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Pearl_Sugar
05-05-2015, 08:44 AM
I also broke down and lowered my rates last night. I'm almost back to my starting point that I was at 2 1/2 years ago. Only I'm making a hell of a lot less.
IvyAdams
05-05-2015, 09:51 AM
Well, just finished moving across the country and so I haven't been on Streamate since my last suspension :) Getting back on today for the first time in a little over a week.. hoping that the traffic is there :)
JessRyan
05-05-2015, 09:52 AM
Damn girls sorry to hear about having to lower your rates. It reminds me of a guy I dated back in Atlanta. Adbul. He was so old school, much older and wore silk suits and drove a white BMW. I met him at a black strip club I was working in. He was a great guy and let's just say, he "made a lot of $$" anyway, one day we came home and I set my purse down on the floor. He quickly scooped it up and said, "NO! Never put your purse on the floor." I'm like "Why??" He asked me, "Don't you know the old saying?" I'm like what??
"You put your purse down, the money goes down. Put your purse up high, money goes high. Never on the floor"
I've never put my purse on the floor since then.
Fitandpretty
05-05-2015, 09:55 AM
Damn girls sorry to hear about having to lower your rates. It reminds me of a guy I dated back in Atlanta. Adbul. He was so old school, much older and wore silk suits and drove a white BMW. I met him at a black strip club I was working in. He was a great guy and let's just say, he "made a lot of $$" anyway, one day we came home and I set my purse down on the floor. He quickly scooped it up and said, "NO! Never put your purse on the floor." I'm like "Why??" He asked me, "Don't you know the old saying?" I'm like what??
"You put your purse down, the money goes down. Put your purse up high, money goes high. Never on the floor"
I've never put my purse on the floor since then.
Me either! I haven't put my purse on the floor in over a year lol
Tsepmet1
05-05-2015, 10:45 AM
Streamate is having exclusive chat glitches today. :(
anonymous camgirl
05-05-2015, 01:58 PM
WELP! still no check today!.. uggh.. anyone else? .. my day is always on monday
anonymous camgirl
05-05-2015, 02:02 PM
Damn girls sorry to hear about having to lower your rates. It reminds me of a guy I dated back in Atlanta. Adbul. He was so old school, much older and wore silk suits and drove a white BMW. I met him at a black strip club I was working in. He was a great guy and let's just say, he "made a lot of $$" anyway, one day we came home and I set my purse down on the floor. He quickly scooped it up and said, "NO! Never put your purse on the floor." I'm like "Why??" He asked me, "Don't you know the old saying?" I'm like what??
"You put your purse down, the money goes down. Put your purse up high, money goes high. Never on the floor"
I've never put my purse on the floor since then.
Wow that's interesting!.. I never heard that saying before... I shall NEVER put my purse on the floor ever again!.. I don't at home but if I go out I sometimes do..
Marina Starr
05-05-2015, 02:19 PM
I have gotten mine on Friday in the past so I say wait a few more days. If you don't get it by Friday then contact support. Why don't you do Payoneer Direct Deposit? They only charge $1.50 for reach DD.
WELP! still no check today!.. uggh.. anyone else? .. my day is always on monday
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
05-05-2015, 02:19 PM
That's some old school shit right there.
Damn girls sorry to hear about having to lower your rates. It reminds me of a guy I dated back in Atlanta. Adbul. He was so old school, much older and wore silk suits and drove a white BMW. I met him at a black strip club I was working in. He was a great guy and let's just say, he "made a lot of $$" anyway, one day we came home and I set my purse down on the floor. He quickly scooped it up and said, "NO! Never put your purse on the floor." I'm like "Why??" He asked me, "Don't you know the old saying?" I'm like what??
"You put your purse down, the money goes down. Put your purse up high, money goes high. Never on the floor"
I've never put my purse on the floor since then.
pinkpink
05-05-2015, 03:01 PM
I can't believe I forgot about the no purse on the floor rule. Changing my ways!
euro_princess
05-05-2015, 03:02 PM
I wouldn't lower my rates or the goal for my goldshows. I am suuuuuuper stubborn, so stubborn that sometimes is insane. For example, yesterday I was $3 away from my minimum goal for gs. I didn't started it, I had a minute left. Nobody from those 40 people in the room wanted to give me $3 in a minute. And then, they expect you to treat them good. For what?! For being some losers and not respecting my word?! They can shove that show in their asses. If they can't make camming worth it, then fine, I can log off or sit and bitch about their pathetic life.
