Thanks a bunch for the info, as never being a member before and with your info provided, I believe I shall add it to the list. Once again, appreciate the detailed response.
I have emailed customer service twice thus far with no response as of yet. I purchased the bronze plan for 5 tickets and I am trying to use one ticket to gain access to the shemale yum site. It has been about 4 days since my initial email. So far, I don't find it excellent nor regular communication thus far, I would expect maybe a 24 hour wait or a 48 hour wait at max. 72 hours plus appears to be quite slow in my opinion.
Anyways, you appear to want to help so what steps should I take next? I have emailed customerservice@grooby.com twice and followed the necessary steps to get a ticket activated but still no response. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
After posting a comment about the tickets, I forgot that customer service needs to be contacted to activate a ticket. And well, customer service was contacted about activating a ticket several days ago and I have yet to get a response. So, let's see how long I have to wait and I will give an update as to how long it takes. That is if this even works. I hope this does not end up turning ugly and having to attempt to get my money back...
Of course, buying a long term plan is bad for any site in terms of not liking the site, isn't it? These tickets just provide a means to join each site or one site for a lot cheaper because Grooby hardly ever strays away from $35 a month for one of their sites (unless new, then they give a discount for about 1-2 months). As far as updating goes, I believe this company is one, if not the longest running company ever for shemale content and I really don't see them to stop updating any time soon. But, you never know.
Yeah, I really wish they made something like a cubic zirconia plan which was cheaper than the other plans, it really took a lot of indecision to come up wit the go ahead to actual fork over $125. But, I really did want to check out shemale yum and re-join shemale japan so I figured that at the least, I can join these two sites again down the road with the tickets to get updates after a few months.
I don't know how many are aware that this company, Grooby, provides discounted tickets for purchase which lowers the cost of these sites profoundly. Here is how it works:
There are three plans that give you discounts which offers a certain number of 'tickets' which allows you to join their wide variety of sites at any time for a one month non-recurring membership. These tickets have no time limit as far as when you can use a ticket for a site. They are purchased as a flat rate price with a certain amount of tickets which go down in price per site as you pay more. I just purchased the bronze plan which gives 5 tickets at $25 per site, which is $10 off each site than the usual price if just joining for a month, recurring or non-recurring. They can be purchased through CCBill or other ways and all you do is email support and tell them which site you want to use a ticket for with your username and password, then they give you access.
Slow download rates for me, if you can't even get the content then I think all the other technical aspects become borderline moot or just add to the site being even more garbage. I almost put 'other' and added the fact when filenames are oddly named such as "ASJ-4003-500.avi", so you have to rename every damn file so you know what you downloaded. However, to even get to this point, you have to be able to download the file first so that's why I put slow download speeds.
This was a poll to go hand in hand with the messmer post that went to 100+ replies a few months ago. Guess it finally made it's way here after awhile. One of the main arguments in that discussion was that maybe younger folk would be more in to the big tittied fake breast look than older folk. I made this to see if maybe that would be true. So far, it appears most are loving all natural and maybe that argument could be wrong, at least so far.
Me, I am younger and am not turned off by fake tits. However, I am strange when it comes to fake breasts. On porn stars, I really don't care. However, I only know a few women personally who have gotten fake breasts (and out of the few, most was due to the fact that they just wanted huge fake tits to impress) and I found them revolting. I suppose this was basically to flaunt their bodies as the sole purpose and it pissed me off. But, I do understand that some and most women do it for esteem issues and themselves etc etc. So, maybe in my little fantasy world of porn, I like them but in real life I believe I am not in to them as much. All-in-all though, I think I like just about everything porn can offer so I'm not surprised big tittied porn stars do not turn me off, but neither do small tittied natural stars as well.
As far as surgeries are going, from what I can see on models is that they get to the breasts from the arm pit so that's where the scar is now and you don't get any scars in the breasts area visually. However, I still see women getting tit jobs with scars there, so I'm guessing the procedure to go through the arm pits must be far more expensive or maybe carry more health risks? I don't see why any women would not go through the arm pits these days....
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Exclusive content of TS models featuring full solo masturbation.
- A good mix of ethnicities as far as white, ebony, and latinas go. Small asian mix.
- Updates are alright at 2 new scenes a week plus an old video is remastered.
- Newer video scenes are available in full scene downloads while older ones are only available in clips. New videos are in WMV format at 796 X 488, ~1,500 kbps. MPEG and MOV format available for most older movies. There are varying resolutions and bitrates with older videos, 640 X 480 or lower with average of 1,500 kbps.
- There are photo shoots and video stills available, 1200 X 800 is the highest I've seen. Most are smaller. They are not large sets but are available in zip format.
