Page updated: 25 February 2010
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February 25:We have decided to go for the fund to make Holding Contest 7, and my thanks to the person who suggested the idead. HC 7 will run very much along the lines of Holding Contest 6 which was very popular, so I'm hoping there will be enough interest in seeing Lola and new model Mariah duke it out. Lola is a prodigous wetter when she is placed in a situation where she really has to hold on, while Mariah has already proved herself in Delayed Too Long where she held on for well over an hour, until her bladder was rock hard. I would therefore anticipate a contest that runs at least an hour, where the contestants will be scantily clad for some of the time, and where measurements will be taken to establish the winner. If the donations are sufficient, we will offer a nice bonus to the winner as an added incentive to wait as long as possible, bursting point and beyond! It should be tremendous fun and very entertaining. Filming in planned for early April. February 23: A few customers are finding the Dreamhost system a little hard to understand. If you really don't like using Dreamhost, it is still possible to pay us using PayPal, at least for the time being. However, it involves using PayPal's "Send Money" option (which in itself is not particularly clear!). We cannot attach pay buttons to movies using PayPal because that business account was forcibly closed by PayPal since selling adult material contravenes their Terms & Conditions of use. You can e-mail me at north@bound2burst.net to tell me what movies you want and then I'll tell you how much to pay using "Send Money", but really, the best way is to use our Batch Order system which allows you to submit a form to us with the movie titles you want to buy. I have added a form now where you can submit a single movie title using a form, but there is no discount attached to it. After submitting the form, pay the price for the movie which is displayed on the Movies by Season or Movies by Model pages (all other prices shown on description pages are now irrelevant), then send this sum using PayPal's "Send Money" option to the following e-mail address: send.b2b.money@gmail.com. WARNING: If you should come across a similar e-mail address elsewhere, for heaven's sake do NOT send any money to it thinking it's Bound2Burst. A similar but slightly different e-mail address would be someone trying to scam you. I have not heard of any scams, but sooner or later someone may try it. So, be ABSOLUTELY SURE you use only the above e-mail address, and make sure it is EXACTLY as it appears here. February 17:I have just heard from a customer who is concerned about giving credit card details to Dreamhost because they are not a well-known name like PayPal or CCBill, etc. I have reassured him that, in my opinion, Dreamhost is a trustworthy organisation. They have been hosting Bound2Burst since May 2005 (after Yahoo shut down my first site - what a surprise), and they have always treated me fairly, responded when I've experienced problems, and given me a lot of latitude to operate for very low hosting fees. I have never had any problems with them at all. Of course, I am biased since they are hosting me, so all I can suggest is doing a web search on Dreamhost using the word review to see what shows up. As with everything, reviews are mixed. But then, try doing the same with PayPal! All I can say is that I have not had any problems with Dreamhost, and in my case they are hosting material that most hosts and financial vendors will not knowingly touch. I suppose, in the final analysis, you have to take your chances if you want pee desperation videos at a reasonable price. If you really are not comfortable with Dreamhost, you can still use PayPal to pay for things - you have to use their Send Money option and address it to send.b2b.money@gmail.com. All 2009 movies are now linked to add to cart buttons and can be downloaded immediately. Movie sets have been zipped together for purchase back as far as June 2009. Prior to this, sets are linked to a rich text format file on Files Forever which serves as a receipt for your purchase; passwords for downloads are provided manually as in the old days of B2B. Over time, all movie sets will be zipped and uploaded, but that is a slow and fairly expensive process - slow because each zipped movie set has to be uploaded (it's like uploading all the movies twice), and then when the files are stored on Files Forever, we are charged a one-time fee of about $3 - this is in addition to the storage fee for the same amount each time a customer buys and downloads a set. Clearly, uploading and storing about 200 movie sets is going to cost about $600, so this is going to be spread over time. Loading the individual movies has already cost this, so the transition to Files Forever is non-trivial, cost-wise and time-wise. Once done, of course, the files will be there forever and we won't have to worry about keeping up with issuing passwords, which will be nice for everyone. Work will soon commence on 2008 movies. In the meantime, there are new movies from Jayne to process and upload, plus some long-outstanding DVD orders to fill. DVD customers have suffered significantly in the past month, for which I sincerely apologise. February 13:We have received a few e-mails from customers who are concerned to see movies they have already purchased listed alongside new purchases. You are not being charged again for these movies. With Files Forever, you will see everything you have purchased forever. If you buy movies over a period of a year, or even 5 years, everything you have bought will be listed. If you don't want to keep files on your computer at home, just delete them, and when you want them again, re-download them from Files Forever. It's a great way to safely store your library, and Dreamhost guarantees they will never delete your movies. There is one point I want to make though. On all Files Forever pages, Dreamhost has this statement which refers to the downloadable content: "It has no DRM restrictions of any kind". DRM stands for "digital rights management". Dreamhost insists that we, and other individuals or merchants, do not post material where the copyright is owned by someone else. It's their safeguard against getting sued if someone uploads copyrighted music files or movies and then sells them or shares them illegally. The copyright on all Bound2Burst and Beauties in Bondage movies is owned by David North, and while I am happy for you to share your B2B or BiB movies with friends, I do ask that you don't make them available