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Wildone18
03-04-2019, 06:24 PM
Yes I have and always been fast free internet and I normally have a good night! X
Wildone18
03-04-2019, 06:25 PM
Has been completely dead for me 100 credits in the last 4 days working 24 hours in total...exhausted, tried free and low prices but na, back to my normal high ones and waiting but boy does it get boring xx
Classy_Katy
03-05-2019, 12:16 AM
I haven't cammed very much this year but I have noticed - a lot more girls, higher prices paid for positioning, fewer shows. I have been happy with my earnings but it has been down to just 2 or 3 customers a day. I prefer to be busier and not reliant on so few people. Some groups are paying girls to bring in more cammers, they're shooting themselves in the foot.
LolaLu
03-05-2019, 12:31 AM
The price of positioning has got ridiculous recently but it is what it is. If you do the hours, you'll make the money. It may take longer to get what you want but that's the joys of any self employed business at various times of the year
foxirox
03-05-2019, 08:02 AM
Has anyone have 2 manual escrows on the row? Like i literally lost 250 pounds in a row! I really am pissed at this point! What with aw having fraudsters right and left?
Do you mean chargebacks Sylvy? Does AW cover chargebacks?
GeezLouise
03-05-2019, 08:18 AM
I get hit with a manual escrow every now and then. Sometimes I get the credits back but that takes months and it isn't always guaranteed.
Blonde-Ambition
03-05-2019, 09:01 AM
WOW BUT REALLY! logged on cam at 10am, had NO1 on cam! it is now 4pm! i even featured myself today aswell as paid for hourly positioning!
uploaded new free pics, private pics and NOTHING
messaged AW on live chat as was convinced cam was broken! they said it's fine!
what is going on! panicking!
xx
SylvySinclair
03-05-2019, 06:48 PM
Do you mean chargebacks Sylvy? Does AW cover chargebacks?
Manual escrows mean the money is being held for investigation. If they assume it was a fraud, they will refund the money before the guy charges back. i got 2 in matter of 2 weeks, total of 250 pounds. Then, last night, i got a big payer and was panicking it would be a third one, so i made the guy leave after 30 minutes. After all it wasnt a fraud and i made the guy who could have stayed more, go away. Im so mad!
sexysusie
03-05-2019, 10:36 PM
WOW BUT REALLY! logged on cam at 10am, had NO1 on cam! it is now 4pm! i even featured myself today aswell as paid for hourly positioning!
uploaded new free pics, private pics and NOTHING
messaged AW on live chat as was convinced cam was broken! they said it's fine!
what is going on! panicking!
xx
I haven't been on AW recently but have had that happen before on occasion and AW always give that stock response. Just get on more sites so you're never stuck without shows/ calls.
QUESTION - I haven't bothered with movies on AW in forever, I still have the same really short ones up from 2013 and prior eek! Is it worth uploading newer, longer clips (all domination/ fetish) for the HD rental part? Would be nice to have a little extra passive income there but I can't be bothered going to the hassle of changing file sizes, watermarks etc and uploading unless others find they sell well.
Classy_Katy
03-05-2019, 11:25 PM
QUESTION - I haven't bothered with movies on AW in forever, I still have the same really short ones up from 2013 and prior eek! Is it worth uploading newer, longer clips (all domination/ fetish) for the HD rental part? Would be nice to have a little extra passive income there but I can't be bothered going to the hassle of changing file sizes, watermarks etc and uploading unless others find they sell well.
I don't have any rental movies but if you do try it, go with just one to start with because when I uploaded an HD movie, they rejected it for not being high enough quality but it should have been.
PixiieGirl
03-06-2019, 04:45 AM
heads up, I saw this morning that the age verification laws will come into effect on April 1st :/
Blonde-Ambition
03-06-2019, 05:29 AM
i thought we were all covered for that anyway already? isn't that what the little box we ticked ages ago is for?
PixiieGirl
03-06-2019, 05:37 AM
i thought we were all covered for that anyway already? isn't that what the little box we ticked ages ago is for?
On AW yeah but obviously lots of other sites don’t comply, posted in here as I assumed it’s where the most British camera are lol
Blonde-Ambition
03-06-2019, 07:36 AM
oh i see, sorry, thought you meant AW
foxirox
03-06-2019, 08:01 AM
Manual escrows mean the money is being held for investigation. If they assume it was a fraud, they will refund the money before the guy charges back. i got 2 in matter of 2 weeks, total of 250 pounds. Then, last night, i got a big payer and was panicking it would be a third one, so i made the guy leave after 30 minutes. After all it wasnt a fraud and i made the guy who could have stayed more, go away. Im so mad!
