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skippy (0) 10-31-18  02:37pm
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Status: Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros: Generally high quality material
Beautiful, natural models
Wide variety of sets, locations and models
Many solo masturbation/insertion and girl/girl scenes.
Very "artsy" site
Good range of image sizes to view/download
Generally good video options
Navigation is generally good
Fast download speeds
Several popular European models
Good navigation
Cons: Very "artsy" site.
Billed as a "kink" site but just kink costumes
Very little model eye contact with camera
Creative edge takes precedent over practicality
Landing page focus is on cross-selling live site
Entire site including all sets are very dark!
Many sets in black and white or oddly tinted
Many shorter sets
Many models only have a set or two
There are more tattoos here than other Met-art sites. (not always bad, but not good on otherwise beautiful models)
Seems like some is B-roll from other sites
The unified login system on the metart network has become a NIGHTMARE!
Bottom Line: Stats (Deduced):
1 new update a day
Some older sets are not exclusive
The site has been around since 2009 but some of the sets pre-date that.
The models are generally young and all shapes, sizes, ethnicity, hair color, some hairy, some tattoos, etc. Some are unique to this site.


At some point, MetArt decided to make this more of a fetish network, but it isn't really a fetish network at all. There are some fetish costumes and a few girls that start lightly tied up or wearing fetish clothing (in SOLO sets). Many of the sets are female masturbation sets that range from boring to pretty interesting. And about 10% are girl/girl scenes. I need to say that the majority of these are very conservative sets with few money or close-up shots. (There are some Oh My God models, but they are not necessarily doing OMG things....) There are notable exceptions, though. It depends on the model, I guess. There also is a wide mix of eye contact. Some sets have models that never make any eye contact with the camera at all. Most of the sets start out with the model(s) clothed. I noticed some models remained clothed for 75% or more of some sets.

The first thing that strikes me about this site is how dark it is. Everything is dark. The site, the sets, the lighting, the videos, EVERYTHING! Older sets are a little better in this regard, but you will generally think there is something wrong with your display. Newer images are dark, contrasty, very shadowy. Distracting. Annoying. Generally awful. I batched a couple of sets through Photoshop and auto-adjust increased the brightness in most images by 50% or more. That is a heck of a lot and it is not accidental. They are deliberately turning down the brightness on these sets. You have to work to make images this dark. Really work.

The second thing I noticed was how hard the webmasters are trying to get you to go to the live site. There is a large section on the right half of th elanding page that highlights active working cam models.

Another thing is the almost complete lack of playfulness, compassion or interaction with the viewer in many of the sets. Some of these models have all of the expressions of a check-out girl at K-Mart, meaning none. Even models that normally shine are somehow less expressive here. This is not in any way erotic as the name implies.

And the last thing to note is how inconsistent many of the sets are. More recent sets seem to follow that dark psuedo-kinky theme for the most part, but some sets are not like that at all. Some sets are very short, some are filled with close-ups, some are not. Some girls are almost entirely fully clothed for the whole set, some are not clothed at all. Some have eye-contact, many do not. If you are familiar with other Met-Art sets, you can see that some of these sets seem like they might have been B-roll or too weird to put on Met-Art.

Navigation is generally good. There is an options section that allows you to set defaults for image size, number of thumbnails on a page, etc. like some other Met Art sites. The search function has user defined tags, which helps if you are looking for a particular trait that others are likely to define, like ginger or spread. But it could be better. There is also a consolidated MetArt web site control at the very top of the page, but it does not work very well....

I've had HUGE issues with passwords and common access across MetArt sites. The pull down menu will say I am a member of 6 sites,for example, but when I try to access them, something breaks. Every time I add a new site or have to reset my common password, I lose access to one or more of the 6 or so sites I've signed up for for and pay for. Sometimes it take DAYS and dozens of email exchanges to get it all fixed again. I'm not sure what the issue is but it appears to be related to the different credit card service providers MetArt uses.

Bottom line? Good site to visit once, I guess. I personally don't like it anywhere near as much as other Met Art sites. You can actually see the weird evolution/devolution from a site similar to Met Art in the beginning to a site that now looks more like a bad graphic novel than a soft-core porn site. There is a decent amount of material here and some of it is pretty good, but be prepared to sift through a lot of dark, odd and often slightly off pictures to find things that really float your boat.

