I was talking to Jon at DVD Advantage today (and no I do NOT work for them) and he mentioned to me that they are re-launching their new web site late this week. He said that their sale "would be incredible with hundreds of dollars in free stuff". His words, not mine.
Yeah, I've always had good luck with them. I just don't want anyone thinking I'm a shill.Jon said they had to re-work a few "issues". I questioned him on why they dropped the Kickback bonus, and mentioned to him that I was now spending dollars elsewhere that previously would have been his. He responded that it was a purely economic decision and that this sale should help to reinforce their position with ADT folks. Well, here's hoping it's the porn event of the year!
I am happy to anounce the GRAND OPENING of DVD Advantage.Com new web site.
Well it's taken us months of hard work and I am happy to anounce that it is now open and available for your shopping pleasure.
To celebrate this grand opening we are giving away free dvd's. The best part is you pick what you want!!!
Order: $100 $150 $250 $350 $500 $1000
Free Shopping Spree:$15 $30 $60 $100 $175 $400
This is just a small list of the new fetures:
1. Reviews 2. Ratings 3. Stream-lined account sign up process. 4. Wish List 5. Get notified when an Out Of Stock item is back in stock 6. Large front and BACK covers (On New Titles) 7. New Gay Site 8. New Toy Site 9. New VOD Site 10. Phone Sex (Comming Soon) 11. New picture format. (View all thumb nail images for an entire studio on one scrren) 12. Adding an item to your cart is quick and easy. (Dosn't change pages) 13. Advanced search - Search by date added, star, search within the description
These are just a few of the new features. Please note a few small bugs are being worked out of the system. Please email me at webmaster@dvdadvantage.com to report bugs.
Edited by - jon_dvdadvantage on 10/4/2002 8:10:47 PM
Edited by - jon_dvdadvantage on 10/4/2002 8:13:36 PM
Well, I said this before when the first relaunch was unofficially announced, and I will say it again...
The site looks great, it's a lot easier to find items, and a lot easier to navigate. Plus, it's a little more pleasing to the eye.
A question, I see that in the title bar you have 11,000 DVDs in stock. Will you be filling in the gaps of some series? You have, for example, #1, #4, #5, and #8 of Blahblahblah, will you be ordering/stocking titles that are not currently in your store? To fill in those gaps?
Because there are some series I am looking at, but you only have a few from each.
I was just wondering is all.
Anywho, the site looks great and I hope to be placing an order before the end of the month.
With the transition to the new site the Kickback order tracking mechanisms are not working properly at the moment. I have temporarily disabled the ability to palce Kickback orders at DVD Advantage. You may still redeem credit you just can't place new Kickback orders yet. The development staff at DVD Advantage is working on fixing the problem.
The Kickback order tracking problems have been fixed. If you place a Kickback order and do not receive a Kickback confirmation email please drop me a note with your DVD Advantage order number.
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Posted - Oct 5 2002 : 7:32PM
Jon great work on the site. I have never ordered from your site, but looks good. I am a fan of XRent's updated site.
Thank you for the update, the new layout is nice ;)
Btw, could you confirm for how long the "Free Shopping Spree" will valid ?
the second is any plan to reduce your Int'l shipping rate ? I know the rate is cheap for 15 DVDs order (only $2 / DVD) and it's 3 Days Express Int'l delivery. But... how if I just want to buy 5 DVDs ? I shipping rate per DVD is too high for small order. I still remember last year you drop the shipping rate for special event. ;)
Say, Jon, since you're here, I figured now would be a good time to bring this up. I've bought things from DVD Advantage in the past, and I don't mind getting ads in my email with coupons and such. But...
Do you think you can tell from my purchases that I am gay, and am not necessarily interested in hearing about all the latest BOOB filled DVDs? Maybe a little more targeted marketing is in order?
I second that suggestion! I long ago relegated your advertising emails to my trash bin because of their content. They are also one of the reasons that I have only purchased from you when taking advantage of the 50% bonus kickback dollars promotion you recently discontinued.
Heck, even my screen name and email address proclaim my gayness....
We are working on that very issue. In fact if you select the advanced option for setting up your account. We are asking people what emails (If any) they wish to receive.
We should have a seperate gay emailing in about a week.
Please give us your sugestions about the subject line. I don't think anyone wants their to be any mention of gay in the subject line? ( Am I wrong??)
By the way you can now go to: GayDvdAdvantage.Com takes you to our gay web site.
If anyone has sugestions for improving our Gay or Straight site I would love to hear from you. You can email me at jon@dvd88.com or call me direct at 877-707-5662. My name really is Jon (Ok Jonathan, but it is too long)
Thanks for all your support and sugestions. We are working very hard to make DvdAdvantage.Com the best web site around.
I just wanted to let everyone know that we have fixed the following errors:
1. Speed. Our ISP had problems. The site is very fast !! 2. Reviews. All of the reviews should be appearing now. (Thanks ADT for the reviews) 3. We have added the abilitity to checkout WITHOUT having to create an account. 4. Issues with older versions of Netscape.
Thanks to all ADT users for their help and sugestions.
To answer your question: Now a question, will you be stocking volumes in some series that are missing? (To fill in the gaps?)
That depends on what series. The older series (Lower numbers) most likely the answer is no. The reason for this is simple, they don't sell that much anymore. With over 120 new releases per week, it is getting very hard to keep stocking the older titles.
I hope that answers your question.
Jon DVD Advantage.com
Edited by - jon_dvdadvantage on 10/11/2002 8:05:33 PM
Jon, It might be a good idea to make the same modification to New Release screen on new site that you made to the old one.
When looking at a New Release screen, it makes much more sense to have the list sorted by date than alphabetically. This way someone looking at the site can see immediately if any new releases have been added.
I had actually assumed that, with all of the work involved in setting up a new site, that you hadn't added any new release since the relaunch. This was because I kept seeing "100% Blowjobs 4" at the top of the New Release list every day.