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SexyAleks
03-15-2014, 04:14 PM
That is true, I don't have an option for 1 min free chat per member, the minimum is 5 minutes, which is way too much. It's also true 99 % of the guys who come in free chat, never go private. They just ask for free stuff, refuse to tip or pay for anything, or just talk about meetings in person. Most of my privates on there start straight from group or private chat, rarely from free preview.
Classy_Katy
03-16-2014, 02:01 AM
Girls did you notice my post above about the changes? Here's another link that breaks it down http://www.adultwork.com/AgeVerificationInfo.asp
In free preview, you don't have to do what they ask. I'm polite but I do not go out of my way to turn them on, just seeing me there is enough! I busy myself on another laptop and ignore them if I feel like it.
Milaa
03-16-2014, 06:27 AM
Well for me free chat is set for 5 minutes for every member every 24 hours, wish i could set this lower like 1 minute per member per 24 hour. When i,m teasing a member can cum twice in those free 5 minutes, and they have time to requests and get on my nerves plenty in that 5 minutes. They basically all came in to freeload no one of them went private: see cam? dirty talk for me, compliments galore, but no intention to go private whatsoever. When i don't do free chat, they come in to the show, go figure. They think i'm in free chat to get them off for free, like they don't get it they still need to come private, or just act plain stupid.
Don't tease them, don't dirty talk to them or do anything in free chat.
Free chat is for them to see if you are their type and if your webcam has the desired quality they might be looking for.
If I go to MacDonalds I can read the menu and see what they have to offer. I can see pictures of the burgers. Then I take my pic and I pay to get a burger.
On AW guys can read my profile and see what I offer in my chatroom, they can see my pictures.
Just like MacDonalds, they don't get to taste the burger before purchasing it.
Oh and of course I am not comparing us to a budget burger. We're all filet mignon's.
Blonde-Ambition
03-16-2014, 07:18 AM
is anyone else finding AW really quiet at moment? yesterday (Saturday) was my slowest day ever! I literally made pennies, I got myself into such a state, all tearful as every other girl seemed to be in grp or pvt! :( really reluctant to get on cam today!
lemonberry
03-16-2014, 07:59 AM
is anyone else finding AW really quiet at moment? yesterday (Saturday) was my slowest day ever! I literally made pennies, I got myself into such a state, all tearful as every other girl seemed to be in grp or pvt! :( really reluctant to get on cam today!
Yea seems that way today. I only do paid chat only but I usually get some business this time of day. Today is really quiet.
alexismay
03-16-2014, 10:08 AM
is anyone else finding AW really quiet at moment? yesterday (Saturday) was my slowest day ever! I literally made pennies, I got myself into such a state, all tearful as every other girl seemed to be in grp or pvt! :( really reluctant to get on cam today!
yes me too, its like pulling teeth with the clients on there at the moment…even my regs have disappeared! earning half of what i did in November. I am not a happy bunny!time for some more baskets for me!
Classy_Katy
03-16-2014, 10:49 AM
I made 2 posts above about the changes we have to make to our profile and free gallery pics if they are not suitable for minors to see.
The fact that guys will have to verify their age to see more, may well have an impact on the number of freeloaders. http://www.adultwork.com/AgeVerification.asp
It also means that you will not be as visible unless you certify that your free pics are suitable for minors to see.
21stcenturyfox
03-16-2014, 01:35 PM
Yeah it's super dead on AW this weekend, I made like £5 on Fri and £8 on Saturday... Today has been dead as well. Wasn't it St Patrick's Day weekend tho? Guys are all out getting smashed. I'm bummed cos if I had a good weekend as planned, I could buy a car next week, as planned. Now I have to wait another week!
Vlodina
03-16-2014, 03:20 PM
Unless you're at university, then St Patrick's Day means nothing! Even for my Irish friends - they need to sleep and then go to work. University students don't have money for cams (actually I lie, people at my Universiry had money but it was all spent on Tequilla!).
tropo
03-16-2014, 09:49 PM
I made 2 posts above about the changes we have to make to our profile and free gallery pics if they are not suitable for minors to see.
