Thanks for the review of this site, exotics - I had been a member for a month when it first opened, but wasn't sure how much new stuff they had been doing.
I wouldn't be surprised if Gigi Spice's material became a bonus at some point. I've seen some post boob-job pics of her so it's pretty clear that Pacino is working through a stash of material that has a pretty definite end-point. I don't think that she's working with him post boob-job.
Such is the reality with solo-girls. As I wrote in a comment on Karla's site, the photo-updates on that site have been reduced to every other week, so I believe that Karla Spice has also moved on.
I saw a promo at NNBoards when this site first started - since I'd been lusting after his babes on his other sites at the time, I went for a 3-month membership. It's a decent site. They update every few days with pics and vids, but the excitement level over time is not that high for me, so I won't be renewing.
There's some nice POV stuff, including BJ stuff, but there seems to always be something that throws it off from being above the level of good - he's not hard or the angle's not that interesting or...
At the rate that they're updating, and if they get other photographers involved and work on some of the weaknesses of the site, this site could seriously rock over time.
Fact-checking is always important - just because someone claims that all vids are repeats doesn't make it a fact. In this case, it's easy to confirm. Just look at the vids posted on Porn Pros for the models being posted on this site and it's easy to see that they are the same vids.
It would be up to us to make an issue like this a specific comment in order for you guys to see it. I can't imagine that you would possibly have the time to read every review to find such facts - but taking a look at the recent comments on a site to see if there is anything that stands out could enable you to catch a major issue.
My feeling is that if you're a porn review site that has a user-review site that you created as an addendum to your own reviews, and you don't use information that has been provided by the users, you're missing something. It's not like this site SOMETIMES reposts scenes from Porn Pros.
They have only posted ONE scene in many months on this site that is not a repost. To not include that in a review is a major "miss" in my book, especially when you have been handed that information to use.
This review is incorrect about zips - from the home page, click on latest in the galleries area, then click on the latest gallery. You'll get a page displaying pics - 40, which is an average size for recent galleries - then you'll have "Download this gallery" at the bottom with a drop-down menu for choosing the size of the pics that you want from Small to Extra Extra Large - 5 choices. You click on "Extra Extra Large" and Save File pops up immediately. Click on that and you're downloading a file of 70 mb.
As to vids, they are pretty much non-existent when it comes to new ones. The most recent internet exclusive vid was released 1/01/09, the most recent before that were released 2/27/08.
They also no longer have live shows. The most recent of those was 2/03/09.
They do release bottom-of-the-run porn comps frequently - they have so little interest to me, I'm not even checking the specifics.
So it's all about pics for new stuff - and the archives, which go back a ways.
I don't get your comment about "no public preview of recent updates". In their tour, they show the calendar for the entire monthe of August - some damned hot stuff too! If I weren't already a member of enough enjoyable sites.....
One of my favorite all-time sites since I'm a fan of solo-girl tease, and Phil-Flash did that style as well as, or better than, anyone. The good thing about this site is that it has combined so many other sites together, and lately there have been great re-releases of Next Door Nikki material that include topless shots not ever released before. The bad thing about this site is that a lot of the material that used to be available on this site before the latest re-design, such as Dream of Dani's material, Brittany's web-cams, and most of Holly's sets, are nowhere to be found. Hopefully most of this material will be re-presented at some point, though one never knows with Phil.
Did you happen to catch the web cam show from the Phoenix internet-girl convention this past weekend? Aaaaaaaamazing! Easily the best web cam show I have ever seen!
This used to be one of my favorite sites. Phil seems to have lost interest quite a bit. Updates are weekly - sometimes - and USUALLY older un-released material. Other than that, the main updates are web cam show archives, which are sometimes hot, but the quality is not so great - small pictures, not anywhere near state of the art.
Every once in a while, Phil will come up with new outstanding material, like a recent update of Janessa that is mind-blowing. The archives are the reason for my sticking around along with the membership in the several other sites that you get with this one. At his best, Phil had a great erotic style of in-your-tease and there's a LOT of Phil's best available with this site, though it's frustrating as hell where this site is now compared to its glory days of multiple mind-blowing updates a week and lots of web cam shows that were much larger than postage-stamp size with hot, hot girls.
Here's another site that has been going in the wrong direction lately. It could be temporary, could be permanent.
It used to be that there would be multiple large photo set updates a week - someones 2, many times more. There were also a LOT of cam shows going on - many a day by hotties like Next Door Nikki, Princess Blueyez, Seanna Teen, etc.
Phil has now fired all three of those models. Seanna is the only one of the 3 still doing cam shows for this network, I guess because she is selling her private cam shows while promoting her new upcoming site, Seanna Lust.
Phil's site is only posting one new photo set and one new vid a week - I say new, but most of the material being posted is clearly from a while ago - there were recent posts of photo sets of Karen Dreams and Cassie Leanne pre-boob jobs.
Mainly, the updates these days are vids of cam shows - lots of vids of cam shows!
Phil says that this is a period of re-alignment and there's lots of hot stuff coming down the pike.
Given that this site has so much bonus material of retired sites that I always find stuff here to amuse me, I would still give this site an 88, but it's not as amazing as it was when I originally did this review. Hopefully it will return to that glory.
You don't get Nikki's site, which is the most expensive of all of Phil's sites, I believe, but you do get access to cam shows of all Phil-Flash models, including Nikki.
It should be noted that Nikki is now pregnant and is doing chats but no stripping on her cam shows until she has her baby and gets back into shape.