to others via message boards. Dreamhost tracks downloads and they flag anything that looks like illegal account sharing (i.e., your account is being accessed by numerous IP addresses). If they catch you distributing movies by sharing your account in this way, they will close your account and ban you for life. This means that you would not be able to purchase our movies again, and those that you have already bought will become permanently unavailable to you. February 11: We're making progress. Almost one year of movies have been reconnected to the add to cart buttons. On recent movies by seaon pages, movie sets can also be downloaded straight away, although the files (with all movies in the set zipped together) are large, typically 800MB - 1 GB. This is a problem for some customers. Moreover, it has been reported that the Files Forever server is a bit slow, downloading at around 250 kB per second, so that a zipped movie set may take over an hour to download. It may be better in general to provide movie sets the old fashioned way, via Bound2Burst, since downloads from our server on Dreamhost are generally faster. The April-June 2009 page therefore has movie sets represented by a rich text file on Files Forever, which just provides a mechanism for you to pay. Once you have paid, we will see your purchase and send the download information to the e-mail address you used to make your purchase. For the time being, we will work backwards through the catalogue like this, and will only install zipped movie sets if customers ask for it to be done. There is another issue, not a serious one but something to consider. Files Forever charges us a storage fee each time a customer buys a movie. This storage fee is designed to cover the cost of the bandwidth you use when downloading the file. For a typical movie, this is about 50-60 cents, so it's not really a big deal, although when added to the 50c + 5% processing fees for your payment (these are applied to Bound2Burst, not you), it does eat into our share of the income. True, it's not anywhere near as bad as Clips4Sale who take 40%! The time these storage fees on Files Forever really hit us is when zipped movie sets are purchased. Because the set files are so big, the storage fee is $2-3, so now we're losing up to $5 per purchase, whereas PayPal only charged us the 50c + 5% processing fee plus a month flat charge of $30. It makes a difference! However, if we post a RTF file on Files Forever in place of a zipped movie set, the storage fee is only 1 cent when a purchase is made, because now the files is very small. It doesn't cost us anything when you download movies from Bound2Burst. You can probably see where this is going... Okay, so if you buy a movie set this way, it's back to the bad old days of waiting for passwords to get your downloads. While this arrangement is cheaper for us, it also inconveniences you. We therefore propose a way we can both save money. From here onwards, we will post 2 add to cart buttons with each movie set, one pointing to the zipped movie set on Files Forever and the other pointing to a RTF file on Files Forever. If a zipped movie set is $24.95, then we will only charge you $22.95 for the version where you wait for the passwords. This will wipe out the storage fee for us, and you share in the benefit with a discount of about 10%. If you have views on this idea, send your comments to me at north@bound2burst.net. Other news: Jayne's website, Desperate Jayne, has now been populated with add to cart buttons that point to her movies on Files Forever. For now, her movie sets are just RTF files, so the passwords to access sets come from us. This may change, but at least everything is now accessible. Jayne has closed off Elegant Bondage though since there is little interest in that from her desperation fans. Oh, and we have just received 2 tapes of new material from Jayne, so her site will be updated during the new week. February 6: Just to be absolutely clear: we are initially working chronologically backwards through the Movies by Season pages, and for now most movies can only be bought via these pages. Once these are complete, we will work through the Movies by Model pages, following by the individual description pages. There are literally hundreds of description pages, however, so that will take quite some time. This means the button you see on most description pages will not work, so please don't attempt to buy movies through description pages. In some cases, these would reflect the wrong price, where an increase has been necessary. I am shortly going to introduce a Buy All Movies on This Page button on the older Movies by Season pages with a large discount, so anyone interested can purchase the lot. Obviously, there will be movies on a page you won't want, but the idea is that the discount will be big enough that you would still get your money's worth. The "Best Of" series is going to continue. At the moment, we have only The Best of Lola, but this is also planned for movies by Tabitha, Jayne, Danielle, Beverley, and all of the long-term models who have made a lot of movies. The "Best Of" sets will contain 10 of the model's best movies for a fixed price. February 3: The folks at Dreamhost have kindly added a large, yellow "Add to Shopping Cart" image to the Files Forever system, making it much easier to find! Our red "Add to Cart" link just take you to the movie download page where you have to select "Add to Shopping Cart" again. It's a lot like the old system with PayPal really. I did consider having a different kind of link on Bound2Burst, but Buy Now sends the erroneous message that one can't buy more than one item using that link. I hope everyone will get used to the new system. Some of the prices on some of the longer movies have gone up a little. Sorry about that. The reason is this: in addition to a processing fee, we get charged a storage fee each time someone buys a movie - the larger the movie file, the bigger the fee. Movie sets cost us an extra $2.50-$3.00 per download which, when combined with the transaction fee, makes the overhead about 20%, compared to around 10% with PayPal (but then, that was an entirely manual system). The increase in most cases is only $1 - we will absorb the rest. I hope that customers will see this as the extra cost of having an automated system, which quite a few of you have been requesting for a long time. Our prices are still way below Clips4Sale though since Dreamhost is not taking 40% of the sales price in commission. Thanks for sticking with us through this enforced transition. Dave.
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