Misleading covers
Misleading covers
Porn video and dvd covers are sometimes misleading by including pictures which do not appear in the film. Generally perhaps one or two pictures are involved. However the nadir was reached on a dvd cover I bought recently on the e-m-s label called 'Gaudi in der Lederhose'. Not a single picture was from that film. I cannot understand why they did this as there were some good scenes in the film. Two of the pictures were from 'Die Gasthaus zum scharfen Bock'. Had I been intending to buy this film in a shop I would not have, thinking it contained cuts from that film which I already have. Can anyone explain the logic behind the deceptive practice?
Re: Misleading covers
you don't know how much i hate that!
!swear!
!swear!
Re: Misleading covers
I believe the 'logic' runs something like this.
Apparently a lot of producers and/or retailers believe that BY FAR the
majority of porn-purchases are one-offs by people who never buy again
[no, I don't believe this either- and I bet there are no statistics to back it
up- why else would the more 'savvy' studos try to build 'brand loyalty'?
besides which it relies on there being an almost inexhaustible re-supply
of inexperienced punters, which is arrant nonsense, demographically and
financially.].
Also, sadly, large parts of the business are still controlled by, or have
links with, criminality and have failed to realise that at least to an extent
things in the industry and sexual mores in general have 'moved on';
putting these two factors together creates a climate in which a case can
be made for offering for sale a pretty label disguising less-than-savoury
contents.
It's mostly confined now to the 'budget' end of the market [apart from
idiotic exceptions like the Mike Hunter re-hashes of older material- what
I would give for ACCURATE descriptions of some of their contents !
Instead I don't buy these without rock-solid independent info as to
contents and so they have lost a lot of potential business by this stupid
and childish tactic], but yes, it is still intensely irritating and not a
little patronising.
Apparently a lot of producers and/or retailers believe that BY FAR the
majority of porn-purchases are one-offs by people who never buy again
[no, I don't believe this either- and I bet there are no statistics to back it
up- why else would the more 'savvy' studos try to build 'brand loyalty'?
besides which it relies on there being an almost inexhaustible re-supply
of inexperienced punters, which is arrant nonsense, demographically and
financially.].
Also, sadly, large parts of the business are still controlled by, or have
links with, criminality and have failed to realise that at least to an extent
things in the industry and sexual mores in general have 'moved on';
putting these two factors together creates a climate in which a case can
be made for offering for sale a pretty label disguising less-than-savoury
contents.
It's mostly confined now to the 'budget' end of the market [apart from
idiotic exceptions like the Mike Hunter re-hashes of older material- what
I would give for ACCURATE descriptions of some of their contents !
Instead I don't buy these without rock-solid independent info as to
contents and so they have lost a lot of potential business by this stupid
and childish tactic], but yes, it is still intensely irritating and not a
little patronising.
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."
Re: Misleading covers
Thank you jj for such a comprehensive reply. I think what you say is correct. I too doubt that most porn punters are one offs but I have always found in Europe that a large number of the people selling the the material have no product knowledge and assume that the customer is the same. In fairness, however, I have come across a minority whose knowledge and helpfulness is first class.
Re: Misleading covers
As you said in the thread above, the bigger outfits [in the US at least] do
their market-research and target the product accordingly.
Akthouhg I'm a little bemused as to how Anabolic got the idea that there's
a market for watching girls gagging on badly-manicured dirty male fingers
rammed down their throats and getting pink-eye whilst tears stream from
their runny-mascaraed eyes. It almost makes scat seem reasonable......
I [perhaps unrealistically] expect at least the larger firms to behave like
'reputable' businesses, i.e to respond promptly, courteously and effectively
to any complaint I might have and not to indulge in false advertising- sadly
several outfits fall well short of this benchmark, and those companies then
lose my custom immediately and for ever, irrespective of the quality of their
product. There is a superfluity of material out there and it's a cutthroat
business; if they don't compete effectively- fuck 'em, it's their loss.
their market-research and target the product accordingly.
Akthouhg I'm a little bemused as to how Anabolic got the idea that there's
a market for watching girls gagging on badly-manicured dirty male fingers
rammed down their throats and getting pink-eye whilst tears stream from
their runny-mascaraed eyes. It almost makes scat seem reasonable......
I [perhaps unrealistically] expect at least the larger firms to behave like
'reputable' businesses, i.e to respond promptly, courteously and effectively
to any complaint I might have and not to indulge in false advertising- sadly
several outfits fall well short of this benchmark, and those companies then
lose my custom immediately and for ever, irrespective of the quality of their
product. There is a superfluity of material out there and it's a cutthroat
business; if they don't compete effectively- fuck 'em, it's their loss.
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."
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Re: Misleading covers
DavidS wrote:
> Porn video and dvd covers are sometimes misleading by including
> pictures which do not appear in the film. Generally perhaps one
> or two pictures are involved. However the nadir was reached on
> a dvd cover I bought recently on the e-m-s label called 'Gaudi
> in der Lederhose'. Not a single picture was from that film. I
> cannot understand why they did this as there were some good
> scenes in the film. Two of the pictures were from 'Die Gasthaus
> zum scharfen Bock'. Had I been intending to buy this film in a
> shop I would not have, thinking it contained cuts from that
> film which I already have. Can anyone explain the logic behind
> the deceptive practice?
BTW the larger picture on the back is from Liebesgr?sse aus dem Lederhoeschen.
This was a little bit of an exception, as the other (half dozen or so) titles in the DVD series had proper stills of the films. I would speculate that picture material for those covers was generally produced from publicity material for the films, i.e. press fotos and lobby cards. Thing is: for "Gaudi in der Lederhose" this is very hard to come by - I have been collecting such material for years, and only once did I encounter photographic material for that film. Perhaps the DVD company had asked the director to supply such material, he didn't have any, and so he gave them some stuff of other films by him.
> Porn video and dvd covers are sometimes misleading by including
> pictures which do not appear in the film. Generally perhaps one
> or two pictures are involved. However the nadir was reached on
> a dvd cover I bought recently on the e-m-s label called 'Gaudi
> in der Lederhose'. Not a single picture was from that film. I
> cannot understand why they did this as there were some good
> scenes in the film. Two of the pictures were from 'Die Gasthaus
> zum scharfen Bock'. Had I been intending to buy this film in a
> shop I would not have, thinking it contained cuts from that
> film which I already have. Can anyone explain the logic behind
> the deceptive practice?
BTW the larger picture on the back is from Liebesgr?sse aus dem Lederhoeschen.
This was a little bit of an exception, as the other (half dozen or so) titles in the DVD series had proper stills of the films. I would speculate that picture material for those covers was generally produced from publicity material for the films, i.e. press fotos and lobby cards. Thing is: for "Gaudi in der Lederhose" this is very hard to come by - I have been collecting such material for years, and only once did I encounter photographic material for that film. Perhaps the DVD company had asked the director to supply such material, he didn't have any, and so he gave them some stuff of other films by him.