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Tree Rodent (0)
Active User  Posts: 708 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Behind The Scenes With The Squirrel The forum and everywhere else is quiet. As I have said before I didn't intend doing any more reviews for quite some time. I'm only a semi regular, but with the raffle being ended, having a perverse character I decided to do another review I hadn't originally intended. Then I decided to do another one. I usually take ages to do these. Over a period of weeks I jot down pros, cons, and bottom lines and eventully put it all together. I think I have earned some time off recently and working on this today is probably good for me. A nice relaxing stress free way to spend the afternoon. Below is the file as it looks now, with spelling mistakes and a jumbled up bunch of thoughts which I intend to eventually put together and form a hopelly intelligent review. Things will change but this is how it looks at the moment. pros No DRM, download limits, or pre checked cross selling. Beautiful amateur girls in a mixture of shape size and colour. Genuinely amateur and individual content with its own style. Exclusive material and most of the girls will not be seen elsewhere. Lighting good considering the niche. Good streaming. Good download speed. Zipped pics. Named files. Good home pages and navigation. Still updating, with date of update. Easy log in, site remembers your details, with only an easy to see word to copy. Good customer oriented feel. cons Poor exchange rate with CCBill sign up. Male lead can be a bit irritating at times. One type of material. No network of sites bonus. A few too many fake breasts, and especially tattoos. Condoms becoming more common. Blurred face of male can sometimes spoil action. Some bad camera action and views. Can be amateurish. Pics old 1400x937 new 1280x720 1400x788 640x360 3270 kbps 768x432 6178 kbps 768x432 4064 kbps This is one of the few sites where old pictures have higher spec than the new ones, and may be because the new ones are screencaps rather than genuine photos. Old ones are genuine photos, and some of the bonus content involved behind the scenes content where you could see these being taken. I love that sort of stuff, but sadly newer updates don't have any of that, although the main videos always have a certain behind the scenes flavour due to the nature of the content. Bonus material is thin compared to major networks. Membership gives access to Backroom Casting Couch, (on a quality par with ECG, and is a very good bonus site) and Net Video Girls plus some free movies. This isn't a network, it's a standalone DIY site so you wouldn't expect much extra. It's a rare niche, with quality material, beautiful girls, and given the one man show plus camera it's done in a professional enough way to show the girls off to maximum effect. It does a very good job of doing an amateur thing in a very professional way. I know this view wont go down well with some members of PU, but it is just my opinion. I think the guy does a great job, even though he may not win any humanitarian awards or upstanding church goer of the month awards...or he might, we don't know who he is, as his face is blurred out, something that can sometimes detract from the action. Some PU ers have referred to the male lead as a sleaze ball from what I can remember, yet there hare no dirty tricks on sign up or cancellation, no drm, dl limits, or pre checked cross selling. What you see and are led to expect is very much what you do get. In fact the whole site is easy to use and seems to be designed for the customer. You can't say that about many. The login is easy. Your membership details and password are remembered, with an easy to see simple word to copy. Navigation is great, with quite detailed previews of what the update is like, plus a long written summary about the shoot. You may not like the main man's tone, but you can't say he doesn't put in the effort. Photos are zippped, download speeds are fast, and files are numbered. It's a semi professional job, If this is the future of porn, with semi amateur girls, and semi professional shooting, done on a budget, I would be happy with that. I don't think it is, but what he is doing works for him, and for me. This is close to the real thing. Reality, with some very attractive amateurs who look sexy. That isn't easy to do. Even the pros get it wrong more often than not, so hats off to ECG. Picture and video quality wont exactly please the Hi def fans, with new video spec being 768x432 at 4000-6000kbps and the slightly older ones being 640x360 at 3000-4500 kbps. Even the newer videos already look prehistoric, but then this isn't about high pristine quality with fantastic lighting and models looking like they've been dipped in bronze, it's abou tone man and a camera, and at it's most high tech, one man and two cameras, with occasional help from a mate. You get plenty of build up, dressing, undressing, walking around naked and semi naked. Last time I counted there were 286 girls, and there have been a couple of updates since then. They say they started in 