Your response is a lot like mine except I added a few extra words. My membership had just recurred for the 3rd month. I hadn't downloaded anything from Net Video Girls and was going to focus on it this month. I notice their usual very responsive webmaster is choosing not to respond.
I seriously hope my very positive review of Exploited College Girls didn't help them make the decision to split the "network" up.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- There's a backroom, a couch and girls wanting money or to become pornstar. What could go wrong?
- The girls are mostly attractive.
- Nearly 600 videos.
- Download speeds are good (80% of max)
- CCBill is the biller
- Some of the scenes feature good personalities.
- An update each week
Cons:
- Well, as I enter my third month with this group of sites, they've decided to take a few sites away from me. I no longer have access to Net Video Girls or Casting Couch HD, thanks guys, there's you a 15 point deduction. No explanation needed. You don't remove access to sites you were previously including. You did and that's why I removed points.
- A lot of these scenes are dull. ExCoGi was much better.
- No pictures. Why does an amateur site not have pictures?
- It doesn't feel like they put as much into this site as ExCoGi and definitely not as much as Net Video Girls.
I even made sure by trying to sign in to Net Video Girls with my credentials and it wouldn't sign in. I won't be reducing the Exploited College Girls school as I think it's a very unique and interesting site. This Backroom Casting Couch gets to start out with a -15 deduction. I don't want to go too far into the reasoning other than saying I chose to do business with these sites for 3 straight months, even allowing the membership to recur at $29.95 in the last two months of it. I could have just canceled it in month one and signed up with a promo with a different email address for month two. Their appreciation is to remove my access to the best site they have, Net Video Girls.
I'm really tired of having to write negative reviews because of terrible business practices. See, Backroom Casting Couch is not a bad site at all but now, I'm in a bad mood and feel like I can't trust them. It makes me see the faults.
My first pro says a lot. There's a couch in a backroom. The guy casts a willing amateur woman for porn. The enjoyable, entertaining style of Exploited College Girls isn't found here. The women look bored, not all but most of the recent ones, they roll around on the couch showing their 46 tattoos and it feels just as cheap as the recent women look. I'm going to be as fair as possible and say 1/2 of the women are okay. The other 1/2 should be paying me to watch them get naked.
The good looking ones are in the 8-9 range on an amateur scale.
There are no pictures. I try not to be too old-fashioned about porn but pictures of amateurs is one of the top reasons to join an amateur site. Would it really be that much to ask? I think anyone would agree the interview section of these scenes is not near as good as Exploited College Girls, another of their sites. Use that time to take 50-75 pictures. It has been a long time since I said this and maybe I should apologize before saying it. Some of these women look a lot better dressed.
If you think I'm being too harsh on the models go look for yourself. Of the last 15, Chanel is cute, Summer is cute with an even better personality, Leya and Jasmine are pretty, the other 11 are average or below. I think baseball is the only profession where 4 out of a 15 isn't terrible.
The video quality is very good with up to 1080p. The videos are long as I have explained before these long videos at a high resolution make for huge file sizes. One I downloaded earlier was 4.3 GB for the 1080p version. They also offer 720p and an unspecified resolution version that is smaller in file size. The ones I tested in the unspecified group were 768x432, so below 480p. Those can even be as big as 1 GB.
With no photos there is nothing to list about their quality.
I'm taking this directly from their site. This is one of transcribed conversations they list from one of the scenes:
Rick: I'm going to have you start by licking his ass.
Kim: What.. What??!! Are you serious?! Are you fuckin' serious?... ok, whatever..God... I don't wanna do that. I really have to do that?
Rick: That's what we do here. Welcome to porn.
We're back to way to go, guys. I think I would have edited out the part where she said she doesn't want to do that and asked again if she really has to. You walk a fine-line in this business. Holding money over someone's head to get them to do something they don't want to do isn't on the right side of that line.
I'm still not going to give it a terrible score. It has its good moments but I won't be back.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Just going to start with this thought, don’t come to this site looking for bondage and anything rough. I thought that might be the way they would take it, but they don’t, and it is a pro that they didn’t.
- This is a site that shows the line for needing updates or not needing updates. It has only 56 scenes and no updates for a few years. It doesn’t need the updates. The scenes are very similar and don’t even really grasp a theme. The scenes are good.
- Over the top acting, I’m going to start giving bonus points for that. It really fits this niche. Especially for those expecting harsh punishment.
- High quality videos and photo downloads.
- CCBill as biller.
- Comes with Nubiles Porn network and it almost always has a promo.
Cons:
- If you’re wanting punishment, you’re going to get punished. The punishment on this site is light spanking. Making the teen suck the guy’s dick while her mom is cooking dinner in the background. That’s good porn. I am not being sarcastic. I really like this type of porn.
- I don’t think the scenes are good enough to keep the site going and that makes it hard to call not updating a con. I think the scenes are good enough as part of a network. This gives you a little something different. Some people will not like that this is not more hardcore.
Bottom Line:
There was no doubt in my mind that Charles Dera was going to be in some of these scenes. He seems to be cast for this role. He’s the goofy looking guy with the animated expressions. He catches his stepdaughter in his liquor cabinet. She just happened to be wearing a little skirt. He pulls her over his knee and starts spanking. As much as I want to make fun of Charles Dera, he is good at this type of lighthearted porn. I would even say he is one of the defining members of the not taking ourselves too seriously porn group.
