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GaySatyr
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Posted - Jun 30 2003 : 11:03PM
Catalina Video is offering a Gay Pride special for 6-1/2 days only! 50% off all titles, DVD & VHS, until noon, July 7th 2003 PDT (GMT-8, adjusted for DST).

See: catalinavideo.com

~ GaySatyr

GaySatyr
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Posted - Jun 30 2003 : 11:52PM
I can't believe it: I just ordered seven (7) gay DVDs for under $120, including shipping! Unheard of! And they are all quality titles!

If you are interested in pre-condom Catalina titles ($14.50/DVD) and/or the few new titles ($22.50/DVD) that Catalina has released on DVD, this is an excellent chance to get them cheaply - directly from Catalina.

~ GaySatyr

joeblow69
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Posted - Jun 30 2003 : 11:58PM
Holy cow, that's a great deal! Does anyone have any suggestions on what to get?

I'd say Sailor in the Wild and Big Guns are definate keepers, but what about the rest?

The other pre-condom films don't look too appealing to me, they seem to be mostly twinky films, which isn't my style at all.

I'm thinking of getting the Cockpit Double Feature and Jawbreaker . Anyone know if those are any good?

GaySatyr
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Posted - Jul 1 2003 : 12:12AM
There are reviews of almost all of them over on ManNet.com ~ GS
Pornophile
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Posted - Jul 1 2003 : 12:59AM
Heck! at these prices I ordered all of the ones that I don't already have. (California residents are charged sales tax at 8.25%) I thought the shipping charges were very reasonable. Well, we'll see how long delivery takes....
 
DenverDon
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Posted - Jul 1 2003 : 1:12AM
Finally, you guys are getting a break. Good news.

DenverDon

netguy
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Posted - Jul 1 2003 : 7:47AM
I haven't seen them in a long time but I recall "Young & the Hung", Powertool and Pizza Boy were pretty enjoyable.......

Anyone see Boy Band or Voyager?

joeblow69
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Posted - Jul 1 2003 : 8:53AM
I forgot to mention... I have Ranger in the Wild on VHS. It has a couple very good scenes (Daryl Brock and Steve Rambo was my fav, I think), but about half of it is all filler. The big hunky guy on the cover (temporarily forgot his name) scene is pretty much a waste. They pair him up with some younger kid I didn't care for, and used a dildo. Why would you need a dildo when you have such a hunky hairy guy fucking you??
GaySatyr
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Posted - Jul 1 2003 : 12:02PM
Most of the titles "listing" for $29.00 (& on sale for $14.50) are old William Higgins titles. In their day, they were some of the best available. Do they hold up today? Well, yes and no. Their look is certainly dated. Many are of the actors are, well, gutter snipes (although that doesn't mean some of them weren't hot). Most enjoyed the sex (some of it sizzling) and most were gay. (There are no shaved, styled, pumped, steroid-muscle-Mary, gay-for-pay, Falcon types here.) A few of the actors were very famous at the time and traveled the country "staring" at places like The Follies Theater in Washington DC (where I met quite a few of them because of my dubious job as "publicity photographer" for the theater).

Go to the ManNet.com site; enter; then choose search with "Catalina" as the search word(s) criteria and "reviews" as the forum. (Sorry, I couldn't figure a way to incorporate the search in my link to ManNet.)

Personally, with the old titles, I picked ones where I knew a few of the performers and/or where the review rating was "Highly, highly recommended" - ManNet's equivalent of a 5-star performance. With "new" Catalina titles, I skip anything that has only one "Highly" unless it has special star appeal.

~ GaySatyr

Trusted73
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Posted - Jul 1 2003 : 10:52PM
Great prices but I have a question. If you order stuff from them, do they keep sending you junkmail about their videos that they have for sale? I know friends who ordered from some other sites, and he keeps getting crap junkmail from them. Does Catalina do the same?

Thanks
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GaySatyr
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Posted - Jul 1 2003 : 11:58PM
You can uncheck the email contact box when you open the order/account (however, the email is how I found out about the sale). ~ GS
Trusted73
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Posted - Jul 2 2003 : 12:23AM
Ah, I meant snail mail though.
GaySatyr
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Posted - Jul 2 2003 : 12:35AM
I haven't gotten a thing from them via snail mail (and I've ordered once before about 8 months ago) - your mileage may vary. ~ GS
Pornophile
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Posted - Jul 2 2003 : 9:34PM
I rec'd my order from Catalina today via UPS (11 dvds). I ordered on Monday night, Catalina shipped it out on Tuesday, July 1st and I rec'd it today, July 2nd. (I do have to say that I live about 4 miles from their office.)