But as I said, not so many girls are willing to say "no, thank you" to $122 in a show, because they didn't get $125. Still, I think this way I set my standards high.
anonymous camgirl
05-05-2015, 03:18 PM
because I don't want to pay money to get my money!...LOL
I have gotten mine on Friday in the past so I say wait a few more days. If you don't get it by Friday then contact support. Why don't you do Payoneer Direct Deposit? They only charge $1.50 for reach DD.
anonymous camgirl
05-05-2015, 03:18 PM
because I don't want to pay money to get my money!...LOL
That's $78 a year out of my pocket... that's a lot of money.
I have gotten mine on Friday in the past so I say wait a few more days. If you don't get it by Friday then contact support. Why don't you do Payoneer Direct Deposit? They only charge $1.50 for reach DD.
SoloDesire
05-05-2015, 03:38 PM
because I don't want to pay money to get my money!...LOL
That's $78 a year out of my pocket... that's a lot of money.
You're right...it is a lot of money, but honestly I'd pay double that to not have to worry about whether my check is lost in the mail and if I'll get it in time. With Payoneer direct deposit I never even have to think about when I'll get my money. It's in my bank like clockwork on the same day, every single week (unless there's a bank holiday). I guess it's just a matter of preference, but for me it's more than worth it!
Marina Starr
05-05-2015, 04:03 PM
For your peace of mind, it's totally worth it!
because I don't want to pay money to get my money!...LOL
That's $78 a year out of my pocket... that's a lot of money.
JulyHot2009
05-05-2015, 08:00 PM
I made zero dollars this week on sm
I hope I'll never achieve the total amount of 100 to withdraw this money (so far I have 65)
tks God Im doind great on other sites
I notice that until last week a thousand of guys were get in and out of my room all the time, this week not even that happens
PeterPan
05-05-2015, 08:38 PM
I forgot to lock my bedroom door after taking a break, and my sister knocked once, then opened the door when I was in a session. I was like
http://lolsnaps.com/upload_pic/NothingToSeeHere-26064.jpg
candeeboxxx
05-05-2015, 11:30 PM
Ok, Wise ones, need your help. Had a geneous gentleman give me a large tip while in Excel. I told him to email me and I would send him some videos. When I finished camming. I went to send him the videos and it said can't send to sender. What on earth could have happened in 30 minutes? TIA
euro_princess
05-06-2015, 12:11 AM
Ok, Wise ones, need your help. Had a geneous gentleman give me a large tip while in Excel. I told him to email me and I would send him some videos. When I finished camming. I went to send him the videos and it said can't send to sender. What on earth could have happened in 30 minutes? TIA
If you got that message with red and didn't work to contact him, means he closed his account.
DeepThoughts
05-06-2015, 12:30 AM
I wouldn't lower my rates or the goal for my goldshows. I am suuuuuuper stubborn, so stubborn that sometimes is insane. For example, yesterday I was $3 away from my minimum goal for gs. I didn't started it, I had a minute left. Nobody from those 40 people in the room wanted to give me $3 in a minute. And then, they expect you to treat them good. For what?! For being some losers and not respecting my word?! They can shove that show in their asses. If they can't make camming worth it, then fine, I can log off or sit and bitch about their pathetic life.
But as I said, not so many girls are willing to say "no, thank you" to $122 in a show, because they didn't get $125. Still, I think this way I set my standards high.
YES!! This all day long. More of this, I will have 10 more of these please! I got a bit depressed hearing that girls make more by lowering their rates but you have picked me up and saved me Euro Princess. I see the light! hallelujah!
euro_princess
05-06-2015, 02:17 AM
YES!! This all day long. More of this, I will have 10 more of these please! I got a bit depressed hearing that girls make more by lowering their rates but you have picked me up and saved me Euro Princess. I see the light! hallelujah!
Don't be depressed, love! Stay strong, better times will come. If you lower your rates, you'll attract more cheapers. Who wants to take you pvt, will pay any amount, so you'll still get good guys.
Trust me, is very tempting to go low. I used to do that too. I was offering $1 gold shows. Until somebody fucked it once. I got my period in the last seconds and a jerk started bitching that he wants a refund for that. For his fucking dollar!!!
Actually, if you think more about it, you'll need more guys to pay, if you lower your rates. And what we don't have right now? Exactly, enough guys to work with.
