I don't know man, I didn't see anything about it in any of the emails I recieved or when I signed up. I tried my login at exploited college girls just for giggles - it didn't work. So as best I can tell, it is not a bonus site. Sorry.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
-Some attractive ladies
-No DRM
-Reasonable sized collection, 128 scenes at the time of review
-Interesting concept, most of the talent plays around pretty well
-Newer stuff is good video quality, 620x360 WMV with 4500 kbps total bitrate
-Download speeds are good if you use a download manager, not so great through browser (300 KB/sec browser, 900 KB/sec with manager)
-Bills through CCBill, didn't have any experience with customer service
-Exclusive content, including some ladies I hadn't seen before anywhere
Cons:
-No real navigation to speak of, just a list of the sets. However, pretty much every model only appears once.
-Site is very very bland, nothing really there except the long list of scenes (unsortable) and a link to friends' sites.
-No photosets at all
-Camerawork can be iffy, since it is mostly filmed with the combination of POV and a tripod, the angles aren't always good - and the guy sometimes gets up to move the camera around (they don't edit this part out)
-Sort of expensive given the amount of content
-Not all download managers work (DTA did, GetRight didn't)
-No bonus content
-The video quality of the older sets is pretty poor - worst I saw was 480x360 1800 kbps.
-Infrequent updates, only one per week
-Oddly the guy blurs out his face with a big blurry Japanese mosaic kind of thing, which can be a bit distracting.
-Model attractiveness is variable, and there are LOTS of tattoos.
Bottom Line:
For what this site is I think it is pretty decent. Its main drawbacks are the older content's quality, the price, and the size of the site. If they merged this site with their sister site (Exploited College Girls) for the same price, the site would defintely become more reasonably priced.
The site has an interesting concept, and there are even a few scenes where the girls decide to back out, which adds some realism I suppose. The concept for the most part is that he tells the girls they can make 1k-5k per day doing private videos for his customers that only the customer will ever see - but of course he has to kick the tires on the ladies first.
Considering the style of site, I didn't find the dude to be that much of a jackass, compared to similar sites like BangBros - where you want to strangle the dude behind the camera.
If you aren't into this kind of setup, you will probably find the site to be lacking, as the camerwork is pretty bad in places, but if you do enjoy this kind of thing it might be worth joining - but just for a month, I don't know why anyone would get their multi-month membership, I don't think you get any bonus sites with that membership either.
Basically a decent site, and he certainly got some attractive ladies - too bad about the tattoos in many cases (what is with that huge fucking teddy bear on Danni Cole's back, shit!). The ladies are mostly American from what I can tell, and not a lot of ethnic diversity here - almost all white. I downloaded about 25 scenes that I plan to keep, amongst those there are about 5 that will be added to my favorites (including the Danni Cole scene, and a Rilee Jensen scene that were both pretty good).
If you are into casting call type scenes, this is definitely a site to consider. Although it could certainly use some improvements, and perhaps a lower price, I'd say it is worth a one month membership.
The site's newer videos are 640x360 with a 4500 kbps bitrate, reasonably crisp at full screen. I counted 128 scenes on the site now, seems like they average about 1 update per week. Still no photo content or bonus content, however. I might post a full review when I've looked around the site more.
Yeah, I agree, what bugs me the most is that they must be aware that every customer they do this to will likely never join again, and further may never pay for porn again. They are doing likely irreparable harm to their own industry.
Honestly, from reviewing what I could find of their updates, I think this site is dying, only a few sites update more often than once a month, and navigation is just such a disaster. They are probably just trying to get some cheap/easy/lazy money on the way out.
I will never join this site again, regardless of any future changes they make. Honestly, even though I am against pirating content, I think given the way these guys behave, it is completely justified to get their stuff for free, since most of their customers are paying $30+ more than they think they are.
