I look at the PU/TBP reviews, then check the preview pages at the site, to get an idea whether the site might interest me. I don't usually bother with outside reviews, because I generally go for sites that have been reviewed at least a couple of times at PU, and that gives me enough of an idea of what I might expect.
I did get an email reply today from this site, in response to my fourth email to them.
The email was friendly and generous.
The email stated the site was giving me 10 free days of additional membership to the site, based on the problems I was experiencing.
The email asked me if I was using a download manager.
It also explained that support did not receive the first 3 emails I sent to them about my problems. To send the first three emails, I used the site software, where you click on the hot link of the Banned page message, a popup box appears where you enter the email message stating your problem, and then click the send link, using the internal site system. I would have thought the system would be more secure and less prone to error than trying to send an email to support using your own email program. But none of those emails were received by support.
The email that was received, my fourth email, I sent using Yahoo email, to the accounts@sexasian18dotcom address I found at the site. Someone at their site found that email in their spam box.
I am hoping I will get an additional email, that explains how I can use a download manager and still avoid being banned. The site Knowledge Base states that a download manager is allowed. The download manager should be set to download a single thread at a time. After the first day, I have only downloaded 1 file at a time. But I don't know how to specifically set my download manager to download 1 thread at a time, because that might be different from downloading 1 file at a time.
If anyone reading this reply knows specifically how to set up Free Download Manager to download 1 thread at a time, I would appreciate instructions.
I have read elsewhere that Free Download Manager might split a single file into sections and then download them simultaneously. But I don't know if Free Download Manager is splitting a single file into sections and downloading them simultaneously, and that is what is causing me to get banned before I hit the 12 GB download limit.
Using Free Download Manager would make it a lot easier to download multiple files from the site, and save me time and effort, if I can use it without getting an early and wrongful ban.
GCode, thanks for positive feedback on my review.
The truth is there is a large element of luck with some of these personal experiences. I had problems, but evidently you and jd1961 and nbaby8 didn't, as reflected in your much higher scores. Another person might join and not get banned as often as I did, or have better luck with support answering their emails.
I still don't know why I have been banned so often. I assume it's because their software for counting bandwith usage is buggy, because I never exceeded the bandwidth limit.
As for never receiving a response to my emails to support, someone else might have better luck or they might experience the same lack of response.
A few PU members mention poor email support for a site in their reviews or comments, but I think most PU members don't use support unless they are having a really serious problem with that site.
I've been a member of this site for 2 days plus a few hours. I was blocked on the first day for excessive bandwidth usage. Maximum daily usage limit is 12 GB, and I used less than 3 GB. But because I downloaded more than 1 file at the same time, my usage was overstated due to whatever method they use to count, and I was banned for approximately 12 hours.
The site does not state that downloading more than 1 file at the same time is not allowed. What the site states is that if more than 1 file is downloaded at the same time, that usage will be counted towards your daily limit.
The site does not state that your usage will be mis-counted if you download more than 1 file at the same time.
OK, I learned my lesson. Do not download more than 1 file at the same time on this site, or you can be banned long before you reach your daily limit.
This is the start of my 3rd day's membership, and I have been banned again. I downloaded 2 files. I downloaded the first file, waited until it was finished downloading, and then downloaded a second file. The total was 2.7 GB (I downloaded 2 movies, and each movie is over 1 GB, which is the norm at this site). The maximum daily limit is 12 GB, as I stated earlier.
So I did not download 2 files at the same time.
But I have been banned again, for 15 hours, for excess bandwidth use.
The Ban message states my account has exceeded the daily limit (12 GB). I downloaded 2.7 GB. The Ban message states that if I personally did not exceed the 12 GB limit, possibly my account was hacked. As I explained in an earlier comment, my username and password were issued by CCBill. I did not choose the username or password. And the username and password are tight security, in the sense they are each a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, mixed with numbers, in an apparently random order. So if the username and password were hacked, the problem lies with CCBill or the paysite itself. But I am the one who is paying for the service I am not receiving.
Hopefully, any PU members will have less frustration with this site than I have experienced.
I sent an email stating I was improperly banned the first time.
I have not received any reply to that email from support yet, and it's been almost 2 full days. The site advertises 24/7 email support, and that any email to support will be answered in 48 hours.
I sent a second email stating the problems that I am having with the site, and saying that I will cancel my membership if the problems are not resolved.
Porn stars are supposed to be adults. If you are an adult, you have the right of free choice. That means you (and porn stars) can refuse to perform sexual actions (anal, dps, etc.).
