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Originally Posted by Candide
I'm sorry... I've paid you, what, three or four hundred dollars over the past year and haven't earned the right to be vocally disappointed by a clip? Yes, a negative review can hurt your sales--and yes, that was the goal of my post. The only thing business understands is the bottom line, so if I can prevent you from selling me a terrible product in the future by ensuring that fewer people pay for your most recent failure, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
Bud, writing an immature response, full of sarcasm and accusations, to a thoughtful critique of a genuinely bad product isn't helping your case. You think I'm an ingrate?
Take it professionally, not personally.
Here's a little taste of the aforementioned sarcasm:
Oh yes, I bought this clip intending not to like it just so I could rip into its producers and hurt their sales. I know they're doing us such a huge favor by selling us their product, and we should never complain even if they release a video that's so far inferior to all previous clips that some of us find it unwatchable.
This isn't some artist who contributes free material (*cough*, how many hundreds of hours have I spent making free stuff for this community?), this is a business. Bad products should not (and hopefully will not) sell as well, and ultimately hurt the bottom line. And I, for one, would like TaylorMadeClips to keep on producing fetish material I like.
To make a long story short (too late!): my criticism was justified. Even in the fetish porn biz, consumers have a voice. Consider, for a moment, that while I was addressing TaylorMadeClips, maybe I was really speaking to the whole forum rather than just Budapest Swope and Mistress Taylor.
This is not simply a place for producers to get free exposure without risk of criticism. The idea that I should pay for a clip and then remain totally silent even if I hated it is, frankly, bullshit.
-- Candide
PS: So don't act like I came onto your forum and pulled some stunt. This is our forum, all of ours (and yours). If we can't give our opinions here, then where can we?
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I'm sorry but i think i have to agree. By choosing to never say anything about a product you think is inferior you are telling the maker that they should continue to make products that way. And while you could say that this could be accomplished via people applauding a clip instead, what if no one does? This could let people purchase it and be just as dissappointed as the last person but what has that really accomplished. The only thing i think that could be argued here is presentation of the arguements. Instead of constructive criticism or sugar coating it, they went more of a blunt technique. I think it makes a good point that this is purely meant to be professional.
I have purchased bout 7 clips myself and most recently, the bella clip. I can honestly say i was dissappointed for a couple of reasons; a) They took an element which has made their last few clips really strong (angle of cleavage and such) and made that an entire clip. While i really like that, it made for a lesser product in the end since they couldn't rely on any of their other techniques used in previous ones. b) (relying off of a) The size difference made it feel like nothing really happened. It was a great idea but i don't think it quite made it to it's intended plan. c) Lastly, there was a minute introduction to about 2 min introduction. I'm used to these and if they are introducing story or conversation that is fine. Instead half of the introduction this time was extending the 10 second song. If this was meant for the introduction of the 7 vials series that's fine assuming the regular length in the next ones but it just seemed unneccessary.
Although, i do have to say i was throughly impressed with the balloon video. It used a reasonable amount of talking (usually it seems as if a lot of actresses need to talk the entire time and i think she did a good job showing that you didnt), kept the B.E. fairly constant, and the ending part was hilarious (and hot) when she was talking about her profile. I do reccommend that video.
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"but honestly if you're not a film major or a production assistant"
I'm sorry i am neither of these but i feel as if my comments as a consumer and an avid BE fan nullify your statement. If you read what i said here i think it makes sense that you don't have to be either of these to make a comment. We're trying to convey things we would like to see, not neccessarily how the camera is angeled or how the lighting is etc. just what we would like to see these women do. I hope this brings some light on the situation as i know this thread has been a little bit of a hot topic since the slow for saturday night clip.