I know the first time I looked at this site I was expecting it to be a little more hardcore. I wasn’t for sure since it is Nubiles. It has the Nubiles feel to it. It’s playful. This is a niche that would get very old to me if it was more hardcore. The models are so cute and pretty, I don’t know that I could stomach watching someone punish them. Maybe I’m onto something there? These are still Nubiles-type models. You also get Nubiles quality. The 56 scenes can all be downloaded in 1080p, 720p, 540p, 360p and 270p. The photos are very good with 6000 long end resolution on the highest download option.
Even though I don’t think they do anything to live up to the title of the site, they do enough to make it a good site. I have seen so many of the scene previews on porn ads. That’s a good sign. Something in a still picture is good enough to remember. One scene for those into bondage, this is what you’re going to get, it's The Pussy Bandit scene. That’s the name of it. The teen is texting with her pastel-colored comforter on her bed and two stuffed animals. The Pussy Bandit shows up. He uses pastel pink rope and material to shackle her. It’s easy to see they are not trying to make this Kink Lite. The scenes do work. She Needs A Spanking with Blair Williams is one of my favorites. She is giving Charles Dera a blowjob while her mom is in the background in the kitchen. It’s one of those fetishes that I am sure has crossed a few minds.
Something I like and maybe others would too. There is a section in nearly each scene where the model is supposed to be chatting or texting her boyfriend. She sends nude selfies and that’s a fetish too. It’s more on the softer side of fetishes. I have talked about my fetishes are very tame to most people. I do like this porn. One more scene that needs to be mentioned, Insert This. It has some good masturbation starting out. As the scene progresses, the younger woman goes to the living room and is inserting uncooked hot dogs in her pussy. She gets caught and nearly lets the hot dog go. See it for what they’re trying to sell it as not what your mind tells you when you read, “Bad Teens Punished”. They are selling a soft, fun, silly, playful, youthful, curious version of hardcore sex. It’s good. I wouldn’t go any further than good. There’s not going to be any enemas or prolapse or anything that looks like it shouldn’t have made its way into a porn scene.
Current Member for over 2 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
- A site with a lot of potential but I don’t think it has a pulse.
- Very pretty models in every scene.
- Good production values for these guys (sorry Porn Pros), it’s meant as a compliment.
- Technical quality on videos is as good as you’ll get unless you find one of those 6K or 8K sites.
- Unlimited downloads and download speed on this site is very good (90% of max)
- Pictures are good, though resolution could be better and the pictures are downloadable too.
Cons:
- No dates on updates and I can’t say I’ve watched the site enough to see if they’ve updated. I don’t think it’s updating.
- This is one of those sites that will make you say, “Why is this the one you aren’t updating?”
- Only 36 scenes, you’ll download them all though.
Bottom Line:
This is one of those sites that annoys me. Especially in these days of upgrade package 1, upgrade package 2, join this platinum access bundle. It’s sites like this one that get lost in all that micro-marketing bullshit.
I will make this clear without having to read any further. Unless you really like the specific models they have on this site and the high quality (which I will go into) the site offers this site is not worth joining as a premium standalone site. If you join one of their sites (Porn Pros Premium sites), it is a site you want to make sure and not miss. The 36 scenes are all worth downloading.
The quality on all 36 scenes includes 4K, 1080p, 720p as mp4 or WMV and 480p. Those are unlimited downloads and with the fast download speeds you can zip through this site’s content in no time. The photos are good, the resolution could be better at 1500x1125 but these are real photosets, not screencaps. These show the model dressed, teasing, and look like the site’s producers had a good thing going. You can download the photosets too.
Which is where more of a subjective opinion shows up. The scenes give you the feeling of heartcore, softer hardcore, whatever we’re calling that now but the sex is a little more hardcore than that niche offers. There are a few threesomes where the actors (male and female) are very believably into the sex. Some of the scenes even extend into the 40 minute range. I know member ratings shouldn’t be looked at as anything different than our review scores, opinions, but of the 36 scenes they do have the lowest member rated scene is an 8.0 and it and one other scene, an 8.7, are the only two of the 36 scenes under 9.0. Right at 1/3 of all their scenes are member rated at 9.5 or higher. If you add 9.3 to that you have 24 of the 36 scenes are rated 9.3 or higher. I even agree with most of these member ratings. These are scenes that are reminiscent of what Viv Thomas used to produce in the male/female hardcore genre. There is passion, some lust, and a genuine feel of the actors being very much into the sex.
But there are only 36 scenes and doesn’t look like any updates. This site as a standalone site would be only for the quality over quantity type of porn user. I think this number can put that in even better perspective … their 33rd best rated scene is the first 9.0. The 32 scenes before it are 9.1 or higher. I could probably make a case for joining a site like this compared to a huge network and probably keeping as many of these scenes as I would from the huge network. If you are that type who can be satisfied with quality over quantity, then one month just for this site is probably worth it. If you join their upgrade network it makes this site one of their very best. It also shows that porn sites do not listen to their fans. I can hear that discussion now, “34 of our 36 scenes on that site are rated 9.0 or higher by our fans, well, maybe we should stop updating it then!” At least look into it if you find yourself watching softcore/softer hardcore and thinking, “This is not porn.” It adds a burst of passion you don’t usually get with that niche.
