PiedFaces said: I'm pretty sure it was one of your posts like this that helped introduce me to WAM. Great stuff.

PuddyPie said: Congrats on your 4th Annivesary (Makes me feel that much older!!!). What can we expect in the future from PiedAsianGirls and the other Japanese wam themed sites?

protostar8 said:Glad to see you're still around. You gotta convince Route 207 to runs sales every now and then. Their vids are sooooo expensive!
(Note to post readers, I have several Route 207 vids already and I know they are really nice, but $25 a pop is steep for one scene)

Alumi said:



I feel your pain, and I won't try to deny the priceyness of the 207 stuff.
I will offer a bit of an explanation so everyone can at least understand,
since they most likely AREN'T gonna get a sale on the vids...

You see, Japan isn't just a different economy with different prices on things from other countries,
it's also a different culture with a different consumer mindset in general.
As a base example so you can see one main difference, people here generally don't go out of their way to do grocery shopping at the cheaper store; rather, they regularly shop at the store in their neighbourhood, even if it's common knowledge that a supermarket across town has stuff for half the price.
Don't misunderstand, people will often choose the cheapest of 2 or more stores in their area, but they won't go out of their way for lower prices on small-ticket goods. The fact that there is a supermarket in their neighbourhood, and everyone shops there, and everyone is SUPPOSED to shop there, becomes the only necessary info before making a purchase; "I want a coke and they have coke, so I'm buying it."
Price is rarely an issue.
(Please keep in mind that all of these observations are made as comparisons to the general North American big-city-dweller attitudes.)

Prices in Japan for VHS tapes & DVDs of fetish material and porn have been roughly established, and the consumers in that market are used to the high prices, so they don't complain.
Overlay that with the supermarket analogy above, and you can imagine that the average Japanese porn consumer just whips out their credit card without even looking at the price, as long as the DVD has what he wants on it.
So you've got a large market in which 207 is selling DVDs with absolutely no complaints from anyone about price, and now he's also selling downloads. Our buddy made a firm decision to sell all his downloads at pretty much the same price as his DVDs, to keep everything "fair" and to keep anyone from complaining.

Now that he's selling downloads on an English site, you might hope that he'd see the economic soundness of dropping his price to sell more downloads, resulting in higher sales... right?
BUT it's NOT clear that it WOULD result in higher sales because in the Japanese market, at least, lower prices result in very few extra sales, since anyone who wants his stuff is ALREADY buying it, regardless of price! (see above)

So good luck trying to get him to lower prices, cuz he really doesn't need to. And even if detailed projections could show that there'd be an advantage to lower prices, it's just a strange idea as far as he's concerned.
(Remember: topping off all of that is the fact that he pretty much has a monopoly at this point on Japanese mud videos, so even the Western consumers are paying whatever he charges, right? Cuz I'm the one who sees the download sales, and take it from me: you guys ARE buying them...)

But I would like the last point here to be that the Route 207 vids are really, really GOOD.
$20-25 isn't cheap, but it's certainly not outrageous, cuz you get a damn fine video every time.


Andrew
PiedAsianGirls.com MessyAsianFeet.com

Alumi said: Sophie, thanks for the comment!



Thanks!
The future? Well, I don't wanna jinx myself, because there's one shoot I've been trying to get off the ground for a couple of months now, and it might finally come together, so I'll fill you in after it's in the can.
Also, I'd hoped to get my own mud shoot done this summer, but didn't. I'm definitely gonna do that next summer.
This fall will hopefully see an injection of videos into the MessyAsianFeet menu, plus I have a ton of footage waiting to be edited for PiedAsianGirls: the Chun-Li & Sakura scene, Aoi & Momo, Midori & Junchan, Miho, plus a couple of new girls.
I'm also gonna break out a few classics that have been locked away for a couple of years, so look out for those sometime before Christmas.

As for what to expect from "the other Japanese wam themed sites," I won't claim to know. Although I will say that both Ken at Gagon and our buddy at Route 207 Revisited show no signs of slowing down, so I hope to be offering more of their vids soon.



I feel your pain, and I won't try to deny the priceyness of the 207 stuff.
I will offer a bit of an explanation so everyone can at least understand,
since they most likely AREN'T gonna get a sale on the vids...

