Yeah I'm with you on that one. I thought haven't I heard that name before with regards to bad reviews and dodgy behaviour? Then I checked and saw all the bad stuff that was reported going on. Run run run away. Not touching the place with a barge pole. Thought I'd let a senior member of the forum make a comment before I said something. Good question - so why the sudden change from BP to Greenpeace?
Yeah I have to say it's the sound of those ads which I think would annoy me the most. I'm figuring if I'm paying for something, I don't want to have a ton of annoying ads in there. That would really piss me off, and give the impression of a really cheap and nasty site run by cheap and nasty people.
A lot of the stuff is recycled. For instance the Pornstar Tryouts videos have material from 4 or 5 years back and have it down as new. The Bree Olson video has been labelled as "added yesterday." A few days ago it was supposed to be added last year. Last year I downloaded it as a clip from I think 2006 or thereabouts.
But there is still stuff that is surprisingly good. The pictures are quite good for a cheapo site too. If I ever find that perfect site you have been looking for I shall notify you immediately. You might think it would be easy to find, but it isn't!
I really like the site because the material is great value. But all that you say is what I have found too. I am willing to put up with the negatives because the price and material, when you can access it, is outstanding value.
I realise things can and do go wrong. But thank you for taking the time to explain things and make some comments. As a customer I find this does make a difference.
Cheers. As requested I have sent you details of some of the emails I sent on 22 and 23 January. I had no problem receieving a reply from jettis it was the other customer services link that did not reply. As with any site, navigation and knowing how to use it can provide a problem. Some of the videos do not play or download, and some are not avaialble for download anyway. These are in the minority. I did think I had done my money (albeit a small amount) when I first joined, but I now like the site. I guess I was very suspicious of a site that seemed to offer such a lot for such a small amount, which is why I always do a thorough search of any site before doing a review.
Thank you for the reply. I try to be as fair as possible, although some people may think I'm a really mean pain in the ass. I do think your site offers a lot of content for the price and is therefore great value if it is accessed using the link from TBP.
I have noticed that I may not be totally alone in noticing the value. Elonlybuster reviewed Ebony Auditions which is also your company I think. It offers the same $9.95 deal with the TBP link. It is one I may be tempted to take up next month, although I am not sure how much material will be duplicated from Pornstar Tryouts Either way, I do think these sites offer very good value for money.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
A great amount of material because of access to all sorts of bonus sites and bonus videos
Very low price ($9.95) if using The Best Porn link
Pictures which although not zipped, are downloadable
No DRM
Reasonable download speed
A lot of amateur, casting, and teen/co-ed material
Given the huge amount and diversity of materials they do try to have customer friendly navigation with a models index, separate categories for videos, bonus sites, web cams, my favourites, latest updates, and pictures.
No regional discrimination. We in Europe can still get the discounted $9.95 price
Cons:
Video quality only poor, through average, to good
A lot of old material, some dating back to 2001
Some of the content is not downloadable
Some of the pictures are poor quality with low resolution
Pictures not zipped
Some of the videos do not work
Virtually no fetish material
Most of the streaming is with the adobe flash player, or occasionally with the WMV, depending on the site. It is not of the highest quality
Poor customer service. I did not receive a cancellation confirmation, and it took 4 emails to get any sort of reply. There was no reply from the Pornstar Tryouts customer service. Eventually I tried the overall company customer service email (Jettis International) who told me my subscription had been cancelled.
Bottom Line:
This is a real mixed bag. The reason I have given it a highish mark is because of the tremendous amount of material that is available. It's like pulling out a handful of sweets or candy from a giant box. Some of it is a really pleasant surprise.
The tech stuff, which like the site itself is a high variety of qualities and standards.
Generally they do 3 standards of video
A portable version for ipod or psp.
A WMV version of 480x360 at 1024 kb/sec (sometimes 480x270)
Xvid high quality AVI at 2048 kb/sec
Pictures can be downloaded with dimensions from anything from 800x535 with a size of over 100kb, to 720x480 with a size of 30kb, right down to 130x87 with a size of 30kb.
Using the link from TBP you can access material that would normally cost 25 dollars for the price of 10 bucks. There is a wonderful array of material although the quality is not high def or for the connoisseurs around here. I find it very entertaining as there is lots of stuff I haven't seen before. Others who love the really high picture qualities of video or photos may not agree.
I did have problems with customer service. I cancelled my subscription, but received no confirmation. After contacting Jettis they have told me that I have succeeded in doing this. Hopefully I will not be rebilled, or you will be hearing about it, and so will they.