The fact that guys will have to verify their age to see more, may well have an impact on the number of freeloaders. http://www.adultwork.com/AgeVerification.asp
It also means that you will not be as visible unless you certify that your free pics are suitable for minors to see.
Thank you very much for taking the time to alert us to this requirement. I thought I was ok as I signed up and became verified last month. There was a box I had to check to verify that my photos were ok for public viewing.
Who would have known about this requirement if you hadn't helped us out. It's quite an effort to find the page too.
Just in case anyone is having trouble finding it, it's under "pictures" under "your profile". Scroll down to "Adult Content Certification". Tick that and it will display a date (in green) when you did this.
I found the site to be about the same this weekend. Perhaps even a bit better than last week. I never find it busy, but as a 2nd or 3rd site I really like it. I was quite happy when I had 8 people pop into a group chat yesterday. Only for short time each, but you get paid for each one so it adds up.
Classy_Katy
03-17-2014, 12:05 AM
You're welcome Tropo...there is a "help" page and they list the latest articles on there http://www.adultwork.com/Help.asp
tropo
03-17-2014, 08:36 AM
You're welcome Tropo...there is a "help" page and they list the latest articles on there http://www.adultwork.com/Help.asp
LOL. Who needs customer service when we have you on here.
Cheers
MessyChick
03-17-2014, 08:45 AM
though how the free to view 'interview' can be deemed suitable for minors.... lol
im off cam today, just feeling a bit tired and meh after the weekend. Ill be back on it tomorrow though as id like to try and make enough to cover my bfs birthday meal!
MessyChick
03-17-2014, 09:00 AM
maybe you can help me Classy-Katy.... im trying to find an AW users profile, but i cant seem to find them, its someone who i chatted to on directcam so all i have is the username
also when i was using just cam it one guy asked me to look at his profile, i couldnt see a way to do it through just cam it so in the end he emailed me through AW and we went from there
Classy_Katy
03-17-2014, 10:30 AM
Free preview is meant to be non-nude but won't get access unless they have verified their age http://www.adultwork.com/AgeVerificationInfo.asp
Age Verification Implementation Stages
1. Current Stage
Movie thumbnails and stills obscured for non-logged in visitors
Members prompted to age-verify when viewing any video content (clips, rentals, DirectCam etc.)
Service providers invited to review all free to view content and self-certify profile is compliant.
2.
Only members that have age-verified will be able to view video content and movie thumbnails/stills.
Service providers invited to review all free to view content and self-certify profile is compliant.
3.
All images obscured to non-logged in visitors except free to view images on profiles that have completed 'Adult Content Certification'.
4.
All images obscured to non-age verified members except free to view and adult content certified.
Classy_Katy
03-17-2014, 10:33 AM
maybe you can help me Classy-Katy.... im trying to find an AW users profile, but i cant seem to find them, its someone who i chatted to on directcam so all i have is the username
also when i was using just cam it one guy asked me to look at his profile, i couldnt see a way to do it through just cam it so in the end he emailed me through AW and we went from there
You can use the client connections search if you are verified and if they agreed to be part of it. On justcamit you can left click on a user and then right click to bring up options, I'm not sure if looking at their profile is one of them. I get them to email me.
SexyAleks
03-17-2014, 10:42 AM
No, you can't just look at their profiles like they can, and they don't seem to understand it. One option is to receive an email by them, another is Client connections (for example if they hotlist you, watch a video or gallery, etc).
MessyChick
03-17-2014, 10:51 AM
thank you, it was really bugging me because i like to think im fairly tech savvy!