DeepThoughts
05-06-2015, 05:09 AM
^^ My rates are almost to the highest amount SM offers and I have no intention of lowering them. I used to be tempted to offer lower rates but all that has changed for me. Now I know Im worth what I do and it makes me want to do better everyday. There was never any risk that I would lower my rates and I have never actually been "depressed" I just got excited that you spoke up about others lowering their rates cause I always feel like that chicas here are worth so much!
Incidentally I just got my period while in prvt with a regular. I mean just this second! I was all opps sorry and he told me it was no big deal, I asked if I could keep going and explained that I love sex when Im on my period (which I really do) and he got all excited and tipped me. Cant believe some ass hat complained to you about that! Fucking $1 virgins!!
Rosemary Rabbit
05-06-2015, 05:34 AM
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Lunaxoxo
05-06-2015, 10:13 AM
So I started camming off and on during sep-oct 2014. I only did it for a couple hours a week and made payout twice on streamate. I never really put a lot of effort in because I had a vanilla job and also sold clips. I actually stopped doing everything for a while at the beginning of the year, but a couple weeks ago, I got laid off and decided to get back into it.
Last night, I finally got my account squared away (I had lost my password, and thought the account got shut down, but all is good now). I was on for 1.5 hours. First time since October of last year. I was so excited. I made $25 in that one hour and a half. I know that's chunk change compared to what some of you girls make, but I just had to share. I was so excited. I'd never made that much money on there in 1.5 hours. Don't know if anyone cares, haha... but I do.... and I had to share with someone because for the first time since I lost my job, I actually felt a glimmer of hope in my life. I would have done it for a lot longer, but my body is still on the "wake up at 6am and go to bed by 11pm" vanilla work schedule. So I was utterly exhausted.
Does anyone have luck on streamate during day time hours? I mean I'm east coast, so I figured that during the day most people, in the States anyway, are sleeping or just getting their day started. I'd love to do this during the day while on the job hunt for some extra cash, but is it worth it? It's hard for me at night because I have a daughter who tends to be very loud and vocal when she's not at school or not asleep.
SoloDesire
05-06-2015, 10:20 AM
Does anyone have luck on streamate during day time hours? I mean I'm east coast, so I figured that during the day most people, in the States anyway, are sleeping or just getting their day started. I'd love to do this during the day while on the job hunt for some extra cash, but is it worth it? It's hard for me at night because I have a daughter who tends to be very loud and vocal when she's not at school or not asleep.
All hours are good and all hours are bad. Work when you can work. Some days will be slow, some days you'll make bank. That's just the way it works on cam! I do a day shift and an evening shift. Sometimes days are great and evening is slow, and sometimes days are slow and evenings are great...sometimes I make bank all day, and sometimes I make next to nothing all day. My best advice is work when you can and as much as you can. You can't make anything if you're not online though...so work ;)
Lunaxoxo
05-06-2015, 10:28 AM
All hours are good and all hours are bad. Work when you can work. Some days will be slow, some days you'll make bank. That's just the way it works on cam! I do a day shift and an evening shift. Sometimes days are great and evening is slow, and sometimes days are slow and evenings are great...sometimes I make bank all day, and sometimes I make next to nothing all day. My best advice is work when you can and as much as you can. You can't make anything if you're not online though...so work ;)
Thank you for the advice. =D Believe me, I will be working on there a lot more often after last night. I think I will try out daytime tomorrow and see how that goes.
anonymous camgirl
05-06-2015, 02:07 PM
FINALLY!.. got my check.. whoot whoot! ..it came!
beauvoir
05-07-2015, 12:10 AM
I am getting so many guys who come premium, want c2c or niche stuff, and when I tell them to come excl they log off and dont return. What gives? They used to come into excl all the time, but I lowered my premium chat cost and now they dont at all. Should I up it again?
Issabelle
05-07-2015, 01:25 AM
I charge $6.99/minute for exclusive and $9.99/minute for premium (I should ask support to raise my limit, because I want that shit at $19.99/minute!!!!) because peepers piss me off so much. More than peepers though is dudes who think I will change clothes, do role plays, use toys, do c2c, etc., etc., for them in premium when it's cheaper. NOPE! Fuck you bro.
