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rearadmiral (0)
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You wrote a very thorough and balanced review.
I was one of the PU members who scored ALS much higher, but I did that in 2012 and in 2012 I thought it deserved the 97 I gave it. I was most recently a member there in 2015 and while I will certainly join again I think I'd probably score it closer to where you did.
I like their playful nature but I'm not a big fan of the near-gynecological obsession with insertions. They certainly continue to hire models with the look and body-type that I prefer.
What I miss most about the first couple of times that I joined was that they stopped doing their annual Caribbean trip (likely too costly) and stopped with their European public nudity (maybe too risky?).
Thanks for posting your balanced review. I'm sure many readers will find it helpful.
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02-16-17 09:30am
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ALS Eric (0)
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Hi, this is Eric from ALS.
Thank you for your in-depth review, Skippy.
We appreciate the kind words and respect that not all our content suits you, but there are a few points we would like to clarify for other PU readers:
ALSScan updates daily, alternating new photosets and videos.
Only 1 out of 14 daily updates is a "re-post" of older material, and clearly marked "Remastered".
"Remastered" photosets include all new, never-before-released pictures (usually 100+ per set) at higher quality.
We typically release a behind-the-scenes / photoshoot video once a week, so the action videos outweigh BTS videos by about 7 to 1 in a normal month.
We also occasionally release "bonus" BTS and interview videos, in addition to that day's regular new release.
We never re-post videos in lieu of a new update. Only videos that were lost or need upgraded encodes get re-posted, generally at a member's request, and backdated, so they would not appear as new updates.
Our content goes back to 1996, although yes pre-2004 is not as well organized and some of our models from the pre-digital era are currently unavailable unless you contact the MetArt Network support team for special assistance finding a particular model's content.
Our last trip to the Caribbean was 2011, and when we post an update from these trips, or any model shot in years past, it is still New content that has never been released, not a "re-post". Sometimes a new scene was shot years prior, but never released until we got requests from members asking for more from their favorite model or shoot. Perhaps this has been mistaken for "re-posting".
We started shooting boy-girl in 2012, and do release it sparingly. Most members seem to prefer we update boy-girl content no more than once a month or so.
The Director's Blog does discuss both ALSScan.com and ALSAngels.com news, but which site a model appears on is determined by their body-type and how mature they look.
Hope this helps clear up any misconceptions, and thanks for visiting ALS!
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02-17-17 05:13pm
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skippy (0)
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REPLY TO #2 - ALS Eric :
Hi Eric, Thank you for your timely and eloquent response. I can appreciate that the older photo sets have been remastered and additional images have been included. And I now see that the remastered sets are labeled and appear every 12-14 posts. So I was mistaken about the frequency of reposts, but I can tell you this with some certainty. It FEELS like there is more older stuff here that is being re-used and there are probably a couple of pretty good reasons for it.
First, with the exception of the vacation shoots, all of the material has maintained an absolutely identical look and feel for a long, long time. Some subscribers may love this, but I find it a little frustrating to see current photo sets that look exactly like 5-10 year old sets in terms of image quality, set-style, direction and content. Most sites are diverse enough that you can tell different sets have been shot on different days in different locations. Here? Not so much. Second, although, some sets of certain models may have never been published before, they may look like older shoots when the models involved were younger. That can be pretty confusing.
Now, to be fair, I see Kimmy Granger, Blake Eden, Alex Grey and Gina Gerson on the site and they are clearly contemporary models/porn stars, but the lack of make-up on Gina, for example, makes her look years younger than she does on other sites. She's been on your site since 2012. Are the most recent sets from 2017 or from 2012? Can't tell. This gives me the impression that these, too, are older shoots.
A simple solution to this might be to include a "first published" date on the remastered sets or perhaps a "shoot" date.
I will be sure to go back through the site and look at the sets with an open mind regarding the feeling that sets are somehow older. I'll also compare the remastered sets with the ones I got from prior memberships. My collection goes back to about 2004.
As I said in my review, Alsscan is a very good site. I will update it later this month to reflect your points.
Thanks again!
Skippy
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02-17-17 09:52pm
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PinkPanther (0)
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This site is among my very favorite sites. Their tastes in models, petite, small breasted, shaved is very appealing to me and I've had very few periods in the last several years that I was NOT a member of this site.
There's not much random about which models appear on ALS Scan and which models appear on ALS Angels. It's not a matter of the models being better looking. For my tastes, most of the better looking models are on ALS Scan, which is why I've been a fairly consistent member her and only an occasional member of ALS Angels.
If a model has bigger breasts, is curvier, or taller, or more mature looking, she'll be on ALS Angels. There have been a few models where you could flip a coin as to which site they should post to, Sandy Waldron or Jessyka Swan, for instance, but for the most part, it's pretty clear which site a model will wind up.
In terms of the remastered sets, for me, they're an extra rather than taking anything away or making me feel deceived. There's so much new content being posted and such deep archives that I never feel that an update is being wasted by being used for a remastered set.
In terms of the lack of polishing of photos, this isn't a warts-and-all site, as ATK's sets often are. Alex has sometimes posted before-and-after pics and it's pretty clear that there is significant prettifying done to the photos posted here - not Twisty's level, thank heaven, but enough to show off the models to their best, which I appreciate.
Anyway, just some comments by someone that is a big fan of this site. Good review, overall.
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02-23-17 10:35pm
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skippy (0)
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REPLY TO #4 - PinkPanther :
HI Pinkpanther. Thanks for the comments. I must admit I keep coming back to the site, so there is a certain appeal there, probably because of the great interaction between the girls and the crew or just between the girls. But I pass on a lot of the videos and also cull about 50% of the images in the zip-file sets because they are not to my taste or are a little too clinical. The site is very popular, so I'm sure SOMEBODY likes the embroidery hoop things. :-)
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02-25-17 10:59pm
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PinkPanther (0)
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REPLY TO #5 - skippy :
Yeah, it's funny - as big a fan of the site as I am, I'm utterly uninterested in a lot of their "special" elements like the vag spreader, the hoop thing, etc. Perhaps Alex gets a lot of emails from fans craving that stuff, or perhaps they are his own fetish. I dunno. I just like the incredibly cute girls they book and how great they make them look.
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02-26-17 05:18pm
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skippy (0)
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REPLY TO #6 - PinkPanther :
I absolutely agree with you there!
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02-26-17 05:31pm
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