I actually liked this site as a member last year. The videos were being released 1 per day, and this is really amateur video. The camera work was troublesome at times, but for an amateur site, it was good enough. Not for sure if it really was user submitted clips or not, but for the price, $9.95, and amount of content, almost 500 full length clips, it was worth it back then. Then came August or so and no more updates that I can see. If you've never been a member and have $10 to spend, try it out, it really isn't bad at all. Videos are 640 high end with above average bitrates too.
I hate to hear that. Bang actually did a lot to help me, including refunding the membership I used but the biller echst.net lied to me multiple times and are still lying to me.
They had charged me $7.95, $19.95 (3x), I didn't realize it was that many times until I kept going back to my bank account. They (echst.net) told me it was for Viv Thomas. I'm a pretty big fan of Viv Thomas but hadn't been a member in over a year. Their customer service rep (Chris) told me he would refund all the charges on the supposed Viv Thomas account. He refunded one $19.95. I contacted him again, friendly at that, he said it was probably bank processing that was slowing it down. I waited a week, no more refunds. I contacted him again, he said he was going to put the refunds in again and this time was starting to get an attitude about it. Still didn't get any of the refunds. I contacted him again. He said their system had problems and that most likely caused all the problems, "I'm going to put the refunds in again, right now." That was 3 weeks ago, still haven't received any of the other refunds.
The frustrating part is the supposed "Viv Thomas" account started on the same day as my Bang account and the biller is the same for both sites. Talking sense to Chris hasn't done me any good because he just makes the same comment and comes up with a new excuse each time. I even have 9 emails from him. That's how long the problem has been going on.
I edited my original post to reflect this. Once in contact with Bang's support they said it couldn't be Bang Live because it's pay as you go, not a recurring membership. But instead of blowing me off at that, they helped me track it down through echst.net. A support member there found that the charges were from a Met Art site, seems echst.net also is Met Art's biller but I haven't been a member on any of the Met Art sites in awhile. The support member closed the account and refunded me. He also found a third charge I hadn't noticed all the way back in May and refunded it. So, problem fixed but I do think that shows why I had been using prepaid cards. And I'll start paying more attention to my bank statements.
Thanks RA, still waiting on a response. I sent the email to the email address their webmaster listed above around 9 PM EST last night and so far only an automated response. The biller from the best I can tell is echst.net, that was what concerned me when I saw it on my bank statement. On the other side of it, the card I used is through my local bank so I put the "approve before allowing purchases" on it temporarily. I'll give them a few more hours before replying to their webmaster in this section.
It was the first time I've had this type of charge happen. I was a big part of that once hack of Teen Dreams where the webmaster blamed us all for sharing our passwords and banned us ... later apologized and reinstated everyone. The thing that really worried me is when I finally signed in to Bang Live, it said I had up to $225 of credits to use. I'm just now getting to email them to get it resolved and will post back and edit some of this if they get it fixed. I never could do those webcam shows. I remember when Eve Angel used to have live shows on her first site and you could chat with her but it didn't appeal to me for some reason.
I can tell you I hadn't ever heard of Bang Live until I went to echst(dot)net to see who was charging me. I then didn't know it was a cam site until I had to sign in on Bang Live (with the login from Bang) just to try and cancel it. I did list that wrong earlier. From what I can tell the Bang Live account is still active even though I went through the cancellation process. The main problem I've had with it is the email address that you said isn't being used. It was sent to me in an automated response when trying to cancel. I'll include a screenshot if it's allowed.
I'll accept that it could have been hacked.
I have a long history here at Porn Users, 11+ years, 300+ reviews of porn sites and one theme about me that's never changed is I am a collector. Cam sites wouldn't be something I would be interested in. I will accept that I could have clicked on a picture of a hot model thinking it was content but I still think you all have to set something up to send an email when someone joins a site, cam site. Here's the image if it will let me post it:
I agree about the possibilities of computer problems but there's still a few problems, including:
#1 No email to tell me I was signed up for Bang Live.
#2 The support email address returning my email.
#3 The cancellation page not having an instant cancel. It instead makes you sign in on Banglive.com then has you send the email to the wrong email address.
#4 Their Automated Response sending me an email address that their webmaster says isn't used for support. I'll drop a screenshot in an online photo album and include a link to it in the reply to their webmaster.
Being an overly-analytical person (I hate it), all these things went through my head before I decided to post the comment. And maybe most importantly, through all this, it still shows my account to BangLive as active despite me going through the cancellation process three times. It's hard to believe the same error is happening over and over. Their cancellation page has a clear "cancel" button but as mentioned above it then asks you to sign in. The initial problem was I never knew I was a member on Bang Live so I had no idea my login from Bang Prime was the same.
Thank you for the reply. I have had a rough few weeks, as seen by me looking at my bank account to even remember what sites I have memberships to. Bang seems like a reputable enough company to fix it but I would hope they look at the screenshot I include a link to and see that their site is sending people the wrong email address for support. Which to me shows a sloppiness that very easily could cause people to be charged for other upsells without verifying they want the upsell and without sending them an email to tell them they joined an upsell.
So, the problem I had with three recurring charges, originally thought it was two, turns out to be some kind of payment/biller issue. Echst.net showed my only active account as bang live but Bang's support said that account was a pay as you go, not a recurring monthly charge. They helped me out by providing me a chat link to echst.net's support. From there I chatted with a support member who noticed that the charges were coming from one of the Met Art sites. I haven't been a member on one of those Met Art sites since last year. There doesn't seem to be an answer of how it happened but the support member closed the account and refunded me the three charges, so very good support but once again, the concern of using a bank card or credit card comes back into my thinking.