I wish I could be more enthusiastic, but this site just doesn't live up to Met-Art standard

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lk2fireone (0) @skippy,

Sorry to read about the troubles your are having with your password/login details.
My suggestion would be to email personally to selena@metart.com .

She's been on the MetArt staff at least 5 years or more.
I don't think I've ever personally emailed her.

She is friendly, pleasant, and tries to be helpful with any problems MetArt members have when they post at PU.

I have 5 active memberships at the MetArt network: the MetArt Network(5) hot link at the top left corner of the MetArt website is how I login to each site, after I login to the MetArt site itself.
Usually that's the easiest way for me to navigate/login to the different sites.
In the past, MetArt has given me different login details (username and password), and I think that some of my MetArt sites require a separate login detail, so that's why I use the MetArt Network hot link at the top left corner of the website.

In the past, I asked MetArt customer support to make a single login detail (username & password) for all the sites, but they didn't, and I didn't pursue it.

The hot link showing my different site memberships I what I use: it's simple, and works.

But since you have login problems, I suggest contacting selena@metart.com to see if she can give better service.

As a bonus, she might offer you some free extended days on one of your memberships.
She did that for me, but I didn't bother to take her up on it.
Too lazy.

10-31-18  06:05pm

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skippy (0) REPLY TO #1 - lk2fireone :

lk2fireone,

Yes, I use the master pull down to access everything, too. That is where the problems occur as I can get into some sites and not others. Whenever I add a site or change my Password, the problems begin.

The support staff is usually very helpful when I contact them but occasionally, they will automatically reset my password even when I ask them not to.

But the problem goes a little deeper than that. I know I'm bringing some of this on myself, but I'm guessing you have experienced the same thing. I have had a Met Art membership for over 10 years now. Occasionally, I will get a discount offer for one of the MA sites from some other source. But when I try to take advantage of the discount, the MA network recognizes my email and presents me with an undiscounted rate. The only way around this is to use a different browser and a different email. So I have 6 subscriptions under 2 different email addresses. Even worse, the subscriptions are supported by 3 different billers (ccbill, epoch and rocketpay). A few years ago, I pointed all of this out to the support folks and they consolidated all of my accounts under one email address and user name....until I add a subscription or change my password. When that happens, some kind of reset occurs and a bunch of my sites are still linked in the master menu, but when I access them, I'm told the subscription has expired. The bottom line is that Met Art policy, created by some executive who never has to deal with customers, treats customers the same way a cell phone company or Comcast treats customers. They create all kinds of incentives for new customers, but don't want existing customers to take advantage of those incentives. This is obvious even within the Met Art Network, where if you click on a link directly, say...of a model that has other sets on other sites listed at the bottom of the page, the sign up is $29 a month for that site, but if you go through the pull down menu, the same sign up is $19 a month. And when you find a promotion for, say, $9 a month or $79 a year, the system does everything possible to ensure that you can't get it because you are an existing customer. To be fair, you can't really blame them for doing this, but you can't really blame me for wanting to take advantage of the best discounts either. I know the support people spend a LOT of time fixing things when people work the system to get better rates. I am a shining example of that.

11-03-18  12:20pm

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lk2fireone (0) REPLY TO #2 - skippy :

My advice:
Send an email to selena@metart.com

Copy the reply you just posted at PU.

See if you can get better service from her, to reset your username and password to the same login details for all your accounts at MetArt.

You paid for the sites, their customer service should be responsive.
Selena seems to be the best bet.

In the past, she has mentioned a number of times that she is available to help with any problems.

Best of luck.

PS: The MetArt drop down menu of sites works for me, even though I don't have the same username and password for all my MetArt sites.
But you are one of their best customers, and you deserve good service.
That's what you are paying for.

11-04-18  03:13am

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SelenaMetArt (0)
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REPLY TO #1 - lk2fireone :

@ lk2fireone - What a wonderful comment to find in my inbox! Thank you so much!! As an fyi, we are moving to a single sign on process. It hasn't been rolled out to all users yet.

@ skippy, I am so sorry to hear that you have been having problems with SSO. If you still are, please contact me. I will do my best to get it sorted out for you.

11-08-18  03:34pm

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