TeenageAnnie
03-17-2014, 03:27 PM
to find a profile i usually do this. say for example my customers name is Fred1982, I would open google and type adultwork fred1982, usually comes up with a models profile for whom he has rated. for example if he had a show with model called Monica18 then in google it will show as AdultWork.com - Ratings - Monica18, then click to open the page and press control+F to open textsearch on firefox and type fred1982, then it will take me to the rating that Fred1982 left for Monica18, then I can click fred1982s name and it takes me to his profile. Ta-Da!
tropo
03-17-2014, 08:43 PM
You can use the client connections search if you are verified and if they agreed to be part of it. On justcamit you can left click on a user and then right click to bring up options, I'm not sure if looking at their profile is one of them. I get them to email me.
Hi Katy, I have a problem that maybe you can shed some light on. I've been working on AW for about 1 month now.
When I wait for all my credits to become available for transfer and then try to transfer them I get an error message saying that I cannot transfer them because that would put my account in a negative balance.
There's only a deficit of about 2.4 pound or so, but I cannot understand how this could happen unless there was a chargeback. This always happens when I have all my privates available for transfer and try to transfer the full amount.
Any ideas?
TeenageAnnie
03-17-2014, 08:50 PM
Hi Katy, I have a problem that maybe you can shed some light on. I've been working on AW for about 1 month now.
When I wait for all my credits to become available for transfer and then try to transfer them I get an error message saying that I cannot transfer them because that would put my account in a negative balance.
There's only a deficit of about 2.4 pound or so, but I cannot understand how this could happen unless there was a chargeback. This always happens when I have all my privates available for transfer and try to transfer the full amount.
Any ideas?
thats becaus adultwork doesnt take off your percentage until you withdraw. say you have 100 credits to withdraw. that equals £100, but now you have 2 minus I think its 35%? so you can only withdraw £65 as that is what you actually made.
TeenageAnnie
03-17-2014, 08:52 PM
if you untick a few privates until it gets to positive balance and then check out it should work. also when you use just camit it takes off a few credits for the justcamit fee. for example Jim pays u 4.00credits for a show, AW take off 5% of that straight away, and then when u put the money into ur bank they take off another % i cant quote the actual cause I can't remember but it is like 35 or 30%.
tropo
03-17-2014, 08:59 PM
if you untick a few privates until it gets to positive balance and then check out it should work. also when you use just camit it takes off a few credits for the justcamit fee. for example Jim pays u 4.00credits for a show, AW take off 5% of that straight away, and then when u put the money into ur bank they take off another % i cant quote the actual cause I can't remember but it is like 35 or 30%.
I understand the 5% JCI fee, but that is deducted before the credit has been made available for transfer. (that has already been deducted on the sale's list). I'm also aware of the 30% deduction taken out before the actual transfer amount is calculated. I can't see any reason that my account would be in deficit unless there was a chargeback on one of my privates.
Do you ever see this problem with your account?
TeenageAnnie
03-17-2014, 09:40 PM
yes everytime, that is just how it is for everyone, trust me. the adultwork site is full of complete randomess that is random and stupid like that. theres no chargeback. 100% of the time u go to check out it will do that. why they dont change it no1 will ever know.
nadia29
03-17-2014, 10:44 PM
yes everytime, that is just how it is for everyone, trust me. the adultwork site is full of complete randomess that is random and stupid like that. theres no chargeback. 100% of the time u go to check out it will do that. why they dont change it no1 will ever know.
The system makes sense because AW is a market place and you could use credits you have earned to buy things such as featuring, placement, or for sale goods. AW takes their cut when the money leaves the system. For example let's say you earn 100 credits and spend 30 buying a dildo. When you withdrew AW will only take 30% of 70 credits when you withdrew.
tropo
03-17-2014, 11:16 PM
yes everytime, that is just how it is for everyone, trust me. the adultwork site is full of complete randomess that is random and stupid like that. theres no chargeback. 100% of the time u go to check out it will do that. why they dont change it no1 will ever know.
