Some recent thoughts on VB so you don’t have to endure another VB review from me…
The last time I had a VB membership I swore it was THE last time. I preferred the quality of niche sites over the all-you-can-eat-buffet approach offered at VB. But after 18 months without being a member there I opted to rejoin and see if anything had changed. I think they have (a bit) for the better.
The biggest difference now is that of the five daily updates two of them are in HD where before only one update per day was HD. You need to keep in mind that this is VB’s idea of HD and they use the term differently from others. The VB HD videos are 1280x720 and usually around 3500kb/s. That isn't bad, and I suppose it does meet the literal definition of HD but it isn't up to industry standards. Still, they have doubled the HD upload which means there is less SD uploaded. The SD stuff is 656x480 and 1200kb/s. That a standard not widely used for many years at niche sites but it’s important to note that VB has always been more about quantity than quality.
The bad news is that VB still relies heavily on repackaged compilations. Some scenes may appear on the site several times. I’ve seen the same scene uploaded twice in a few days on different DVDs. Usually the DVD titles will indicate that this is a compilation, and there are whole studios dedicated to it. Finally, there are several VB members who have an encyclopedic knowledge of both porn and VB and those members will often flag where and when that scene appears elsewhere on the site – and which version is better.
VB is good at what it does and it doesn’t pretend to be something that it isn't. It has a huge collection of DVDs (now almost 19,000) and at such a low price I can’t see why anyone would use tube sites instead of VB. VB has always offered a good way to get access to a broad range of porn. They still upload ‘classics’ from the 1980s and 1990s.
I joined Mofos almost two weeks ago and everything seemed fine.
Today I received two email confirmations and receipts from the biller showing that I had joined MofosCams and that I then racked up $120 in charges. I did no such thing. I contacted both Mofos and the biller and to my pleasant surprise they emailed me with a phone number, which I promptly called.
They reviewed the account and saw evidence that it had been hacked and they closed the account and credited me back the charges.
This is the first time this has ever happened to me. If you're a Mofos member, check your email and watch your credit card statement.
This comment is pretty much the same as a comment I posted on the Anal Acrobat site because both of these sites are owned by the same company and both have undergone a mild redesign. And both have the same major flaws.
I rejoined this site and the network that it’s a part of. It has always come with access to several sites. The network has been redesigned but that redesign seems to be more change for change sake since the old design was functional and effective.
With this site they have made some changes that may mean this is the last time I join. In the past when you were on any site page that was part of the network there was a pull-down menu at the upper left that allowed you to select any other site in the network. That’s no longer there. In fact, there appears to be no way to move between sites on the network now. There is a ‘network’ tab and selecting that brings up all the scenes on the network but there is no way that I can find to associate those scenes with a site or a DVD. I’ve also tried googling other sites in the network (Peter North, for example) but my username and password won’t work.
Site access isn’t the only problem though. Now when you select a scene now it automatically starts streaming. For many this is probably a non-issue, but for me it is a major annoyance. I don’t stream, I download. If I want to stream the scene I’ll do that myself. Why waste bandwidth having this start automatically?
I’ve emailed their support staff to ask how I access the other sites. If I get an answer and they make changes or point me to a way to actually do this I’ll post the answer here.
I rejoined this site and the network that it’s a part of. It has always come with access to 20+ sites even though some of those no longer update. Like its sister site Evil Angel this one has gone through a bit of s redesign though the redesign here isn’t as extreme as the redesign at Evil Angel. On both sites the redesign seems to be more change for change sake since the old design was functional and effective.
With this site though they have made some changes that may mean this is the last time I join. In the past when you were on any site page that was part of the network there was a pull-down menu at the upper left that allowed you to select any other site in the network. That’s no longer there. In fact, there appears to be no way to move between sites on the network now. There is a ‘network’ tab and selecting that brings up all the scenes on the network but there is no way that I can find to associate those scenes with a site or a DVD. I’ve also tried googling other sites in the network (Mike Adriano, for example) but my username and password won’t work.
Site access isn’t the only problem though. Now when you select a scene now it automatically starts streaming. For many this is probably a non-issue, but for me it is a major annoyance. I don’t stream, I download. If I want to stream the scene I’ll do that myself. Why waste bandwidth having this start automatically?
I’ve emailed their support staff to ask how I access the other sites. If I get an answer and they make changes or point me to a way to actually do this I’ll post the answer here.