Ah no! So sorry to hear this. I really hope they release the funds. I heard that AW cover chargebacks but not if it's due to to fraud?. Bit of a grey area perhaps, it worries me. You do get some big spenders though. I would say if you feel uneasy, tell the custie your feed is playing up or something and you just need to log back in. Then check your credits whilst you wait for him to call back. I'm biased when I say this, but I do find British men a lot more patient than guys on NF. I'm also a lot more relaxed on cam with them. I'm sure they would be cool if you went and did that for your own piece of mind. x
SylvySinclair
03-06-2019, 01:34 PM
Ah no! So sorry to hear this. I really hope they release the funds. I heard that AW cover chargebacks but not if it's due to to fraud?. Bit of a grey area perhaps, it worries me. You do get some big spenders though. I would say if you feel uneasy, tell the custie your feed is playing up or something and you just need to log back in. Then check your credits whilst you wait for him to call back. I'm biased when I say this, but I do find British men a lot more patient than guys on NF. I'm also a lot more relaxed on cam with them. I'm sure they would be cool if you went and did that for your own piece of mind. x
The manual escrow doesnt show till several hours later...so after the show, you cant really tell if its going to go to manaul escrow. The problem is, that this is not a chargeback, manual escrow, is a suspicion of being fraud, and they refund the money before they get a cb, which then, yes would be covered. they are smart, ofc they prefer to give a refund then covering a cb, thats why they held it up to 120 days.
Ladybuggie
03-07-2019, 05:46 AM
So, just to update what's been happening with me (getting suspended on AW for, apparently "using non unique profile pictures" and all that):
I messaged support (this is sweetkik because I am from a high risk country even when I live in the UK and been here for years), asking them please and very politely to show me where my profile picture had been used elsewhere on the internet, to please let me know so I could see if someone was using my material, in order to take action against them, because I certainly had not used the same picture anywhere else on the internet.
I also Asked them if it was a problem with my watermark, or if the advisor had maybe gotten confused and thought that I had tweeted my picture when it was actually an automated Adultwork tweet with one of my pictures.
They finally replied to me: My picture was used elsewhere, and "this is an undeniable fact", but as per TOS, they have no obligation to show me proof, so that's that. They also said they recommend using watermarks, even better with the site's link, so that was definitely not the problem. My membership is permanently suspended and my profile deleted, since I am from a high risk country, and I have ONE more chance to register with a new profile, but I will be marked as high risk, so will be observed more closely. They also made sure to clarify that "If you're not going to respect the TOS, don't bother re-registering".
Very short. Very rude. Very disrespectful.
I feel so humiliated and angry. All my efforts, all my feedback, my favourites, all gone. Shit, I tried so hard to follow the rules this whole time! I didn't even offer anything taboo that was not permitted on the TOS even when so many girls do it, or sold whatsapp on my profile, nothing like that. And after all these years, this is what I get. A handful of "fuck you".
I'm also breaking my head trying to think what might have happened. The picture that I think got me banned shows me in a similar posture/framing as one that I have in another profile, but they don't look remotely from the same shoot (different lighting, different camera... only thing is that I am topless and at the same distance/angle from the camera). Is this now not allowed either?
I am so angry that my impulse is to never put a foot on AW again, but I do have good regulars and I don't wanna lose that, so I will suck it and make a new profile, although I am getting other eggs running because I can't trust them anymore. However, I feel SO paranoid about my pictures now!
I'm having big family problems at the moment, and now this. Not what I needed. I'm finding it hard to pull myself together, tbh. Hoping things get better soon.
Thanks everybody for your advice and insight about the whole situation. Hope this serves to anyone having the same problem in the future. xx
Classy_Katy
03-07-2019, 06:05 AM
Sweetkik make up their own rules! They think that all free gallery photos should be unique to AW, whereas the rules actually only relate to the 3 profile photos. I expect that is it.
kasey4309
03-07-2019, 08:59 AM
Yesterday, no one came in my room, despite being logged on all day, this has never happened to me before, then today, lots of my regs are trying to come in and view me and none of them can connect and they immediately leave. I know my connection is working as I did a skype and that all worked fine. Is anyone else having issues? I have not changed my setup, pc is on a wired broadband connection, a really fast one, did a speed test no problems there, hope its not just me.
xTTTX
03-07-2019, 11:33 AM
Yes!!!! I'm having the same issue. No where near the amount of traffic as normal and people coming in and leaving straight away. Always makes me paranoid .
