Last time I ordered, delivery time was less than a wekk. You can check first with them if you like, but I never bother. I just order and see what turns up. These days, they are much better at stock-keeping, and will back order if necessary. Not sure whether they can guarantee to do that for ALL studios, though.

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I've found they're willing to accommodate your delivery requirements to get around customs concerns.

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I wish they would list if they have a movie in stock or not.

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I've placed my order so my fingers are crossed and I'll let you know how it goes.

Ii's funny that there doesn't seem to be a European site that is up there with the US ones in terms of ease of use AND stock information AND a big variety of stock / studios.

I'm preparing for the violent backlash as people proceed to identify numerous such European sites . . .

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I buy US titles from US retailers with absolutely no trouble sourcing them. The same can't be said for buying Euro titles. It's hard enough finding out what titles are available on dvd in the first place. Then trying to find someone selling it at a reasonable price is like looking for the Holy Grail.

If there is a reason why retailers don't stock a full range of titles from a studio I would certainly like to know.

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If you consider the different European studios, all producing titles in different countries. Then the online shops in Europe are all operating under different laws in their own country. It all makes for a much less "one stop shop" approach. So we end up with just a couple of reasonably coherent Euro shops such as Orgazmik, EroDVD and XoDVDs trying to stock a good range from the multitude of Euro studio output.

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They used to be a tad expensive but have recently lowered their prices a bit. They also offer free shipping if you order five DVDs and have a range of special offers.

Haven't tried them yet but they have a good reputation. I'm planning to order some Blue One and Alkrys titles soon.

Edited by - Joey Starr on 8/2/2003 4:02:19 AM

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Sourcing products in Europe to provide a comprehensive range would mean dealing with distributors from many countries, and there are few e-tailers with the resources to do this. Then there are the usual issues with inventory stock and costs, and so I think it's not surprising that most European vendors stick to a narrower range of titles that they presumably feel they will be able to shift.

Also, note that there are few American vendors who provide a range of European or other foreign discs (by which I mean imports).

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I fully agree! In fact I recently started a thread about this topic in the General Porn Talk forum. The funny thing is, that I my views were constantly ridiculed and dismissed by the Americans on the forum.

When I posted an example of such a set of laws (namely the prosecutorial guidelines of Los Angeles), which correlated 100 % with US porn releases -thus proving my case- the thread was quickly locked.

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Certainly the picture quality looks the same to me, and all the extras are there.

Regarding the earlier point about different distributors: I also made the mistake of buying the Shiva releases of Evil Angel titles, and won't do so again. The mastering is not as good and the extras are missing.

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timotei and Gabriel are completely right in their assessment of the differences between buying from a European store versus a US store. They may (almost) all share a currency now, but Europe is made up of a lot of different countries.

Ramsey is also correct with RE: to the Evil Angel releases. This is also true of the mail order stores here in Australia who licence them and strip out all of the extras (ie AXIS video). Luckily we can often find the original US-editions of EA titles in the smut shops locally. Focusyn is also correct that this is done with local releases of Private DVDs. All of the extras are stripped out, "Private Life of" come with only the first DVD (the second one doesn;t exist locally), and to add total insult to injury they're actually coded as Region 4 titles rather then Region free. For this reason I refuse to buy anything by Private locally in Australia.

Focusyn:~
The Private DVDs available from Europe (and erodvd) are exactly the same in content as the US editions, except for the fact that they are PAL. I've been getting all of my Private DVDs from erodvd for about 2 years now, and have no problems.

timotei and Kaneda are again right, when they say that the discs are identical to NTSC-US ones. I have many of both, and the language options are identical.

Kaneda is also correct that the PAL dvds (from Europe) have a slightly better picture. This is because PAL is made of around 626 lines of resolution while NTSC is made of around 525 lines of resolution. I undoubtedly got the exact numbers wrong (they're 500-something and 600-something) but there are about an extra 100 lines (20%) in a PAL image, so it's not just Kaneda's TV that shows a better picture, it's the format.