The main advice I can share is check your bank statements. At least the billers seem to be fair and willing to work with you.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- I'm thinking it's the biggest porn site on the internet.
- It's a DVD site sort of and a separate studio that shoots their own content and that licenses some content that's only available on previously exclusive sites.
- The amount of classic content makes it worth joining. I'll go into that in BL.
- Navigation is pretty good considering how much content they have.
- Download speeds are very good, 80%+ of my max download speed.
- TBP/PU price makes it an even better deal
- Could be a treasure trove for collectors and likewise, could be a good place for newer porn users to start a collection.
- Numbers that are unbelievable in amount of content.
- The original content is on par with most of the big networks like DDF, Reality Kings, etc...
- Updates 4 full DVDs per day and 4-5 updates per week from their original content.
- Will leave you feeling like you got your money's worth.
- 16,500+ models
Cons:
- Well, it can be overwhelming. I think the numbers will show that better than I can say it.
- Here's a real con, the vast majority of the videos that aren't their original content come in all shapes and sizes of resolution. Including some as low as 480p.
- In some sort of strange way, I consider this a con, there's a lot of content on here that was exclusive to other sites for many years. Maybe it just feels like I've spent all those years collecting exclusive content now see a portion of it here in one place.
Bottom Line:
I usually start a review with a lead-in to the expected tone of my review but...
118,552 videos. Over 20,000 DVDs included in that number.
Others have mentioned the connection to Videosz and I can see that too. Some of the videos I've download still have the Videosz watermark on them. But there's also videos from once exclusive sites like DDF and 21 Sextury. Consider me shocked on those two. I thought maybe the DDF content would be a small sampling but it's over 700 videos from DDF.
The studios they have on here are common for DVD sites to have but not in this amount. They have 1,649 videos from Private. And 3,600+ from Eromaxx. Eromaxx is the studio behind Tainster. I do remember Videosz having some of Eromaxx's content for nearly 4,000 videos? More than anything, I'm showing why it's overwhelming even to an old porn digger like me. I have joined DDF, 21 Sextury, Eromaxx/Tainster and been overwhelmed by their sites. Here, they have these studios plus 8 pages of more studios. I would need a year subscription to this site to feel like I covered all of it.
Also of note: When you come to a DDF video on their site, under the video it states it's from DDF and that's on every video that's not exclusive to Bang. I think it's a nice touch because it shows they're not trying to fool anyone.
Their DVDs took up the first 3 weeks of my membership. April Flowers, one of my favorite models to collect, has more content on here than my entire 10 year collection of her has in it. She was a huge star in the late 90s, early 2000s. Charlie from Vivid? She's here. Just name a model, they're here. My all-time favorite model Eve Angel almost always did exclusive content only. She has 30 videos on here.
There is the one big con and that's the varying quality. I'm taking a guess that whoever licensed this content from exclusive sites did so for the original content not any remastered content. Same with DVDs, they are in the original resolution so you will see a lot of 640x480 (the old standard in DVDs) videos but where does the need for quality pass the need for quantity? A good example, the April Flowers scenes, because they are from around 2000, I've never seen them anywhere in any better than 480p quality. So, no loss there but there are DVDs here that I have seen at other DVD sites in better quality.
Over to their original content. They have it separated into sites like most networks do. You get these exclusive, original sites with amount of content out from each:
Bang! Real Teens - 107 scenes
Confessions - 53 scenes
Glamkore - 33 scenes
Bang! Japan - 353 scenes
Casting - 77 scenes
Real MILFs - 7 scenes
Gonzo - 56 scenes
This original content is very similar to what you'll find on the big networks. I will mention that the Japan content is uncensored and as the number of scenes shows it updates a lot.
So, if I were to try and explain what this site is it would go like this ... it's a newer network that has read and heard many complaints about not enough content so they went and added a top-tier DVD site and collection to their site so if you feel there's not enough original content, you can go back and find some DVDs you want or collect favorite models.
I can say with confidence that this hasn't ever been tried, at least not on the scale they are doing it. I do remember a few networks trying to add DVD content to their bonus sections but I would say Bang's non-exclusive content surpasses Videobox and Videosz. Which shows the value. With the TBP/PU price at $17.99, you're getting a DVD site as good as the best DVD sites and an exclusive network too. For some reason, I keep going back to the Japanese content. I have always been intrigued by Japanese models but most of the hardcore or even solo masturbation I've found is censored. Their Japanese content includes uncensored, situational masturbation, like sitting in what is supposed to be a public place with a skirt on. One camera shows the model's face while the other is in front of her skirt, under the table, showing her masturbating in "public". The other original sites they have are good but I have been burnt out on most of the straightforward network content.
My score might not look as impressive to some but I'm putting a personal twist on the score because I don't have the time to go through all this content. I also believe it goes into elevating quantity over quality which has also hurt the DVD sites in my recent reviews of those. If you have the time and patience to go through 122,000 videos and you like current networks like Reality Kings, add 10 points on my score. I did get all the April Flowers content and a couple of other old favorites. I also downloaded 75 of the Japan scenes too. Others will say my score isn't bad and it's not meant to be. This is a good site for anyone. Collectors like me will find content they haven't seen of their favorite models. Others will like the original content. It's deserving of the praise it's receiving.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- There’s some good news for Bang Bros fans, the network is back and ready to be reviewed
- I’m putting this as a pro, you do have to pay extra for downloads. It’s a pro because they’re being upfront and honest about it.