As I read the PU info on the network, it listed 4 sites - PF.com, Seanna Teen, Princess Blueyez and Next Door Nikki - all of which are included with PF.com membership, as well as Nikki, Seanna & Princess Blueyez' zip set, The Taylor Twins site, Kendall Blaze's site - all available via separate log-in - and a number of other sites that were folded into the PF.com site and are available by clicking on the Bonus Sites area.
Actually, as a member of this site/network, I can say for a fact that all of the sites listed in PU's info are included with membership as well as others. Some are listed in the main site as "Bonus Sites". Others have a link in the top left of the main page and need to be entered separately with the same username/password as you use for the main site. But they are all included.
Other cons for this site, or group of sites, besides the ones you mentioned - and I've been a member for quite a while of Phil-Flash's site:
1) Vanishing content - whole sections of Phil's site have disappeared - the Tiffany/Kelly stuff most recently and the Jannah Burnham stuff before that
2) Customer Support lacking/surly - the attitude is that they're doing you a favor by existing and members are basically looked down on as being trolls or something - I've repeatedly asked in a respectful way about what happened to the Jannah Burnham content and been shined on repeatedly. Other requests/issues over time have met with similar responses.
3) cam show screens shrunk considerably months ago - you need a fucking magnifying glass to get a lot of enjoyment out of the cam show screens being presented these days - I've given up going to them live - download the archives if I'm interested. But it sucks to see sites go to lower quality cam shows - especially if the site touts cam shows as one of their prime attractions.
Why stay? There's still a lot of hot content. I was about to leave right before they added the other sites as part of the same membership price. That was enough to keep me around a bit longer.
Excellent review - I've always thought this site's work was outstanding when I saw sample galleries here and there. Glad to see someone giving the site a comprehensive review.
I'm a fan of a lot of the models on this site, but what keeps me from joining is the amount of painting that they do to their photos. I've looked at their site samples and seen their stuff posted online at various forums and for my tastes, they layer it on to the point that, even if the model is on her back, with a sexy expression, in a great pose and her legs spread and panties pulled aside, I feel like I'm looking at one of those 3D Art pics rather than feeling like I'm looking at a hot photo of a gorgeous woman.
I'm with Rusty in disagreeing with such a low score for navigation problems - but then a lot of the solo-girl model sites have haphazard navigation that makes this network look like complete and utter genius, so it's clearly not the most important thing on my list.
They don't have good navigation and you have to click away to get to a list of all scenes for a particular model and then trying to connect the Photo Samples with a particular scene is another bunch of work. I haven't experienced the problems with the back button for some reason - maybe I just never hit it.
My score for this site and network would be about 40 points higher than yours, regardless of the navigation - which is not good and ought to be made much better.
100% perfection as in occasional slow downloads? No problem. If your idea of a slight imperfection is "No pics shows at all on any of the sites in the network", then we'll just have to disagree, because I don't find that tolerable at all.
I've never had a problem using the monthly calendars and don't wind up back where I started as the OP mentioned, but they do really need to make it possible to search for models by name and to search for work across the network.
The bizarre thing is that non-members can find a particular model's work across the network easier than members can. So what are you supposed to do? Go into the site in one browser as a member and go into it with a different browser to search as a non-member?
They need to fix this. They are working on integrating the network - if you go into some of the secondary sites as a member of Pix&Video, you'll be in a beta area that is integrated, though it needs a LOT of work, in my opinion, to be as user friendly as it could/should be.
For instance, with the beta you can choose a site from the network in a single windown with a pull-down menu, but you cannot see all updates across the network, which is really where they should go, if at all possible.
The frustrating thing about the secondary sites is that they dole out the updates over the course of 7/8 days - adding pics and video clips to the same update - so even if they had the thing I described as seeing updates across the network, if you wanted to be looking at complete updates, you would need to be looking back to see what the update was 8 days ago.
As I say, they've got a lot of work to do to make this network as good as it could/should be - but jumbly as it is, the current deal gives members a whole lot of very good material.
If you start from 40 and go backwards, it looks to be true that more than 1/2 are no longer updating - I see 5 or so that just stopped updating in September '09, though, so I assume that they updated weekly between Nov '08 and then.
There are 15 or so that are updating weekly and now they gave access to Zoliboy. It looks like the deal now is to give 25 sites to start with that include Pix and Video, Club Sandy and Zoliboy.
They could make the whole thing better with advances in the size of pics and more HD vids, but they're doing solid work on a number of sites, including bonus sites such as DP Fanatics, Cuties Galore, Anal Teen Angels and Lez Cuties.
Joining one of the "second-tier" sites in the network, such as MandyIsKinky (I don't know about Lez Cuties) also starts you off with many more bonus sites - then you add 2 more each month.
Yes, that's totally true - of course, then you don't get the new material being updated daily as you do at Pix and Video - and in 6 months, or 60 months, you will not have access to Club Sandy's every other day updates. That's the choice - more and better bonus sites sooner or the newest stuff now and lesser bonus sites for now.
The actual count on bonus sites that you get with Pix and Video, since I just joined to take advantage of the "get Club Sandy for free in 6 months" offer is 29 - so you get Pix and Video plus 29 bonus sites for a total of 30 sites to start off with.
Strange logic here, in my opinion - it was predictable that they would take down the combo offer and make Club Sandy a Loyalty Bonus of Pix & Video and vice versa?
If that's so, please point out to me where anybody ever predicted it.
They've apparently decided that the Loyalty Bonus business model works for them better than the combo offer worked for them. So long as they are straight forward about their offers - and they could make them more clear - it strikes me as a better deal to get both sites for a single price than it was to get both sites for a combo price - provided that you intend to be a member for a sustained period of time.
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