There's one thing that I don't care for that won't affect most people but it will be a pain for some. You can no longer search for gay DVDs from the DVD section of the site. You have to go to the gay tab to see search results for gay titles.

I don't think that their new scheme of displaying categories is as intuitive as the old method. The information is the same it's just displayed very differently, similar to a Yahoo! directory listing.

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A few things...The cast names will reappear on the search returns, and will always list the feature talent first.

As far as the category returns...I disagree with Drew about the category returns being "not as intuitive" as the old system. The new system allows us to break categories into unlimited sections, Thus allowing us to create new and exciting product groups. We have a few up already, and are developing more everyday. For example, check out the Adult DVD>Feature category. Instead of the usual category list, now you have product groups such as: couples, brides, sci-fi, spoofs, etc...Likewise we've broken our novelties into new product groups as well.

And the gay DVD's...we came to the decision that most gay customers prefer not to wade through the straight section to get to the gay product. This is the first step in a complete overhall of our gay product.

Please remember, these changes are not complete - that's why no official announcement has been made. We'll be posting an official release as soon as we touch everything up. I would like to thank everyone for their patience during the switch.

-MikeB
Adult DVD Empire

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In my opinion, the only thing that really should have remained the same is the full cast listing in the "GENERAL" section. But of course, some of the ADT friends here can give their two cents too, and help improve your site.

Me, I would like the suggest the option to search movies by DIRECTOR's name too. Is it feasible?

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As a whole I think the new stuff is great. Empire is always the industry leader so many other stores attempt to emulate.

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Just checked the page again, with the complete cast list now appearing.

By what I saw so far, now it's close to perfect.

Still miss the search by director, but I'm not in any rush.

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I'm glad everyone is giving us feedback on the changes, it really helps us serve you better. I personally read tons of email from customers with ideas and gripes, and can always be found lurking in these forums. After all, we are nothing without our customers.

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And about the Top Ten list, I can gladly send you copy of our magazine so you can see it.

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What may be happening is that the old data may be conflicting with the new layout of ADE.

To clean up the cache, just go to the folders

c:/windows/temp
c:/windows/temporary windows files

And DELETE everything that's inside those folders.

Usually, the Temporary Windows Files folder is filled with subfolders with funny names (UCC5LLTG, things like that).

When you try to delete em, a warning appears, telling you that those are system files and Windows may not run properly if you delete 'em.

Well, pay no mind and delete 'em anyway.

After all that, I suggest you to reboot, but that's not necessary.

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I wonder if they still have that flaw?

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For those of you that don't know what Sonic is referring to. He ran into a problem one time when he posted a link here in the forum to Adult DVD Empire's site. Adult DVD Empire uses a temporary userid= in the URL to keep track of your shopping cart and other things while you are at their site. Under very specific conditions it was possible for people to view Sonic's user profile for a brief period of time after he logged into his user profile at Empire's site. You could see his billing address and previous order history. It was not possible to view any credit card information.

I think it's important for everyone to realize that you should never post links in emails, message forums, newsgroups, etc., that contain something that remotely looks like it could be a shopper identification number. Stores have to use these numbers to support shoppers that do not have cookies enabled and for other reasons. These numbers can sometimes be a security risk if mishandled by a shopper.

Edited by - Drew Black on Jun 16 2001

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Can't slip anything by you guys...

...Saki, that problem (as Drew stated) has been long corrected. However, I would agree with Drew in that you shouldn't copy links from a site while you are logged into their system. The procedure of using "User id's" is by no means unique to our site, and therefor this "flaw" is common to most sites that use them.

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You know what I would really like in the way of a "super search" facility? A series of check boxes that I could mark and have them stay marked until I clicked on a clear search button or until I left the site. And the first of the check boxes should be str8/bi/gay with none or all checked being a full search and one or two of the three choices being checked limiting the search to those options. Then the second and third sets of choices should be your various categories and studios selections. However, again, I'd like some way of making my choices sticky until I clicked on the clear search button.

Most sites give their gay customers the impression that gay material is just a profit center after-thought, especially with the disparity of prices compared to straight erotica. I realize that you probably don't make any greater percentage profit on a sale of gay material than you do on a similar sale of straight material; however there is an enormous disparity in costs from the customer's point of view.

Thank you for whatever you accomplish. All improvements are greatly appreciated.
~ GaySatyr

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Bill- still working on the cast names in the search returns, we'll post when there has been a development

Gaysatyr - those are some good ideas, we are still working with our long overlooked gay site. all suggestions are welcome as we want to make it as useful as possible.

Adultdvdlinks - I don't know why you insist on attacking our top ten lists. Look at it right now (8/6 10:30am EST) there are 3 titles from this months vivid clearance sale (Mr Marcus' Neighborhood #8, Nylon, and Action Sport Sex #11) they have done very well in the last few days - because they are $7.95 each and they are in the top 10 list - positions 10, 9, and 5 respectively. Maybe you fix your lists, maybe your friends fix their lists, maybe other adult retailers fix their lists, but at the empire we do not fix our lists. If you are going to make disparaging claims, at least back it up with some evidence.

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