I think the question is confusing the issue of contract, which is legal, with slavery, which is illegal. Being under contract does not make you a slave.
I have not had any reply from customer support yet on my emailed problem. The site advertises 24/7 support, and that any email request will be handled within 48 hours. I sent my email yesterday morning, so it's been about 30 hours so far.
Actually, the counter for download bandwidth limit resets each day at Midnight EST (I read that somewhere inside the site.) So even though my notice of being banned from the site stated 15 hours of banishment, I was able to get into the site and download starting around 9pm PST. I found that by accident when I went to the site and hit a download button, and the stupid file started downloading (stupid, because I had already downloaded a previous copy of that particular photoset).
What really surprised me was that I downloaded that file, 43 MB, in only a few seconds. My download speed is only about 157 kb/s, so the computer somehow used the previous copy already on my PC, or some other copy that it stored in some temporary storage folder, to make that new file copy, even though it was being downloaded from the paysite.
Anyway, I will report what customer support tells me, if I get a reply. At some paysites, they advertise 24/7 email support, but the truth is that you don't get any response to your emails.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say downloading two files at the same time goes twice as slow. I use DownThemAll, and the download rate for 1 or 2 or even 3 files (the total amount of kb/s) remains pretty steady. The total amount of time to download 3 files is not longer when you download 2 or 3 files at the same time. Actually, it's slightly shorter. And by downloading 3 files at once, you don't have to wait around for one file to finish downloading, before you start downloading the next one. (You can do the downloading automatically, once you start the downloads.)
I used to use Free Download Manager, which let me schedule the downloads separately. But when I updated my Firefox browser some time back, the Free Download Manager program somehow got messed up, and did not work with Firefox.
Maybe I will try to fix the Free Download Manager program, because it was very easy to use, and very convenient in scheduling downloads, and really worked well.
When you want to download a large number of separate files, you need a download manager to handle the chores, or you will be spending a huge amount of time at the computer keyboard.
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But if you download more than 1 file at a time at this site, you are heavily penalized on your download limit. So it's not worth it.
I only subscribe to a few paysites at any one time. So it's just as easy to type in the name as to bother setting up and using a bookmark. I use firefox, so like atrapat mentioned, the autocomplete feature means I only have to type in a few letters, and firefox will complete the site address for me.
The main attraction of this site (and almost any site, as far as I am
concerned) is how attractive are the models. Some of my favorites are Maria Ozawa, Cecil Fujisaki, Sora Aoi, Saori Hara, Tina Yuzuki. Maria Ozawa is absolutely gorgeous.
Aino Kishi is a new one for me.
Thanks for the recommendation. I will give her a try.
I would love to try all the different JAV sites that look to be worthwhile. But with limited cash, I thought this site would, because of its large content and apparently good-quality videos and photosets, be a good site to belong to.
I just need to get back into the site, when they unblock me, to see what I can download.
I did send a message to the help desk explaining that I was blocked and should not have been. But an email reply can take 1-2 days, and I should have access sometime tomorrow. But I am interested in what the support email will say, because I did explain clearly that I only downloaded 2.98 GB out of a daily limit of 12 GB. I also mentioned being blocked for about 2 hours because no popup page for username and password would pop up on my PC. Some help desks are almost useless, and there is the additional problem, I assume, that the help desk might be in Japan, so English would be a second language. But I am curious to see if the help desk will offer anything beyond a mechanical message that "We're sorry about your problem. Hope you feel better soon". Some help desk emails are entirely mechanical (form letter), and it seems they haven't even bothered to read the email requesting help.
Thanks for the tip, Gcode. Actually, I used Firefox browser and DownThemAll download manager to download my files from this site. I used DownThemAll because I thought that if a file download is interrupted, DownThemAll might allow the download to be resumed, instead of restarted from the beginning of the file download.
After I got the "exceeded download limit" message, I looked around their site, and found in the "Knowledge Base>Download Related>Can I use a download manager to download movies?" the following statement:
"Yes, you can [use a download manager], but please remember to setup your download manager to download using one (1) thread only. Multiple download threads will be counted towards your bandwidth. We will not issue any refund that is related to the use of multi-threaded downloads."
If I was a lawyer, which I am not, I would read that statement to say that "mulitiple download threads will be counted towards your bandwidth." Actually, that is exactly what they wrote.
If they miscount my bandwidth usage, that is their error, not mine.
I was cut off from access at 2.98 GB, when the daily limit is 12 GB.
And if they refuse me access because of their error, I see little or no reason to pay for service which they are not providing.
Sorry, I realize in the real world things don't always work, and everyone likes to say the blame lies with someone else.
