Porn Valley-Arnold from OPD commented this week in the wake of Uncle Lanny’s Yes Dude line leaving the OPD Distribution pack: “Don’t be to quick to blame the distribution company if your product doesn’t sell. I am still stuck and I truly mean stuck with over 1000 units of a title called American Blow Job Queen with Summer Haze that unfortunately I already paid for to Craig Valentine that I couldn’t give away for free if I tried. Right now I have tons of coasters for my house with an ugly woman on them.”
However if you go to Stein’s site http://www.opdshop.com/catalog/index.php as of Thursday afternoon, Haze’s title is ranked as his number one best seller. I asked Craig Valentine how could this be in light of what Stein said? Valentine’s a little puzzled as well considering that Stein claims he sold 1200 pieces of Uncle Lanny’s title and that’s considered a bum title.
“How many people in this day and age would give to sell 1200 pieces?” Valentine wonders.
[Quote Stein: When over 2000 units are sold of one title for a average price of over $9 and 800 and change are returned as overstock months later, this is a good indication that the line needed to be dropped.]
“Arnold’s saying that he’s got 1,000 pieces of my movie [American Blow Job Queen] as coffee cup holders?” adds Valentine. “Which is amazing because if you have a 1,000 pieces that you still swear to God you never have? So we shipped him 3,000 pieces and he’s got a 1,000 left. Where are the 2,000 pieces I never got paid on? Obviously he knows. But if you’ve got 1,000 pieces, please ship them to Dane because Dane’s on back order for the title.”
On another note, Valentine challenges Stein to show where he paid Valentine for Rebecca Hilton’s titles.
“Not I gave you a check in March bullshit,” says Valentine. “I don’t want a word document. I want to see a physical check- you swore to God and showed her proof that you paid me for her product. That’s not too much to ask. He told everybody he’s got cancelled checks. Everybody wants to hear his side of the story. Now show everybody how you paid me. There’s got to be a check that went through the bank somewhere. There’s got to be a wire payment somewhere. He showed Hilton proof of $6400 that he paid me, show me. But if you can produce those checks then basically I’m lying to everybody. Either he can prove it or he can’t.”
Regarding the Uncle Lanny situation and the fact that Stein is complaining about 1200 pieces, Valentine notes it was Arnold’s job to edit, do he box art an everything else to put the title out.
“You can shoot the best movie in the world, but if your editor sucks, how do we know that Lanny didn’t shoot a good movie?” Valentine asks. “I thought that American Blowjob Queen was going to be a bum title but I’m getting phenomenal checks from AEBN and Hot Movies. It surpassed every single title that we have there. So if this is so bad, why are the customers buying it? Let’s get a clue.”