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Content
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| Quality : |
16.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
1.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
54.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
6.0 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria
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1. Updates come daily.
2. Decent-sized site.
3. Great price.
1. Growth seems slower than expected.
2. All non-exclusive content.
3. Not enough videos going up.
"Though not without faults, you get a lot for you money here which is better than most sites." |
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Besides the required blondes, taking a look through the tour of Blonde Passions doesn't really show off much of the site I'd say. You're lucky you have us here, because otherwise you'd be stuck with their fancy graphics and nice face preview pics having to guess at what they show off inside. I can tell you that they hooked you up with a great price for being a reader of our site; when you click through, you'll get a $10 a month price tag instead of their usual $18 a month which should help the value score for sure.
The goods:
- Decent-sized site. With 600 galleries up as of today, they're doing pretty good in the numbers department. There are only 82 videos currently which is quite a bit lower, but all sections are updating so the numbers should continue to go up.
- Updates come daily. A new photo gallery is put up each and every day, with a new video going up every five days as well. That makes for a lot of new content each week, though I wouldn't mind video updates coming a little more often.
- Great price. $10 is about as low as it gets, so you're doing pretty good in the price department here. That also gets you access to their other network sites, which makes it an even better deal.
The bads:
- All non-exclusive content. From what I could tell, most all of their content did not seem to be exclusive at all. They have some decent numbers, but to compete in the non-exclusive content world, you need huge numbers to do really well. I think they're getting there, and the price and update schedule helps, but they're missing a key component that most of their competitors already have.
- Video quality could be better. It's not awful, but they're stuck down in the 320x240 range (and around 1200kbps for the high-quality MPGs) which isn't quite up to par anymore believe it or not.
- Not enough videos going up. The discrepancy between the number of picture galleries and videos is pretty big, though it pretty much sticks right with their update schedule. Hopefully they can bump that up in time to get more videos flowing through here, as it's becoming a bit unbalanced compared to where you want it I'd say.
Conclusion:
Not a bad site here overall. With the great price, daily updates, network access, etc. going for them, you can't really complain too much. The non-exclusive content is an issue, but now you know going into it what they offer. The quality is also a bit of an issue as well. But in the end, I think you get a decent deal as it is and would recommend you check it out if interested.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 07-23-07 |
Much looks the same around Blonde Passions as last time around from what I can tell. Updates have continued to come in, but the growth seems a little slow overall for some reason. The video quality has been bumped up to the 640x480 and 2000kbps range which is nice to see. Otherwise, the lack of new videos still hurts as there aren't enough of them to see. The price remains the biggest selling point here, and while the site isn't perfect, it's not a bad deal either I'd say.
Score remains at 73.5.
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