So I will either cancel the service, and tell my credit card company I was billed improperly, or try to get over the irritation and wait until I am allowed back in, to see what other problems this site dumps on me. Grrrrr. (Tony the Tiger).
Thanks again for taking the time and effort to share your experiences.
New problem:Blocked from downloading for no good reason.
I have been blocked from downloading at sexasian18, supposedly for exceeding the daily download limit.
The message I received was:
"Access blocked: EXCESS BANDWIDTH USE BANNED FOR 15 HOURS
If you have been downloading a lot today, you probably exceeded your daily bandwith usage limit. Come back tomorrow..
If you have not been downloading a lot today, perhaps other people may be accessing our member's area using your password. Sometimes easy to guess passwords are comprimised by hackers. Your password may have been circulated on the Internet. For this reason, your user name may have been blocked."
Block time message issued approximately 09:50 am PST, Wed July 15, 2009.
I downloaded 7 files (2 videos, 5 zip photosets), for a total of 2.98 GB. (I downloaded the files into a single folder, so I could keep track of the total amount of downloads, since I read there was a daily download limit of 12 GB.
My username and pasword were issued by CCBill. I did not choose the username and password myself. The password and username are both security tight, in the sense they are both a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters, with numerals as well, in an apparently random order.
I was just issued the password today, along with my membership.
It was irritating that I had problems getting into the member area of this site, because the popup page to accept my username and password did not appear on my computer, until I had tried to log-on for about 2 hours.
Now I am getting an Excess Bandwidth notice, and am blocked from site access for 15 hours, when my bandwidth usage was far below the maximum I am allowed. The daily limit is 12 GB, and I downloaded 2.98 GB.
I did not view any of the photoset galleries or the videos at this site (streaming), because I wasn't sure if viewing the photoset galleries or viewing a streaming video would count as part of my total bandwidth usage.
So far, my experience with this site has been frustrating.
I need to specifically check to see whether viewing a photoset or a streaming video will count toward the total daily download limit. But I have not viewed a photoset or any streaming video at the site today, which is my first day of membership.
To be cut off after downloading 2.98 GB, with a supposed daily maximum download of 12 GB, is ridiculous.
Success. Refreshed page, selected "member login", and a popup window appeared, requesting my username and password. I entered the information, and was allowed into the member area. Took me what, a couple of hours to get in?
I used to believe in Japanese efficiency. But there can be problems along the way, I now realize.
That popup window for authentication was evidently not being blocked by my PC hardware/software, but by what? I have no idea.
Easy signup, but problems follow.
Signup was easy for sexasian18 thru CCBill today.
Was assigned a username and password thru CCBill.
But 40 minutes after signup, have not received any confirmation email from CCBill about my subscription. Over the past several months there have been a few times I did not get any CCBill email confirmation about a subscription signup (or a subscription cancellation). I don't know if this is some problem with my email account, or if this is because of CCBill changing policy. I do check both my regular email and my spam accounts for these confirmations, but do not see them.
Separately, 40+ minutes after signup, still not able to log-on to members area of sexasian18. I click on the "members login" link on the entry page, and nothing appears to happen. What I want is a new page that will accept my username and password so I can get into the members area.
Close the browser page for sexasian18, and try again a few more times, by opening a new browser page, loading the sexasian18 preview page, and selecting the "members login" link. Still no luck. Stuck at the preview page, can't get into the members area.
When I place the mouse pointer over the "members login" hot link, my pointer changes to the finger-hand symbol, showing the link is active. Then I select the "members login" hot link (by clicking on it), and nothing happens. The page does not change in any way, and I can not go on to the next step where I would enter my username and password.
Restart my PC. Open new browser page. Go to sexasian18 and try to login.
Same routine, where I select the "members login" hot link, and apparently nothing happens (except that the "members login" is no longer a hot link, because the mouse pointer no longer changes to the finger-hand symbol when I place the pointer over the words "members login".
Close browser page (because there are no active hot links on the page) of sexasian18, and the page appears dead, can't use the page to change to any other page at the site.
Open new browser window. Clear cookies, cache, browsing history.
Cookies were cleared, because I am now forced to re-log-in to my Yahoo home page, and to re-log-in to Porn Users home page.
Open a page for sexasian18, select the "members login" hot link, same as before: page turns dead, with no hot links.
I will give this a day or so, then cancel my membership if I can't get into the members area.
It's possible the problem is in my computer software/hardware, that is preventing some popup page from appearing and that I am not aware of it. But so far, this is the first paysite that is blocking my access BEFORE I can enter the username and password. And I have joined a number of paysites, and never had this problem before.
