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Old 08-20-2008, 11:48 AM   #1
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PURE PLAY MEDIA CEO, Richard Arnold, Addresses D2R Concerns

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For Immediate Release: 08/20/2008
Contact: Bill Rix
Bill at pureplaymedia dot com



PURE PLAY MEDIA CEO, Richard Arnold, Addresses Industry Concerns
Over New Business Model (D2R)


(Chatsworth, CA) ? PURE PLAY MEDIA CEO, Richard Arnold, releases an official response to concerns and criticisms voiced through online adult news outlet, pornnewz dot com and online webmaster forum, GFY dot com, over the recent implementation of new business model, Direct To Retail (D2R) distribution. PURE PLAY MEDIA is an established powerhouse in the adult distribution arena. The introduction of D2R has caused much attention to PPM, being the first major adult distributor to adopt the new method. Richard Arnold, in an effort to put minds at ease, has taken the opportunity to educate and address these concerns, while clarifying the new D2R process below in a Q & A style response to online remarks.

D2R ? Comments, Concerns, Criticisms
Richard Arnold?s response to some online discussions about Pure Play?s move to D2R:

Online Comment:
? In reading this announcement (Pure Play?s move to selling retailers only) my first thought was to review which studios are on that label ? so I could identify which studios we would no longer carry ? and begin developing our dis-information reason to give to our customers.?

Reply:
This comment drives me crazy on a couple of levels. The first is my amazement at this particular retailer?s underestimation of the knowledge and sophistication of their customers. The facts are: most consumers frequent several competing retail operations, so trying to fool them into believing anything but the facts is ridiculous. A consumer will go to the retailer that carries the product that they desire. Secondly, there is a huge underlying issue with the statement that seems to plague our industry, and that is deception. Rather than tell a consumer the truth, deceive them into purchasing or consuming something that they may not want. There seem to be entire product lines that cater to this edict, which in the long run only really accomplishes the goal of driving away the consumer.

Online Comment:
?Pure Play has good studios?

Reply:
You are damn right we do. At last count we represented 15 good, niche and industry-leading studios. These studios have always been chosen by ourselves for a variety of reasons, the single greatest factor being that in most cases we represent studios that are leaders within their own specialized area of the business -- i.e. Score - big breast, Private ? Foreign, Naughty America ? online fantasy, Homegrown ? amateur, Silver Sinema - online HD, Seymore ? Seymore, etc, etc.

Online Comment:
?Many stores are familiar with the labels?

Reply:
Agreed.

Online Comment:
?(Pure Play will) most likely lower prices to retailers?

Reply:
We will pass on lower prices, but moreover, we will be able to offer specials and incentives, that we simply could not offer through wholesalers.

Online Comment:
?When a retailer reorders a title, it is nice to get them in a single shipment, instead of one or two and the added shipping cost?? ?Many retailers do not purchase from multiple sources to save shipping costs?

Reply:
We understand this is an issue and have tried to make things as easy as possible on the retailer. We changed our release schedule from two separate days per week to one, and have added a free DVD with each shipment to help offset the costs. We also know that most retailers stock different (non-DVD) items and are used to multiple shipments to their store.

Online Comment:
?Many retailers do not like writing individual checks?

Reply:
Perhaps, but we think retailers want to purchase from the best source, at the best price and receive the best product knowledge. Check writing, while not fun, is probably not their biggest challenge.

Online Comment:
?Many stores depend on distributors to select the ?hot? titles?.

Reply:
I think the role of the distributor has changed dramatically over the last few years. It has been our experience that Wholesalers seem most concerned with the price of a product and if given a great price, sales of that particular product increase (temporarily), with these sales increases only seeming to last until the wholesaler receives their next deal. There certainly does not necessarily seem to be a correlation between ?hot? titles or quality titles and these sales bursts. The other aspect of the wholesaler that has changed more recently is the fact that a lot of them either produce their own product line or exclusively represent studios. How could they make unbiased product recommendations under these circumstances? The bottom line is that there is loads of information readily available to retailers for them to make their own, unbiased purchasing decisions. We are in a position to provide retailers with a great cross section of studios and titles and will have information, POP and customized incentives to back up these studios.

