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Welcome back. Hey, can you put up "Tell Me You Love It" and "Tricked"?
the TJ productions videos were outrageously priced back in the early nineties (ie.$95 for a video) -- Magic Touch and Real tickling started having 40 minute videos with attractive and ticklish women for $20-$30 in the beginning and took over the tickling video market. Foot paradise and several others then came along--all with better quality at about half the price of the T.J. videos - however Tom and Jess did get the whole tickle video thing started. TJ was head and shoulders over the fake tickling crud offered by Cal Star, Vid Tech and Harmony.
ticklevids
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again... alittle history is in order.
Jetski,
You are right that indeed, today, 95 dollars is outrageous. What needs to be kept in mind is that in 1994, our audience was a FRACTION of what a producer has today. I mean, a truly small fraction. So, volume can make the prices of today possible, that weren't economically viable a decade ago for an internet sales company. If you pay 3000 dollars to have a video made, and you can only sell 3 videos a month, then pricing is a factor. Lowering the price wasn't necessary, we had a 98 percent look-to-buy ratio. An incredible number for any industry!
To be clear our only 95 dollar video was Bill and L and that was only for the first 6 months. After that, Bill and L was 60, it was always our highest priced tape. ALL our other videos were 45 dollars. Very comparable to every other producer at the time. Economics being the key motivator for pricing, Bill and L was a hugely expensive proposition for us to produce and we didn't even break even for years honestly.
Another factual error was that Magic Touch and Real Ticklng overlapped with TJ. Magic Touch did, but Real Tickling didn't. We never considered Magic Touch a competitor since what they do is so not what we do. Apples and Oranges. Real Tickling on the other hand, came along after we actively left producing.
Real Tickling, TickleCentral, SilverCherry and Dungeonmaidens, have all taken the next step in the evolution of running a business like this (which is harder and more time intensive than most people understand). Before we decided to close in 98, we had an online store, video scheduling with some ridiculously gorgeous girlfriends of J's for A LOT of money, and a new pricing structure set to go. And then we just pulled the plug at the last second and decided enough was enough. J got her Masters and I opened 2 other businesses. The rest as we say, is history. I do have to take exception with your saying that others came along with higer quality. Higher quality video yes, but action, no way. I've never seen more 'actressy' faking than from some of the companies you mentioned. And thats from me as a tickling fetish afficiando, not a producer.
And here we are today, with more choices and more quality for the tickling consumer than ever before. And now, true afficiandos can have material that has not been available for over 6 years. Long live free enterprise...
Jetski,
You are right that indeed, today, 95 dollars is outrageous. What needs to be kept in mind is that in 1994, our audience was a FRACTION of what a producer has today. I mean, a truly small fraction. So, volume can make the prices of today possible, that weren't economically viable a decade ago for an internet sales company. If you pay 3000 dollars to have a video made, and you can only sell 3 videos a month, then pricing is a factor. Lowering the price wasn't necessary, we had a 98 percent look-to-buy ratio. An incredible number for any industry!
To be clear our only 95 dollar video was Bill and L and that was only for the first 6 months. After that, Bill and L was 60, it was always our highest priced tape. ALL our other videos were 45 dollars. Very comparable to every other producer at the time. Economics being the key motivator for pricing, Bill and L was a hugely expensive proposition for us to produce and we didn't even break even for years honestly.
Another factual error was that Magic Touch and Real Ticklng overlapped with TJ. Magic Touch did, but Real Tickling didn't. We never considered Magic Touch a competitor since what they do is so not what we do. Apples and Oranges. Real Tickling on the other hand, came along after we actively left producing.
Real Tickling, TickleCentral, SilverCherry and Dungeonmaidens, have all taken the next step in the evolution of running a business like this (which is harder and more time intensive than most people understand). Before we decided to close in 98, we had an online store, video scheduling with some ridiculously gorgeous girlfriends of J's for A LOT of money, and a new pricing structure set to go. And then we just pulled the plug at the last second and decided enough was enough. J got her Masters and I opened 2 other businesses. The rest as we say, is history. I do have to take exception with your saying that others came along with higer quality. Higher quality video yes, but action, no way. I've never seen more 'actressy' faking than from some of the companies you mentioned. And thats from me as a tickling fetish afficiando, not a producer.
And here we are today, with more choices and more quality for the tickling consumer than ever before. And now, true afficiandos can have material that has not been available for over 6 years. Long live free enterprise...
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