I never really got more than 1 dude in premium at a time though (all others = peepers) so it doesn't hurt my bottom line. Besides, when a drunk dude falls into premium at 2 a.m., it makes me happy. lol
DeepThoughts
05-07-2015, 02:53 AM
Besides, when a drunk dude falls into premium at 2 a.m., it makes me happy. lol
OMG I love it so much when their drunk **rubs nipples**
beauvoir
05-07-2015, 05:38 AM
Maybe I should put my rates back up. I was 5.99 and 6.99 but took it down to 4.99 as my rating profile said I earned more then, but its harder I find. Weird.
ArtsyScarlett
05-07-2015, 06:37 AM
I've made my goal this week so I am playing with my rates tomorrow. Going to try having exclusive cheaper as I really do hate the peepers and I think it is a better experience for the custie in exclusive anyway. Plus I am fed up with peepers rating me 2 stars when they stay to long!
Fingers crossed it works out!
x
JessRyan
05-07-2015, 08:28 AM
hmmmm, I was thinking the same thing. Making exclusive cheaper. I do see a lot of girls offering exclusive only (they tell the custies this in guest chat.) and have their prices where exclusive is cheaper. So I do see the trend. Peepers annoy me too. and is my imagination or do most peepers have 2 numbers at the end of their usernames? Funny thing I've noticed. Once in awhile one stays a second too long. I also get the bossy guys in premium, that really should be in exclusive. Maybe if enough of us raise our premium, lower our exclusive we can re-train these fellas? Too bad we just don't have the option of exclusive only.
gypsy1
05-07-2015, 08:48 AM
This is what I do. Cheaper exclusive. I tried doing it the other way around but I still make more money with a cheaper exclusive for some reason.
JulyHot2009
05-07-2015, 08:55 AM
This is what I do. Cheaper exclusive. I tried doing it the other way around but I still make more money with a cheaper exclusive for some reason.
I'll try to do this as well
things are better for u gypsy? Can u believe I make only 0,63 on sm this week? I think I need a miracle to succed on this site,
SarahTime
05-07-2015, 10:22 AM
Just something to think about when making your premium more expensive than exclusive... New members are not given the option to go exclusive until they have spent money on the site with gold or in premium chat. I'm not sure if they have to spend a certain dollar amount, but I do know that until they have spent something, they don't have the option to go exclusive. So you may turn off new guys who really do want to do a show with you, but don't have the exclusive option.
I'm running into TONS of new members to the site, guys that I have to actually explain how to even enter private chat, and they do take me for shows. So there are a lot of new guys coming to the site right now that won't see our exclusive prices right away.
BritishBecky
05-07-2015, 10:25 AM
^good point. I set my private and exclusive the same when I prefer exclusive.
cupcakex13
05-07-2015, 10:31 AM
I have been getting complaints about being able to go private, and the one custome that stuck around I saw in and out I'd get the notification to go and he'd be back in my room...also tipped me nicely after the show but! Is this a glitch or has anyone else been experiencing that the past two nights? ? With pay weekend coming up and all..
ZoeLee
05-07-2015, 11:19 AM
Hows today been?
Hows days been?
I used to work strictly days, but havent been lately due to a newborn.
Marina Starr
05-07-2015, 11:24 AM
You can take this with a grain of salt but my advice is to not ask before you work. If you hear it's slow and expecting it to be then it will be. Just turn on your cam because that's the only way to find out.
Hows today been?
Hows days been?
I used to work strictly days, but havent been lately due to a newborn.
ZoeLee
05-07-2015, 11:26 AM
You can take this with a grain of salt but my advice is to not ask before you work. If you hear it's slow and expecting it to be then it will be. Just turn on your cam because that's the only way to find out.
Ahhhhh true that. Thnx bb
Tigrillo
05-07-2015, 12:39 PM
well I'm here still sitting in the desert of no traffic. I really believe that, as I show n the Central/South america section, I get so much less traffic. >:(
and then I feel I'm a further turnoff because of my rates. when I check other South Americans around my same rating, they charge so much less than I do. The other day I had a guy ask me, just where do you think you're living?
well that's just the thing, I don't want to go down because I'm making little enough as it is. :( I'm at 5.99 - 4.99 and I think that's a rate that I'm comfortable with right now. (I could use more traffic, kthnxbai.)
waogtrain
05-07-2015, 12:43 PM
Does anyone have tips for getting over stage fright? I just did my first gold show where we actually surpassed my goal, but for most of the countdown it didn't look like the show was going to go through. Everyone just surprised me in the last minute with big contributions. Basically, I wasn't really ready to start the show but panicked and started it anyway. I got stage fright and I think my subconscious way of dealing with it was to disassociate and I didn't feel like I was being very present and in the moment throughout the show. Now I feel kind of shitty because I wasn't sure that I did a great performance. It was like I had an out of body experience where all I was focusing on was the countdown timer until the show would be over. I really don't want that to happen again. I'm not sure what kind of advice I'm even looking for. Maybe I need to post sticky notes around my screen to remind me to stay present and focused in my body instead of disassociating.