Sorry, I don't have any additional details on the new pricing. The only information is that it is a "special" offer, whatever that means. I plan on joining tomorrow, and downloading for 1 month solid.
This is one of the biggest and best JAV sites that I know of.
Thanks, Lionheart. There are people like Drooler and Toadsith who write excellent reviews. I've got a long way to improve before I get to be anywhere close to them as writers.
Thanks. I don't have a lot of experience in porn videos. This was the first time I saw Rocco Siffredi, that I know of. Some of his videos are really interesting and good quality. Of course, you watch a lot of them, especially some of his series, they do get a little repetitive. But there are some videos at his site that I thought were extremely good, better than anything I've seen elsewhere.
If you ever join this network, which has 19 different sites, this site is definitely worth looking over. It's just a question of how much time you want to spend going thru the different videos to find what you think is worthwhile.
But there are several sites in the network that I thought had some really worthwhile videos: peternorth.com
devilsfilm
silverstoneDVD
roccosiffredi
PU/TBP has a special price of $14.95/month for the network. But if you're lucky, you might find an even cheaper offer somewhere.
Drooler, I wouldn't mind reading one of your reviews on Met-art. You usually manage to come up with something worthwhile to say.
Mbaya posted a couple of days ago that "The reviewers I respect the most are Exotics and Gcode. I feel their reviews are simply awe inspiring and wish I could write as well. The two reviewers I find most helpful as their tastes are similar to mine are Drooler and Denner."
I would put Drooler and Toadsith at the top of my list for the reviewers I respect the most. Though some other PU members come close.
It continuously surprises me how much personal tastes can differ.
I was thinking the models of the last year were not up the the previous standards of attractiveness. There were a good percentage of lovely young girls in the past, and I've found very few that I really liked this past year.
We agree on the videos, though, but I don't know what they can do, since Met-art is strictly softcore. I find that Femjoy videos are more watchable than Met-art videos, but not by much.
If the videos went very high-definition, that might help a little. Better music background would help a little. But the main problem is the girls don't do much of anything: they walk, they sit, they lay down, stand up. If there was some story to the video, that would help, but these girls are not actresses. And the photo people are not writers that would be able to write a short plot that makes sense and holds interest.
I'm getting up there in age, and I don't remember what my first paysite was, to tell the truth. Before I joined my first paysite, I used to look at free photos of Playboy playmates on the Internet. I guess old Hef is the one who led me down that garden path.
Some of the older playmates from the 1970s and 1980s were special. Far better than what they are choosing for the 2000+ playmates. The older ones seemed more real, less plastic. I'm sure there were a number of boob jobs and whatnot back then, but it was less obvious.
Solid review with nice details and opinions.
But if you were able to get through the massive photo content of this site in three months, you must have been spending a huge amount of time here. And that's if you skipped the video content, which I think is almost all skippable, anyway. :)
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he photoshops his pictures. The man is now 52, and he is the main selling point for his web sites and DVDs. So he definitely wants to look as good as possible, and if photoshop will make him look better in his photographs, why not?
He definitely has a lot of ego. But he is a porn star, and part of that means selling himself. Major movie stars have to sell themselves as well, when they promote their films. It's part of the business.
I admit my review was poking fun at his ego, a bit, but he does deserve respect for apparently making such a financial success of himself in the porn industry. He has not only acted in over 1600 titles, but he is also a porn director and producer. He also promotes/pitches products, which is what major movie and TV stars like Cher have done.
If you join a network with one of his sites included as a bonus, you might want to look through the DVD clips offered. Peter North has been acting in porn since the 1980s, and he's acted with a huge number of attractive models. He does not come across as an egotistic jerk in his videos.
He is a workout buff, and is proud of his body. But that is also self-promotion, and smart. I personally think that some of the promotion is overdone, but some fans are impressed by all of this. He is famous for having a large penis (in length and girth), famous for the large amount of cum he produces, and how far it shoots. His fans are both male and female. The female fans want to be on the receiving end of his sex, and the male fans want to be like him.
Separately, I gave his site a score of 87. That score is based on the network value of all 19 sites in the network, and not just on the single value of this individual PeterNorth site. If I was rating this PeterNorth site as a single, stand-alone site, my score would have been lower.
I tried to make that clear, in the BOTTOM LINE of my review, that I was scoring the site for its "network as a whole score, not as a single site by itself score". If my score was misinterpreted as a score for this site by itself, I apologize.
There might be fans who would rate this PeterNorth site by itself as an 87, but I'm not that crazy about him. I'm more into the female models he is bonking. :)
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