Wildone18
03-07-2019, 05:57 PM
Yes I suspect jci issues, last time I was one had 5 calls under 10 seconds, people trying more than once and one call in 6 hours!! I go from 500 credit day to barely making 100 over 4 days and 24 hours online. Meh
Just for motivation is anyone else doing well on here still? And it’s not a price thing, I’m high but put my pvt to 0.80 to test and got not a peep in 4 hours ...odd as on my 500 day I was 3.49 :/
sexysusie
03-07-2019, 08:32 PM
I still make target on aw nearly every shift (or more) but sometimes it all comes from one or two people. I've always focussed on long privates and now i just put more emphasis on them plus high rates. You only need 6 x 20 min shows at £4/min to make 500. Focus on the regulars you have and making them stay longer. But don't rely on just aw either, get out there on other sites x
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I still make target on aw nearly every shift (or more) but sometimes it all comes from one or two people. I've always focussed on long privates and now i just put more emphasis on them plus high rates. You only need 6 x 20 min shows at £4/min to make 500. Focus on the regulars you have and making them stay longer. But don't rely on just aw either, get out there on other sites x
Susie wich site are good for Uk ? Skaype private?
Ladybuggie
03-08-2019, 04:33 AM
Sweetkik make up their own rules! They think that all free gallery photos should be unique to AW, whereas the rules actually only relate to the 3 profile photos. I expect that is it.
It actually wasn't, in the end!
Yesterday I messaged my studio (the original DailyPay), to let them know what the final decision was, and they told me they had been informed of where my picture was found on the internet. I clicked on the link and it turns out that there's a site called twicsy.com that is a directory of pictures published on twitter by public accounts, a sort of search engine for pictures, and I have a whole profile there with tons of my twitter pictures on there posted without my permission.
Since I had some automated tweets from Adultwork.com with the profile pictures I used, even when they showed as Adultwork auto-tweeted images and Adultwork was linked back, this counts as "pictures being elsewhere on the internet" and thus I got banned.
I am fuming. I filled a DMCA report and asked for them to take them down immediately. They even have a "picture take down" specific page, since they must get DMCA requests left right and centre. These assholes got me banned, and sweetkik didn't give a fuck if I was responsible or not.
Just a heads up, peeps: if you use twitter, this could happen to you too! Try to find yourself on twicsy.com and take action if you need it!
Thank you to all that tried to help. Now, to start from scratch! x
kasey4309
03-08-2019, 05:23 AM
Back to normal today, people can get in my room, no more issues, It must have been a site issue.
Sexysusie, your post really makes sense, I am going to try a few extra sites, skyprivate being one as you don't have to do freeview. Camming for me is a side line, but I think I could be making much more from it than I am at the moment.
Does anyone know if we will have to age verify our clients in the UK if we advertise that we do skype sessions, as in we arrange them ourselves, with people on twitter not via a site like Adultwork etc.
sexysusie
03-08-2019, 06:04 AM
That's the risk you take doing indie shows. Theoretically if you use skyprivate, indiebill, livecammodelshows, cammodelcentral etc (all skype sites) you can accept credit cards which means they're over 18. I haven't had any issues with guys being underage but like i said it is a risk.
Re the profile picture that is ridiculous! Anyone using autotweets could have that happen so it's grossly unfair to single you out, also how stupid can they be not taking into account that's not ever going to be a copyright issue?! AW once suspended me too for my pic being elsewhere (can't remember as it was years ago but was prob twitter also), but after an angry email explaining, they reinstated my profile. That was direct with AW though- i don't get why you were with sweetkick if you're in UK :/
SylvySinclair
03-08-2019, 10:25 AM
same happened to me, they banned my profile and i told them to f***** themselves in all capital letters. i felt relieved.
kasey4309
03-09-2019, 08:34 AM
A question on manual escrow. I had someone spend serious money with me yesterday, and was talking in a way I would expect a scammer to chat, constantly tipping, lots of red flags I wont go into on here, I emailed AW to check if the account was OK, and they said there are no problems with this persons account, he has no feedback for me to look at, but as they said he was OK and i logged back in and he continued the session.
I have had manual escrow before on sessions and it always happens within 24 hours before you can make a transfer into a bank account, today I transferred the money, I was amazed he was for real, was convinced it would be a stolen card. My question is, if the card is reported stolen or some sort of scam, has anyone had a charge back on Adultwork weeks after you have transferred the money into your account, can they take it back at a later date?
SylvySinclair
03-09-2019, 09:06 AM
yes and u will get a negative balance. in a period of 2 weeks i got to escrows where i got negative on the first one over 160 pounds, i paid up, second escrow days later 80 and i paid up. those 2 shows didnt come back to my acct yet so they seem to be fraud. it got me really pissed working to cover this shit.
kasey4309
03-09-2019, 09:28 AM
That is a major problem then, I am talking over £200. If this person keeps coming into my room, I could loose serious money, so frustrating as he has no feedback, I have had people spend a lot in the past but they had feedback and you could see they had been on Adultwork for a while and were genuine.
