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~Carmen~
01-18-2014, 01:39 PM
Yes, it crashed on me too. Yesterday I got kicked off twice.
Phatgirl, that's really strange!
audritwo
01-18-2014, 05:04 PM
I had maybe 3 custies have issue taking me to pvt last night. They said the video stream wasn't loading for them. But when they exit out the stream and go back to free chat my stream is normal. I told them to report their issues to support.
Anyone else have issues similar?
gingerstripper
01-18-2014, 06:40 PM
How many of you worry about daily online percentage thing on sm? Maybe I'm stressing myself out because I actually started to look at it....did nt know what it was til I clicked on it....so am I the only one who is driving myself insane looking at it...I'm stressing myself the eff out :( I have excellant placement so why I'm like omfg..
Staples
01-18-2014, 06:44 PM
I try to keep it above 20% but this week I only did 17% average but I had my best week ever as far as earnings because I raised my rates. There's a good chance that if you have higher rates you'll have a slightly lower percentage but you'll still be making good money.
gingerstripper
01-18-2014, 06:51 PM
Does percentage matter a lot...I just do gold shows..this week my percentage was 26 but I still made a crap liad of money...so if I'm making good money does my percent matter? I think I'm thonking too hard
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
01-18-2014, 06:59 PM
Yes, it crashed on me too. Yesterday I got kicked off twice.
Phatgirl, that's really strange!
Its back to 5 stars again, but still only the one feedback from two years ago. All the others from the last 5 months have vanished. I don't know what's going on with that site. I only logged in because Im in a place with stable internet and I had $80 unpaid from 7 weeks ago. So why not?
@Audritwo I had 2 customers today say that they couldn't go private. They got a message that said contact SM support. I'm not on there very often so I can't verify how often this happens. But I can say that both guys were in and out...in and out....in and out of my room. Like in 1 second.
Then yesterday I had a few guys that said they had hit their spending limit and would come play with me another time? I wonder if this is just a line guys feed us when the don't want to spend anymore money or is SM really cutting them off?
Staples
01-18-2014, 07:18 PM
They say it can affect your placement but it's actually more based on what you earn. Its a placement factor yes but there are so many placement factors that that one thing isn't a huge deal. If you have a crap ton of money then don't worry!
Procrasturbator
01-18-2014, 07:59 PM
Then yesterday I had a few guys that said they had hit their spending limit and would come play with me another time? I wonder if this is just a line guys feed us when the don't want to spend anymore money or is SM really cutting them off?
SM will absolutely cut guys off once they hit their limit (probably to cut down on chargebacks), however they can call support to get their daily limit raised. I'm not entirely sure where the automatic cut off is but I think one of my guys said his limit was around $300.
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
01-18-2014, 08:08 PM
SM will absolutely cut guys off once they hit their limit (probably to cut down on chargebacks), however they can call support to get their daily limit raised. I'm not entirely sure where the automatic cut off is but I think one of my guys said his limit was around $300.
I guess that sounds about right. Of course that wasn't my cut of the sale FUCKERS! But I did suggest to them in emails to contact support to see what happens. Mostly to call their bluff. Dont wanna seem ungrateful. But I don't know the ins and out of SM. Thanks for the response.
caramelDip
01-18-2014, 08:36 PM
i literally saw a tumbleweed roll through my chat room today hahha
Rosemary Rabbit
01-18-2014, 08:56 PM
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gingerstripper
01-18-2014, 08:59 PM
Thank you @staples. I guess sometimes I just think way too much. lol Today was one of those days. one thing after another. Bf comes home early. I do an update on my computer. then everything resets itself.. oi.
kittykrane
01-19-2014, 07:23 AM
I just got the pop-up telling me to update my Flash Player. fingers crossed.
Cam_Model_Jess
01-19-2014, 08:06 AM
Edit: Deleting info on customer limits. Apparently my regs have different limits.
Ms.Lacey
01-19-2014, 09:18 AM
Not true CMJ because my last account had a $500/max when I first signed up
SoloDesire
01-19-2014, 09:40 AM
Yeah, my customer account was automatically set to $200 and I can change it up to $500 myself.
~Carmen~
01-19-2014, 09:47 AM
Mine goes up to $225 but I don't have it set that high.
SarahTime
01-19-2014, 02:12 PM
Friday night SM was awesome for me, it was like the good ol days! I didn't have a single tech issue.... must have been a fluke! LOL
Smurfette
01-19-2014, 02:15 PM
Honestly, I haven't had any tech issues over the last couple weeks. At least none that are obvious. It has just been miserably, uncharacteristically quiet. I just realized that today there are two huge playoff games so it very well may be dead today too. Oh well, never know until we try!
SoloDesire
01-19-2014, 02:46 PM
Today was good for me! Everything worked smoothly and good traffic :)
seller317
01-19-2014, 07:57 PM
I did very well today despite the football games. Couldnt get any goldshows going but lots of pvts, excl, and even a few block sessions which I dont get very often lol
Glamourmilf
01-20-2014, 07:11 AM
^^ Agreed It was good for me too.
vickytgirl
01-20-2014, 08:40 PM
Babies, I work on streamates to, but I have a question.