As of July 28, 2014 Amateur Allure has partnered with four other sites to offer some licenced scenes. Currently there are ten scenes each from Fucked Hard 18, Gloryhole Swallow, Jules Jordan and Mr. POV. According to the announcement more will be added each week. A Fucked Hard 18 scene will be added on Mondays, a Jules Jordan scene will be added on Tuesdays, a Mr. POV scene will be added on Wednesdays and a Gloryhole Swallow scene will be added on Thursdays. The usual weekly Amateur Allure scene will be uploaded on Fridays. I’m familiar with all of those sites and the uploads seem to be older material.
I’m a big fan of Amateur Allure and it has been my all-time favorite porn site since I first joined back in January. I hope that these changes will bring in more members that will then allow the crew to continue to make their exclusive scenes. It certainly adds a lot of value to a membership even the site does cost more than the average site membership.
If anyone from the site reads this I’d like to make two suggestions that might also be effective in bringing in more revenue:
Remaster the hundreds of older scenes that are already on the site. They are currently only available as QuickTime videos and are broken down into three segments. I’m not technically minded, but if it was possible to stitch the three segments together into one full scene and convert them to a more common file type that would be a great bonus for members. The video quality would obviously be lower but having better access to the older scenes would be great.
Consider a loyalty discount. Once currency is converted the membership costs me $40 per month and with four scenes being added per month that means that I cancel my membership and rejoin for a month every three or four months to keep the cost per scene more reasonable. If they dropped the monthly price to perhaps $20 for rebills I’d probably just sign up and stay a member for as long as the site’s around. I suspect that most members are like me in that the first time you join there is extensive downloading going on but subsequent memberships are low use since all I’m doing is getting a dozen or fewer updates.
Didn’t there used to be a TBP discount for Jules Jordan?
Maybe I’m dreaming this up, but didn’t we used to get a $19.95 discount price when joining through TBP? Not having that discount will definitely mean I don’t rejoin here as often as usual.
I don’t recall having this problem the other times I’ve been a member here, but all the download links seem to time out after ten minutes or so. This includes any links that you queue up with a download manager but also includes the links on the actual scene pages. I prefer to open the scenes I want in separate tabs and then download them from there, but after a few minutes the page needs to be reloaded to make the links active again. It’s not a deal breaker, but it is annoying.
Yes, I know that I should have noticed the warning on the TBP page, but I didn't. And to make matters worse the biller (FX Billing) lumps your agreement to buy adult material in with the cross-sell. I'm not sure if you could even join without getting the cross-sell because you need to tick the box to affirm you're legal to buy porn.
Not knowing that I had signed up for another site, I also didn't cancel it right away and got rebilled today. The site is NS Premium, which has some affiliation with New Sensations. Here's the thing though: after being charged $40 on the rebill I go to the site to find out that when I try to download anything I get a message that I'm not a valid member and that I now need to buy an upgrade!
I had an online chat with the biller and they've not yet agreed to refund the $40. My preference would be a refund, but I'd even accept a functioning membership for that price.
Make sure you try uncheck the box if trying to join Bikini Dare. If you can't join without accepting the cross-sell, then don't join Bikini Dare at all. It isn't worth the hassle.
I’ve been a member here twice before and while there was a wide variation in models before it seems to be that there has been an overall slide in model looks over the past few months. Some of the more recent models have been downright scary looking. (But for those with this fetish, there was a very-pregnant model a couple of weeks ago.) For first-time members this won’t be an issue, but if you are returning make sure to look carefully at the previews before deciding to rejoin. I hope this is just temporary.
I’m on my third membership here and find that since the last time I was here the quality of the models has diminished. Most of the recent updates have had models that aren’t up to the standards that I’ve seen in earlier uploads. If you’re a first-time member this won’t be an issue, but if you’re coming back to the site after a while you may want to look carefully at the preview pages. The same is happening with the sister site, Back Room Casting Couch.
This was one of my favorite sites and I hope they get their groove back soon.
I got an email on Thursday for a site called XXX Pawn. It wasn't listed here so I checked it out from the email. It looked interesting and I would definitely consider joining so I clicked the link to "Join Now" and I can't accuse them of lying. I wanted to see how much the site subscription was but instead a page popped up thanking me for joining. A bit of digging revealed that this is a new Bang Bros site and because I was a recent BB member they obviously retained my credit card information.
My advice is to make sure any "join" link you hit from an email isn't from BB or you might be in for a nasty surprise.