Thanks! That's good to know I'm not the only one. Normally it wouldn't present a problem as there are lots of short privates I can untick, but the other day I had one 72 pound private which I couldn't transfer because transferring it was putting me in a 2.4 pound deficit.
tropo
03-17-2014, 11:18 PM
The system makes sense because AW is a market place and you could use credits you have earned to buy things such as featuring, placement, or for sale goods. AW takes their cut when the money leaves the system. For example let's say you earn 100 credits and spend 30 buying a dildo. When you withdrew AW will only take 30% of 70 credits when you withdrew.
In my case it is still a mystery as I don't purchase anything and have never paid for placement. A credit refund is the only reason I can think of.
How much would a girl normally pay to stay on the front page? Do you have any idea?
seicento
03-17-2014, 11:39 PM
0.5 credits/hour keeps u on front page ,u can find out from this thread,few pages back.As for the negative balance...we all have it so no,it was not a refund.
SexyAleks
03-17-2014, 11:46 PM
The negative balance issue is very common, in my impression it happens mostly because the system doesn't update very fast after each transfer request, and it often seems as if you have more credits left than you actually have. Which is why, if you request a new transfer, it would include some credits which are already paid to you again, thus resulting in a negative balance. Unticking credits is the solution. It's not a refund, don't worry - if there were one, it would say, refund or manual escrow, it's the system which includes the same credits in more than 1 transfer. How much to stay on the front page - if you mean the hourly positioning, it depends very much on what time it is and how many girls are online. The minimum is 0.5 credits, but there is no maximum, I would say try bidding in the range 0.5-2 credits/hour.
tropo
03-18-2014, 02:01 AM
^^thanks very much! I'm happy it's not a refund. I'm kind of stressed about refunds lately as another site I worked on (note past tense) was going crazy with chargebacks. I had a single $134 chargeback the other day, which is a lot of time in private... one was charged back 5 1/2 weeks later.
I seem to be lucky with placement as I'm holding onto the front page when there's under 300 models working and top to middle of the 2nd page at worst. I'm feeling a bit cheap to pay to be higher. It's always fairly quiet for me, but it's still a great 2nd site earn and worth being there.
SexyAleks
03-18-2014, 02:26 AM
Not sure if this still works, but changing a few words in your profile and updating it regularly improves the placement, try it sometimes.
tropo
03-18-2014, 06:28 AM
^Honestly I don't even know why I'm appearing on the front page because I'm not very busy at all. Earlier on there were 344 girls online and I was about 3/4 down the first page. I'm not complaining, just curious.
MessyChick
03-18-2014, 07:19 AM
argh this is doing my head in, just uploaded some photos to a new album and they ar ein the wrong order, how on earth do i change them?
eta: one more question.... is there a way to make it so that only people with credits in their account can get into see you in free preview?
MessyChick
03-18-2014, 08:23 AM
also... is there a way to only let people with credits in to free chat?
seicento
03-18-2014, 08:38 AM
No,u can only block guests from entering ur free chat,registered members can enter even if they dont have credits.
MessyChick
03-18-2014, 08:39 AM
oh thats rubbish! so you could waste 5 mins a day on each registered person with no credits :/
SexyAleks
03-18-2014, 08:59 AM
Yeah, if we were able to see their balance, the view would be pretty depressing, but at least we would not be wasting time.
Classy_Katy
03-18-2014, 09:29 AM
They thought about doing that but some guys will go in and look around before getting credits...I see this happens myself.
tropo
03-18-2014, 09:46 AM
Have you had a look at the low prices being charged by 90% of the models now? I'm only charging 1.29/1.99 and I'm one of the expensive ones. Over 400 girls currently online. The really surprising thing is that when I checked out the 20 or so girls in group chat, most of them were the higher priced models. Thee was only one model in a group session charging less than 1.00 per minute... go figure.
Classy_Katy
03-18-2014, 09:51 AM
This page gives a good over-view...http://www.adultwork.com//TV/Categories.asp
Yes, most of the girls in pvt shows are charging 1 credit or less. The ones in group shows are charging more. I guess the guys would like to take them into pvt but they're being cheap and having to put up with group because it's them they really want to see, rather than just choose any girl who is charging less in PVT.
sara100
03-20-2014, 06:55 AM
Hello girls,anyone know how i can do girl girl shows in adult work? Im already registred,and the girl i will do the shows have also an account.
