Review of Sextoy.com
Selection
Out of all the aspects of this site, selection is sextoy.com’s strongest characteristic. My favorite brands like Lelo, Fun Factory, njoy and Liberator are all there. There are all kinds of glass, silicon, metal and other safe material toys. They sell condoms, lube of every imaginable kind and they have a pretty impressive bondage gear catalog. Everything from extremely inexpensive rubber dildos to the best stainless steal wirelessly rechargeable ergonomic vibrators.
They also sell clothing, have a partnership with a video on demand site and a chat room.
Design
Well, here sextoy is a bit lacking, but then again in my opinion so are most sex toy sites. The good thing is that the grid structure of each page of toys is pretty clean. There are decent sized thumbnails of the products, the price and the name.
I think a major overhaul of the design of this site would do a lot. They should pick a specific and distinguishable design concept and color scheme that will separate them from the pack and go all the way with it.
Price
I picked three well known products and compared the prices of sextoy.com, a random competitive sex toy site and the cheapest price I could find on the item by just spending five minutes on google.
Curve
sextoy.com: $64.17
other sex toy shop #2: $63.95
amazon.com: $70.89
Hitachi Magic Wand
sextoy.com: $44.50
other sex toy shop #2: $41.36
drugstore.com: $39.95
We Vibe
sextoy.com: $129.95
other sex toy shop #2: #130.00
amazon.com: $89.08
I think sextoy.com is pretty competitive. They have a bevy of very affordable sex toys I haven’t seen on other sites and for most major toys they are within a few dollars of the other major sex toy sites.
Ordering
It is pretty easy to order. I made a test order of 100 Durex Love Condoms. You have to set up an account and put in all of your information and click a few too many ok’s but I suppose that is better than accidentally buying something you don’t want.
Incidentally the condoms were the same price as they were on condomdepot, which I think is pretty competitive.
Community/Philosophy
Unlike some other sites I frequent there are a few questionable things about this company. There is a “meds” section which is a link to a site called “bringbackyouvigor.com” that sells viagra and other drugs. sextoy.com also sell products made of jelly, rubber and other unsafe materials. Both of these things are understandable and not particularly bad, but are a strike against them for me personally compared to more sex positive and commUNITY positive sites.
I think sextoy.com’s recent interest in bloggers and their reaching out for reviews is certainly a big step forward in this category.
In the name of full disclosure I should tell you that sextoy.com is paying me for this review. I think I’ve been pretty fair with the review just like I am with all my reviews. I even spent most of what they are paying me on the actual site, so I am looking at it as just another product review.
15 comments
Nice review! I’m impressed. I love the comparison thing. True that they carry jelly toys, but so do other “sex positive” stores. Perhaps they should put up an article on the danger of jelly and phthalates? Great job.
Definitely agree that selection is awesome but the design sort of sucks. Appearance is very important to me and this really seems like a ghetto site. =/
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