(Khan - I didn't want to edit my earlier comment because that would make the replies seem strange but if you want to delete that earlier comment and replies I'll understand.)
I emailed New Sensations earlier today and asked them about the download limit and told them that I thought 2GB in 12 hours was unreasonably low for a site that offers HD scenes. Here's the reply I got:
Hi
We are not limiting the 2gb per 12hours. It is 6gigs in an hour. And if you are "blocked" it is for only an hour. Or if you let us know, we usually can fix it even faster, but it resets in an hour. We had to do that as we found abusers with download managers that were hurting the streaming and downloading from legit members. Let us know if you are seeing things differently and we will help you. In the beginning (after we switched the site to offer all the new formats and sizes) we had to watch and see what was happening.
Thanks
The NS Team
I can confirm that my experience with the site tonight is completely different than last night. Last night I was using a download manager to queue up scenes and I triggered the limit. I'm certain that the warning I got was 2Gb in 12 hours (because that's pretty specific) but I'll concede that I may have been mistaken.
Tonight I'm downloading again and I'm well over 2GB but I'm taking things slower so as not to hit the limit. So far I haven't been locked out.
It appears that the site's intention is to reduce site rips and large data transfers by download managers and I can live with that.
I think it's important to set the record straight. I apologize for any confusion and I'll update this as necessary in a review later.
I just joined this network an hour ago with the full-price monthly membership and can confirm that the same (ridiculously low) 2GB limit per 12 hours applies to the full membership too.
I figured that since both bibo and audrina69 had trial memberships that the limit may be applied there. I admit that this was just an assumption on my part and I didn't check the terms of service. (A fool and his money are soon parted...)
Because I've exceeded the bandwidth limit I'm not even allowed to log in so that I can check the Terms of Service to ensure that the limit is CLEARLY spelled out there.
Download limits piss me off. Unnecessarily low download limits mean I'll spend the month with them and that's the last dime I'll ever spend there.
I added on a group of sites called the "SuperPack" to my BB membership. I received an email with the joining information (with the same username and password as my main membership) and with a link for customer service that was different from my main membership. I followed the link to cancel the SuperPack membership and it's the same page as the main site where you have to select which site you want to cancel but "SuperPack" isn't listed. My confirmation email said I joined through Dancing Bear (which is part of the Pack) but the site said I didn't have a membership there.
Also, there is a two-part captcha where one part of it has to be the most difficult to decipher that I've ever seen.
I haven't had any billing issues, but my advice is to cancel any add-ons early in case you have problems. I've sent them and email and I'm hoping that cancellation isn't a more of a problem than it is already.
I've never been a member at this site and likely never will be. I was surprised at the number of people who reported the same problems over and over. And I was really surprised that the webmaster seemed so concerned and involved yet nothing ever got resolved. If it was the site, shame on them. If it was the biller, then the site should have severed that relationship quickly.
The sad part is that this looks like it might be a case of a good and unique site being destroyed by a third-party biller.
Two thumbs up for the TBP/PU staff in deciding to de-list them.
I agree that this is a ‘new’ network offered by Fame Digital, but if you subscribe to a lot of Fame stuff like I do you’ll want to be aware of an important fact. The site isn’t a clone of another Fame network, but it offers the same stuff. I’m 99% sure that Mile High is identical to another Fame network, but since I don’t have an active membership to that other network I can’t be 100% sure.
This new network has videos from several studios: Reality Junkies, Sweetheart Video, Secret Sinner, Doghouse and Mile High Selection. The issue is that you can join any of those studio sites and that membership gives you access to a network that includes the others. That network is the same as the new Mile High network but it looks different.
I’m not willing to say that this is a deceptive practice because I don’t accept that it is. I think of it more like ‘badge engineering’ in the automotive industry. A manufacturer makes a car and the various brands get to make minor tweaks and sell it. That’s fair, since a Mercury customer may want to drive a ‘different’ car from what his Ford-driving neighbor has.
My point in this comment is to provide potential members with the information they can use to avoid duplicating a membership.
There are currently 542 DVDs uploaded and two new scenes are added daily. One drawback is that at any given time those updates spread across three or four DVDs so you may have to wait a while for a specific scene. That could be an issue if you take advantage of the excellent value of the full trial. My experience with Fame is that if you keep an eye on your email account they frequently offer great deals.