- Model Index which displays models A-Z plus the extra sites content as well. This includes a small mix of BJ scenes, hardcore, and domination.
- There is forum for input but it's outdated. However, it is active.
- Upcoming updates are shown in advance.
- Fair price.
Cons:
- Site design is just downright amateur. While it's easy to navigate, it just looks bad. After all this time the site has been around, I'm surprised that the owner has not hired a designer to help out in this.
- Site updates are not dated. Would be nice to see dated updates for the new ones and ones to come.
- This is a video site, while photo sets are offered, they are extremely lacking in both size, value, and content.
- Bonus sites are listed as seperate sites but these are just different sites with the same content found on the main Shemale Strokers page. Meaning, all the content within these 'bonus' sites can be found on the main site.
- While the videos vary in appearance, even the newest ones could be better in terms of quality of clarity. These are some of the best shot videos I've seen, but the actual clarity should be better this day and age.
- Older videos are only available in clips.
Bottom Line:
Shemale Strokers is shot and maintained by videographer Sammy Mancini. He provides great technical camera work and often brings some innovativeness to solo masturbation scenes that can get stale quickly. While you do get quite a few videos of models that appear to be doing the scene as 'just another day at the job', there are so many extremely sexy scenes which makes the site a wonder.
The innovativeness that is brought to the forefront can usually be seen in the ending cumshot. While the majority of sites with solo masturbation usually just have the model cum on their stomach and on to the floor, Sammy usually finds great ways to change this up. For example, the models will usually cum on their stomach but he also provides footage of them cumming in to their hand, on to mirrors, on to black surfaces, and even on their own faces. Plus, he even did some scenes where when the model cums, you get a shot of the cumshot with a look at their face as well in split screen to see how much the models were in ecstacy. It's these crafty shots that make the site so wonderful in my opinion.
While the actual location of the scenes are pretty much standard being a bed or a couch. It's quite obvious Sammy travels to the locations to get the footage. So, I'd say plenty are within the models' own home which I think may create a comfort which leads to extremely hot scenes. The scenes usually start with a short interview, undress, then masturbation to cumshot. Just like most standard solo masturbation sites (including sites with models that are genetical women as well), you do get the models that lay there with no emotion. However, in all honesty, I'd say the majority here are quite in to the scenes. You can truly feel some passion and tell they were quite horny during the scenes.
The make-up and dress is usually quite casual in manner. There is not an extreme amount of glamour within the scenes with a decent amount of make-up (which is to be expected in TS sites). But, nothing too overboard. All-in-all, I see these videos as Sammy going to the models house and them dressed as they would to go out shopping or to the mall. It's actually quite refreshing to see this attire when it comes to TS models because a lot of sites like to glamourize their TS shoots.
The actual models are mostly North American but Sammy provides a lot of variance. Another refreshing aspect is the fact that a lot of Ebony TS models are represented here which I don't get to see very much unless wanting to join a specialized ebony TS Site. Overall, there is a great mix to the model index in terms of ethnicties.
Overall, the site is a winner. Unfortunantly, the actual clarity of the footage provided is what is holding the site back from being in the 90's for me. While the videos are not entirely bad and I found only a selected few to be unwatchable, they are just not up to date in the standards. But, the camera work is beautiful and the reformatted ones look better. Recommended.
No joke it is in Italian and lol? $75? Let's smoke some more crack when we make a pay porn site :) Especially what appears to be a candid upskirt site, how good can the quality be lol?
As pointed out above, POV can display great HJ, BJ, and Cowgirl scenes. However, the static camera pisses me off when compared to a revolving (not too much though) camera that a scene without POV provides. I believe the POV scene was actually enthralling to me at first because it did provide that fantasy like atmosphere that it's happening to myself. However, too many POV scenes nowadays has the male model grunt, even talk, move his hands in to the scenes, and so on which kills this fantasy. Plus, after seeing so many of these POV scenes, I feel it is more of a gimmick than actually a well shot scene. Yes, seeing a model's ass bounce up in down is great in POV but once the position switches it stinks IMHO.
It appears the site will finally get an official review from our friends at TBP. It says the date is still TBA, but I can't wait to see the new thoughts about the site. I am about to join really soon here, as I believe it may be the best place to get genuine older ladies with the best quality of content. Now, I have not joined yet but based on previews, chats with others, and the stats, it may even excel All Over 30. Can't wait to see what the official score from TBP will give!
