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• it seems that anabolic released "rough sex#1" dvd 5/13/2004 1:58 PM
  
  I'd say, releasing this classic on DVD was past-due ;)

• AdultDVDEmpire 11/11/2001 1:08 PM
  
  I am also quite astonished about such an aggressive approach. I didn't expect that and don't think it was suitable since I never used this language in a discussion, and I'm not used to being treated that way. At least now I know what Drew is thinking about me. I wondered if I should post another reply or not, but I chose to do so in hope of being able to clarify a few things, and maybe some of you will take the time to read all of it before forming an opinion which is an advantage when writing in a public forum. First of all I don't know ookz as a person and I'm not scanning his posts for appearances of unpolite attitudes towards anybody. What I wrote only referred to his post in this thread, and I still don't see anything aggressive behin...

• AdultDVDEmpire 11/10/2001 11:07 AM
  
  Hi Drew, quote: This really pisses me off. It's simply not fair to bash a company for being honest businessmen and following the laws. This has become a real pet peeve of mine. While these other companies you mention may use alternate methods to get your stuff to you it's quite possible that your order is much more important to them. I suspect that it's in Empire's best interest to obey the laws as they are written. They are a much larger business and have a lot more to lose than a few hundred bucks a month in orders overseas if they get caught breaking the law. The same goes for other companies that follow the rules like Five Star. (They have been chastized in the forum in the past for similar issues.) I think you're exaggerating a bit. N...

• To all retailers: International Shipping costs... 11/9/2001 8:13 AM
  
  Hi Ken, thanks for speaking up in this thread and clarifying the situation with GPM a bit. It's true that Fivestar did a great job in resolving the problems of my last orders, which certainly cost you some money and which I appreciate a lot! I like your online store, your service and your prices a lot and would like to order more often from you, but I'm very concerned about the extremely big custom problems I had with my last orders, and wonder if Fivestar couldn't be a bit more flexible when it comes to international shipping. As mentioned in <link> obviously quite a few packages from Fivestar have been confiscated by customs. I guess this is because the packages simply were too obvious or because they're looking out for packages from yo...

• To all retailers: International Shipping costs... 11/8/2001 7:19 PM
  
  Thanks a lot for answering in this thread, Lasersedge. I think your pricing is a big step forward. I personally haven't used your $1.99 flat rate air mail offer, since I had some problems with customs lately and am quite concerned about this. So I went with your DHL offer. Unfortunately this is much more expensive, but delivery is guaranteed, and the price is still the same if not a few dollars less than the price of other retailers who don't guarantee delivery. I'm certainly going to order from you more often. Do you have any info on your $1.99 shipping ? How secure and fast is it ? And how secure is GPM ? I've received quite a lot packages via GPM and none of the retailers said that it was trackable. Every time I took a look I saw that...

• To all retailers: International Shipping costs... 11/8/2001 7:19 PM
  
  double-posted - just cleaning up. Edited by - scipio on Nov 9 2001

• To all retailers: International Shipping costs... 11/8/2001 6:15 AM
  
  I'd just like to bring up this topic again. Actually I'm a bit startled that not a single retailer seems to have noticed it or to want to take part in this thread.

• What about an "Essentials" Forum? 11/8/2001 5:52 AM
  
  Hi Buttboy :-> What do you mean with &quot;Essentials&quot; ? You mean a list of Companies / Directors / Actors and their best movies / scenes ? I don't think this would be so much that a new forum was needed. Maybe we could fill this thread or you could make a poll in the Polls-forum and compile a list. Generally I could imagine this to be a hard task since when asking that question some people might answer &quot;I love nearly all of Anabolic's Assman series&quot;, some others might say that only 6 performers were great in these movies, while others will say that this series sucks and again others will say they don't like Anabolic. Don't know if it's easily possible to compile such a list. Greetings, Spesedy

• Clever DVD storage 11/8/2001 5:41 AM
  
  Thanks for all your suggestions. At the moment many of my DVDs are stored in CD jewel cases as well, but I would really like the DVDs to be in their original cases with the artwork. Separating the artwork from the cases reduces my feeling of owning an original. When I take out a DVD from a CD jewel case without any covers I somehow feel like playing a cheap copy. I know it's silly, and I don't have an idea how to say it to be more understandable :) Somehow I think that many covers are so well done and look so pretty and kind of artistic that it's a shame to separate them from the movies. Well, I guess that still sounds crazy, so I'll stop here :) @Tricia: are these caselogic-binders safe ? I don't trust them that much. I never had the im...