If you are interested in this version of the Fame site you can read my recent review of Sweet Sinner since everything I wrote there applies here.
I realize that Maggie's review at TBP is only a few months old, but she makes no mention of the limit in the text of her review. The stats report the limit as being just 2GB per day. That's pretty low for a site that offers 1920x1280 videos. Theoretically, you might not be permitted to download those as they could be larger than 2GB. And with 207 it could mean having to be very selective in downloads. I'm interested in joining but the 2GB limit could be a deal-breaker. I've check out the additional sites that come with a membership and none of those interest me so that increases the risk. I've search the site for a Terms of Service but can't find one and I suspect sending an email to the site would be a waste of time.
I'm a big fan of this site and have been a member here several times. I usually join once I've become a member of another Kink site because you'll be offered a discount. The discounted price is $44.95, which is still a substantial increase in what it used to be. (And I note that when the site started in 2008 the price was $55 then too, so they're now back up to what they originally wanted to charge.)
The webmaster's reply in 2007 to a similar comment seems reasonable, but $55 is still pretty high.
On a related note, I used to get the occasional email discount offer for a Kink site membership but I haven't seen one of those in what must be over a year even though they have my email address.
Several users at TBP reported that there was a daily download limit here even though it isn't mentioned in the terms of service. Does anyone have any information on this? If there is a limit can you give some information on where it might be set at?
Jeez... at least let me have a tour before I spend $50...
I've been thinking of joining this site because it looks like it has material that I prefer. I consider value more than the outright cost, but still, $50 is definitely on the very high side of subscription fees. So you'd think the site would go out of their way to promote the site by allowing a prospective member to see what's on offer. but no... not here. Clicking anything on the main page brings you to the sign-up page. For that kind of tour I'll spend $50 on TWO memberships elsewhere.
I’ll admit that it is probably unfair to criticize a site that I’m not nor have ever been a member, but I think the stats speak for themselves.
Like many here, I’m always on the hunt for new sites. The main Lightspeed sites have long been on my radar because I really like solo girl sites. But since I’ve been burned by several, I tread lightly now.
So in that vein I looked at Lightspeed World, which now appears to offer access to all the Lightspeed girl’s sites for one price. That price, $40, is a bit steep but I measure on overall value rather than price alone. So what do you get for that money? Access to “over 80 gigabytes of original content!” Yes, over 80GB! I’m guessing that actually means just slightly over 80 and not 1TB of original content. But it gets better. You like HD video? Well be prepared to be blown away with full 640x480 resolution! For those of you still on dial-up there is also 320x240, but that will still look good on your 14” monitor. What else, you ask? How about a daily download limit of 4GB! No big deal, really, since you don’t want to be tying up your phone line with downloads for more than 12 hours, right?
Look, in all my posts and reviews here I try to be fair, but in this case the numbers simply don’t add up. It looks like the site just gave up a decade or more ago. But I know they didn’t because I heard Mr. Lightspeed’s lawyer interviewed on a radio program just 18 months ago. And yes, there is a Mr. Lightspeed, but the interviewer did accidentally refer to him as “Mr. Lightyear.” Mr. Lightspeed’s primary complaint was piracy and I agree with him on that. I despise piracy because it is killing a hobby that I have. As I get older I’ll have to drop some hobbies and I suspect that porn will win out over mountain biking as I creep into my 50s so I want porn to stick around and show that by buying memberships. But the thing is that any membership I buy has to have objective value. 2,000 5-minute videos in 640x480 resolution just has no objective value in a world where I can buy a membership to dozens or hundreds of sites that offer true HD and don’t impose such strict limits for less money. And I am talking sites with original content too.
And it can be done. Take sites like ALS Scan. They’ve been around since before many PU members ranked girls before Tonka trucks and they offer some of the best stuff on the internet, in HD and no limits – for a lower price than Lightspeed. I’m guessing that if Lightspeed had followed a similar trajectory as ALS Scan then things might be different.
I’m grateful for TBP and PU for saving me from getting burned. If this site was even half as modern as ALS Scan I’d join and rejoin and rejoin again.
Everything I wrote in my 2012 review still stands except for two things. First, the site has grown a lot and continues to update regularly. Currently there are 105 DVDs on the site.
