WantedList was established in 1999 as an adult DVD-by-mail service, offering flat-rate subscription-based rentals by mail to customers in the United States

United States

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. It is based in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California

Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California

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 with an additional distribution center in New Jersey

New Jersey

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

Arthur Andersen

Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations...

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Acquisitions

WantedList acquired competitor websites FlickSmart and RentFlixxx in Q4 of 2004. Shortly thereafter they acquired additional competitor websites Video Takeout and Flick Central (both holdings of VTO Enterprises Inc.). This last acquisition gave the company their East Coast

East Coast of the United States

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 distribution point in New Jersey to support the West Coast

West Coast of the United States

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 center in California.

Competition

WantedList is one of a number of websites in the pornographic video marketplace that mimic the Netflix model of subscription-based rentals by mail. Other sites include: DVD Empire, XRentDVD, Intelliflix

Intelliflix

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 (closed), Intimatedvd, AdultDVDCentral.com, Rentdvdxxx.com, URentDVDs and SugarDVD

SugarDVD

SugarDVD is the largest renter of adult DVDs online. Initially, SugarDVD's services were limited to flat-rate membership-based DVD-by-mail, but since its creation in 2002, the company has developed websites in several different areas of the adult industry. SugarDVD maintains its position in the...

Awards

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

WantedList is a winner of the 2010 Best Adult DVD Rental award for best online porn DVD movie rental service.

External links

• Ripoffereport
• Skin City Wired Magazine November 2005.
• WantedList
• Sex and Two Single Guys AsianWeek
  AsianWeek
  AsianWeek was a widely circulated publication of Asian American news, across all Asian ethnic groups, providing coverage of Asian-American issues such as the killing of Vincent Chin, Asian American college admissions, and quotas on Chinese students in competitive San Francisco examination schools...
  
   October 2003.
• WantedList.com Buying FlickSmart and Rentflixxx AVN
  AVN (magazine)
  Adult Video News is an American trade journal that covers the adult video industry. The New York Times notes that AVN is to pornographic films what Billboard is to records...
  
   November 2004.
• WantedList.com Acquires Video Takeout and Flick Central AVN
  AVN (magazine)
  Adult Video News is an American trade journal that covers the adult video industry. The New York Times notes that AVN is to pornographic films what Billboard is to records...
  
  December 2004.
• AVN Awards
• XBiz Awards