And if it with this one specific retired performer; I am not sure the ethics of selling off their old product with no way of stopping someone from publishing or making a website.
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| MaxBling66 Member  409 Posts 11/05 |  Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 12:02AM95% of them, anyway. I sat down and wrote respectful, handwritten letters to a handful of porn companies, at the addresses they listed on their websites and DVDs. Scott from New Sensations was the only one who was cool enough to reply to the email address that I provided in the letter, and we had a nice conversation. The rest of the letters I sent went completely ignored. Honest to God, I have a better chance of interacting with A and B-list celebrities on Twitter than I do of getting a reply from porn companies. They do not seem to appreciate their fans/customers in the least. It's not my intention to be a pest to these people. I'm not a bad guy. I'm not a bill collector. I'm just a porn fan who would love to interact briefly with the people who call the shots in the industry. Really, all I'm looking to do is privately purchase content which they may not have published. When you subscribe to websites, for instance, the pics are almost always scaled down. I love purchasing the entire, raw set of large digital pics. They have them... and I want them for the right price. This process seems like it should be easy, but it's nearly impossible. I've only been able to pull off a private purchase like this twice. It would also be nice to be able to contact them for model recommendations, product feedback, etc. Utilizing the "contact us" links on websites - if you can even FIND one - is almost always a fruitless endeavor. Nobody can be bothered to reply to the people who help to keep them in business. I probably won't have much luck here either, but I'll list the companies that I tried to get in touch with. If any of you have reliable contact information for any of these people (email address of the head honcho, for example), it would be enormously appreciated. - Hustler Video - Red Light District - Diabolic - 3rd Degree - Bang Bros - Reality Kings/Muffia - LeWood (Francesca & Mark) - FuckedHard18 (Jake Wolff) - Iron Cross (Evan Seinfeld) What do these companies have in common? Lexi Stone worked for all of them, of course. She's my favorite porn star ever (see my avatar). She's been out of the game for a few years now, so tracking down her unreleased content is the only way I'll find "new" stuff of hers. Whether it's larger pictures from the pics sets, or BTS stuff, or the raw, original video before it was edited down.... I'm trying to give these companies my money but nobody wants to take it.  Thanks a ton if any of you can point me in the right direction. [Link] |
| A_Fan Deactivated User 1187 Posts 9/16 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 1:41AM And if it with this one specific retired performer; I am not sure the ethics of selling off their old product with no way of stopping someone from publishing or making a website. Edited by - A_Fan on 10/25/2016 1:42:04 AM [Link] |
| MaxBling66 Member 409 Posts 11/05 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 1:50AM As for your other point, I'd happily sign whatever the ask me to in terms of not redistributing their copyrighted material. It's for my private collection and nothing more. [Link] |
| Macko69 Senior Member Gone for a walk. 1985 Posts 5/08 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 2:44AM You'd think at the very least, though, they'd give you the courtesy of responding, especially to a handwritten letter, which is rare nowadays. Did you work out a deal with New Sensations? [Link] |
BlackSix  All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 12:50PM Some of the companies you list also barely exist anymore (eg. Red Light District). And if they don't have anything useful to tell you they probably figure it isn't worth responding. Edited by - BlackSix on 10/25/2016 12:59:10 PM [Link] |
| MaxBling66 Member 409 Posts 11/05 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 1:46PM To Macko, I did not offer a specific amount of money in my letters, mainly because I have no idea what content that have. I did say that I would pay a fair price for whatever they came up with. At the point, it's up to them to give me a price and then I'll say yes or no. Regarding Scott, their pic sets on the website are outstanding when you are a subscriber. They have an ample amount of them. So that was no issue. Unfortunately, he no longer had the master videos of her shoots. But he was in contact with me the whole time and we had a nice chat about Lexi and the business in general. I will be a loyal New Sensations customer as long as they are around just because he took the time to help when nobody else would. I don't mean to be selfish and make this all about Lexi, but we all have our favorites and she is mine. My jaw dropped when I first saw her as a Playboy cyber girl. Then when she showed up in porn, my mind was blown. I just wish she had stayed in the game longer. The shitty pic sets drive me nuts. You see the photographers using these high-powered, expensive cameras, and the pics you get on the website are scaled-down garbage. Bang Bros are the biggest offenders. This is an example of a pic which subscribers get. I did not downsize this pic. This is as big as their pics get (at least at the time they shot her). And the fisheye lens... don't get me started.  Out of all of those companies that I listed, I could die happy if I could just get the large, original photos from the three Bang Bros shoots and her "MILF Worship 8" shoot for Mark Wood and Francesca Le. It will probably never happen, but I'll keep trying. [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 2:38PM That is a pathetic photo for members from Bang Bros. [Link] |