Catalina is shipping orders very quickly, final delivery will depend how far you are from Los Angeles, CA.

I don't know when I'll get to all these dvds. I still have not been able to view any of the 3 Treasure Island Media dvds that I rec'd earlier.

Edited by - pornophile on 7/2/2003 9:35:44 PM

joeblow69
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Posted - Jul 6 2003 : 1:10PM
Well, since there's still 1 day left of the sale, I figured I'd give my first impressions of the 2 I got yesterday.

Cousins : The main attraction here is seeing Peter North in gay porn. He tops in the first 2 scenes, and bottoms in the forth. Scene 3 was unwatchable for me... all three guys were what GaySatyr would call "gutter snipes". Ugh. The rest of the movie was pretty good, though. It's probably not worth the full price, but seems like a good purchace for $14.50 if you like Peter North.

Jawbreaker : The video quality is not very good here. Obviously this wasn't digitally remastered. But the sex is still pretty damn hot. There's a few guys that I didn't like, but the cast is so huge, that it didn't really matter. There's six scenes, and almost every guy cums twice per scene. If the picture quality was better, I'd almost be happy paying full price for this one. As it is, it's a steal at $22.50.

 
Cindy Papa
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93 Posts
3/03
Posted - Jul 6 2003 : 2:11PM
Ordered Tues 7/1 after 9:00 PM local time (East Coast time) and rec'd them via US Mail on 7/5/03...that's incredible considering that there was even a holiday in between!!!
Trusted73
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Posted - Jul 6 2003 : 4:56PM
I ordered on July 1st, to ship UPS ground, I believe. Still nothing, but that's ok, since I do live in Chicago, and these really were deals. Hmmm, can't wait to see Ray Harley videos, with a Jake Taylor sprinkled in there.

tubedogg
Member

8 Posts
6/03
Posted - Jul 8 2003 : 9:16PM
I ordered July 1st, UPS ground, and live near Cleveland, OH and I got mine today. :D

I wish Catalina would provide tracking numbers or at the very least a shipping confirmation email. That's my only complaint.

octopusuk
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26 Posts
7/03
Posted - Jul 10 2003 : 1:39PM
Hi, I would of asked this question earlier but it has taken two weeks for my password to get to me. Anyway ...

I was interested in this sale (now sadly over) but when I went to the postage screen I was told that the cost of sending four un-boxed DVDs to the UK was $35. Has anyone from the UK ordered from catalina before and was the cost really that much?

Thanks.

tubedogg
Member

8 Posts
6/03
Posted - Jul 10 2003 : 9:31PM
I can't comment directly since I'm not from the UK, but I do know that when I sent a package to a friend near London last year through USPS - weighing under a pound - the cost was about $30 for Global Priority Mail, which is their lowest rung of service above what I like to call "Across the Ocean Via Mule". ;)

Given that, and given that Catalina pads the shipping charges (with handling charges), I'm not at all surprised that it would be $35 to the UK for four DVDs.

Edited by - tubedogg on 7/10/2003 9:31:44 PM

GaySatyr
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Posted - Jul 11 2003 : 3:50AM
International shipping in any direction can be a major headache. (So can customs charges.) I've ordered from overseas only twice, and, in both cases, found a company that had what I wanted at reasonable shipping rates. But I did have to shop around, keeping the overall cost in mind - not just the price of the product I wanted to purchase.

~ GaySatyr

octopusuk
Member

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7/03
Posted - Jul 11 2003 : 12:16PM
I've ordered DVD's from AdultDVDnow before and the shipping charge for four un-boxed DVD's was close to $7. The average shipping time was about a week to ten days which is OK. If Catalina had this rate available (rather than 5 times it), I'd of bought from them.

JR
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Posted - Jul 13 2003 : 10:28PM
Gay Satyr,

Thanks for the heads up. I missed the sale, and I wish that I had logged on and found out about it earlier. Bill Henson is beautiful in Sailor, and the scene between Jonny Davenport and Chris Grey in Big Guns is hot. I would have like to have added both movies to my DVD collection. Maybe next time.

JR

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