Ah, I totally overlooked the video stats on TBP and you are completely right. It would be a probably a one time stay so the updates are not a huge issue for me. You said going back, so you have been a member, how was the billing processor when you were a member before? I am extremely nervous about this myself with a certain past experience straying away from the usual suspects. I trust your judgement and with your experience with the photo quality combined with the average videos, thumbs up for one a month stay if the billing processor is non-problematic?
Totally agree with the acting at all quote. That's why I put acting ruins a scene solely based on the fact that usually when I tell a model is totally faking an orgasm or just downright bad at acting, the scene is ruined. I'm actually surprised so far that it appears that I'm the only one who put this. However, jd makes a great point as well that porn is kind of like a cartoon, therefore fantasy. So, if a model is acting well or 'the part' as you put it, then the scene will be better.
But, I think this comes down to what people want as 'acting' in their porn. I suppose it can be defined as just the downright demeanor of a model because the scene is fantasy to begin with, so therefore everything captured within the scene is acting to begin with. Or, it could even just be the part that the model is playing, such as innocence or aggressiveness. But, I suppose it could even be how sexually real the scene is compared to acting in terms of the model actually enjoying the actual sexual act within the scene. There probably are more definitions or examples, but I'd say all the above are valid.
However, in terms of this poll and how I personally potray 'acting' (probably mainly because I watch mostly solo scenes) is how sexually turned on the model is within the video in terms of realness. So, fake orgasms and so on, really ruin a scene for me.
I put 'Other' solely based on the fact that my favorite genre is mostly films that are foreign. So, I'll just assume that maybe 'Foreign' could be placed as other. Oh and by the way, foreign as in meaning not from the USA. I am extremely in to Asian films, mostly being from Japan and Korea but I also like some Hong Kong stuff. The genre within from these countries varies, but my favs are horror, sci fi, and action.
I suppose I had no put 'Other' because I can admit that I just don't care about what thumbs look like. I just download zips anyways and I try to download everything. However, in the model index, I'd like the thumb pic of the model to be large enough to see if I may like them or not. I don't really care how it's cropped, just big enough to be seen clearly.
I noticed you gave this site a lot higher score than Anilos. I'm just curious what you may think as being the higher points in comparison. I know that it's basically complete opposites when the comparison of age comes to play, but is there something completely holding back Anilos when comparing the two. I only ask because they are basically sister sites, right? I'm just curious and enjoy conversations with you. So, I'd love to just discuss and hear your opinions. I have not joined either yet, but both are high up on my list. Hope to hear from you soon!
Just like PinkPanther's reply, I am sorry for the late response, I had a busy weekend. You are right about the voting, I wish I had more space in review to go in to more detail about this but your reply sums up the cons of this precisly. Sweet, the members feel like they are interacting by voting for their favorite scenes to be updating in that order but sometimes a model strikes a viewer a certain way, why not let them enjoy that model even if it is a 'not for the masses' model and did'nt get the votes? Limiting this can be quite troublesome. However, I do think you are right in saying this was more with the older content. I think with the new stuff they have all the content shot (usually up to 3+ scenes) already and the voting is just the order it will be updated rather than if they will get updated or not at all like the older times? I'm not entirely sure how it is totally done exactly.
Also, to add to the updates, how are they figuring out which sets and videos to reformat if anyone knows? Do they vote for this too?
I wish other sites just gave off the vibe that the creators produce at ALS. I think due to this, this is why the sets and videos are so well (yes, I do think they use the best equipment and compression as well). Hopefully, in my laundry list of sites to join I can find this but ALS definitly sold me enough to join ALS Angels for sure :)
Depends, if I'm looking at photos I can stare at them for maybe 45 mins to an hour max but videos have always been my real passion. So, with that, depends on the situation and content I'm viewing. I tend to 'gawk' more at photos while get wilded up with videos, so I think when I watch videos I watch for less time.
So it appears they are updating a little bit, right before my term ended I had suspicions that they may be revolving updates but you have confirmed that this may not be happening with a few more video scenes available now. Honestly, at the time I liked my score for the review but I actually recently (within the past week) and viewed almost all the videos to find out that I actually deleted the majority! I did need space on my external but I usually never delete anything but I can admit that there are a lot of foolish scenes here. I would never change my score because I do feel scores I give at that time are truly what I feel about the site but I think your score may be a bit more proper.
However, like you suggested for prospecting subscribers, I would utilize the trial here because they do have some good stuff, it's just a lot of gave me that feel of 'watch it once, slight enjoy, and archive'. Well, deleted now :)
mbaya, as you stated with your review, I basically signed up for the speculum scenes and extreme gaping as well. As stated in mbaya's review, check these ones out first if you are fans of that material. Great review and as usual, hope to read some more soon!
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