short review of foottime.com

[cincinnatusc]

i just joined foottime.com, and i feel it was a mistake. now, i'll admit, i don't have a huge foot fetish, tickling is my cup of tea, so maybe i am not the customer this site caters to. the tickling clips are short, and very frustrating. short as in all clips are a minute or less (though the two newer ones are longer). frustrating because the clips seem to be mostly from the beginning of full movies (or larger clips). so you watch a clip with some hot girl, she shows her feet for 20 seconds, they start tickling her lightly for another 20 seconds, and just when she starts to laugh, the clip is over. there are lots of pictures, but the majority of them are caps from the clips available. with a $20 per month fee, i feel that the content is nowhere near worth the price. they do have 5-10 minute clips available for pay/per download, much like ticklecentral.com, but alot of the prices are double what that site charges. i wish that i had just bought 3 or 4 clips from another site, or at least just 2 of their full link clips. in my opinion, joining this site means dropping twenty to see preview clips that most sites make available for free. oh well, live and learn.

cincinnatusc

 

[DallasFootTickler]

Thanks for your feedback

Feedback is always a valuable thing as it lets a webmaster (or his PR guy!) know how people feel about the site. Cincinnatusc, you mention that you are more of a tickle enthusiast than a foot fetishist. The site does feature a lot of tickling as the owner, Mike FootTime is a tickler himself, but as the name suggests it is primarily a foot site so while the tickling you get with membership is some of the best around, not every update will be tickle related. As for the clips, recently they have been longer (as you also pointed out). Mike was experimenting with using a different compression method because he wanted to offer longer clips which is why those two newest ones are the length they are. This latest format should be continuing.


Cincinnatusc, please understand that I am not trying to invalidate your opinion with this post...quite the contrary. You have spent the money to join the site and I felt the need to at least attempt to help you feel like you received something of value for your membership fee. I should remind you that as a member you will have free access to this Sunday's web cam show with Little Dee! I'm a member myself of course but unfortunately pre-existing conditions will cause me to miss this month's web cam show so I'm counting on my fellow current FootTime members (and perhaps some new ones!) to post their reactions and let me know how it turned out.


On behalf of the site's owner I want to thank you very much for at least giving FootTime a try and we're sorry it didn't meet all of your expectations. Again thanks for your review as all feedback will make Mike FootTime aware of some areas that may need improvement.

Thanks!

 

[ShiningIce]

Would it be too much to ask to get Mike to try TICKLING them, IE ruthlessly raking fingers up and down their soles. Instead of poking at them? Sarah is a great ticklee, but its so frustrating beyond words to watch him tickle her. He REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY needs to be a more aggressive ler. 😡 🙁

 

[Asterix]

A webmaster's point of view

Hello people

I never visited foottime.com, and have no opinion on the site.
Thank you for your attention.
Asterix

Oh yes, I almost forgot: I would like to mention, as the webmaster of another site, how difficult it is to please everybody.

In Cincinnatusc, I noticed 2 remarks:
- The clips are too short ( 1 minute each i believe). A decent 1 minute clip is a 5 to 7 megabytes file. not everybody has cable or DSL connection as of yet, and a 30 megs clip (4 minutes) may take 1/2 hour to download. Very frustrating ! The webmaster has to make a choice. Mine is to provide clips never exceeding 20 megs.
Of course, a big site with full time staff, thousands of members, and financial resources may supply videos in different formats, quality, duration etc. This comes at a price though (disk space, bandwidth, labour cost).
-Cincinnatusc also mentions that he paid 20 $. I don't find that very expensive, and in fact, sites that provide original content for this price have become more the exception than the rule.
First the processing company keeps 15 to 20% of the money, then one has to pay for hosting (cheaper these days, I agree), sometimes promotion, but mostly production costs. Models generally have to be paid...what about studio, photographer, equipment ? This all adds up quickly.
So, please, support, or at least understand, small and amateur sites. If you don't, the Internet landscape will shrink down to a handfull of big shots, each running 2 dozens of big sites.
This is already the trend. The number of Billing processors has been reduced by half in the last year, and Visa & Mastercard have driven thousands of small adult sites out of business in the same time.

 

[MikeFootTime]

my two cents

I remember this song by Ricky Nelson called "Garden Party", the chorus goes something like this for those of you who never heard it.
"But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well.
You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself"
In one review my clips are too short, I wanted to please the dial-up crowd. Thinking that anything might be too long for dial-up, I lengthened the clips to 3-5 minutes, roughly half of the 63 clips in the member's area are this long. In a separate review by "footamateur", now they're too big! I even bought a program called Helix Producer that really reduces the file size by half and maintains great picture quality! Oh well... Also, I picked up 16 new models since FootTime started, I think "some" new faces understates it a little in your review. I'm happy overall that you like my site🙂
Sarah / Fiona started modeling for me back in the HangTen days. (Did I mention the clothing line muscled me out of that name, which costs me time and money to restructure, and I'm still here! See Asterix's comments for a glimpse into the costs of running a site let alone rebuilding one!) If she had known what the site would evolve into I'm sure she wouldn't have agreed from the beginning. Sarah is a friend of mine, and I'm glad to help her pay for her college classes with the money she earns from FT, but she is not my slave! The tickling and anything else she agrees to is consensual, by the way, she hates being tickled! She's a real good sport about the whole thing and the last time we got together I convinced her "$" to let me tickle and torment her feet with alot more intensity, see the latest installment at Clips4Sale. Of course the way I tickled people like Heather and Nicole pretty much disproves that I only "poke" at the girls' feet!
I like barefeet, wrinkled soles, dirty feet, bondage, foot tickling, foot torment, not necessarily in that order. I also like "little baby ducks, old pickup trucks"... wait that's another song, sorry! I try to listen to what people say, from Guitar Pete who gave me the idea to prime the soles with a blow dryer and lubricant, great idea by the way🙂to one member, we'll call him "JF", who asked me not to "cook" the girls' feet and just run a string between their toes (I prefer the former). Do you know I can do a whole shoot and be criticized because the model had red instead of green nail polish on her toes! Really!!
The majority of people who like what I do get a little of everything at FootTime for the $19.95 monthly asking price. I'm happy to have alot of you on board and will try to improve my site by listening to your consructive comments. I've been where most of you are, just remember, objectivity is a two way street, all I ask is, try looking at it from my perspective sometime. Don't get me wrong, I think having a site is great, I get to experience different girls' feet and make a little money along the way, it's makes the "work" part worth while! Only when I feel I can't make everyone happy, that Ricky Nelson song starts playing in my head....
One more thing, I hope you're all aware of the power you have in the written word, you can easily make or break a small site with the stroke of a keyboard! 'nuf said🙂
Thank you, Mike