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tangub (0) 05-11-17  11:31am
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Status: Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros: Billing by CCBill, no regional pricing or cross sales.
100% exclusive and unique Asian glamour content.
New photo shoots and videos added several times a week.
Good quality photos and videos (although not quite hd specs)
Zip downloads for the photos.
Decent download speeds.
The archives of the old Asian 4 You site that closed down over 10 years ago are included.
Cons: The biggest con without a doubt is the 5 GB per 24 hours download limit.
Expensive by today's standards at $29.95 a month.
Photo shoots all have that glossy airbrushed look to them so may not be to everyone's taste.
Quite a lot of models with fake tits and/or tattoos.
The content is about 99% solo glamour here, although that's not a con for me personally it should be noted here for anyone who is looking for harder content.
Latest video updates only have 1 download option.
No streaming of videos available.
None of the content date stamped apart from the most recent updates.
Lack of navigational features, no way to search or sort the models or content, no categories or tags, no user interaction such as add to favorites, comments or model ratings.
Need to stay 3 months to get access to the VIP area.
Bottom Line: I was always a fan of the old Asian 4 You site back in the day so I was always going to join this site at some point, it's just taken me a long time to get around to it. I believe The Black Alley has been online something like 10 years although it's difficult to be exact since none of the content is date stamped apart from the most recent updates but the site stats would seem to suggest a site that has been regularly updating for that length of time. Again it's hard to be precise with the site stats due to the way the site is laid out but from what I've downloaded I can gauge that there are approximately 300 models in at least 3529 photo sets (385,000+ total pics) and 1129 videos. If you add in the A4Y archives that gives you another 2000+ photo sets (120,000+ pics) and another 242 videos.

When I first signed up back in March I thought the site had stopped updating as the latest updates were showing dates in January but it soon became apparent that new content was being added, just that the updates calender is running 2 months behind schedule, the latest updates from this last week are now showing March dates. In the last week I've seen 6 new photo sets and 3 new videos added and this seems to be what you can expect most weeks.

The photo shoots here are high end glossy professional glamour shoots, gorgeous Asian models shot in a variety of stunning indoor and outdoor locations with professionally styled hair and make up, sexy outfits, lots of sexy underwear, stockings and high heels. The majority of sets go from clothed to explicit nudity with spreading, masturbation and sometimes toy play. The models all have that flawless airbrushed look to the extent that the skin tone can sometimes look unnatural particularly in close up shots so that style may not be to everyone's taste if you don't like to see all the blemishes smoothed out.

Around 90% of the photo collection has the option of 2 sizes, a larger one at 1333 x 2000 and a smaller size at 920 x 1379 (although they've recently stopped offering the low resolution option with the new updates) with both sizes available in a zip or to view online. I'm afraid there's no online photo viewer or slide slow feature to view the photos online, I'm afraid it's click photo, hit back button, select next photo and so on. A small number of what must be the oldest sets don't offer the larger size photos.

The videos fall into 3 basic categories; you have Behind The Scenes, Private Videos and Masturbation videos. BTS is basically a video of the photo shoot, usually 5 to 10 minutes duration with background music. Private videos you might see the model doing a slow sensual striptease, sometimes doing a sexy dance, sometimes taking a bath or shower, they would often show the model touching herself but generally stop short of masturbation. Again these videos are 5 to 10 minutes duration with background music. The masturbation videos are definitely the best ones, a bit longer at around 15 minutes and no background music so you can hear the sounds of the model as she pleasures herself. The latest videos are offered as an mp4 file at 1080 x 600 @ 3000k, not quite hd specs but they certainly looked good on my monitor. A lot of the older videos though are only 720 x 400 @ 2000k, they don't look as good but certainly not unwatchable. The videos are listed with just a small preview thumbnail picture and a link to either download the video or view video info. Clicking video info will show you the duration, file size, resolution and display 30 small thumbnail sized screencap preview pictures.

The most frustrating thing about this site for me was the 5 GB per 24 hours download limit. I can confirm it's enforced because I managed to get locked out on 3 occasions for a period of 24 hours. If you are downloading close to the 5 gigs every day then you basically have to schedule your downloading for the same time every day because it works on a 24 hour time scale which is a real pain. In my mind the limit is nothing but a cash grab designed to force you to stick around longer to get what you want. If you're like me when it comes to this kind of softcore glamour content and like to download every photo set of every model in the largest resolution then it's not possible to do it in one month as the photo collection is close to 200 GB in total making the site expensive with a mimimum spend of $60 required for what I wanted to download. If I also wanted a large number of videos it could cost considerably more although they do tempt you with access to the VIP zone with a load more photo sets and videos if you stick around for a third month.