- You can download (pay for them) 1080p on most scenes and if not, 720p is available on older scenes.
- Download speeds are good (80% my max)
- Bang Bros has always had good navigation and that continues
- I would directly compare it now to Brazzers and Reality Kings, both in a good way and bad way.
- Easy to cancel which is a major pro if you’re familiar with how difficult Bang Bros was to cancel in the past.
Cons:
- Well, there’s some bad news too and it’s not just about having to pay extra for downloads. Bang Bros is now operated by Mind Geek, the same company that operates Brazzers and Reality Kings.
- Most of my favorite Bang Bros sites are no longer updating. I approached this membership as a chance to download scenes I have seen before, but either deleted or lost.
Bottom Line:
This is a network that I’ve reviewed many times in the past and I try to remember to mention, my first time as a member of “Bang Bros” it was called Ox Pass. On paper, this network ticks off nearly all of my boxes of preferences. The models are often mid-20s to early-30s instead of teens. I am more attracted to the women who are in their 20s and 30s. The style of dress is also a favorite. The women on Bang Bros look just like a lot of them are. Women from South Florida. You will see tight skirts, long legs, muscular legs, big butts, jiggly boobs and even big hair. I don’t join near as many sites as I used to so paying the extra for downloads doesn’t really bother me like it used to. I do understand how and why it bothers some people. If that does bother you, feel free to remove 5-10 points from my score.
Bang Bros does reality porn better than anyone. That is just an opinion but the reality porn they produce is more believable to me than other reality sites. Bang Bus is the flagship site that originally caught the attention of porn fans about 20 years ago. The premise was simple and if you’ve ever been to South Florida, you know how realistic these scenes are. No one and I mean no one would be surprised if a bus rode around South Florida offering college aged girls a ride, $200 or more, if she would be willing to hop in the bus, get naked and have sex with one of the guys riding the bus. All while driving around town and hearing horns blowing as other drivers try not to end up in an accident.
It’s scenes like those that put Bang Bros on the map, but unlike other network contemporaries, Bang Bros, didn’t stop innovating. There’s the site where Latina coeds stop by a vacation house and have sex with a major male porn star, who then attempts, usually successfully, to talk the hot Latina into having sex with or giving a blowjob to the overweight and nerdy cameraman.
Where Bang Bros made their worst turn was on the street that credited worldwide porn fans for knowing and believing the sex scene in South Florida. While much of the content seemed like it couldn’t possibly be real, the scene (money, sex, parties) in South Florida really supports the lifestyles shown in the Bang Bros scenes.
This was easiest seen with the site Dancing Bear. You do have to pay extra to access it just like in the past. The site showed staged parties where male strippers showed up and danced for young women, stripped for them, and then received a few strokes of their hands or full on sex. If you join any of the add-on sites be sure to cancel the add-on site and Bang Bros. Those are listed as separate memberships and closing one account does not close the other.
Now that all three are operated by Mind Geek, it’s okay to compare Reality Kings, Brazzers and Bang Bros. For me, Bang Bros is the best of the three and that is based solely on the model selection. Reality Kings is a close second and Brazzers is last of the three big American-based networks.
It is also worth noting that Bang Bros does give you access to more sites than they advertise. From my membership, I am counting 41 sites. Collectors will want to join just to see some of the extra sites. They have several solo model sites that are of now major stars, but their solo site never took off or became popular.
Those are the sites that sum up my feelings on Bang Bros.The women on the solo sites are usually dressed normally or trendy as young women do dress that way and it makes the content seem more candid and less stiff and polished. If you like a sense of humor with your porn, you’ll like Bang Bros even more. Besides being cash-funded optimistic (Bang Bus), they also have inside jokes you will pick up on. My favorite being their self-appointed parody theme song that goes, “The wheels on the Bang Bus go round, round and round”.
The edit time limit caused me not to be able to edit.
The old workaround still works, I just tried it. Sign up like regular. When you enter your information make sure to miss the CVV Code and the expiration date. It will say your bank rejected the purchase and ask if you want to use a secondary biller. It is currently Epoch or Paypal through Epoch. That makes it a lot easier to fix if you run into problems.
Canceling is still tricky but their customer service told me it is just bad programming. If you go into your account within the members area you will see what Bang Bros packages you are registered for. If you just joined Bang Bros with no add-ons, it will be the only one listed but if you joined any add-ons those will be listed too. You have to cancel each one. They have a button on each to cancel so it's not too difficult. This was supposed to be a way for a member to retain their access to say an add-on package without having to pay for the main site and any other add-on packages.
I don't have any problems with them but I do use a prepaid card. Their customer service will respond at times. They are the ones that told me to use a prepaid card. You can get the cards online for a $5 fee from giftcards(dot com). If you find a promo under $10, the added $5 isn't too bad and unlike some sites, their billing processes prepaid cards. There are some sites that reject prepaid cards, especially those using CCBill.