Some of the videos are a pleasant surprise. The whole attraction of this site is not from the sign up site Pornstar Tryouts, it is from the bonus material you can get from signing up to the site. You receive a number of bonus sites, and videos which have no connection with the original idea. In fact Pornstar Tryouts only has 23 episodes, and the last one was about 3 years ago.
I stress once again, by today's standards the quality of pictures and videos are not great, and some of the videos cannot be downloaded at all. Some have faults and do not play or download. It's the really low price and great amount and variety of material (although not fetish), that makes this such an entertaining and fun package.
This is what they say under the FAQ's about cancelling memebership.
"If you’ve decided to cancel your membership, nothing could be easier. Just click here to advise our support staff. Your membership will automatically be cancelled when the next payment is due"
The implication is obviously that you will have access to the material for a month, as they say your membership will be cancelled WHEN the next payment is due. So you should have full access until then because you are a memeber until then. Get in touch with your credit card company.
That's exactly how I feel Monahan. I want to hear it confirmed changes have been made, because I don't want to go through the same hassle again. Make it easy to cancel, and I'll return as a customer. Private have a reputation and name for genuine porn, I hope it isn't going to be ruined.
Agreed about replacing that talent, but they still produce some great stuff. Admittedly it's a little closer to the internet porn norm than it used to be, but they are still a quality production company.
Thanks Monahan - ditto my comments above! It means more coming from someone like yourself and graymane who take care over your contributions, and we wont be letting a few ruin the site without a fight.
Thank you, your kind comments are always appreciated because I know you take time, and care over what you post too. There is a core of us who are proud of our contributions, and it's good to be a part of that. Stick around, and don't worry about the few who like to ruffle feathers.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
No download limits, DRM, or regional discrimination.
Upmarket glossy settings instead of the usual cum stained casting couch.
Different locations plus professionally produced and lit videos with some good angles, makes the material look different to the usual mass produced porn.
Good speeds on streaming and download.
Access to one of the most well established, and professional porn studios, giving access to a good variety of new and archive material.
HD videos look really good.
Zipped photos.
Consistent updates, albeit of different age and quality.
Very little filler material.
Their representative did take the time to appear at PU and answer concerns about cancellation problems.
Easy login.
Cons:
Cancellation not confirmed, took a number of messages and emails to confirm cancellation.
Awful navigation and search facilities.
Old and new, high and low spec videos, all mixed in together.
Clips from same dvd mixed up over different sites.
Some videos don't play.
Only mp4 available for download or streaming.
Too many fake breasts.
A little less material than on big sites.
Bottom Line:
This place is a delight and pain in the ass in equal measure, what you get though is quality stuff. Private is yet another dvd site masquerading as a network, so I use the main home page as base, then use the various sites as a filter and search facility. I am still finding some great material, but with no meaningful category search facilities, it is hard work and time consuming being a member. Browsing can be frustrating and no fun, if you spend more time searching than viewing.
On the main home page videos are not listed in chronoligical order of update, although scenes are, and so are the scenes on the individual sites, but updates are a mix of new and old material, so you get old 480 quality, mixed with 720 and 1080 quality, and scenes from each dvd are split up across the network on different sites. This has to be one of the most irritating porn sites to browse on the internet. Everything is mixed up together like an Eton Mess (created when a student dropped his dessert on the floor resulting in everything being mixed up. That sums up navigation).
For instance, if you go to Private Castings you will find a selection of videos with names like Guns And Rough Sex, Sex Auditions, and Cum To Daddy, split up into clips, but you wont find them all on the same site. For example, Cum To Daddy has a clip on Private Castings, but the other scenes from that video are to be found on both Russian Teen Ass, and Tight And Teen.
To me some of the older 480 clips don't look at all good, despite some glamorous and luxurious location filming, directors often can't resist changing from one angle to another, like you're going to get bored watching a beautiful girl getting fucked from the same angle for more than ten seconds, and once again there are far too many gynaecological closeups, and fake breasts.
Things could be so much more enjoyable with a little thought and organisation. Or maybe there is thought and organisation behind it all. Of course you don't think a company like Private just leaves it to chance do you? They've been around since 1965, and don't get to be in business this long by leaving things to chance. You think piracy is putting these guys out of business? I don't think so. They pre date internet porn, they predate video, they nearly predate me, but not quite.