Our TVs here in Australia are PAL, so there's also no issues playing Private DVDs from europe or for that matter any other dvds from Europe.

The only issue should be if they're explicitly stated as NTSC DVDs, in which case if your TV is less than 15 years old there's still no problem 99% of the time. But if you can play a US dvd (Region free porn or mainstream Region 1) than you can watch NTSC dvds from Europe as well without problem.

whew.. that was long-winded. Hope I retained some clarity in my gabbing.

cheers,

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Edited by - focusyn on 8/3/2003 4:50:21 PM

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not a huge difference in quality, but I find the PAL discs do look overal slightly better. I haven't bought 2 of any specific titles so I can't give you a true side-by-side comparison, but overall I prefer the PAL pictures so I get my Privates from Europe.

cheers,

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They however refused to remove the box - so I had it delivered to a friend (who still has it a week or so later).

I shall probably try someone else next.

Trying to explain a billing from Holland was a bit difficult too - even something as inocuous as 'Euro Mail'

Tony

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Have emailed Aline this afternoon, but hasn't been answered yet. Anyone else had a broken disc from them?

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waiting.......crap in my opinion..no correction fukin crap

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Received my Order, well, received part of it - had been intercepted by customs who confiscated 2 of the 5 dvds because they showed fisting. This is a little bit annoying because I wasn't that bothered about the fisting anyway.

I think the reason it was intercepted was that it was shipped _with_the_boxes_ for the DVD-RAMA titles and I assume the DBM titles as well (don't know for sure cause those were nabbed) I don't know why they shipped like this, Ero-dvd say clearly that they ship without boxes. Bulging jiffy bags must look suspicious to Customs.

Adding insult to injury, one of the dvds that actually reached me was the wrong one!

I've contacted ero-dvd about this, I'll let you know how I get on. At the moment I'm not exactly impressed by them . . .

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You may well have valid problems with www.erodvd.nl (these guys, right? not www.erodvd.com?) but swearing and generally carrying on will get you nowhere. Seeing 4 of your total of 9 posts are in this thread saying a total of not much doesn't especially add weight to your comments.

As Ramsey has said, while some shoppers have had some problems with erodvd, their prices are pretty cheap (nowhere near the 4x for your cash in person as you're suggesting) and they've been around for several years, and so are not fly-by-night.

I'd also like to see the questions Gabriel has asked about this before seeing any of the general ranting I'm seeing from you. This applies to any mail-order company that gets discussed here.

Assuming erodvd reads this at some stage, you've also not provided them with any information they can use to identify your order. I've seen this type of rant many times for many retailers and it's really not useful to see someone from one of the online stores trying to reply to a post to help someone out with no way to identify who they are.

Useful information is good, ranting and swearing is useless.

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Cunobelin - be sure and keep us updated with what happens with your order. Though certainly ordering anything that's illegal in your location (fisting DVDs) is not really on the retailer's head if customs nab them. I've had letter-type (no plastic cases) packages opened many many times, but because I'm not ordering anything suspect for my location, it gets through.

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cykedout - I once had a cracked DVD from them (looked more like a manufacturing fault than something from transit) had it fixed up easily enough. Let us know what happens.

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Frigo - did you email them? What was the response? Is there any way to tell if perhaps German customs opened it and seized it because of german mail-order laws regarding porn?

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It does happen, perhaps more often than you'd think. That would explain why customs, and EroDVD and your local post office don't have it.

I've shopped with EroDVD many times, and I would find it hard to believe they would rip anyone off - it's just not worth the reputation damage. With regular airmail, once they dispatched the package then it's out of their hands. Unless a courier service was used, then there's very little that EroDVD could actually do to find your package - anymore than you could if you sent a letter and it never arrived. Some shops may consider sending a replacement at their own expense, but I wouldn't expect any of them to do so. It's just a hazard of using the postal system.

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I never had problems with adult dvd empire and xonair.com

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