Kitcatt
05-07-2015, 12:44 PM
So I finally switched over from check to wire transfer and my payment was rejected for an incorrect routing number. I figured out that there is a universal routing number not on my checks, but there's no place on the form to put my account number? Do they not need this? Sorry, trying to get it right so I don't have more delays in payment.
Kitcatt
05-07-2015, 12:47 PM
I used to get really bad stage fright with gold shows, like heart racing, shakey hands, etc and I'd been doing cams for nearly two years. Something about that group environment makes me feel like I'm on stage trying to give a speech or something. The best thing to do, in my opinion, is just do more of them until that feeling wears off. Now it's like any other show.
MsMirri
05-07-2015, 12:48 PM
Sooo...5 and a half hours, nearly $70.00. I am feeling proud of me considering all the time I have procrastinated!! However, one guy comes into exclusive. I do my *thang* and then he proceeds to tell me he is 15 and his father left the account open. EEEEK! What the hell? Now I am feeling very icky! Cheeky pubescent git! If he was truly 15 I hope his father catches the charge and hangs him by his pubes!
Marina Starr
05-07-2015, 12:50 PM
Do more gold shows ;D
But seriously, they cannot rate you when you do GS. Men are simple creatures. After your bras and panties come off, nothing really matters lol!
Does anyone have tips for getting over stage fright? I just did my first gold show where we actually surpassed my goal, but for most of the countdown it didn't look like the show was going to go through. Everyone just surprised me in the last minute with big contributions. Basically, I wasn't really ready to start the show but panicked and started it anyway. I got stage fright and I think my subconscious way of dealing with it was to disassociate and I didn't feel like I was being very present and in the moment throughout the show. Now I feel kind of shitty because I wasn't sure that I did a great performance. It was like I had an out of body experience where all I was focusing on was the countdown timer until the show would be over. I really don't want that to happen again. I'm not sure what kind of advice I'm even looking for. Maybe I need to post sticky notes around my screen to remind me to stay present and focused in my body instead of disassociating.
JulyHot2009
05-07-2015, 12:51 PM
well I'm here still sitting in the desert of no traffic. I really believe that, as I show n the Central/South america section, I get so much less traffic. >:(
and then I feel I'm a further turnoff because of my rates. when I check other South Americans around my same rating, they charge so much less than I do. The other day I had a guy ask me, just where do you think you're living?
well that's just the thing, I don't want to go down because I'm making little enough as it is. :( I'm at 5.99 - 4.99 and I think that's a rate that I'm comfortable with right now. (I could use more traffic, kthnxbai.)
Im also from south american, Brazil, and I gave up broadcasting on sm, is pretty hard,,
where are u from? I'm doingo great on brazilian sites and started today on Adult Work,
I've tryied some different foreign sites but it seems realy hard for a non native english spoken succed
MsMirri
05-07-2015, 12:59 PM
I am exactly the same except I cant bring myself to even attempt a gold show. I'm amazing (if I do say so myself) once in private or exclusive but Im so submissive that I find it hard to close the deal, unless its the right customer who is looking for exactly that (a sub). I shake at just the thought of having to be in charge of a gold show!! Not for me! Sticky notes...I have them on my keyboard to remind myself to move S L O W L Y once in paid chat. hehe
Tigrillo
05-07-2015, 01:37 PM
I'm in Mexico. I have pretty flawless English and I thought that would somehow give me an edge, but so far it seems it doesn't. :/
I think I would do much better if I had more traffic. I do have my customers and paying fans. But it seems no normal traffic is sent my way. My placement doesn't seem bad in general (I'm top row in my niche category, and I usually flutter in the last rows of Page 1.)
How's AW? I'm thinking of starting there too, but I've always heard it's not such a great place for non.UK girls.
p-s- Does anyone know how to get into the 'Mature' Category in SM? I'm 36 and I'm not in the Mature category, for some reason. :(