Ah yes, video tapes, remember those? You'd make the effort, to go to one of those video shops, and fork out a lot of money buying the genuine article from some distant relative of the Krays, who'd only recently got the jail bars off his arse, but it was worth it, you finally had the real thing. Then you'd get it home and put it in the video machine, and wait, and wait, and wait...then finally, finally, after half an hour, it got to the good bit, and then it was over. WHAT!? That's as bad as my sex life, that can't be it!
But it was, and you didn't even have a remote control to forward wind. Ah, but they knew how to frame a shot, and they were actors, and it was all produced so well, but you just wasted an hour and a half of your life.
Porn is now vastly improved so I'm being a little harsh in judging Private who has to compete with the number of dvd's on the likes of Video Box or Videos Z, and the number of sites on 21 Sextury or Teen Mega World, and are attempting a sleight of hand at trying to make it look as though there is more than there really is. I think there's enough anyway, without the sleight of hand, even though the older material is far inferior in picture spec, though not in production. Making searching impossible and time consuming means longer memberships.
Same goes for the cancellation problem. It maybe designed that way for a reason. It took a number of emails and messages to get them to confirm my cancellation. One of the problems was their internal service did not recognise my membership password, so it was impossible to cancel using their links. Some of those missed cancellations are going to slip through "accidentally" which means more money.
The newer vids look very impressive, and if I was going to compare them to anything it would be to those early higher budget porn movies shot on film. Picture content is varied. Some clips have only 5-10 pics, some have over 100, and some have none at all, but they are of good quality when they exist, and can be downloaded in zipped form, or browsed through on the same player as the videos.
Private has lasted this long, mainly because they've maintained a high standard, and given people what they want - action, and done it with a style and professionalism that few others have. The videos don't all look the same as they do on some networks, due to a number of different directors working in different locations.
If not for the cancellation problems and navigation I would have stayed longer and scored higher. Just before I was due to post this review, the Private representative appeared on PU to answer the cancellation concerns. If that improves I will join again.
Good to hear a response and also good to hear there will be improvement on cancellations. If not for that and the navigation I would have scored higher. Review will appear later today when I have time to edit out 1000 words or so. You have some great material, and the niche sites at least allow a way to filter or search by category. If cancellation improves I will buy another membership.
I will be interested to hear whether that cancellation goes through. I eventually had two emails assuring me my membership was cancelled, but at the time of cancellation received no confirmation. I was not impressed. They should make it easier, as they have good material and don't have a bad reputation - yet. I received a confirmation of membership but no mention on how to cancel. The only way to cancel seemed to be to go on their site, and follow the link, but for the cancellation to go through I had to sign in with my password which was not recognised. Not good practice.
You had exactly the same problem I had. I cancelled about 4 days after joining so had plenty of time to get a response. I emailed them and left messages through their internal service totalling five times and eventually got a response. When I checked under "existing requests" my password hadn't been recognised. It seems just like you I wasn't recognised as a member so couldn't cancel.
I'm currently compiling a review now, and one of the things I note is a company like this doesn't get to stay in business this long purely by chance. The clips are mixed up for a reason. It's to make things less easy to browse and download quickly and also to make it look as though there is more than there is. Same thing goes for not acknowledging cancellation. I'm sure a number of cancellations don't go through and don't receive complaints, which makes them more money.
In my emails I did say I would be cancelling my credit card and complaining about fraudulent deductions if another monthly payment was taken. It took them 48 hours but they got back to me, answering two of my messages. They offered me a 30% discount to keep up my membership but it had been such a hassle to cancel I didn't take them up on it.
Sadly I couldn't find any magazines, but you can download zipped photos. Choose the pictures option at the top of the viewer. At the bottom of the viewer, below the line of photos there's a download zip option. Right click and save as.
Thanks admiral, I think I will. It was those negative comments that sort of put me off until now, but the quality and speed is a lot better than I expected, and also agree about those on location shoots compared to the usual couch.
Well there's a coincidence! Would you believe it I only signed up about four hours ago. It took me a few minutes to realise this was yet another one of those places that isn't really a network, but same as you, I very much like what they offer. Every place has its own style, and I quite like what I see here. Very good and accurate review.
I am also much preferring higher end video quality. It may be the new computer and screen, but I am noticing a lot of difference in quality nowadays. I have found the streaming quality to be good and the download speed fast - so far.
Yes I agree with the amateur homemade porn thing being a bit different. I quite like that, as well as the glossy sort that organisations like Pink Visual do. If you go to Video Box, so much of it looks like it's produced by the same company. Only occasionally does something really impress. On the other hand there's tons of well made run of the mill stuff which 30 years ago would have cost $100, just for one video!
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