It's one of the best stores I can think of. They have a great service (thanks to Ethan ), good prices and ship all in stock tites on the same day you ordered them!
Only sometimes i wonder how they make a profit, once i paid one shipping fee but i did get 5 times a fedex package. They didn't collect them first before shipping, but shipped them when they got them. Still a bit expensive for them as i live in Europe. Still great service though:-)
thanks guys. what are the best online shops to buy from in general? considering selection, and relability, which shops would you most recommend? I'm definitely ordering from FIVE STAR, but I am thinking of buying from another one because FIVE STAR doesn't have one of the titles im looking for. Thanks!
I would have to agree as well. The only downside is once they go out of stock on a title, which often happens quickly, it can take them awhile to get it back in stock. Still, this situation has been improving and they are the first online service I turn to.
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Posted - Sep 6 2003 : 12:04PM
aesthetik,
I use three on-line stores in general rotation - and among them they usually have the titles I want.
XRentDVD FiveStar AdultDVDEmpire
With all three, I have had good results and service.
aesthetic, I've had great luck out of every Adult DVD Talk Affiliate I've used (with 5 Star being one of the best). I almost exclusively use the Kickback stores because I like free money and the kickbacks often make the cheap DVDs even cheaper! I think Adult DVD Today has the record for quickest shipment for me, and the biggest problem I've had is that Laser's Edge's inventory listing is often incorrect. I've been waiting for roughly six weeks on a "ships in 1 to 3 days" title (namely Real Girlfriends 2). I'm not completely upset about this because I had about the same wait for Real Girlfriends 1. My only problem here is that the wait time on those titles has not been changed, which annoys me more than a little and lets me know that I shouldn't pay attention to them at Laser's Edge unless it says that it's absolutely positively in stock.
aw man...XRENTDVD had all the titles i wanted in stock but i dont think they accept money order...does anyone know offhand which shops accept money order? Thanks,
I do the same. Except I would add Laser's Edge to the mix. I wish they were in the Kickback program, but many of their prices more than make up the Kickback amount.
I've also had success with Adult DVD Now and Bargain Adult DVD, but to a much more limited extent.
I used to buy from DVD Advantage very often with very good results. The only reason that I don't buy from them as often anymore is that they don't seem to keep up with new releases as well as the other stores that I've mentioned.
Although, I haven't had problems with any of the vendors that I've mentioned, I've had a couple of situations in which I've dealt with Five Star that were out of the ordinary.
The first one was shortly after I joined ADT (well before I became a moderator). Evil Angel's first DVD's had some problems due to being over+compressed onto a single layer. John Stagliano didn't like the quality of these discs and had them redone. He offered replacements to anyone who had bought the single layer versions. The replacements were being done by a retailer called "Blue Door" (I think). I had a problem where I returned 6 DVD's, but only received 5 replacements (and Blue Door wasn't going to do anything to fix the problem).
I posted my account on ADT recommending that anyone who was going to get replacements should attempt to do this through the retailer that they bought them from rather than going through Blue Door.
After reading my account on ADT, the owner of Five Star, sent me an e-mail offering to replace the sixth title for me for free. I had ordered from Five Star before that, but certainly not often enough to warrant that type of service.
The second situation was very recent and was due to stupidity on my part. After placing an earlier order (from someone other than Five Star), I forgot to remove a title from my ADT Comparison Cart. When I placed my next order, which happened to be with Five Star, I ordered that title a second time.
Upon realizing my mistake when I received my order, I e-mailed Five Star explaining the situation and asking for a way to resolve my problem. The answer that they gave me was the type of answer that I would hope for from a company if they were the ones who made a mistake rather than it being my fault.
I can't possibly say enough about how incredible I think Five Star's customer service is and would never hesitate recommending them to anyone.
speaking of fivestar... yes they're great and I order almost exclusively from them, but I've often received discs that were rattling inside the box, and scratched. This has never affected playback yet, but this time I received one disc so badly scratched the dvd skips and the last chapter is practically unaccessible, and the other dvd they sent was slightly cracked at the edge and it renders half the movie unplayable!
So my question is: how do fivestar handle returns? Will they send me new discs back? I still want these movies, just playable ones.
They are always out of stock. Everytime I want to make a buy from them it always "out of stock". They need to hire someone who can keep their inventory up to date. Apart from that they're not a bad online adult retailer