Although Adultwork said his account was OK, that could mean nothing, it can take weeks for someone to notice a problem on their credit card account.
foxirox
03-10-2019, 09:14 PM
Does anyone use the Post Office cash transfer option? I'm really curious about it and wondering how it works and what fees are involved?
LolaLu
03-11-2019, 03:30 PM
WOW BUT REALLY! logged on cam at 10am, had NO1 on cam! it is now 4pm! i even featured myself today aswell as paid for hourly positioning!
uploaded new free pics, private pics and NOTHING
messaged AW on live chat as was convinced cam was broken! they said it's fine!
what is going on! panicking!
xx
Its been tough this last week. I said the exact same thing to my cam buddies - I thought is was broke - Ive never known it so dead - but you gotta keep at it and persevere - its time like this its a difficult job.
LolaLu
03-11-2019, 03:31 PM
I haven't been on AW recently but have had that happen before on occasion and AW always give that stock response. Just get on more sites so you're never stuck without shows/ calls.
QUESTION - I haven't bothered with movies on AW in forever, I still have the same really short ones up from 2013 and prior eek! Is it worth uploading newer, longer clips (all domination/ fetish) for the HD rental part? Would be nice to have a little extra passive income there but I can't be bothered going to the hassle of changing file sizes, watermarks etc and uploading unless others find they sell well.
You dont need to do that any more. Upload HD as you do all the other sites. I think eventually they will get rid of Rentals. They have sorted the minimim pricing
foxirox
03-13-2019, 07:50 AM
Hey Ladies...
Something very strange is happening with AW credits (or perhaps I don't understand how it all works!).
Basically, I check my statements every day. As I understand, your credit statement is broken down to show your NET balance, Gross Balance. (Fees are in red) . Your net net balance is shown both in pounds and dollars. Correct?
So, anyway. Last night, I checked my statement - all fine. This morning, over £150 credits are missing. Like WTF. I spoke to AW who were little help. Actually incredibly rude! They just tell me what my balance is with the fees and told me to deduct the 30%. Well, that's all good and well, but I checked last night and my admin fees were much higher, with higher overall balances.
I am really confused by it all. Credits are definitely missing but they refuse to acknowledge it.
SylvySinclair
03-13-2019, 09:32 AM
Make sure its not a manual escrow, i just had another one, so the third one in a month! when i ask them whats going on, they send that ridiculous pre made email saying that "whoever chooses to work with the internet and subjected to be scammed" and just take the money from my balance. so now i check it all the time to know where i stand. im getting furious with this!
foxirox
03-13-2019, 09:49 AM
FFS - I knew something wasn’t right. How can you tell it’s a manual escrow? I can’t see anything other the stupid balance with fees. I did a request transfer today so my balance is now 0. It actually happened to me the a few weeks ago for a smaller amount. I thought it was just me - but definitely not.
Make sure its not a manual escrow, i just had another one, so the third one in a month! when i ask them whats going on, they send that ridiculous pre made email saying that "whoever chooses to work with the internet and subjected to be scammed" and just take the money from my balance. so now i check it all the time to know where i stand. im getting furious with this!
foxirox
03-13-2019, 10:02 AM
Actually, doesn’t a manual escrow show up on your statement? Nothing has shown up and everything looks in order but I know it’s not. I am missing credits! AW has said no chargebacks. I have messaged Colin about it - but no response. I am right that your NET balance is shown on your statement in pounds and dollars right?!
SylvySinclair
03-13-2019, 02:37 PM
in your credits history, scroll till where it ends, if there is a manual escrow, it will say it beside the amount and name of the client. i dont think it shows in usd, only in pounds, not sure.
GeezLouise
03-13-2019, 02:54 PM
Actually, doesn’t a manual escrow show up on your statement? Nothing has shown up and everything looks in order but I know it’s not. I am missing credits! AW has said no chargebacks. I have messaged Colin about it - but no response. I am right that your NET balance is shown on your statement in pounds and dollars right?!
You should really just use the history page for this reason. It will show you all charges and any escrow. It will only show GBP, I don't think there is a way to see dollars on aw at all.
Wildone18
03-13-2019, 05:41 PM
Back in the day when this would happen, I would message help and they would tell me that that is not normal and it is broken, it was around the time that a lot of clients were messaging saying it was telling them ‘room full’ even when they were not blocked. I upgraded to an i7 laptop and I must say I haven’t had half as many issues, I do think that the platform needs a gaming level spec to run better these days?!?!
