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Drooler's Poll
While it's a PITA, it's also way overdone, in my opinion. If someone successfully accesses a site with a difficult UserID/Password combo, then what's the point in requiring repeated entries of the same UserID/Password...unless there's a known security hole in the site's access control protocol.
However, in network sites where access can be direct or via a network link, it makes sense to require reentry of a UserID/Password.
My answer, then, is that if it's a hot site that I enjoy, the access protocols are annoyances but do not alter my feeling about continuing as a member. If it's a borderline site, I'll probably drop out anyway regardless of the access controls employed.
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10-05-07 11:36am
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Reply of
Khan's Poll
I seem to match everyone else.
Back in the late 80's and early 90's there was the modified porn stuff on cable TV (no straight penetration shots, just the action with genitalia blocked by body parts or fussed out) that got my attention, but my VCR was my primary access to porn (rental stores).
Since the quality and diversity of internet porn has increased over the last 4 years has caused my DVD library to join the video tape library in the attic gathering dust.
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10-02-07 06:31pm
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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troglodite's Reply
If I sign up for a trial, it will only be for a full trial (where the TBP warning about a limited trial is not present) and then only if I can devote a significant amount of time to download all of the worthwhile content.
I have never let a trial flip into a full subscription, even when the site throws a "special" price to convince me to stay.
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09-04-07 08:07pm
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Reply of
Denner's Poll
When TBP has a positive review of a site and the site offers a discount to TBP members, and if the site has marginal interest except for the review and the lower price, I have signed up to give the site a try. So my reply is YES.
The Best Porn is really the strongest and best source for good info about sites, both from its staff and from this forum, and the discount feature is one very positive bonus feature.
In recent months I have signed up with only one site (Ox Pass) that did not offer a TBP discount.
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09-03-07 07:39am
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Khan's Poll
By "stumbled" I assume you mean where someone who may not have been aware of my "stash" accidentally found it. Because I have various software locks on my "stash," the only person to whom I did not grant access to my stuff was the computer repair shop technician who asked me if I knew someone had been surfing some "naughty sites" with my computer. (He was checking the Internet History for reasons he did not explain.) Told him that I suppose that happened but I really didn't care.
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08-31-07 07:09am
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Reply of
Getreal's Poll
I have been a very satisfied member of VideoBox for over 24 months and of Sexy-Babes.tv for 4 years. They are both cheap and loaded with the stuff I like. In addition I'll sign up for one or two additional sites depending on my work load and my free time.
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08-27-07 03:35pm
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Reply of
Vegas Ken's Poll
I don't try the $1.95 or $2.95 deals where TBP has the caution message jsut because I know it's worthless.
However there are some sites that sell brief, 3 day or so, access to the site without restrictions for, say, $9.95. I've tried that once and was happy I did. I was ready to sign on for a month to see what it had, but the 3 day option was a better idea. Why? Didn't like the site.
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08-26-07 02:14pm
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Reply of
Pornjackker's Reply
If you find that you signed up and paid for a totally sucky website go immediately to the site's support page and look for the Customer Service number (or CC Bill's customer service number). Call 'em up and tell them you don't want to be a member and please close your account and refund your money.
I've done that and occasionally have had success in closing the account and getting a credit back within 5-7 days.
If it works, fine. If not, it's definitely worth a shot, isn't it?
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08-22-07 12:55pm
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Reply of
exotics4me's Reply
I had the same problem when a babe turned me on and a search found her website. I'd say "what the Hell" if the whack was $19.95 or less and was always, literally, disappointed by the crap. That's when TBP becomes my go/no go source.
I still have situations where I was negatively surprised by unadvertised limitations. The most recent case was "Girls Love Toys" where I discovered that zip downloads were not available unless you renew at least once. That sucks and was not mentioned in TBP's review or in the preview material. That's why I posted a review of this otherwise high quality site so that I could alert others to that fraudulent practice. (The volume of content is not sufficient to stay a member for more than one month so the fraud is clearly to whack you for an extra month if you like downloading photos.)
Conversely, I've signed up for sites based on TBP reviews where I intended to stay only one month but have stayed on much longer, which I guess one can call "Buyers Delight." (Sexy-Babes/Babelicious, etc. is one significant example.)
Caveat Emptor is alive and well in the Porn Site biz.
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08-21-07 05:50pm
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Reply of
exotics4me's Reply
I agree. Exclusive stuff adds a lot to a site, but totally exclusive means a smaller site and more seraching for models or content I prefer.
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08-18-07 03:57am
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Reply of
DivBZero's Poll
I agree. CCBill and Paycom. Always accurate, always trustworthy. Forget the rest.
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08-11-07 11:20am
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Reply of
apoctom's Reply
Ditto that. On occasion there is a dry spell (today, for example) where I spent 15 minutes on sites and about 1/2 hour on TBP site.
Last week I signed up on a new (for me) site and spent almost 3 hours on just that site.
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08-09-07 05:09pm
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Reply of
Boobs4ever's Poll
I generally like trial memberships because I like seeing what the site has to offer and how it's constructed. I'm OK with LIMITED trials as well, but only when it's very clear that's what you're getting before you pay anything. The only place to find a warning about a limited trial is by referring to TBP.
The rip[off not mentioned here, however, is when the trial signup includes a small print "opt-out" trial...or signup for another site. Unless you read everything in close detail, you can miss the alternative offer and you'll find out about it when the $39.99 hits your credit card.
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08-05-07 02:50pm
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