Online Comment:
?(Pure Play will have to) Increased sales force, increase shipping (personal), Increased collections?

Reply:
We have increased our sales staff significantly, but we are also improving and modernizing how we make a sale. We recently upgraded our accounting software and have added a complimentary sales software that will help our sales people remember important factors about our customers, such as: buying frequency (so we don?t over call them), customer demographics (so we sell them product best suited for their store), purchase history (so we have the customers knowledge at hand) and anything else that will help our interaction with the customer be more personal.
We also plan to increase shipping personal, if required. Recently we moved into a new state of the art facility in Chatsworth, so adding staff as required is no problem. An interesting side point that we have noted; when we sell to wholesalers, they constantly return goods that just come off of being a new release and processing the return actually takes about 3 times the amount of time and energy as a new order, whereas we take very few returns from our retail customers. We feel that the increase staff that we will need for D2R will be somewhat offset by the reduction in staff needed for processing returns.
We may have to increase collection efforts, but we find that we are calling the same 20 or 30 accounts constantly, so maybe by calling a few different accounts, our collections staff will have a more interesting day.

Online Comment:
?Many stores are lazy and do not have the time to hand pick through 1000+ new release DVDs that are available per month. That is where the distributor comes in.?

Reply:
I have addressed this comment earlier by explaining how the role of the distributor has changed. The real issue is the comment about retailer being ?lazy?. We do not think retailers can afford to be or are lazy in today?s environment. We believe they want the best product for the best price, with the best service and knowledge and that is what we can absolutely deliver to our customers for the studios that we represent.

PPM welcomes the new D2R business model and does so with much gusto, giving away a brand new, 2008 Chevy Malibu Hybrid. Every customer order in August will be put in a bin to be randomly drawn from in September. Full promotion details can be found in the latest edition of AVN along with Pure Play Media?s full product catalog or online at www dot pureplaymedia dot com.

For order and distribution inquiries contact sales at pureplaymedia dot com.
Direct all press inquires to: Bill Rix at bill at pureplaymedia dot com or call 818-717-5355 ex. 204.

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Old 08-20-2008, 12:22 PM   #2
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Thanks Dusty and Bill. Feel free to email me your responses and I will post them on the site.

Admin aat pornnewz dot com.

Here's some more responses from the Stores if you'd care to respond to these as well.

"Still no Pureplay product delivered to my store, and
nothing charged to my CC from Pureplay. By this time,
they should have shipped the 8-11, 8-18, and 8-25
titles and charged my CC for them.
Nothing!"


"A few years ago, Homegrown was our highest margin line. They rented great and the cost was low.

But it seems that after a while every series runs out of steam. We don't even bring in every volume anymore."


"Bill rix stated our first order shipped today and that pure play was having some issues. Pure play has some sort of deal where they reduce by 50% the wholesale cost of titles when they hit 120 days old. Pure play is attempting to encourage reorders, but most retailers would be fine getting this stuff 120 days after "street date" for 1/2 price. I have no idea if pure play would accommodate ordering like this or not."

"Many manufacturers sell me direct. I appreciate them selling direct to such a small operation. They provide certain allowances that make it worth my while, and apparently, theirs. Direct-to-Retail, to my estimation, has to make sense, the numbers have to crunch.
So maybe Pure Play would be so kind to shoot me over a new price list, with figures that are reasonable this time..."

"Another point for consideration on this issue: Keep in mind that distribution not only markets to dedicated adult retailers, but also to mainstream retailers that have an adult "back-room". It will be necessary for Pure Play (or any other distributor considering dedicated, exclusive retail direct) to search out those retailers. Failure to do so will reduce the amount of retail outlets with Pure Play product."

"The biggest threat for retail I see in this industry is from the production company that sells direct physical media to the end customer, effectively cutting out both distribution and retail. I can live with VOD directly, but leave the physical media to the retail store please."


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Old 08-20-2008, 12:46 PM   #3
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Arent video middle men concerned? Didnt know they post on here.
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Old 08-20-2008, 01:42 PM   #4
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eesh. whoever wrote that needs to be fired ASAP.
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