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I have just taken a look at the sarah young official website which i have done once in a blue moon looking for info on when DVDs would be available.

imagine how pleased i was to find that thir now out, but bloody hell the price!! $65 if you buy them as their released or $99 if a month later.

With the greatest respect what are they thinking! i would gratefully buy Sarah films on DVD but no way at those prices,other films on DVD are about $30 (using the great "five star" as guide)

Needless to say im gutted.

anyone else wish to comment on this?

heres the page.........
https://www802.verio.de/sing39/ssl/syshop/index.htm

Hans Moser, the producer, takes the view that (with some justification I believe) Sarah Young videos are a Roll Royce product and he charges accordingly. This doesn?t put off as many people as you might imagine, as the affluent - and hey, most of us can find the requisite $65.00 nowadays - don't mind shelling out if they perceive that they are getting something a bit special. And the more special it becomes, the more desirable it becomes.

Some British producers, through lack of imagination, technical expertise and cash, have taken an opposite tack - stressing that their videos are 'cheap' Unfortunately; this hasn't produced quite the result they were hoping for - to sell pallet loads of video thanks to their low price. The UK market for porno vids is comparatively small and static. So the same amount of people are paying less for the same product. Also, there is the fact that in most people?s minds ?cheap? = ?crap? Consequently, a lot of British producers and retailers are struggling. Some have even had to suffer the ultimate indignity of having to leave the industry to work in 'straight' jobs and business.

P R Mann

i agree with you about the quality of the films, maybe its because i do not have the "affluance" to which you refer to and in all honesty would be hard pressed to think of anyone else apart from members of our nationial football team who do.

I agree with all that youve said but i still find this a bitter pill to take.P R Mann wrote:
>
> Hans Moser, the producer, takes the view that (with some
> justification I believe) Sarah Young videos are a Roll Royce
> product and he charges accordingly. This doesn?t put off as
> many people as you might imagine, as the affluent - and hey,
> most of us can find the requisite $65.00 nowadays - don't
> mind shelling out if they perceive that they are getting
> something a bit special. And the more special it becomes, the
> more desirable it becomes.
>
> Some British producers, through lack of imagination,
> technical expertise and cash, have taken an opposite tack -
> stressing that their videos are 'cheap' Unfortunately; this
> hasn't produced quite the result they were hoping for - to
> sell pallet loads of video thanks to their low price. The UK
> market for porno vids is comparatively small and static. So
> the same amount of people are paying less for the same
> product. Also, there is the fact that in most people?s minds
> ?cheap? = ?crap? Consequently, a lot of British producers
> and retailers are struggling. Some have even had to suffer
> the ultimate indignity of having to leave the industry to
> work in 'straight' jobs and business.
>
> P R Mann

Sascha Alexander is free to charge what he likes for
his material - P R Mann is right up to a point - but
I would rather pay a premium on a product which is
new content rather than a repackaging of older films
"that are already in the can."

Buying genuinely new material is one way to encourage
porno-makers to make more and if we are foolish enough
to buy the endless repackaging & compilations then we
deserve to have a market flooded with such things.

I suspect that Sascha Alexander has done a limited
release to test the water, not sure whether there is
a mass market for his DVDs against newer material - but
knowing there are some collectors/Sarah Young fans out
there.

In your place I would write him a polite letter explaining
that he is not going to get your money because he has used
the wrong pricing strategy. If he gets enough feedback
like this you can be sure he will release $30 versions
for the masses!

Oh, come, come Wayne. Although ?45.00, or more might be a little over the top, even for quality products like Sarah Young videos, it's hardly a huge sum of money is it? I mean, let's put it into perspective - It's a full tank of petrol, it's a couple of modest nights out, it's two, or three CD's. Nearly all of us spend this kind of dough every week without batting an eyelid, or indeed having to consult our bank managers! So, let's not sell ourselves short, ?45.oo hasn't been a big deal since the 70's.

If you think ?45.00 is far to large a sum to of money to contemplate, you will positively reel when I inform you that many adult video collectors regular spend hundreds, even thousands of pounds in the pursuance of their hobby!

P R Mann.

Yes, it would be great to shell out for some new Sarah Young movies, but unfortunately, there's only one Sarah and it's unlikely she will do anymore. Plus, the whole of popular culture has moved on in the last ten years meaning that it would be difficult to make any more movies that exhibited the same virtues. So we must treasure the ones "already in the can."

"Buying genuinely new material is one way to encourage porno-makers to make more" Yes, it would be, but we don't want to encourage them to make more of the unappealing shite they make at present, do we?

I doubt very much that this is "a limited release, to test the water" as it has always been Hans Mosser's philosophy that quality comes first and cost be dammed. He cuts no corners in production and marketing and these costs have to be recouped. He positions his products at the top of the market where if you need to ask the price, maybe you should be looking at some cheap gonzo guff?

P R Mann

Spoke with Hans last week, he is pleased with sales and has no intentions to sell this DVD to anyone other than fans. it will not be available in shops etc. I have worked with Hans for many years and we still are close friends, his photographer is staying at my house for a week right now. I don't really agree with P R on the shite bit though I have seen quite a few good products lately british made. The state of the British video market is purely due to the shop owners buying American and Euro titles BBFC/Packaging them and selling them in their own shops and who can blame them. Without the possibility of sales how could a British producer atempt to spend any money, based on TVX or TAC if you are lucky enough to sell it to them how can you spend any more.
We are shooting for Cannal + next week with Violet starring in Alan Piad's new movie. We are hoping to bring them to UK for a joint production the following month. So some of us are at least fighting the cause. I have an agreement from the second two biggest shop owners to retail all my stuff at ?25 for any two titles. This offer will be in every one of their shops and we will be doing promo's etc in the shops. Someone complained about the mark-up in the prices well yet again McCavity actually does something about it.

Phil McC

Cheers Phil,

I have got no problem with Hans aiming products at fans
only.

I too stand in the defense of Brit girls and Brit porn
and have made my opinions on gonzo known in the past -
I rather like it.

You can have all the high production values in the world,
but if you don't have the sexual chemistry in your stars
it is all for nowt. Britain is an amazing source of
raw talent and we should be grateful that the fledgling
industry we have is enough of a platform to give that
talent the exposure it needs.

Would you care to name the shops you have done deals with,
so that we know to give them our business ?

Thanks for all the replies and i must agree with them all. at the end of the day the quality of the films are unmatched by anything else out there.

thanks wayne.

Dear Phil,
do you know what Sarah is doing now and were she lives?I heard a rumour that she was doing a law degree
Cheers