| MaxBling66 Member 409 Posts 11/05 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 2:58PM You won't believe this, but he is impossible to get in touch with also. Figured I had a shot to buy the original pics directly from him. [Link] |
| LPee23 All-Star Member Better to be pissed on, than to be pissed off. 248 Posts 1/15 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 3:42PM My wife runs an e-business, mainstream not adult, but she nonetheless gets a ton of support emails. Checking them got to be such a chore that she hired a support person to check the inbox as well as other tasks. Even then, she had to limit them to reply only to emails of paid customers, because it was costing unnecessary time and expense to deal with the others. Imagine that any porn company you message might be in a similar situation. How are you going to make your email or letter stand out? You need to consider that a support person may be the first to read it, and they may just filter it out. If your letter gets to the person you intended it for, you need to also imagine their response. The most valuable thing you are asking for may not be their content, but their time and effort. There are probably a thousand things they would rather do than hunt down old content, so what could you offer to change that? Keep your head up, and don't get discouraged if you see another opportunity. Many companies are unreachable, but I find about half will give you some sort of response. Many will be open to selling you content too, if you make the right offer. Just a few weeks ago, I emailed Jean-Paul Four as a member of his site EroticaShot.com about high res originals for a few dozen of my favorite shots, and he was happy to help out. Things may work out for you yet, you never know. [Link] |
| MaxBling66 Member 409 Posts 11/05 | Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 3:49PM Bang Bros and Reality Kings seem to be the most impossible companies to contact. I swear those sites are run by robots. [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Oct 26 2016 : 3:28PM Jacco [Link] |
| MaxBling66 Member 409 Posts 11/05 | Posted - Oct 26 2016 : 8:57PM Dumb question... can't you simply go into the archives on your computer and search for the girl you want based on her name? Just the same way we do with our vast porn collections?  [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Oct 27 2016 : 7:24AM And we don't sort by model, but by movie title and if the movie is out of print it will be archived externally. There is nothing easy about it at all. If somebody would write us a letter like you did we would probably reply with "Thanks, not interested" and that's it. Jacco Edited by - jacco on 10/27/2016 7:24:44 AM [Link] |
| MaxBling66 Member 409 Posts 11/05 | Posted - Oct 27 2016 : 1:08PM Most porn companies have nothing but disdain for their customers. It's a bizarre dynamic. [Link] |
| LPee23 All-Star Member Better to be pissed on, than to be pissed off. 248 Posts 1/15 | Posted - Oct 27 2016 : 9:11PM You should be extremely grateful if you get a request like this honored as a customer. [Link] |
| whitey Member 48 Posts 1/13 | Posted - Jan 27 2017 : 12:48AM Most of the guys and girls are open for a chat. I met some great people there and if you talk with them, they can tell you their particular reasons why they won´t do. I think there are several reasons why they won´t sell those stuff. I know, that a lot won´t sell pictures because you could sell them otherwise and legal actions migth be succesful but it would take them time. As you talk about pictures... A lot of photographers take pictures as raw files, when you edit them you save as jpeg and scale them down for the special use and you almost never give out raw files and that would take time also. Next thing you have to think about it, is why they didn´t use it. Often it is because it´s not good and nobody wants to show crap that could ruin your reputation. [Link] |
| a9nostic Senior Member 1056 Posts 8/08 | Posted - Jan 27 2017 : 12:59PM Go to a convention, LA maybe, Vegas for sure. [Link] |
| LPee23 All-Star Member Better to be pissed on, than to be pissed off. 248 Posts 1/15 | Posted - Sep 17 2017 : 4:22PM I just asked a webmaster if I could purchase the old content from nylon-piss.com. For no additional cost, he uploaded it a few days ago to the archive section of one of his current sites, pol-legs.com. Anyone can download it now for just the price of a membership. Just purchased the video content from another old site last week too, and the videos should be coming tomorrow. [Link] |
| LPee23 All-Star Member Better to be pissed on, than to be pissed off. 248 Posts 1/15 | Posted - Sep 26 2017 : 8:35PM [Link] |
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