I'm considering joining an online rental site like xrentdvd/sugardvd/bushdvd, etc...
Any comments or opinions on which is the best site? I don't want to join and then have most of my selections unavailable due to being rented out. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
With Xrentdvd, what you see is what you get. Availability and selection were generally good. But service dropped off sharply after about the third month, where shipments took up to 10 days when formerly took only 3 days. Excuses: postal service. Yeah, right. By the sixth month, it became unbearable.
I'm quite certain, you'll inevitably find BushDVD.com to be the superior over the others...hands down. However, I recently decided to try the newcomer, SugarDVD.com...& they're phenomenal, too. Either way u can't go wrong...Since BushDVD gives you almost half off your 1st month, & SugarDVD gives u a free 10day trial.
I didn't say the 10-day delivery was typical. All I said was it happened. I should say more precisely that during the first couple of months, deliveries and returns for me ranged from 2 to 4 days, with most at 3-day. Next couple of months, deliveries and returns usually took a day or two longer. By the 5th month, a disc took 10 days to arrive and some discs took about a week to be checked back in. A month later, another disc took equally long to arrive.
I have no other issue with the mail. Since USPS does not guarantee First Class delivery time, it becomes an easy scapegoat for anyone wanting an excuse.
Irregardless...Whether or not it's typical, it's irrelevant. It more than likely will not occur to many others. 10days?...I'm well aware that they are rather slow relative to BushDVD, ADE, et al....But, never 10days continuously.
I have a few questions for anyone who's rented from xrentdvd recently:
If I select "USPS Priority Mail (Recommended)" for $4.99, how long does it usually take to arrive? I live in the Chicagoland area.
I'm planning on renting about 4 titles; will it be delivered in a plain white envelope in my mailbox, and when will the purchase appear on my bank statement?
I live in Iowa. If I use the $4.99 shipping option, I get my package within 2 to 4 days with 3 days being the most common. If I use the $2.99 option, I get my package within 3 to 5 days with 4 days being the most common.
The $2.99 envelope is white and is slightly bigger in size than a DVD. The $4.99 envelope is more like a card board type material and is twice the width of the $2.99 envelope. The white envelope with the DVDs is inside the card board envelope.
You have to know the last day of your billing cycle. For example, if you use a certain card whose billing cycle ends on July 16th, any purchase you make prior to the 16th will be reflected on your July Statement.
If however you make the charge on July 17th and your billing cycle has already ended, the charge will then show up on your August Statement along with your other charges during the first half of the month of August.
Hey guys, I only noticed a very brief mention of WantedList.com in one of the 6 linked threads by GonzoAnalFan, so I thought I'd chime in to let you know that there's another company to consider. WantedList.com was AVN's pick for Best Retail Site of 2005 and we also offer a 10 day free trial.
I visited your site. What's your policy for adding newly released titles? It seems that your site is really late in adding newly released titles. For example, Ass Worship 7 by Jules Jordan was released in late May. It is not listed in your site at this point. Newly released titles from other studios than Evil Angel are not listed either.
I know this sounds harsh, but this fact alone is enough to drive away a lot of ADT forumers.
The titles I was looking for at Xrentdvd were out, so I decided to give Dvdrentz.com a try.
Has anyone here tried dvdrentz? I read through their FAQs, and it says you do not have to be a member to rent dvds. I went ahead and rented 4 dvds, gave them my CC, and there was no page with a receipt of costs, etc. Now I'm a little worried. I did receive an email, and it says the Number of Movies Requested was 1. And I rented 4. I emailed them back, so hopefully they'll get back to me with more details.
That's a good question. We're usually pretty good about adding new release titles but we know we could be even faster, and we're putting a lot of resources into this segment of our service. Previously, our focus has been on gearing up our second distribution center. The facility is now completely operational, meaning faster turnaround times for customers across the country. We've also made significant software enhancements, such as our Pornotron 6900 which helps you fill your queue with movies based on your preferences, though it's more for newbies to get familiar with the many available choices. And we've also added more valuable, free content to our website to enhance the user experience, such as the WantedList Advisor column and our most recent contest, "Direct a Madness Picture."
I realize that a consumer like you would be happiest with the latest movies available immediately upon release - and we'll have that soon - but with the 15,000+ titles we've already got in stock and large proportion of new release titles, we find that most customers are happy with our selection.
Typically, we wouldn't post in one of these threads, but when a company is guilty of false advertising and chooses to use the forum to perpetuate that lie we feel the need.
