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Content
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| Quality : |
18.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
10.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
4.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
62.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
6.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
12.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
6.5 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. More exclusive material than other similar sites.
2. Tons of stuff to look at.
1. Navigation is horrible.
2. Some non-exclusive pics.
"A decent mega-site for amateur/teen stuff that could use an update." |
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Karup's Private Collection (PC) has been around for quite a long time. Although I've never really checked it out before, it doesn't look like it's changed much over the years except to keep adding more and more content. Unfortunately the site doesn't provide any background information on the company or anything, so we can't figure anything out about this Karup guy to make fun of.
The site is a very simple one, mostly text-based. This leads to a bit of difficulty when navigating around, as you sometimes don't know where you're headed. They do have a model's index with thumb previews of the girls, but there's two things wrong with it: first there's only two girls per row, so each page is VERY long; second the thumbs look like crap! I think whoever made them used MS Paint or something to do these as they look very bad (actually, at the bottom of each page it gives you a link to the program they used to make the pages, which makes the pages look a bit unprofessional to me). Speaking of unprofessional, there's also a few instances around of missing spaces inthe words (see the example I gave? I'm pretty clever...) that adds to that feeling for me. Although the website is based on amateur photographs, that doesn't mean the website has to be amateur as well.
Well, looking past these annoyances and onto the photos, I'm hoping to see some hot stuff here! I can't figure out the best way to browse from the options they give, but I guess the model index would be it. At least you get a preview of the girl, which is about the only thing that matters. If you browse through their collection/album scheme, you're likely to just be confused as to what you're looking at. Anyhow, the galleries themselves appear to be mostly exclusive stuff bought from a variety of places. Quality is usually pretty good, although it does vary a bit based on where they got it from. The picture sizes range from 700x400 in some of the oldest sets, up to around 1200x800 in the newest ones. Most of them, however, are around 800x600 and 1024x768. Obviously at that size they are pretty good pictures, but nothing really jumped out at me photography wise. As I said before, I'm pretty sure they just purchase exclusive content from whoever's selling it at the time.
Navigating through the galleries is a bit of a pain. For some reason they decided 10 was the magic number of pictures they wanted to put on each page, and the only way to browse through them is by one little "next" button so it's really difficult getting through it all. They do offer zip files, but of course it's only for the current page of pictures which means you need to download 5+ zip files for each gallery. I've seen this quite a few places and can't figure out why they thought this was a good idea? I'd much rather have a zip of the whole gallery (or better yet, both options). Also disappointing, there was absolutely no info on the models at all (even fake stuff would have been nice), no email address, nothing like that. Thankfully they do have the models index to see other galleries she has online here, otherwise I would have had even more problems.
The videos section isn't as large as the photoset one, but it's an ok size nontheless. The oldest videos are offered in MPG format, while the majority of them are in WMV format. The quality is up there for these as well, with 750kbps encoding at 320x240 for the newest sets. As long as there isn't too much movement going on, they look pretty good. Otherwise they are downgraded to just decent for me.
The site offers up a pretty good mix of soft- and hardcore shoots. A lot of the models look to be from Europe to me for some reason, but I might be way off for all I know. The best way to find hardcore (unfortunately) if you're looking for it is through the albums since they divide it up nicely there.
Overall I can't say I enjoyed the site a whole lot. The only thing really separating it from the other teen conglomerate sites is the amount of exclusive content here. While they have a ton of content, so do other sites. The $30 monthly charge is just too much in my opinion, I'd much rather see this site somewhere between $20-$25. I personally enjoy some of the other amateur sites with more personality (Abby Winters, Matt's Models, et al) for less money. But if you're a fan of sites like Teen Dreams, then Karup's PC might work for you as well, since they'll most likely offer up some new content for you.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 09-28-04 |
While the site really hasn't changed at all since last time we were here, who would expect it to? Any updates these guys do would take years to finish since the site is so large. The good news is that their update schedule hasn't changed either. Also be sure to check out what they're actually adding five days each week - their list makes it look like it's just one gallery each day, but it's like nine each day!
The content is good, a majority of it is exclusive. The big problems they had before remain today unfortunately, but we here they're working on those slowly but surely. The best I can do for now is update the scores a bit to reflect better where I rank the site. Although it's probably not for everyone, it does well at a few key features, which should be enough to keep a lot of people interested.
Score decreased from 82.6 to 82.0.
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