The site primarily gives access to several series’ from Mile High / Reality Junkies. These are:
American Tranny (15 Scenes)
Babysitter Diaries (64 Scenes) Big Breast Nurses (41 Scenes)
Charlie’s Porn Family (6 Scenes)
Corrupt Schoolgirls (24 Scenes)
Cougar’s Prey (43 Scenes) Couples Seeking Teens (71 Scenes)
DP my Wife with Me (8 Scenes)
Filthy Family (52 Scenes)
Girlfriends Get Even (15 Scenes)
MILFs Seeking Boys (24 Scenes)
Mom’s Cuckold (69 Scenes)
Office Perverts (48 Scenes)
Pornstar Athletics (15 Scenes)
Too Big for Teens (69 Scenes)
You might be able to tell from the titles, but the two best-served niches here are teens and MILFs and there is a lot for both groups. Many of the titles cover both niches in the same scene. I’m more of a teen fan but the number of MILF scenes don’t bother me. It does seem a bit odd to have selected two opposite niches to cover.
One niche that isn’t common on the site is anal. That’s a negative for me but I realize that’s a positive for a lot of people. There are currently only 32 anal scenes on the site and those are split between the teen and MILF genres. (This doesn’t include the 15 tranny scenes which probably also have anal.)
The update schedule is regular, but also fairly slow with only one scene being added every four days. Given that the site only draws from one studio the update schedule is understandable. I don’t think it’s a negative, but you should be aware of it if you plan to join.
The other big change from when I reviewed the site is that like all sites on the Fame network the timeouts when using a download manager have lengthened considerably. Before the change it was impossible to queue more than three scenes because the links would time-out so quickly. That’s been fixed. There is still a time-out limit but it is much more reasonable and allows you to queue 15+ scenes (720p, approx. 1GB per scene), though this also would depend on your internet connection.
Also like all other Fame sites there are a lot of options for downloads and streaming. WMVs are available in 160p, 240p, 360p and 480p. MP4s are available in those resolutions too and are also available in 540p, 720p and 1080p.
I’d keep the 88 score that I gave it last time and still recommend the site to anyone who’s interested in what is on offer. I can’t confirm if the trial is still full and unlimited but the discount price makes this a pretty good value.
One final note: I’m not saying that PinkPanther is wrong in his comment, but I haven’t experienced anything like that in the two times I’ve been a member. If that changes I’ll post another comment.
I'm coming to the end of a month membership and went to cancel. It was a much more frustrating experience than usual so I thought for future members my lessons-learned may be of use.
I'm used to billers like CCBill and Epoch so my default means to cancel is to go to those sites and cancelling is easy. Private's primary biller is Rocket Gate and that's who I was billed through. I went to their site and found nothing for consumers so I Googled "Rocket Gate how to cancel membership" that did take me to a page where I could enter my email and username. The problem is that they had no record of me even though they are the biller. So I emailed them. That was 24 hours ago and I haven't had a response.
The Private site has no link for your account, but at the bottom there is a link for support. That leads to an FAQ page where there is a question about billing. Most of the answer directs you to Rocket Gate, but if you have the same problem as I had then that's not of any use. There is, however, a link to prvtbilling.com. That brings you to a page on the Private website that allows you to enter your username and email address. That worked.
I should also note that I didn't receive a confirmation email when I joined. Those often contain cancellation information. I first thought that could have screwed up my email address when I joined and that would explain the lack of a confirmation email and the inability for the biller to recognize me, but since the Private site itself recognized the email address I'd say I wasn't at fault.
My final advice is that since your membership remains active for the month even after you cancel I recommend trying to cancel early in case you do have problems.
There are several membership options available to this site. One of them only allows streaming while another allows both streaming and downloads. I paid the additional amount for downloads but when I went into the site and tried to download I was told I now had to buy additional 'tokens.' I cancelled my membership and contacted the site but have yet to receive a response. I also contacted CCBill to ask for a refund but they have yet to respond to me too.
Unless the site is willing to make good on what they sold me I strongly recommend avoiding it.
I'll admit that this may be a problem that I alone have, but if you're considering a membership here you should at least be aware of it.
The site offers two types of HD files, on is MPG and the other is WMV. Both are 1920x1280. Both files are around 3GB is size per scene. I downloaded the MPG files and found that there is a lot of stuttering. This occurs with both Windows Media Player and VLC. I've started to replace those with the WMV files and they don't seem to have the same problem.
Like I said, this may be unique to me, though I tested the files with two computers and had the same problem with both.
If someone has some thoughts on what may be causing this I'd appreciate hearing from you.
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