How much do you want to bet their membership has gone way down, and they are all sitting around blaming illegal downloaders.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- The site has some good, interesting, original content
- I generally find the camera work, lighting, and makeup to be good to acceptable, although some scenes are lacking in this area (Bus in particular, for obvious reasons)
- They have a good variety of models, with a pretty good amount of diversity compared to other sites of this size
- The price is good with TBP discount, however, see Cons for issues
- Download speeds are excellent
- Download managers work (DTA)
- You seem to stay logged in forever
Cons:
- This is the first time I have ever seen a prechecked sale after the splash page (order completed) with the link to go to site. This is scumbaggery in its worst form for a site like this, totally unacceptable, that alone drops them 30 points
- Just to reiterate, so no one misses it like I did, this prechecked sell was IN ADDITION to the sell on the main join page, it is on the page after the order is completed
- This prechecked sell was to a collection of sites, which as far as I can tell are dead, and it costs $30. The most recent update on some of them was like 2013.
- There are just so many upsells everywhere, I am afraid to click on things for fear of accidentally ordering something I don't want
- The new navigation is terrible
- The navigation seems to be done in a way that is intentionally obfuscating where content comes from, probably to get people to accidentally buy access to additional sites
- Many of the sites in this network have been dead for years
- Odd biller
Bottom Line:
Firstly, nice to see PU is still going strong, I wish I had headed all the warnings before joining this site, but oh well, lesson learned.
I was last a member here back in the glory days of Alina Li a couple of years ago, and unfortunately I had a couple of drives die, so despite all I had read about the way this site is run, I decided to join again to replace some stuff. Damn was that a mistake.
I considered giving this site a higher score, because I do like a lot of their content, and they do have some of my favorite scenes ever, including the Nella scene, but I decided on a "gentlemen's F", but they probably don't even deserve a score this high, since they certainly aren't gentlemen.
I understand that the industry is having a hard time making money these days, with pirating, torrents, whatever, but the type of behavior this site shows is not going to fix the problem, it is just going to push more pissed of people to pirate their material. Any "loyal" consumer they had, myself included, is going to be done with the site forever after their next visit. This type of cash grab philosophy, accidentally clicking random links charges you $30 or whatever will kill your business, and it will likely effect all the other companies in the industry that behave in a more reputable fashion, just by association. This shit needs to stop.
I am the type of person that will join a site, casually peruse it while sipping a nice beer, the way this site is setup just makes you paranoid, it is impossible to enjoy, it is impossible to relax, it is stupid.
If you are thinking of joining BangBros, I would think again, I would think really hard about it. About the only way I would ever join this site again is if I cancelled my credit card two seconds after the order was processed.
I gotta say, all three are pretty bad from my perspective. Last time I joined RK I was quite surprised by what seemed to be a significant increase in plastic.
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
Great variety of content on the network, I am sure you can find some stuff you will like
Good download speeds
Some of the sites have interesting concepts, although sometimes a bit contrived.
Good price
Actually seem to be honest about update dates (a rarity in my exerience).
Cons:
Site can be a bit glitchy, asked me to login five times in a row once when I was trying to load a page.
Disappointed they took down the Nella hardcore scene, I think it was the only one around.
A lot of the sites aren't really my cup of tea (several are MILF sites, several are large breast sites), but if you like that sort of stuff you might like this site more than I did.
Bottom Line:
Interesting collection of sites, although hasn't really changed much since I joined the first time a couple of years ago. Several of the network sites don't appear to update any longer.
Joined because there was a thing about bangbus on some Playboy TV show I saw a couple of weeks ago and was intrigued if it had gotten better. Most of the content seems pretty much the same
I agree with exotics that while the comedy can be entertaining sometimes, it can be pretty damn annoying also.
Bottom line, I'd say worth joining for a look around especially if you are into large breasts, MILFs, latinas, or so called "reality porn" - especially at the TBP price.
In case anyone was going to join this site, I would play around a bit on the site before paying, if you backout from some screens the price will drop to $19.99, also if you get to the join screen from different locations you get different prices.
Didn't they used to have a much more significant preview, for some reason I always come back to this place even though I am often disappointed.
I have also been curious about this place for a while, but haven't yet joined because I'm a bit unsure of their content quality and particulars. Hopefully someone will provide some feedback soon.
Seems like a new studio, iafd shows all their films having been produced in 2009-2010. The content looks somewhat interesting, you can get a full preview if you enter your email address.