How can you have 15,000+ in stock if you don't have 15,000 titles. Here is a count from your website:
1st Strike 6 Acid Rain 33 Adam & Eve 393 Adult Source Media 18 Alexander Institute 17 Anabolic 153 Anarchy 15 Asiarotica 1 Astral Ocean 0 Avalon 38 AVE (Asian) 60 B Line 6 Baby Doll 130 Bacchus 193 Bad Seed 4 Bavarian Film Works (Ninn) 1 Big Top 151 Bi-Now 5 Bizarre 158 Black Ice 0 Black Mirror 8 Brand Nu Line 6 Brave (foreign) 7 BRI (story of O) 2 Caballero 150 Candid Cam 23 CDI 36 Celestial 69 Central Park Media (anime) 50 Channel 69 38 Cherry Boxxx 82 Cinemaplay 17 Club Jenna 6 Coast to Coast 50 Cream 13 Damaged 4 Dane 75 Danni Ashe 4 David DVD 1 Defiance Films 5 Devil's Films 203 Diabolic 75 Digital Playground 231 Digital Sin 171 DNA 3 Dream Girls 24 Dreamland 215 Ducati 1 Dusk til Dawn 0 Elegant Angel 254 Erotic Media 20 Erotic Men (Gay) 0 Erotica 2000 13 Eurotique 0 Evasive Angles 25 Evil Angel 508 Fatt Entertainment 18 Forbidden Digital 16 Fuck Flixxx 5 Full Throttle 0 Gen XXX 46 Gentlemans 22 GGG 16 Girls Gone Wild 15 Good Fuck 2 Gwenmedia (bondage) 29 H2 Video 19 Heatwave 67 Historic Erotica 71 Homegrown 46 Hustler 303 I-candy 6 Inferno 0 Inner View 1 In-X-Cess 30 Jake Steed 11 Japan X 2 Jekyll & Hyde 4 Jill Kelly 198 Jim Gunn 3 JM Productions 79 Kick Ass 93 Knob/Ryder 16 LBO 26 Lethal Hardcore 15 Leisure Time 72 Mad media 45 Madness Pictures 26 Mayhem 6 Media Blasters (anime) 4 Mercenary Pictures 38 Metro 473 Mitchell Bros 1 Mojo 9 Nawty Girl Tonite 3 Nectar 27 New Machine 485 Ninn Worx 72 NJ Films 14 Noose (Bondage) 2 Northstar 106 Nu-Tech 376 Nymph 55 Odyssey 51 Old Pueblo 57 Oriental Dream 45 Original Sin 5 Overlord 25 Pagan Pictures 7 Peach 46 Penthouse 25 Platinum X 185 Playboy 32 Pleasure Productions 83 Precious 1 Private 415 Purrrfect Video 8 Puritan 42 Rain Productions 124 Ramco 1 Red Board (Bondage) 12 Red Light District 299 Robert Hill 87 Score 47 Sensational 4 Seymore Butts 103 Shane's World 34 Simon Wolf 98 Sin City 345 Sinclair Intimacy (Instrutional) 17 Sineplex 68 Sinthetic 1 Smash Pictures 99 Snatch 8 Studio-A 25 Sunshine 738 Suze Randall 13 Swank Digital 8 Taboo 43 Third Degree 52 Typhoon (Asian) 0 Ultra Hard 4 VCA 634 VCX 30 Vertigo 30 Vidbidness 10 Video Team 81 VIP Entertainment 0 Vivid 739 Vivid -Raw 98 Vivid -Wave 131 VXI 7 West Coast 83 Wicked 167 Wildlife 107 Zero Tolerance 103 Zoom Studios 0
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In March of this year you were claiming to have 15,000 titles and only had 11,355.
If you would like to check our count all you have to do is click the Browse button without choosing a category or studio. Currently (17476).
We didn’t realize this forum to be a place where businesses flame each other. We thought this to be a place where adult movie fans, directors, performers and businesses talk about things happening in the industry and services that are offered. But we’re not going to lower ourselves like the previous post into name-calling and flames. We’re just going to give you guys the facts.
We have over 15,000 titles, period. We made the decision recently to divide our straight and gay sections up. Instead of calling our gay section Gay WantedList, we decided to be clever and call it MaleBoxDVD www.MaleBoxDVD.com. Male Box DVD, which is integrated into the WantedList service and framework allows users to rent from over 4,000 different gay titles. Our straight movies extend beyond 12,000 titles. You do the math.
Very simply, we offer all new users the “Pepsi Challenge,” with our free trial. Our philosophy is that we’ve got nothing to hide and customers have nothing to lose. Try our selection, search engine, fun features and enjoy fast turn around times with our regional distribution centers. If you don’t like it, then you can always cancel your membership before the 10 day free trial is up.
We appreciate everyone reading and if you have any other questions please post them or you can email at dennis@wantedlist.com.
At the address www.wantedlist.com/WantedMember.aspx, it says, "Over 15,000 TITLES in stock, from the BEST STUDIOS AND STARS." Don't you think that the number of titles listed at www.MaleBoxDVD.com shouldn't be counted there???
Although I am not entirely familiar with your system, the "Browse all Genres" option doesn't list the genre "gay" at www.wantedlist.com. What you accused of name calling seems to be confusing advertisement on your part more than anything else.
Yes, I did the math and I am letting consumers know the facts (with the help of BushDVD, thanks!).
Signed up and ordered with both Wantedlist (first) and XRentDVD (a couple days later). The first order from Xrent has come and gone and I'm still waiting for the Wantedlist order. So far, Wantedlist being AVN's pick for Best Retail Site of 2005 (which was a selling point in my choice) has not lived up. May only be a one month membership.
ArcticSnowman - I looked up your ID in our database, assuming your username with us is the same as on here. Your account is in 'Pending' status, meaning that something went wrong at the time of signup. Typically this would be an address issue or something similar. Usually customer service contacts people immediately to resolve these things promptly. Anyway, I've forwarded a request to the CSR department and you should receive an email promptly. Next time something comes up, feel free to email them at support@wantedlist.com
Infimum, I can appreciate your skepticism. You remind me of myself in a lot of ways.
It's true that companies can nominate themselves for the AVN Awards. And it's certainly possible that there's an adult retail website out there, which is better than all the nominees, but whose founders, directors, managers, employees and friends did not think to say, "This is a good website, I should nominate it."
Of the nominees, we were a winner, and that's a fact. Like you said, anyone can enter the contest, and there were plenty of great submissions, but a panel of judges gave an award to us.
AVN is a leader in our industry. They host trade shows and events, fan shows, they report important news about our industry and they help companies new to the business get their names out there. AVN is as legitimate as it gets in the adult industry.
Other respectable and legitimate publications who gave us a lot of love recently include Wired Magazine (Nov 2005) and Stuff Magazine (Dec 2005). You can be as skeptical about our company as you like, but take a look at who has positive things to say about us and then make a decision.
Infimum, have you ever tried our service? You know we do have a free trial.
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