7 NOTES & BOLTS
11 SEX RATED
Movie of the Month
15 VIDEO BLUE
Home Videotapes Reviewed
20 INTERVIEW:
Robert De Niro: Double Oscar winner tells of his life, loves and work
by George Hadda-Garcia
24 DUMBBELL BLONDE
Pumping iron can be very erotic
31 ELITE'S LIFE STYLE
Water Sports
by Paul Howard
40 BROTHERHOOD OF FIRE
Only the best can qualify; only the best will survive
Article by Paul Howard
43 THE GREAT CANADIAN BEAVER HUNT
48 TANYA TANS IT
Fun in the Sun
54 CRADLE ROBBERS
A little girl, not quite alone
Fiction by Janet Fox
57 THE FIRST ANNUAL EROTIC FASHION SHOW
The hottest swimsuits of 1981
72 BICYCLE SEAT
A young lass and her bike
87 ALL-STAR STRIP SHOW
90 PAMELA'S PAINT BOX
It comes in colors
PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT
MAIL ORDER GUARANTEE
How many of you out there have been ripped off by ads in magazines —
ours or others? How many of you have sent to the States for mail-order
erotica and received nothing but a Customs form telling you your
purchase is too hot for Canada and has been impounded at the border?
How many of you have received nothing at all because the American
company has simply taken your money and scrapped your order, knowing
there's nothing you can do about it?
Well, it's not going to happen any more! At least, not through ELITE!
Effective immediately we are personally guaranteeing 99% of the
advertising in ELITE (I'll come to the other 1% in a minute).
In the past, we have accepted ads more or less indiscriminately. No
more! There have been too many rip-offs and we want no part of them. So
we have taken our complaint file and spoken to the advertisers. And we
have bounced any who would not guarantee that their products would be
delivered in Canada. That means we've gotten rid of a lot of American
advertisers — in fact, all of them except the ones with a clean record
on deliveries.
We've also checked out the Canadian advertisers. You'd think they would
have guaranteed delivery, but there's a trick in the Mail-order
business: You send your order to a Canadian address; they forward it to
somewhere in the States and it's from there that your order is filled.
Or not, as the case may be.
Anyway, we checked out the Canadians and kept the ones that guaranteed
delivery, the ones whose Canadian address is really the address your
orders will he filled at.
So there it is — you can believe the ads you read in ELITE - at least
99% of the time. That other 1%? That's hUmma-porn-star">Uman error. We can only check
these companies out so far. Maybe somebody lied. Maybe somebody new
will come along who looks clean, but isn't. If that happens and you get
ripped off, write to us.
We want to know. We'll do what we can to get you your money or your
merchandise.
But before you write, make sure you've given them enough time to fill
your order. Most mail-order companies are small operations: one or two
people, a pile of merchandise and a pile of orders that get filled as
they come in. If there are more orders than merchandise or hours in a
day — you'll have to wait.
But don't worry. If the company's good, they won't forget you. Read the
ad carefully. If it says wait at least six weeks for delivery, then
wait the six and give them an extra two or three.
If you haven't heard by then, write to us. We stand behind our
advertisers — with a sharp stick. If you intend to order anything from
another magazine, write first and make sure they guarantee Canadian
delivery.
We guarantee delivery. Our advertisers guarantee delivery. As far as we
know, ELITE is the only men's magazine that can make that claim. We are
proud of that.