The only positive thing I can say about the download limit is that they are upfront about it and mention it on the join page. File sizes on average for photo zips are between 40 – 80 MB and video sizes generally 200 – 250 MB which means on average 80 to 90 photo zips or 20 videos with your daily download allowance.

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lk2fireone (0) WOW!

EXCELLENT REVIEW.
GREAT OVERVIEW, AND GREAT DETAILS.

I REMEMBER BEING A MEMBER OF ASIAN 4 YOU A WHILE BACK, AND HADN'T REALIZED IT WAS OVER 10 YEARS AGO.
AT THAT TIME, I WAS INTO SOFTCORE JAPANESE MODELS.
THEY ARE SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD.

THANKS FOR THE REVIEW.

BUT THE 5 GB LIMIT TURNS ME OFF. I REMEMBER AT LEAST ONE SITE THAT BLOCKED ME SEVERAL TIMES, BEFORE I HIT THEIR DOWNLOAD LIMIT, AND IT WAS FRUSTRATING AS HELL.
THAT ALONE, AS WELL AS THE PRICE, MEAN I WILL PROBABLY NEVER JOIN THIS SITE.

05-11-17  01:10pm

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tangub (0) REPLY TO #1 - lk2fireone :

These days it only takes about half an hour to download 5 GB so yes it is frustrating as hell to be paying a premium price for a website you can only use for half an hour a day. One Sunday evening at the end of March I thought I'd waited my 24 hours from my last session the night before to go in and get my daily 5 gigs but after downloading only 3 photo sets I got blocked and then it occurred to me that I'd forgotten the clocks had gone forward 1 hour for the start of British Summer time so in fact it had only been 23 hours. I then had to wait another 24 hours to get back in again....really annoying.
05-11-17  02:17pm

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mbaya (Disabled) First class review as I like your level of detail.

I also hate download limit, especially when they come as a surprise. Did the site let you know about them before you signed up? I see no mention in the FAQ.

Question of curiosity. 5GB per day sounds like about three videos. Is that about right?

05-11-17  04:46pm

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lk2fireone (0) REPLY TO #2 - tangub :

5 GB divided by 4 MB/sec equals 20.8 minutes.
We both have the same internet connection speed (approximately).

My ISP connection has a max download speed of 50 Mb/sec, or 6.25 MB/sec.
But I usually average somewhere between 2-4 MB/sec download speeds.

05-11-17  05:32pm

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Amanda (0) REPLY TO #3 - mbaya :

Our TBP review is outdated, but you will see the 5GB daily download limit announced at the bottom of their join page. :)
05-12-17  05:14am

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tangub (0) REPLY TO #3 - mbaya :

Hi mbaya,

I see Amanda has partially answered your question, yes I was aware of the download limit before I signed up, since I'm not that bothered about videos I was hoping 30 days times 5GB would be enough for me to get want I wanted but it turned out the site had a lot more content than I was expecting which was mainly due to the site not having a very comprehensive tour. In the preview area they only show 185 models when there's actually 300 and the tour doesn't allow you to click on the models to preview there content so I had no idea that I was going to find many models with 50, 60, 80, or 100 or more photo sets.

Since the video specs are not hd the file sizes are not huge, none of the ones I downloaded were more than 250 mb so I guess that means you could download around 20 videos a day with your 5 GB allowance. I'll add a line to my review regarding the file sizes.

05-12-17  09:31am

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tangub (0) REPLY TO #4 - lk2fireone :

My connection is slightly slower than yours at 38 Meg but I usually get between 2-4 Mb/sec at most sites, I don't think I was getting much more than 2 Mb/sec at The Black Alley though.
05-12-17  09:35am

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tangub (0) Ooops....sorry duplicate post on my reply to mbaya. I thought the first one had not posted as I clicked submit and it logged me out of the site.
05-12-17  10:43am

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Amanda (0) REPLY TO #8 - tangub :

Duplicate removed!
05-12-17  10:48am

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