WantedList

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section needs to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please help improve this article with relevant internal links. (January 2008)

WantedList was established in 1999 as an adult online DVD rental service, offering flat-rate subscription-based rentals by mail to customers in the United States. They are based in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California with an additional distribution center in New Jersey.

WantedList has approximately 25,000 subscribers¹ and 20,000 adult DVD titles² in stock. It was founded by Anh Tran and Danny Ting, two Asian Americans who were formerly consultants for Arthur Andersen.³

1 Acquisitions
2 Competition
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Acquisitions

WantedList acquired competitor websites FlickSmart and RentFlixxx in Q4 of 2004.⁴ Shortly thereafter they acquired additional competitor websites Video Takeout and Flick Central (both holdings of VTO Enterprises Inc.).⁵ This last acquisition gave the company their East Coast distribution point in New Jersey to support the West Coast center in California.

[edit] Competition

WantedList is one of a number of websites in the adult space that mimic the Netflix model of subscription-based rentals by mail. Other sites include: DVD Empire, XRentDVD, Intelliflix, Intimatedvd, AdultDVDCentral.com, Rentdvdxxx.com and URentDVDs

[edit] Awards

WantedList won the AVN Award for Best Retail Website in 2005, 2006 (tied with Adult DVD Empire) and 2007⁶ and the Xbiz award⁷ for Web Retailer of the Year in 2007.