"You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10
Posted - Jun 1 2016 : 1:10PM
You know, this is going to sound so counter-intuitive, but, after your anger subsides, you may be able to salvage something out of this. #1 Try calling them again, and calmly explain your situation to them, and that the ability to download is important to you. THEN, ask them if they would please transfer your membership to one of the other MindGeek family of networks (i.e. Brazzers, RealityKings, Babes, Twistys, DigitalPlayground, etc.). I strongly advise you to choose Brazzers if they will accommodate your request. This way, they get to keep your money, and you get a site that will allow you to download. #2 Now, if they don't do #1 for you, the following suggestion will go down hard with you, but it is a way to make lemonade out lemons... Periodically, about once a month, the PornPortal offers specials on many of their various MindGeek sites that will allow you to add -- for a one-time charge of $49.97 -- site(s) from the MindGeek family, that will give you access to the site(s) you purchase for as long as you maintain your original membership. These offers are usually presented in the members splash screen before you click through to the site you're going to. This will appear at the top of the page, not the offers that appear as you scroll down the splash page. I'd bet that one of these offers will be popping-up very soon as Father's Day approaches. In your case, you would still be "stuck" with MOFOs, but you could add Brazzers for only $49.97 more. DO NOT buy more than one of these discounted memberships, because when you drop MOFOs after your year is up, you will no longer have the add-on membership(s) you purchased, either. Here's how the PornPortal explained it:
I actually think these are the best deals in the world of paysites, especially for those who join the same site 3 times a year or more. If you have the patience to wait for a major holiday they usually drop the one time join price to $39 like they did this past Memorial Day weekend. 4th of July should be the next time they offer it.
Goldstein, I took your advice on this. They would not let me switch memberships. But they did go ahead and offer me any of the other portals to add on for $49.95. I picked one, and it's better than not have any download ability. Lessons learned, I guess.
I picked RK. I've already had Brazzers and I didn't like it. Too vanilla and fluffy. I like to download 1080 files. Most 1080 files on Brazzers are close to 4GB. And it always seemed like the first 40% of those files were bullshit fluff.
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mosidey Deactivated User
83 Posts 6/16
Posted - Jun 5 2016 : 1:56AM
If there is no download option how come scenes get posted on piracy sites?
"You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10
Posted - Jun 5 2016 : 9:02AM
^^ Also, there are many members who still have download privileges. I still do. Tell you what, though, I'll be goddamned if I'm going to spend my money to join a site, and then start uploading the content to pirate sites
^^ Are they pretty easy to grab? (Dont tell me how you do it, if its pretty easy I can figure it out) Edited by - darthroc on 6/6/2016 1:32:23 AM
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Porn Scout Deactivated User
3735 Posts 10/02
Posted - Apr 23 2017 : 12:03AM
Well this sucks. I just grabbed up the idealgasm one-month membership deal for $9.95 and well, lo and behold, there aren't any downloads without upgrading to a "Premium" membership. Guess I should have done my research, but man, how do these guys stay in business? Luckily, canceling the recurring charge is pretty easy so I'm only out $9.95.
^ Mofos are part of MindGeek, so they don't need to make profit to stay in business. All they need to do is deliver content for the MindGeek tube sites, where the real profits are made.
^What he said and the fact that many people like you don't do their research prior to joining a site and then dish out 10$ for a streaming only site or worse don't even know about the different deals you can have and pay the full 30$. I suspect that many people who join Mofo not knowing about the streaming only option choose to upgrade their membership to actually download content. In the short term it's a win win for Mofo because they get people to pay to join their site, they get some of them to upgrade their membership and they still make tons of money from their tube operations. In the long run that may change as more and more people get seriously pissed and simply stop joining Mofo. Then they are stuck at only making money from their tube operations and I don't think any site can survive doing just that.
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Porn Scout Deactivated User
3735 Posts 10/02
Posted - Apr 23 2017 : 4:58PM
Yeah, I'll probably pay the extra $10 so that I can download for the length of my one-month membership. Despite the shady practices, the content on the site is pretty good.
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Porn Scout Deactivated User
3735 Posts 10/02
Posted - Apr 29 2017 : 4:32PM
So, I went ahead and anted up the extra $10 for downloading privileges. Honestly, it's hard for me to get too pissed off about this considering how much I download when I join a site. But, what is kind of annoying is that the download speeds are really, really slow. Downloads most of the time seem to fluctuate around the range of 500 kb/s, which means a single scene can take anywhere from 90 to 120 minutes to download, or even more in some cases. Anyway, if anyone else reading this is a VIP member (i.e. you can download), I'd be curious to hear if you have the same experience.