Wildone18
03-13-2019, 05:44 PM
Yes I agree low prices is NOT the way forward, I’ve trialled it, never works! I’m going to stay high. And I’m on 4 other sites but I need to make NF work more last couple of times been on and 20-30 dollars getting taken on clicks and 0 activity, no chat, no messages nada....I must not give up! :D
Wildone18
03-13-2019, 05:45 PM
God I’m such a technophobe, the above replies are to the no calls @Blonde Ambition and your reply to me @Susie xxx
foxirox
03-13-2019, 06:23 PM
51089
I can view both in GBP and US dollars. Yesterday before I requested a payout, I had approx £1267 or $1683 under 'Amount Payable'. This morning that was down to £1143.
I don't understand why that balance went down. I am still trying to figure it out lol.
Isabellaxxx
03-14-2019, 07:55 AM
Hello Ladies
I have just signed up after reading the forum for weeks, and I think I am ready to rock.
I used to be on AW a few years ago as a webcammer, then I moved back to my home country, deleted my profile and got a vanilla job.
I do enjoy working in my vanilla job, however, I do miss the good, the bad and the ugly of webcamming. (well, not so much the bad and the ugly ....)
I will stick to AW because I am familiar with the site and how it works and I only plan to webcam 2 or 3 evenings a week to create a bit of pocket money.
There is just one thing I can not remember though :( When I transfer credits to my bank account, how will it come up on my bank statement? Was it simply awork and if so, did it change?
By the way, thank you for sharing all the ups and downs and giving so much good advice to newbies, I will be forever grateful and hope that one day, I will be able to give something back to the community.
Isabella xx
LolaLu
03-14-2019, 10:00 AM
Yes I agree low prices is NOT the way forward, I’ve trialled it, never works! I’m going to stay high. And I’m on 4 other sites but I need to make NF work more last couple of times been on and 20-30 dollars getting taken on clicks and 0 activity, no chat, no messages nada....I must not give up! :D
I did so well on NF then took a couple weeks off and not done a bean since.
LolaLu
03-14-2019, 10:03 AM
51089
I can view both in GBP and US dollars. Yesterday before I requested a payout, I had approx £1267 or $1683 under 'Amount Payable'. This morning that was down to £1143.
I don't understand why that balance went down. I am still trying to figure it out lol.
Did you pay for featuring at all? I find sometimes it doesn't come off until you click the link at the top of the transfer page. It all works out right though. If on doubt look at the statement and that will show where the money has gone. I can't imagine for a second adult work will scam their cammers.
Classy_Katy
03-17-2019, 11:41 PM
Good start to the day...justcamit keeps disconnecting and the site is having issues...I keep a tab open for a page that keeps refreshing but the refresh is failing. I had this other day when I was on cam.
Isabellaxxx
03-20-2019, 07:06 AM
So I was planning to go back on AW after having a few years break and in the meanwhile, moved back to my home country, which is in the middle of beautiful Europe.
I set up a new profile and was hit with the "to verify send us everything you've got and make a handstand at the same time" email. After reading through the AW thread I was well prepared for it. Apparently I am now living in a high risk country. So they send another email saying I need to send "quality" pics of everything again and also I have to sign up with their business advisor called "actfair". After checking out the website of "actfair" I thought they must be joking. Well maybe I turned blind overnight but I couldn't find anything that would actually say who they are, where they are and nothing about a data protection (which is funny considering that they will have all of our personal data to be able to verify who we really are) This surely can't be right. They call themselves actfair and are all about verifing people and hide behind a website that doesn't even give a hint about who is behind it. And if that's not enough, this "service" attracts a fee ...
I have deleted my profile on AW and signed up somewhere else. It is a shame, AW was such a good place to be in the past but I am not giving away my ID and address to a random guy who propably operates his "business" from his mums basement.
Anyway, if I turned really blind and they are legit and open about who they are and what they do, please can you point me into the right direction, maybe I need glasses.
Thank you x
sexysusie
03-20-2019, 10:07 AM
That is sweetkick. Basically all countries other than uk, nz, etc are now 'high risk' and if you're from there they outsource checking your docs to this company. http://adultwork.com/Advisors/
Isabellaxxx
03-20-2019, 11:17 AM
Thank you Susie, I can't find anything on sweetkicks either when I google it. But it's ok, I have made my mind up and signed with another cam site. I had to verify there as well which I don't mind because I know there are loads of scam artists around, but at least they have terms and conditions on their website and declare how they protect my data. Thanks again.