Should I increase the price of my shows?
I'm not the kind of girl who sends photo weekly, but frequently clients get thumbs up in my shows (I do my best appearance at the live shows) but when I went to the very first time I didn't even know how to change it (the price that I had offered, and some guys said that I was expensive when I was about to offer only a little upper to this price "the traditional offer"
But I'm still new and since then I have been tried buy more and more outfits, toys and etc.
But now, I though that maybe I'm to cheaper: I offer $1.34/minute premium chat and $1.39/minute exclusive chat.
sorry for the erros of English**
but thank you very much
audritwo
01-21-2014, 12:26 AM
$1.34 expensive? Nah girl. Guys will say 99 cents is to expensive. Your rates are low in my opinion. If you want to experiment for a few days or a shift raise your prices. Or gradually raise your prices. Like fifty sense a day. I recommend 3.99 and 4.99
Also I send pictures or whatever to my regs if they have a three or higher near their name.
But it does help to offer some sort of incentive to get guys to join shows. You can offer take me to pvt for five minutes or join gold show and get a huge photo set (huge can of course be stretched. Maybe 19 soft core photos and one hardcore)
Staples
01-21-2014, 02:46 AM
Fucking hell... I've been on SM for 45 minutes and they've disconnected me three times and it's NOT my internet. ARGH!!!!!!!
AnichaWhite
01-21-2014, 08:16 AM
Hello girls :-)
I come back on SM after few months of "vacations" , when i leave the site
some changes was happen , lot of girls started to sell lot of videos in their shows ,
games like raffles and other ...not like before we did simples golds shows (without video/pictures/games ect)
my question is how the streamate business plans have developed since this few last months ?
justanothercamgirl
01-21-2014, 09:03 AM
Fucking hell... I've been on SM for 45 minutes and they've disconnected me three times and it's NOT my internet. ARGH!!!!!!!
Please forgive me if you already said that you've done this and I missed it.....but have you uploaded your version browser's verison of Adobe Flash yet? I saw above that it helped Rosemary out when she was getting disconnection problems.
Snowy0Star
01-21-2014, 10:00 AM
is 4 gigs of ram enuogh to run sm? i have an i7 comp. just with how slow its being right now and the fact ive had to put in longer hours to get anywhere in my goals ive been thinking about my new years resolution to lose the rest of my weight i lost a lot last year but i really wanna make this the year that my tummy is gone. im wondering if i should tough it out a little more and get 16 gigs of ram and then pull back my hours a little
audritwo
01-21-2014, 10:12 AM
How much gig space is being used, girly?
If a lot you should get an external harddrive and just keep it hooked up to your computer so you still have direct access to your things. Like that butt load of anime you probably have.
Snowy0Star
01-21-2014, 10:46 AM
well gigs or ram is different then gigs of the harddrive i have about a terrabyte between my two harddrives that are in my comps case and even tho i would love more as one of them is full and the other one is getting there thats more of a personal tech expense not something i need to get to make my comp work better for camming
laurielegs
01-21-2014, 10:56 AM
is 4 gigs of ram enuogh to run sm? i have an i7 comp. just with how slow its being right now and the fact ive had to put in longer hours to get anywhere in my goals ive been thinking about my new years resolution to lose the rest of my weight i lost a lot last year but i really wanna make this the year that my tummy is gone. im wondering if i should tough it out a little more and get 16 gigs of ram and then pull back my hours a little
I had 9 and added 9 more and now everything runs blazing fast. I can split a bunch of sites now.
Since you have an i7 processor, the 4 is probably enough to run just SM. I would say it's well worth the money to buy more ram if you can swing it.
Snowy0Star
01-21-2014, 11:06 AM
ok ty i will get the ram but im going to start working out and just working my normal shift and take whatever i can get while on it and not stress about the money anymore so i can have time to workout the month is already over and i have not worked out once -_-
camorchid
01-21-2014, 03:21 PM
Ok I have a cpl questions, waiting on my webcam to arrive and i am excited to start, read alot on these glitches with SM which is who I will b working on scary, r they fixed? I need to A: update flashplayer, and I have read something about an encoder and I dont have a clue what it is, I have pretty high speed internet do I still need that? Anything else? OK, one more sorry couldnt find this answer, plz tell me SM allows u to block states, should have found this out b4 I decided to go with them. I am in the US and have like 4 states I need to block!! Thankyou ladies as always!!