You can also use any prepaid/gift Visa/Mastercards you have. I only know about those from having a credit card that rewards members with points that can be traded in for a "Debit" card. I pick up about $100 a year in rewards on it and use that for sites that are questionable in their billing practices.
Bang Bros like a lot of sites these days keeps your membership "active" even after you have cancelled. Meaning, you can still sign in and be tempted to rejoin. When I was a member a few months ago, I added their first level of upgrades, which included Dancing Bear, CFNM Show, my review goes over those. That time, it cost me $17 to join Bang Bros and then $19.95 to add the upgrades.
I realized I didn't have some content I meant to get and signed in as a non-subscription member. The offer popped up to rejoin everything I had before at $19.95. So, going back, got me Bang Bros and the first level of upgrades for nearly half the cost it originally cost me. Thought I would share this in case anyone is interested.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- One of the original and biggest reality porn networks on the internet.
- For me, Bang Bros has always been about the models. There's all races, curvy, slim, in-between body types.
- By my count, there's 51 sites included in the standard membership.
- One update per day across the network.
- Videos are available in 1080p and on down. If you want 4K it's an extra charge.
- Pictures are also available for each scene and can be downloaded.
- A bonus group of sites can be added to your membership for $19.95 and include Dancing Bear, Dare Dorm, sites that used to cost $19.95 each to add, there looks to be about 25 sites it adds. Well worth it if you like the content as it's pretty unique content.
- Good download speeds for me.
- Navigation will also be in cons, but once you figure it out, it's above average.
- Cancellation has been improved, but only if you know what you're looking for.
Cons:
- I've only had a few cross-sales get me over the years and Bang Bros has done it twice, including this time. I still don't even know where the MyGF cross-sale was, but I received an email telling me I had access to it for 2 days then would be charged. There's 5 points off the score and a middle finger.
- The new navigation, I hadn't been a member in 4 years, is terribly cluttered and confusing. There's ads, there's lots of links that have nothing to do with Bang Bros.
- The cancellation process which I will walk through below to help others out if they run into problems.
- I don't know if this is fair to also list in cons, but one update per day across a network of 53 sites seems a little on the low side.
Bottom Line:
Bang Bros has been one of my favorite networks for well over a decade. This current membership has shown me the typical Bang Bros experience. Some hidden cross-sale got me. Navigation has so many options you're sure to find one that suits you. And there's a ton of very good porn.
One of the biggest reasons I joined Bang Bros this time was to redownload some of my favorite scenes that I lost a few years ago in a hard drive crash. Those older scenes are still there and I'm happy to have them again. I would have joined the add-on package as well, but have been busy and am now more than halfway through my membership and see no reason to spend $20 for a week of access. I might give it a try in a few months.
So, here's what I did when joining Bang Bros. I bought a Visa prepaid digital e-card and used it. It worked fine and even if their tricky cross-sale had kicked in, there was no money left on the card. Take that however you want. I love their content enough to go through that hassle, but don't trust their ethics enough to use my regular credit card.
Once inside, I admit, I was overwhelmed and shocked by the new navigation. Who comes up with these changes? While looking for my old favorite scenes, a little ad came up and asked if I wanted access to the 4K videos, hell no, leave me alone. I still can't tell the difference in 720p and 1080p. These numbers are not going to be exaggerated:
There are 16 options to choose from once on the Bang Bros website. Including, "meet and fuck", "4K Ultra Videos", "Trending", "Free live chat", yeah, like anything on this site is free. What is "trending"? No clue. It just opens up a bunch of scenes. There's even a "Being watched now" section. I don't care what's being watched now or what's trending or about meeting and fucking.
Onto the content: Bang Bros shoots a style of porn I enjoy. It's not for everyone. I like the goofiness of it. In some sort of odd way, it makes me think it's more believable. There's a part of me that believes if a bus rolls up a college girl and offers a ride, she gets in, then accepts money from these strangers to get naked and have sex with the strangers, it's funny. I'll take this goofiness over the sappy heartcore fake love setup any day of the week.
Bang Bros shows 51 sites included in my membership. I went through all 51 sites and 5 are updating on a regular basis. They would say more than that, but there's multiple sites that hadn't updated since 2014-2016 and now have one new scene in 2017. If that's not bad enough, they have multiple sites that covered the same genre.
But and it's a big butt since it's Bang Bros, I can't imagine anyone ever running out of content to download from here. In their defense on the dead sites -- not that I want to defend them -- there's sites like Living with Anna, that's eventual prolific porn star Abella Anderson, in her earliest content, including pre-implants. They have at least a dozen of these types of sites that were once standalone sites that they've bought out and now give members access to. I'm admittedly a big fan of Abella, and this old content of her is some of her best.
***A quick note on cancelling, as dumb as it is, it's very simple, but even I, someone who has been a member many times before, spent 20 minutes trying to figure it out. You have to go "library" which is some sort of hub for the network, mostly an advertising page for the sites you're not getting with your membership. Scroll down to the bottom and there is a cancel link. Once on the cancel page it will ask what site you're cancelling, you click it and click cancel. It's that easy, but why this cancel link isn't on every page continues my thoughts on why I used a prepaid credit card. Here's the other catch on cancelling, if you have joined other sites (like the add-ons) or like me and got caught by the MyGF cross-sale, you have to also cancel it from the dropdown menu. So, in short that little used "library" link over in the left sidebar navigation is the place you'll find the cancel link.