You see, Japan isn't just a different economy with different prices on things from other countries,
it's also a different culture with a different consumer mindset in general.
As a base example so you can see one main difference, people here generally don't go out of their way to do grocery shopping at the cheaper store; rather, they regularly shop at the store in their neighbourhood, even if it's common knowledge that a supermarket across town has stuff for half the price.
Don't misunderstand, people will often choose the cheapest of 2 or more stores in their area, but they won't go out of their way for lower prices on small-ticket goods. The fact that there is a supermarket in their neighbourhood, and everyone shops there, and everyone is SUPPOSED to shop there, becomes the only necessary info before making a purchase; "I want a coke and they have coke, so I'm buying it."
Price is rarely an issue.
(Please keep in mind that all of these observations are made as comparisons to the general North American big-city-dweller attitudes.)

Prices in Japan for VHS tapes & DVDs of fetish material and porn have been roughly established, and the consumers in that market are used to the high prices, so they don't complain.
Overlay that with the supermarket analogy above, and you can imagine that the average Japanese porn consumer just whips out their credit card without even looking at the price, as long as the DVD has what he wants on it.
So you've got a large market in which 207 is selling DVDs with absolutely no complaints from anyone about price, and now he's also selling downloads. Our buddy made a firm decision to sell all his downloads at pretty much the same price as his DVDs, to keep everything "fair" and to keep anyone from complaining.

Now that he's selling downloads on an English site, you might hope that he'd see the economic soundness of dropping his price to sell more downloads, resulting in higher sales... right?
BUT it's NOT clear that it WOULD result in higher sales because in the Japanese market, at least, lower prices result in very few extra sales, since anyone who wants his stuff is ALREADY buying it, regardless of price! (see above)

So good luck trying to get him to lower prices, cuz he really doesn't need to. And even if detailed projections could show that there'd be an advantage to lower prices, it's just a strange idea as far as he's concerned.
(Remember: topping off all of that is the fact that he pretty much has a monopoly at this point on Japanese mud videos, so even the Western consumers are paying whatever he charges, right? Cuz I'm the one who sees the download sales, and take it from me: you guys ARE buying them...)

But I would like the last point here to be that the Route 207 vids are really, really GOOD.
$20-25 isn't cheap, but it's certainly not outrageous, cuz you get a damn fine video every time.


Andrew
PiedAsianGirls.com MessyAsianFeet.com

Alumi said: Hey All,

We've been so busy this month that we almost forgot:
Pied Asian Girls is now 4 years old!!!

So, for the remainder of this month, we have an anniversary sale:
BUY ANY VIDEO, AND GET A FREE AIKAWA PRODUCTIONS VIDEO!

So, Buy 1, Get 1 Free;
Buy 2, Get 2 Free;
Buy 3, Get 3 Free;
Etc., etc., etc....

The free video must be from Aikawa Productions, and the it must be of equal price to or lesser price than the purchased video.
After purchase, message us here or e-mail us at piedasiangirlsATyahoo.ca and tell us your name, order number, and the titles of the vids you'd like for free.
Please allow up to 14 hours for the free download code to be e-mailed to you.
The sale ends at midnight U.S. Pacific Time on Tuesday, August 31st.

Let me know if you have any questions!


Andrew
PiedAsianGirls.com MessyAsianFeet.com

P.S. Yes, you can buy 1 on Pied Asian Girls and get a free 1 from Messy Asian Feet, and vice-versa.

DiscoStu said: Does this sale apply to everyone...?

protostar8 said: Makes a little more sense now. I wasn't really aware that the Japanese culture as a whole doesn't do "sales" since all the anime and hobby shops I visit online that are based out of Japan have sales all the time. But like I said, they are good videos and I'm glad they are finally being sold to Western buyers and I do like the 4-5 I've bought (I think I have that many...lol). Too bad the US is in an economic s***hole right now.

PuddyPie said: I guess that speaks to their whole "saving face" culture (don't want to admit that their local store is ripping them off compared to other peoples), they won't admit defeat or surrender (they won't give the sale price store the satisfaction of making them go across town to save a few bucks), so they would rather go out in a blaze of glory (they would rather get ripped off or pay higher, thus giving business or honor to their own neighborhood, than save a few bucks and disgrace their local store by doing business with an out of market store).