Snowy0Star
01-21-2014, 03:29 PM
Ok I have a cpl questions, waiting on my webcam to arrive and i am excited to start, read alot on these glitches with SM which is who I will b working on scary, r they fixed? I need to A: update flashplayer, and I have read something about an encoder and I dont have a clue what it is, I have pretty high speed internet do I still need that? Anything else? OK, one more sorry couldnt find this answer, plz tell me SM allows u to block states, should have found this out b4 I decided to go with them. I am in the US and have like 4 states I need to block!! Thankyou ladies as always!!
ok heres advice
the glitches - the site will always have glitches just something u need to work with theres pros and cons to everything nothing is perfect .
the encoder - its a program adobe makes that sm uses theres links to get it inside ur model account that encoder also works on kink.com's new cam site too BTW just wanted to throw that out there
internet - yes good internet is always better the best you can get the better you will be off as well as a good computer (I7 and max out ur motherboards ram for starts)
state blocking - yes you can do that its called geo blocking in your profiles setting in ur model account. u do take a hit in ur placement tho. u will be found out sooner or later we all are its just a matter of when prolong it tho sure put geoblock on just know the site gives u consequences doing so
Holly_xoxo
01-21-2014, 03:42 PM
SM is confusing me lately. I was off for about a week and a half and now that I'm back on, my placement has dropped drastically. I used to be around the 6th or 7th row on the 1st page but now I'm almost at the bottom of page 2 and women that I remember being listed quite a bit after me are now ahead of me.
I've been back on for a week now and have been doing pretty good money wise.
I'm not sure what could be affecting my placement so much :(
camorchid
01-21-2014, 04:47 PM
Thankyou SnowyOstar!! U always answer my questions darlin! :))
gingerstripper
01-21-2014, 05:30 PM
was it incredibly slow for anyone else?
Ms.Lacey
01-21-2014, 06:12 PM
was it incredibly slow for anyone else?
fuck yes lol but my last 1.5hrs was pretty awesome #regsrock but w/o them i would have suffered
bigbootyjudy1
01-21-2014, 06:42 PM
6 plus hours to make my fucking goal.Ughhhhhh.I need a vacation with all these extra hours im putting in .Thank goodness i'm taking a leave soon.I hate when i don't work my regular shift,then i have to wait forever to make goal cuz my regulars arent on!
Mayamee
01-22-2014, 03:10 AM
Whats with sm? no ppl here :( i didnt work here some weeks, but i remember before i didnt wait for ptv 5 min. now im here 2 hours and 0???
Snowy0Star
01-22-2014, 03:13 AM
ur not the only one i just spent 4 hours in free chat and made 6$ from a show from a regular everyone else just left as soon as they came in my room and my feed was fine i had several ppl check a number of times
Mayamee
01-22-2014, 03:18 AM
:( im sow boring here, i think i must find new site i need $$$ lol i will move in new house next mounts and i dont have job :(
Incantatious
01-22-2014, 06:31 AM
Are there even still SM girls who have an hourly average of $100+ anymore?
Give us a heads up if you are! I could do with that hope right now. I miss the old days where I could go on for two hours and make $200+, hope I can get that back!
hf487
01-22-2014, 07:03 AM
anyone else getting the "Ding, DING" meaning someone has come into your room, while your already in exclusive and others can't join. You know the sound it makes when were in pvt and multiple ppl are joining?
Just curious it's done this to me the past cpl days.
Yes. I got the ding ding in an exclusive yesterday. I told him to come right back in and booted him. I thought the site was trying to say he kept trying to come in. I wanted to be sure I wasn't doing a free show. Really annoyed with all the tech fuck ups. They're sitting someplace nice in a mansion and I'm just hoping to get my bills paid. Why all the tech problems when you're raking in loads of $$$$???!!!
Nicky6
01-22-2014, 08:18 AM
Are there even still SM girls who have an hourly average of $100+ anymore?
Give us a heads up if you are! I could do with that hope right now. I miss the old days where I could go on for two hours and make $200+, hope I can get that back!
Yes, Incantatious, I know a couple girls making at least $100/hour. I personally make about $100-$150/hour while doing gold shows, usually about $150-$200/hour if I'm doing privates and exclusives.
Don't lose hope! There are still big spenders on there, there's just a WHOLE BUNCH more freeloaders lol
CurvyWinona
01-22-2014, 08:51 AM
SM is confusing me lately. I was off for about a week and a half and now that I'm back on, my placement has dropped drastically. I used to be around the 6th or 7th row on the 1st page but now I'm almost at the bottom of page 2 and women that I remember being listed quite a bit after me are now ahead of me.
I've been back on for a week now and have been doing pretty good money wise.
I'm not sure what could be affecting my placement so much :(
i am on the same boat. :( i just have to work a bit longer and hope it will bring my placement back to where it was.
Staples
01-22-2014, 09:14 AM
can anyone tell me how to disable a custies audio during c2c?
Vlodina
01-22-2014, 09:16 AM
Yeah, you click on the audio symbol under their video stream, beside the buttons for ending the customers video, and for switching between small view and tiny view.
temptingmodel
01-22-2014, 09:17 AM
can anyone tell me how to disable a custies audio during c2c?
click on the mic icon after they send their cam... its next to the icon that make screen bigger, if u wish to that
I always wonder if they can hear us after
edit, we posted at the same time :D