Some more good parts: Latina Rampage is one of my all-time favorite sites and while it hasn't updated in 5 years, all the content is still there. They've also started a new(er) Latina site that is updating, called Colombian Fuck Festival that's very similar to Latina Rampage. That's very much the content that brings me back to Bang Bros. It's a bit hit or miss with most of the sites since they're not updating, but still have loads of archived content.
I would recommend it despite the frustrations and recommend using a prepaid Visa to join. I wouldn't say that if not for them putting the cross-sale on me. Their content to me is still better than 95% of the content I've seen. The amount of genres is almost unbelievable from Gloryhole, Casting, MILF, Teens, all races of women, corny reality-themed porn and whatever else their twisted minds come up with.
I should have been clearer about the Super Pack's 4 sites. At one time, all 4 of those sites were standalone sites for $24.95 each and were stream only. So to put all 4 into one package for one price is a bundle. Once they made this bundle, they started allowing downloads. So those sites are no longer stream only and you get all four for $24.95. I had time to think about what I had said in this comment and my review. Haze Her is another of the addons, but the deal I was offered was to Brandi Belle for $1.25 for 3 days unlimited access and downloads. With the fast internet speed was able to download the 200+ scenes from it in two days. This offer came about 2 weeks into a membership. I signed in, it popped up and said it was a gift for being a loyal customer.
And I didn't notice the negative part of the upsells since I usually have at least one of the addon packs so I get most of those scenes that would otherwise require payment to download. It's not much different than how Videobox is with their Evil Angel and Vivid channels. VB keeps the Kink and Reality Kings content out of search results, but the Evil Angel and Vivid still show up.
As for middle of the road, I would guess you are running into the same thing you did on Reality Kings since the models are more on the curvy side. Outside of subjectivity, it's hard to deny the technical quality, the quantity or the value. But you shouldn't feel too bad there. A lot of our members here love Teen Mega World, I was bored with it within a few days because all the models are slim. I'm running into that again on another site rated high by members here, Fucked Hard 18. I've been a member for 2 weeks and have downloaded 6 scenes/videos/pictures because the models don't really interest me. I've always had problems with that when writing a review since I try to be subjective towards the quality, quantity, but have trouble being subjective towards the model types if a site mainly focuses on one type.
I don't know if this will help on Bang Bros, but I started using the "sites" button and going through each of their sites instead of trying to go through the whole network at one time. This way I found the sites/genres I preferred that they have, from there was able to go to individual models that stand out.
I don't have a membership right now, but this is what I remember being there.
Super Pack - Dancing Bear, The CFNM Show, College Rules and one other. These were $24.95 each around this time last year and were stream only.
DVD Pack - No idea what this is, it's some kind of high priced DVD site similar to Videobox.
Then they had a whole list of sites with Spanish name. If you join any of the Spanish sites, you get access to all of them for 24.95. It's very rare, mostly South American models. I want to say the name of it is Culiando.
They also had Reality Kings offers that actually changed price nearly everyday from $9.95 to $24.95.
The site I see when visiting as a guest is the same one I reviewed from. They have been putting subtle and not so subtle changes in for a couple years now, so it's hard for me to say if the changes were there when I was a member. I had been planning on joining again, probably this weekend and will let you know if you do and notice anything differently.
Current Member for over 2 months (at the time of review).
Pros:
- One of the biggest reality American networks on the internet.
- Some really impressive add-on site offers to members, including some sites with full access for as cheap as $1.25 for two days unlimited access.
- New sites are starting to takeover the network and compliment the sites that are no longer updating, will explain in BL.
- Good download speeds, has me in the 95% max range of my max speed.
- Navigation for a network is surprisingly good, site has went through a change or two in navigation and now seems to be settled into an easy to use, minimal mouse click format, explain more in BL.
- Newer videos are 1280x720, which at this point, I prefer since the 1920x1080 videos eat up my hard drives.
- Billing system is not well-known, but I have had two different problems and received a reply in less than 24 hours to both.
- All scenes have at least a screencap zip download of screen capture "pictures" and most have a separate photo download of more posed pictures of the model.
Cons:
- As much as I have taken advantage of their upsells to other sites, it could be a con for some.
- Seach design can be frustrating since some of the search results will be for one of the sites you have to subscribe separately to.
- Coding in page has problems with Firefox downloading, had to switch to Chrome and it works fine with Chrome.
Bottom Line:
As the other American reality sites have started to slip, Bang Bros, to me has improved. Besides having a newly designed site with much improved navigation, they are now offering some really good deals on upsells. With the price to Bang Bros itself dropping to just $14.95 a month, it does leave you some spending room to add a few of those upsells too.
I admit, I was worried about adding upsell sites because the biller wasn't that well known. All worries were pushed aside when I had a billing problem, sent them an email and in less than 2 hours, they replied and fixed the problem. To my knowledge, they are the only one of the major American networks that can say they have responsive customer service. It made me feel more comfortable with adding upsells.
I won't name the site, but it is an old solo site that has been reviewed here several times by others, that the model retired from. It has over 200 scenes. One day when I signed in, I had a popup that said they wanted to give me a gift as a loyal customer and gave me full access to the solo site for $1.25 for 2 days. They also have a Spanish network that looks really good for $24.95 more. They have the Super Pack which has 4 sites of theirs that used to be stream only, but are now allowing downloads, you can get that whole pack for $24.95 too. They add several sites here and there that are $9.95 to add.
