventures
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Reply of
Monahan's Review
Just reporting in. I signed up for one more month and the site navigation has been improved.
With one update per week I had no problem grabbing all the new stuff I wanted to keep in the 4 weeks I was a returning member.
Suggest no more than 2 sign-ups per year...not enough new stuff to sign-up more frequently.
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09-18-07 06:46pm
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Victoria Pink
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09-18-07 06:03pm
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1634
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X Movies
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09-18-07 05:58pm
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1635
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
I did that way back in 2004 with Danni.com when the site was superbly managed and had state of the art technical features. The 3 month price was good and I couldn't see myself letting the membership expire.
A lot has happened since then; Danni "retired," the support staff became non-responsive and the DRM made all archived stuff unavailable.
I signed up again for a month and found a site that is still in a sad state of repair. The multi-price is still available, but who would want to sign up for more than one month?
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09-18-07 05:44pm
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1636
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Reply of
Drooler's Poll
As was discussed in the last poll about trial offers, the number of quality websites is growing rapidly. The webmaster of the site that is really good will do all it can to show the prospective member why he should sign up on his site. That includes a solid preview with samples as well as reasonable pricing.
As Jay G says, I no longer bother with sites that do a lousy job on previews because the message is like people looking for work; if you can't write a decent resume that sells yourself, you won't do any better on the job.
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09-18-07 08:39am
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1637
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Reply of
Khan's Reply
Yes, Kahn, that's a consideration.
But if a site can be "raided" ("drained" of its content) in a 48-72 hour period, it's way too light on content and is likely to have very few renewals.
Sites with light content, such as single model sites, can address the issue by establishing download limits on trial users, such as 2 Gb per 24 hours or such. That way the trial member can still check out the content but can't keep it.
IMO, the most effective way for GOOD sites to attract and retain members is to offer a brief trial (2 days) with full access but with a download limit, followed by a full price month (say, $30) followed by a second month, if continuous, for $25.
Alternatively a high priced trial (say $10 for 3 days) that applies the trial payment against the first month so that the price for a full month would be an additional $20 would be effective.
BTW, high quality sites like FTV, Ox Pass and All Internal, to name a few, that have large numbers of "trailers" in their free tours provide effective "limited trials" for free.
The competition is getting better and the number of sites is getting larger by the day so sites need better and more imaginitive front end strategies just to stay even.
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09-17-07 10:32pm
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1638
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FTV Girls
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Reply of
PinkPanther's Reply
I agree 100%. See my reply to Drooler.
The previews show me that the site content has exactly what I like and that there's a ton of content that I have to look forward to, so the periodicity of updates really isn't much of an issue. It becomes one only after I run out of currently available content, which looks like it won't be happening soon.
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09-17-07 08:56am
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Danni.com
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Reply of
exotics4me's Comment
No, Danni's is no Twistys. Twistys has a good mix of hardcore and softcore and has a good structured interface and high quality. No hardcore on Danni but the girls do get down and dirty with each other occasionally.
The present Danni's tries too hard to be the 2007 version of the very successful formula it had in the early 2000's when it was the porn site.
Today it's got some great content but it also has way too much chatty cathy stuff (long, vapid interviews with fully clothed girls) and it tries to get artsy fartsy with sof focus and slow motion.
The worst part is that a large percentage of its archival material is disabled or just missing. Links don't work, strange error messages pop up, etc.
The current site is in need of serious adult supervision.
Please note - The site was recently overhauled completely so that it is now a mess to find anything.
An updated TBP review would be great!
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09-16-07 07:45am
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FTV Girls
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Reply of
Drooler's Reply
Great point, Drooler.
The marketing of porn sites, of course, focuses on "membership" for a longer period. In fact if they offered a discounted renewal rate ($30 to start and $20 or $25 to continue past the first month, that might make a difference.
In any case, you're right. Even if there were no updates at all the $30 investment to access the archives looks like a good one.
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09-16-07 07:06am
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1641
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Reply of
roseman's Poll
Trials, other than full access trials, are a total waste of time and money. Met-Art has a 1 day full access trial for $9.95 that is the only legit "full trial" I've actually paid for in the last year. I like that approach very much because you can really see if you like the site and want to sign up without, in their case, dropping $30 for the privilege.
No, unless you have 24 hours to spend, youi won't be able to D/L too much of their stuff, but you get to really know the site.
In my case, I like video more than pix, and Met Art is principally a photo site (an outstanding one, by the way) but I was able to ascertain that it wasn't really my kind of site. The $10 saved me the $20 more that a month long access would have set me back.
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09-16-07 06:59am
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1642
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FTV Girls
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09-15-07 07:24pm
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1643
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Reply of
Sarah's News
Based in the comments on this site (Porn Users) this is a major improvement. The other suggestion made was to offer a dual membership to both ALS sites at a reduced rate. Any chance of that happening?
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09-15-07 06:27pm
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1644
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Reply of
Denner's Poll
As I was first finding sites several years ago I was finding myself saying that 50 cents to $1 a day per month for access to a great looking site was cheap so why not? But when I ran up about $130 one month for 5 or 6 sites I decided that, perhaps it was time to put on a limit especially when I joined more sites than I could reasonably surf in the time available.
My rule now is that, if there's a site that I really like, I won't spring for it for 7 days ("coolong off period"). I use the time to read through the various reviews (if it's not on TBP or PU, I won't bite) and rtevisit the preview a few times.
That rule resulted in my not signing up for about 50% of the sites in which I had an initial urge. A few were put on hold but I wound up signing up a bit later.
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09-15-07 07:14am
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DVD Tube
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Reply of
Denner's Reply
I agree. The webmasters/site owners must know that TBP gets a lot of traffic from non registered people and that PU is as good a resource for non-members as for members.
PU is the Consumers Union of Porn afficionadoes and any site owners that don't pay attention to what is said here do so at their own peril.
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09-12-07 01:57pm
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DVD Tube
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09-11-07 10:48pm
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VideoBox
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09-10-07 02:34pm
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1648
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Reply of
Denner's Poll
If access is denied to a fully paid for site, the subscriber is entitled to either an immediate reply and repair or to an extension of his subscription. Most sites where I've had that problem respond very quickly. In those cases where no response is received, access is OK a few hours later so contact is not important.
One notable exception is Danni.com. That site does not respond to any emails to its support center. That's bad, because Danni has a serious problem with broken links and bad files, in particular some of its archived material. Sadly, the site continues to be unresponsive to its paying customers.
One site, victoriapink.com, gave me an extra month when they were unable to fix an access problem for a three day period.
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09-10-07 08:35am
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1649
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Reply of
Woodruff's Poll
I did that once with Venus Knight, whose website is AngelicaCostello.com. I was caught up in the process and just signed up for it. It's not listed in TBP but the price seemed right ($19.99 for 3 months - non-recurring). The site is pure garbage and has nothing at all worth saving on Venus.
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09-08-07 08:14am
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N/A
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Reply of
Monahan's Poll
I have had less than optimal luck with download managers (probably what the call centers call Pebcak (problem exists between chair and keyboard)), so I would like to hear suggestions from members regarding download managers and their utilization.
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09-06-07 08:51am
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