Probably wont join, as it seems expensive and never heard of their biller, just curious if anyone had any experience here.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Good collection of videos
Decent download speeds, I have been almost maxing my 7MB connection. I am not sure what the problem was with the guy that commented he was only getting 80kb/sec
Good price for the quantity of content
The site has a good organization concept, I liked being able to search by nationality. I don't think I've seen that anywhere before.
No DRM on videos
Cons:
Not many photos, if that is your thing. and most are screen caps.
Video quality is not always great. Most is 720x480, the older stuff is 480x360 or worse.
I don't think a lot of the content is exclusive, as most is pulled from DVDs or other old websites (BrunoB for example)
Some of the star facts are flat out wrong, but that isn't such a big deal I guess.
Bottom Line:
Overall I think it is a really good site. It had some hardcore stuff by Sophie Moon, Aneta Keys, Mia Stone and Eve Angel I hadn't seen before. Has a pretty good collection of porn stars from all over.
They could use some work on organizing it right, some stars info and nationalities are wrong. But I think (especially with euro stars) there is a lot of conflicting info out there.
I believe if you go to pornstarnetwork.com you can preview the whole site before joining (like videobox).
Definitely worth joining for a month, especially for $19.99
70 bucks is plenty. I've gotten pissed off at sites scamming me out of like $5. But, I guess I must just be a tightwad.
Personally, I never understood the attraction to this site - especially given all the "problems" people have noted with their billing, customer service, etc. Of course, I can't stand fake breasts, so the site is just generally unappealing to me.
I'm not trolling, was looking for an actual response to several questions I didn't feel you properly answered. Feel free to report me, I don't think I have done anything wrong.
I don't rip sites, I don't redistribute material, your instincts are dead wrong on this one. A knowledge of torrents and downloading aids merely means one is familiar with the internet, pretty much any adult under 40.
From reviewing your responses, you seemed overly aggressive/defensive to me and others you have responded to here and in other comments, thus I called you a douche, perhaps I am misreading your tone, if so I apologize.
Dude, all I have been saying is that anti-piracy is not a valid argument (just say you don't offer zips and won't, don't back it up with some garbage), check some torrents for scenes from this site, shit is not hard to find for free. Zips are not a deal breaker for me, douche attitudes certainly are.
I understood that from the beginning, my point was your comments to the initial reviewer and subsequent responses seemed a bit too forceful in my opinion.
My only point, as it has always been, is that location based pricing is common, particularly in the entertainment industry. I am not really trying to defend it. Do you also boycott amazon.uk since they charge more than the American version for many items, including downloaded items such as music and movies (this was, after all, one of the main reasons for regions on DVDs)? Retailers everywhere will charge as much as they can get away with, and if for whatever reason they think $30 to an American is equivalent to $40 to a European or whatever, that is their choice. It sucks I agree, but such is life.
If regional pricing had always existed, as it has with other areas of entertainment, would you still feel as ripped off as you do?
You are punishing your members but not offering zips, plain and simple - if you admit it is something they would prefer, and you choose not to do it as you think it will "prevent" piracy, you are punishing them. My point with the software being available to download all the photos on a thumbnail page is that I'm sure site rippers would use these types of applications, but average users don't know they exist or can't use them. If you are really that concerned about piracy, why allow downloads of videos, which as you claim is what most people want anyway? Either way, I find the lack of zips to prevent piracy argument a bit bogus, and I am guessing it wouldn't be hard to find full sets from your site somewhere, I just don't feel like wasting my time looking.
Not trying to be combative, and I am glad you are a responsive webmaster, I would just consider adding this feature, I think the positives would far outweigh the potential negatives.
I know regional pricing is something that really sticks in your craw, but I think it is fair to let the reviewer point it out and draw the conclusions they wish from it, you sometimes sound a bit overly forceful in this regard to me. I agree regional pricing is unfair (and not to start another debate on this), but lots of things probably cost more depending on where you are (including DVDs, magazines, etc) and these increased costs are not due entirely to shipping and other costs, they are due to a perceived value of money in your country.
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