Messygirl said: On average I would say one out of every five are customs.
I would have guessed FOUR out of five! Interesting!
I was taking an average from the start in 1997 to now. But in recent years the average is higher. I do find it interesting how some producers have now gone to only doing customs. We get our share of custom request, but if we feel it's too specific to a certain taste, we will pass. We only will do the ones that fit our style and appease our fans.
almost 0. I have a bunch of models I work with that are completely open to it, but Im not certain most of the ladies that I find appealing to work with are what most of the people into the kink are into. I have a weakness for short spiky hair, especially when it's neon color.
Messygirl said: On average I would say one out of every five are customs.
I would have guessed FOUR out of five! Interesting!
I was taking an average from the start in 1997 to now. But in recent years the average is higher. I do find it interesting how some producers have now gone to only doing customs. We get our share of custom request, but if we feel it's too specific to a certain taste, we will pass. We only will do the ones that fit our style and appease our fans.
See I take that into consideration when I order a custom. I am not going to ask a PG producer like Rich to do nudity, for example. I look at what the producer's wheelhouse is and I tailor a script to that. I get better product that way.
Messygirl said: On average I would say one out of every five are customs.
I would have guessed FOUR out of five! Interesting!
I was taking an average from the start in 1997 to now. But in recent years the average is higher. I do find it interesting how some producers have now gone to only doing customs. We get our share of custom request, but if we feel it's too specific to a certain taste, we will pass. We only will do the ones that fit our style and appease our fans.
See I take that into consideration when I order a custom. I am not going to ask a PG producer like Rich to do nudity, for example. I look at what the producer's wheelhouse is and I tailor a script to that. I get better product that way.
Yes, we have our nitch, and we stayed with it all these years. Some producers are their own models, so the intitial custom model fees goes straight to them. So even if that specific video doesn't sell for them, they already made their money. Since we need to pass that model fee directly to our models, in any custom shoot we do, a specific video is best suited to go directly to them. So if we get a custom request that is not in our wheelhouse, we still give our models a chance to shoot them on thier own. So feel free to send them our way.
i looked at my catalogue and its about 60/40. Some of that 60 arent even full on "customs" but are ideas I had and someone just paid for half the supplies bc they liked the idea, so they got the video well before its release and got to add in maybe one or two little "things" for me to do or say something in particular for helping me out. i paid my half and for the production of it.
here is something i really wanna say on this thread bc it has happened a lot here lately and i want people who do order customs to understand that it honestly makes me laugh when i hear it.
customs are not going to be the price of beans because "well, you can sell it in your store" .....i can sell it in my store, anyway...its my product... but you have asked for SPECIFICS. a specific thing and just bc you think it will sell doesnt mean IT WILL. i have made videos before JUST TO SEE IF THEY WOULD SELL. I literally took everything ppl love, have talked about, asked for and just did it all, paid for it all, had a blast and the video TANKED. When you are asking for your specific CUSTOM, it is going to cost a CUSTOM price. not what YOU think it should cost bc i MAY sell 3 copies of it with 30 percent cut off the 7.99 i can probably charge for the video. ANYONE WHO ORDERS CUSTOMS PLEASE REMEMBER THIS before you say something like that again...bc i hear it CONSTANTLY. I have gotten lucky with some customs and they have sold SO WELL. these have helped fund stuff that are not customs and fed my kid so, thats awesome. Either way, a custom is a custom is a custom. I just wanted to put that out there. I LOVE doing different stuff, trying NEW stuff, having a diverse amount of stuff in my store. LOVE IT but hey, i gotta eat! and im not eating my wam leftovers! lol XD
but yeah, i have got some great appreciation for customs that have done really well for me! but, like i have said, it was a coin toss! all vids are! i do love the diversity in the store, too and i really dig trying all the crazy shit i have tried!! i look forward to more ppl coming to me to try even more crazy shit!! XD and for just some good ol fashioned, messy fun!
About 1%, though that would rise slightly if we just counted the last few years. We do accept custom requests but customs are expensive - the models get paid extra because shooting to a script is much harder than just making it up as they go, for just one example of extra costs - and of course a very niche custom may not sell to anyone but the original purchaser. I'd definitely second what Jayce says above about pricing - and not having to try and live on re-heated custard scraped up from the dungeon floor!
Having said that we have had great feedback from the few customs we have done so should probably promote that side of things a bit more than we do.