• Internally Yours 11/6/2001 4:56 AM
  
  Thanks Steph ! I didn't think the market was so small. I relied on some numbers I got to know from some &quot;documentaries&quot; on TV. It was said that the industry made billions of dollars every year and that video stores and video rental stores made most of their income with porn vids. Also porn producers tend to use new features of the media much earlier and better than mainstream companies, e.g. multiple angles, interactive movies and things like that. All this made the impression on me that the porn market was bigger than most people would think and I could imagine. On the other hand you and the woman from Elegant Angel certainly know what they're talking about. I just couldn't imagine so few people having an impact on a big compan...

• Reworking the comparison cart 11/6/2001 4:41 AM
  
  Hi again, I also mentioned the possibility to move the items from one cart to another in my last post. Sorry if this didn't get clear. In fact I wrote exactly the same message as dexplorer did Just wanted to emphasize again that I'm with him concerning the cart features.

• Internally Yours 11/5/2001 4:44 AM
  
  This certainly sounds kind of erotic. I'd like to know, though, what made Elegant Angel change their release schedule. Although I like the idea of posting a movie I like in a forum and the manufacturer starts putting it on DVD, I can hardly believe that Patrick Collins saw 5 people expressing their interest on the board and thought &quot;Oh well, if there's so much interest for this film, we'll change our release schedule for this year.&quot; :-o Steph, do you know more about it ? My guess would be that for a company to change their schedule they have to have received hundreds of letters and emails.

• Reworking the comparison cart 11/5/2001 4:23 AM
  
  Hi Drew, it's a great idea. I'm generally using my cart as a wishlist, and when I see some DVD that looks interesting I simply add it to my cart to be able to check it out some time later. So the content of the cart can sometimes become very much, and after checking which store is the cheapest for which DVD, for placing an order I have to set the DVDs I'd like to order from other stores to zero-quantity and increase the quantity again once I've transferred my cart to the store and deleted the items just transferred from the cart. This can become quite time consuming. I'd still like to use the cart as a big wishlist, so the perfect functionality - in my eyes - would be to have one general cart one could use as a big wishlist and another ca...

• What happened to the Price Search? 10/31/2001 8:38 PM
  
  Cool! I was just placing my order without using kickback when I read your message just in time to correct it and transfer my cart :-) Thanks a lot Drew... And happy Halloween ;)

• What happened to the Price Search? 10/31/2001 6:40 PM
  
  Weird, Didn't Drew say anything about a new price search version ? Maybe it isn't fully implemented yet, or it is but some mistake happened ? However, I hope he'll notice the problem soon, since like you I was just going to transfer my cart to DVDAdvantage to use the Halloween Coupon :-(

• Received two custom notices ,and more will follow 10/20/2001 3:21 PM
  
  I'm not sure that this was initiated by some local company. Couldn't this have been just a random inspection ? On the other hand it's true that American films are usually distributed by German companies here. For example many Evil Angel films are distributed by MMV - I think. However I wonder why this has only happened to packages from FiveStar yet. Interestingly enough, the last FiveStar-packages reached me without any problems lately. I have to say that all my mail to and from the US has become MORE reliable after the terrible events from September 11th, although that's certainly kind of macabre. Maybe so many mail was backlogged, that customs couldn't keep up with the packages last month ? I hope you're wrong, Drew. This was certainly ...

• Received two custom notices ,and more will follow 10/20/2001 3:21 PM
  
  Sorry... doublepost :-o Edited by - spesedy on Oct 20 2001

• Opinion on SEX rating? 10/20/2001 7:48 AM
  
  Hi Endorphin... Don't worry about writing misleading reviews. Reviews are always subjective. It's totally normal that some will love the film and some will hate it, no matter what rating you gave it. I personally would try rating a film after how &quot;earnest&quot; the scenes are. If it's only hard fucking combined with loud fake moans and actors permanently take a look at their watch, I certainly wouldn't give the film a good rating, no matter how many positions there were. If I got the impression that everybody was into it, the scenes were intense and nobody was thinking about something totally different, I'd give it a good rating. That doesn't necessarily mean that everybody has to make the impression that he likes the action. For ex...

• Lasersedge & Private sale 10/19/2001 1:50 PM
  
  Update: I've just contacted Marc from Lasersedge and told him about my past problems with GPM and German customs, and he offered to send the missing discs via DHL as well. He also reassured me that they'd honour the Private sale price. Thanks a lot for solving this problem, Marc.

• Received two custom notices ,and more will follow 10/19/2001 1:42 PM
  
  Hi dexplorer, maybe I can help you about your confusion. You're right that nearly no pornographic material is restricted here in Germany. Bestiality and child porn aren't allowed, but that's all I can think of. No other &quot;fetish&quot; is forbidden no matter how hardcore it is as long as it's done by consenting adults. The German import restrictions haven't got anything to do about restricting foreign material. In fact the problem is that any kind of mail ordering pornographic material is forbidden here. You can go to a video-store or a porn-shop and buy and rent everything you want - German titles as well as foreign titles, but in Germany you even can't mailorder from a German store - at least not without any problems. There are a few...