2005. More recent shoots are dated but earlier ones are not. I think the earliest date I can remember seeing is 2009. When I recently visited then clicked to leave the page I received a cut price offer from CCBill, which I accepted. Despite that, the CCBill poor exchange rate is one that really pisses me off, and is close to regional discrimination. It's ripping off customers, but at least I received a cut price rate. When I went to cancel my subscription I received another cut price offer, which I almost accepted. The only thing that made me turn it down was I don't have the time to download let alone watch much porn at the moment. It certainly isn't a reflection on the quality of ECG, which I very much like. When I have time in a few months I may well return. It's just an opinion but this is as real as it gets. The next door girl types are the type of girls you wish were living next door. There is a lack of gloss and has an amateur feel, but at the same time is professionally lit, edited, and photographed well enough to be erotic. For me it''s an excellent blend of professionalism and DIY amateurism. Yes there have been comments about the guy being a douche bag, but given the abuse, both verbal and physical, some girls get on mainstream sites, this is relatively mild by comparison. It does vary but generally I found streaming facilities to be excellent. I often get quality streaming at peak times when on other sites (VideoBox for instance) it's impossible to get a picture. This is obviously a very individual and polarised niche. You get access to Backroom Casting Couch and Netvideogirls, which are both the same sort of material. If you don't like amateur casting you wont like these sites, so a membership is worthless. A recent addition is the split screen view, where you see both the model's face and the other end at the same time. It's not a bad addition as long as it's not overdone. Sometimes the two screens seem to get in the way of one another. There is a limited amount of material so navigation is relatively easy. The models are listed both chronolgically and alphabetically. There are a few scenes with condoms which I hate, but they probably only make up about 10-15% of the clips. One thing I noted was that when I went to the sign up page then closed the window, I received a $5 off offer if I joined now. That worked out at �17.44 for 30 days. Edited on Jun 19, 2013, 08:19am | |
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| 06-19-13 01:07pm - 4204 days | #2 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
x Edited on Apr 20, 2023, 02:23pm | |
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| 06-19-13 06:31pm - 4204 days | #3 | |
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Tree Rodent (0)
Active User Posts: 708 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
In answer to your question - both I hope. I got back earlier than expected so was able to spend a couple of hours finishing off the review. What are the chances of a 100 word review being posted in the next few hours? Pretty good, even in these quiet times for PU. | |
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Seriously, a very good upcoming review. No way could I stretch a review out for weeks. I just notes down the old fashioned way, using a pen and paper, and bang something out here in usually about 30 to 40 minutes. Though looking at your list has given me the idea that the old "What Should a PU Review include" thread since it's a little out of date. Probably not going to happen soon though.| 06-20-13 04:50am - 4203 days | #4 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
Yo, Squirrel....From my perspective, You've just laid out the best example of components all of us could draw from to do a good comprehensive review than any I've seen. It might surprise you of the number of members who actually struggle with what to put into a review. I can see nothing less than another grand contribution you've seemingly unconsciously made to PU. I know I'm one who'll get something beneficial from it. | |
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| 06-20-13 07:15am - 4203 days | #5 | |
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Tree Rodent (0)
Active User Posts: 708 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Thanks for the kind words Graymane. Like yourself, I go for quality over quantity any day, and it was only the end of the raffle that inspired me to do my two recent reviews. It's good to see there are still a few good regulars like yourself still around. As RB says in the other thread, maybe we shouldn't be panicking. | |
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| 06-20-13 10:56am - 4203 days | #6 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
From my perspective it is not so much panic, it is more a case of waiting to see what happens. As there is so little on topic material being produced, really there is nothing for me to review. I am intrigued by Rick's recent gambit, but in all honesty, I doubt it will appeal to me. Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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