Good Vibes bought by GVA-TWN: A GV coming to a town near you?

[yesthattom]

GV had terrible sales this year due to drugstore.com and other powerhouses starting to sell sensual merchandise. They were looking for an investor for the last few months and finally found one. The new investor owns a number of “adult” stores but wants to be involved in the feminist, cleaner, high-class segment of the market. With their economic power they will be able to open up stores around the country. Will there be a GV in your town soon? Not likely YOUR town, but many towns. :)

Comments

[kimuchi.livejournal.com]

I know they blame the competition, but I can't help but feel some of their choices helped put them in the bind they were in. The new store on Valencia is very pretty in a mall-upscale way, but a lot "fluffier" than the old space with the goofy bachelorette-party games front and center. Meanwhile the emphasis on the high-end (and presumably high-margin) product meant, to me, that someone not so much interested in a precision-crafted $150 art-vibrator or hand-blown $100 art-glass dildo was more likely to leave their site or their store empty-handed.

I dunno, their site has *never* been the cheapest place to buy these things. But it used to be I'd look at the site and see things I wanted to try. Now I look at their site and I see...what? Pages and pages of identical smoothly-inoffensive high-end German machines and not a whole lot that seems new or different. I don't own a BMW car or bike, and it turns out I'm not a BMW shopper in the sex toy area, either.

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

They've basically been replaced by Babes in Toyland.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Some interesting commentary (by an admittedly highly biased and even personally involved source) here. (Worksafe other than the url itself)