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Mojo
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1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - Mar 4 2005 : 5:40AM
Now, this is a follow on from my censorship in the UK thread. I've just phoned up ScoreUK to enquire why it is that the May edition of Score has received the hack and blob treatment from ScoreUS, whereas all previous editions since the UK laws were relaxed have been the full US version, and it seems that Score have seen fit to resort to a rather underhanded marketing tactic. From what I can gather, Score have decided to only release a fully censored edition for the UK market in order for the punter to be forced into taking out a subscription to the US version. So, what it all comes down to is "you either subscribe to the full version through us or you get a watered down substandard version through your local newsagent! Like it or lump it!!!" This is also the attitude I got from the person on the phone, who abruptly, and quite arrogantly said, "Nothing to do with us, sorry," and then put the phone down. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but what I bought was a "Score magazine"? So, in that case, why is it nothing to do with ScoreUK, especially seeing that it was the rather crap UK version that I bought! This is not the way to do good business, to treat customers in such a vindictive way, to make sudden changes such as this to their magazine with no sign of censorship on the cover, and to force the customer into taking out a subscription or else you'd get a crap second rate version in your newsagents!

Comments please. Have any of you received such bad treatment from Score Group? Are they always so arrogant and underhanded in their tactics as this? I especially feel that it was underhanded to make this change suddenly and without any sticker on the front noting that the issue had been censored!

Edited by - Mojo on Mar 4 2005

DVDwishes
ComX

1060 Posts
7/04
Posted - Mar 4 2005 : 8:56AM
Score blows in general. I'll add more comments when I return from work because I need proper time to list them all out.
Mojo
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1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - Mar 4 2005 : 12:55PM
Mmm, and there I was just going to make an order for a load of DVDs with Eboob.
DVDwishes
ComX

1060 Posts
7/04
Posted - Mar 4 2005 : 7:34PM
I'd suggest you not do that until you've gone looking for those DVDs. more then likely you can find them somewhere else at a much cheaper price. except, however, many of Linsey Dawn McKenzie's DVDs since she is an exclusive contract girl with the Score Group.

there are numerous threads that have gone into this, and how much I wish Score would turn it around. they seem to be the hub for big breasts still, but they have ZERO idea how to rightfully promote the women who come to them. I'm sure their PR machine is a chalkboard because you'll never see any of their women starring in a film or doing a commerical. that's not what they're about.

my question would then be why do you go there? if you want some specifics I'll give you as much or as little as you need, but I've talked about this time and time again. the BIGGEST problem here being that they don't give a rats ass about their fans.

you can write in, make suggestions, and literally stage a protest all you want. unforunately, the guy who runs it still started the company and he still thinks it is 1980 for some reason and he's the man.

Jacco All-Star Supporter
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5/04
Posted - Mar 5 2005 : 3:33AM
Actually, we also have the Linsey DVD's (at a lower price then Eboob ), the Maximum Insertion one is one of our bestsellers.

Jacco

 
Mojo
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1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - Mar 5 2005 : 6:02AM
Do you really?! And that's one that I was after!!! I'll have to get over to your site as soon as I have a moment to have a gander! I know that you send the original disks by what you said on the other forum, but is it the original US Score version with the second exclusive Linsey disk, rather than the Euro version that I saw in the local sex shop? I'm also looking to buy "The Best of LDM" & "Voluptuous Xtra 6" DVDs. Have you got them too? If you have, and if I get the original US copies in their original cases, then I'll certainly move on over to your site toot sweet!
Mojo
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1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - Mar 5 2005 : 9:53AM
Unfortunately, as was stated above, two of the DVDs I wanted were indeed LDM DVDs, ones that are pretty much brand new and don't seem to be coming onto the open market any time soon due to their popularity (Maximum Insertion even went outa stock on Eboob at one point recently!). There are other new releases that I want, but that's a subject for another thread.
It's such a shame that they're clueless and arrogant, because there are sooo many fantastic lookers in Score, women that would do much better if they were to go mainstream.
Easy answer to that one are the fantastic (and rare!) looking women (Lorna Morgan, Crystal Gunns, LDM, Vanessa Montague, Harmony Bliss, Russian Kathy, Cassandra, Alana Ambrose, Autumn Jade, Nichole Peters etc. etc. etc.), especially for I guy like me that loves glamorous buxom and beautiful women.
I honestly didn't know that Score had this sort of dubious bad reputation already. I was just doing what some TV shows do, pointing out a rip off merchant when I find one; notifying all the punters what to look out for before more like me come a cropper. And as the TV shows prove, the best way to damage a disreputable company is to spread the word in order to give them a bad reputation.

Another thing that came to mind is, isn't it somewhat illegal to censor your own merchandise for a country that has no such laws on censorship, and then not notify the punter via a sticker on the front cover to say that said publication has been censored?

They've also proven you right in respects that they never did answer my complaint E-mail that I sent them. I guess they only answer E-mails that blow sunshine up their arses!

Again, it's such a shame that they screw the punter over, because I was just becoming a fan of the publication.

DVDwishes
ComX

1060 Posts
7/04
Posted - Mar 5 2005 : 10:19AM
go back and look at their archives from when they first started in '92. look at the entire year and all the women who posed for them ... now jump forward and go back a year ago and you'll see they coaxed three or four of these women out of retirement to shoot for them again. the reason; their sells numbers are in the toliet. not many people are buying anymore because they continue to shoot LDM over and over and over again.

they refuse to go out and spend money on other women. they don't look for large breasted women to shoot because they sit back and wait for fans to send in pictures. I couldn't tell you the last time I read that a particular model came to them or wished to shoot for them.

there is one exception there, Angela White who Austrailian, who supposed has wanted to be in Score since she was a little girl, but she's only 19 yrs old now! the upside of this is that she's 19 yrs old and has a 36G cup chest with very little baby fat. the downside is they have no idea how to promote talent like that.

for about the billionth time I'll state that they have a bunch of monkies working in their video department. any film you buy from them looks like it was shot in a room the size of a closest. ALL of the scenes are recycled and in one of maybe five locations. watch Chloe XXX and then go watch Linsey's Lizzy Seduction and they're shooting on the same bed with the same blankets and wall paper. put a damn potted plant there or something. make an attempt to change the setting!

I swear to you, I swear, that on Chloe Vevrier's "Best of ..." DVD you could hear someone doing construction in the background when she was eating out Autumn Jade. I thought I was hearing things until I listened to it with the volume on FULL blast.

the list goes on and on ...

they've done a number of "Best of ... " DVDs for Chloe, Linsey, Autumn, and even Susie Wilden who didn't have near as much material to work with. Minka, biggest Asian breasts on the planet, has been with the company since it's opening '92. they have enough material to give her an entire series, but do you think they'd attempt something like that? they haven't and I don't think they will. I suggested it two years ago and it's still not been done yet.

Mojo
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1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - Mar 5 2005 : 10:29AM
I can't understand why so many of these top lookin' birds go and stay with Score instead of going to work for some of the better mags or porn companies?! Have you got any idea why? They're just too top notch to be wasted on such a company, especially seeing that at least some of them are obviously willing to do hardcore shoots!
DVDwishes
ComX

1060 Posts
7/04
Posted - Mar 5 2005 : 10:35AM
NO COMPETITION

I have a few bucks laying around, but nowhere near what it would take to get John Graham to go retire somewhere and let me take over the company. I've got some many ideas for that place you wouldn't believe.

#1 The Score grotto

Edited by - DVDwishes on 3/5/2005 10:36:19 AM




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