What made me raise the score though was they are adding new sites to their Bang Bros package too. They aren't updating as much as they used to, but they do add, on average, 3 new updates a day. Bang Bros has seemingly always tried to follow the trends in niches in porn and you can see it in their newer sites. It's nice seeing a site keeping their roots strong, while willing to take some chances too.
I'm going to review one of the newer sites separately because I enjoy it so much. I think Bang Bros and Brazzers have nudged Reality Kings and Naughty America out of the top networks because they keep improving.
There are subjective cons that I will go into since these don't bother me too much, but I know they do others. Most of the models are American. There are plenty of natural models on the sites, but you do get a lot of implants and probably even more tattoos. Another is that the guys on the sites can be annoying. I do think they are annoying sometimes, but I also think they're pretty funny usually. Even if in a goofy way.
To me, they do what nearly all networks are trying these days and do it the best. They try to create scenes that look believable with the help of a little imagination or even fantasy. Their newer sites, Latina Rampage, Porn Star Spa, Brown Bunnies, Magical Feet all have a niche covered in them, some even cover multiple niches. Though I should mention Magical Feet hasn't been updated in a few months so it may be going to archive status too.
On sheer numbers, this is what I figured up.
Total sites just in Bang Bros membership: 42
Total scenes available: 5221 as of 5/1/2012
It seems like each time I sign in they have a new site, a few of the very newest ones, Chongas, an excellent Latina site and Dorm Invasion, a run on the "what girls do for fun in their dorms".
Video quality over the last 2 years has a high option at 1280x720 in mp4 format. I prefer these to the other networks high quality ones just because of filesize. The average high quality scene on Bangbros will run between 750 MB to 1 GB, whereas the other networks are posting videos in excess of 2 GB each.
The old "low clickage" navigation rant of mine from the past is very good on the new format of Bang Bros. You can download the video, photos and screencaps with just 5 clicks with no page loads. Unlike a lot of sites where you have to click photos, go to photo page and click, click to go back, click to movie page, click to download preferred format, click to go back to the scene, click screencaps, click to download. Yes it annoys me that much! Bang Bros newest format has all the download options just two clicks away. I think I broke a dozen mice over the years going through this click, click, click process.
Not only are the new sites updating, but some of the old favorites that have been around since the beginning of this network are still updating as well. I like the blend of the old formula with new sites trying to bring in new twists.
I just keep letting my membership recur, being sure to cancel whatever addons I have added and plan to add more of those upsell addons in the future. My only real complaint is that Firefox doesn't recognize something in the coding so you can't click "Do this automatically" in Firefox's download dialog box. Chrome does it handle it well without problems as does IE so that's not too frustrating.
I don't like comparing them and Brazzers or any of these sites, but just like I now really enjoy Brazzers, I also feel like Bang Bros has made the strong similar improvements Brazzers has. I recommend it very highly.
This is one of those learn from my mistake posts. Bang Bros are now offering more than 10 different addon packs, but you can only add them for the special prices once you're inside the members area of Bang Bros. Their biller, while not real well known, has never given me a problem and the biller itself replies to any problems with 24 hours from my experience. I had signed up for Bang Bros then added the Super Pack. When I went to cancel, I canceled "Bang Bros" from the support page. That didn't fully work. It canceled the Super Pack, but not the Bang Bros membership. After I went back and looked, after an email to their biller, there was a second membership listed on my account, which was Bang Bros itself. I hadn't canceled it. They could do better with this by listing the Super Pack as Super Pack and not Bang Bros, but I could have clicked the drop down box to see two accounts too.
So if you add anything besides Bang Bros, be sure when canceling to use the drop down menu to see the other accounts so you can cancel them too. In a way, I felt like this is misleading, but in another way, I can see how maybe someone would just want to cancel the addons, but keep Bang Bros, so it's iffy as to how you take this practice.
It's inside the members area. Once you have joined Bang Bros, you will see the super package offer. They also have a DVD site that you can add, but I didn't fool with it.
Bang Bros won't stop trying to improve their site long enough for my comments to be still valid.
Not that I'm complaining. They seem to have completed their move to a completely new format, maybe the one I had seen several months ago was a beta version?
The new format is even more of an improvement. Now when you click on a scene every single option is right there on that scene's page. There's no need to click to go to pictures or screencaps, it's all together. Maybe they have a programmer who is as OCDC as I am and decided to make everything neatly laid out. You can from the scene's page, download the full scene in different formats, these do vary some from scene to scene but the general formats are high (WMV), medium (MP4), small (MP4) and Mobile. The newer scenes add an HD option as well.
These are all accessed from a drop-down menu when you click download. Over from the movie download link is a pictures drop down box that lets you either view or download the pictures and screencaps.
Now leave it alone lol! It's perfect like Rebecca Linares butt.
Also I know it has been asked if they still have the 30 or more parts for individual download, the answer is yes, but you have to click on "chapters" to get to those.
They also now offer an add-on package. This is similar to Videobox having the "channels". This add-on they offer includes these sites, Dancing Bear, College Rules, My GF and CFNM Show. These sites do pretty good as standalone sites, but you can now add them into your membership for $24.95. I don't know any other way to get those 4 sites for this price, but it does look a really good deal if you are interested in those sites.
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