But i dont know the next step.
Thanks so much
alexismay
03-20-2014, 07:25 AM
Hello girls,anyone know how i can do girl girl shows in adult work? Im already registred,and the girl i will do the shows have also an account.
But i dont know the next step.
Thanks so much
I would like to know too. I was under the impression you were only allowed to be on one account, can someone help clarify this. thanks x
Missymissdemeanour
03-20-2014, 07:47 AM
Found in the HELP section on AW: http://www.adultwork.com/dlgKBArticle.asp?TargetURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eadul twork%2Ecom%2FdlgFAQsNew%2Easp%3FSectionID%3D104%2 6PreviousSectionIDs%3D0%252C100%252C101&ArticleID=1
alexismay
03-20-2014, 12:06 PM
Found in the HELP section on AW:
Brilliant! Thanks for that! x
Magical_Hoohah
03-20-2014, 02:43 PM
I wanted to share what I think is going on with the "Transfer Credits" page and the box ticking thing. AW isn't my main site, and I don't have a lot of earnings history there, so I'm able to look over all my numbers and sort out exactly where all of it ended up.
Credits: The total credits you have ever earned - the total credits you have ever transferred
Current Balance: Total credits you have ever earned - 5% of the total credits you have ever earned (the JCI fee) - the total credits you have ever transferred - the total credits you have ever spent on other stuff like placement, email forwarding, etc.
Value: The same as "Credits" but with a pounds sign in front
Admin Fee: 30% of "Value" (this is AW's cut)
Amount Available for Transfer: "Value" - "Admin Fee" (the amount you get)
You have to uncheck boxes to make "Credits" equal or less than "Current Balance." You still owe AW for all the JCI fees you have ever incurred in your AW career (5% of your total DirectCam earnings), and you also owe AW for all credits that you spent on stuff (emails, placement), and the "Credits" amount doesn't include those deductions.
So, here's an example (I'm making this cleaner than my own numbers, but mine match up properly):
In your whole career, you have earned 1000.00 credits on DirectCam. 5% of 1000.00 goes to JCI, so that would be 50.00 credits. You have never spent any credits. You have transferred 800.00 credits; 30% of that was AWs cut, so you got paid 560.00 credits, and AW got 240.00 credits.
Both columns of your "Credit Transfer Screen" will look like this:
Credits: 200.00 (1000.00 credits ever earned - 800.00 credits ever transferred)
Current Balance: 150.00 in red (1000.00 credits ever earned - 800.00 credits ever transferred - 50.00 credits for JCI fees - 0.00 credits spent by you)
Value: 200.00 pounds
Admin Fee: 60.00 pounds (200.00 * 30%)
Amount Available for Transfer: 140.00 pounds
You can't actually transfer 200.00 credits, because then you'd owe 50.00 for JCI. So you uncheck 52.00 worth of boxes (let's say you can't get it to an even 50.00), and now your screen looks like this:
Credits: 200.00 / 148.00
Current balance: 150.00 in red / 150.00 in green
Value: 200.00 pounds / 148.00 pounds
Admin Fee: 60.00 pounds / 44.40 pounds (148.00 * 30%)
Amount Available for Transfer: 140.00 pounds / 103.60 pounds (148.00-44.40)
So, you to take home 103.60 pounds, and you will have 2.00 pounds left over to for the next transfer (1.40 for you, 0.60 for AW).
What's interesting is that JCI takes 5%, leaving you 95%. Then AW takes 30% of the 95%, so they're actually only taking 28.5% of your total earnings. In reality, your cut is of the total earnings is 66.5% (I was able to confirm this using my numbers)!
SexyAleks
03-20-2014, 03:10 PM
The 66,5 % cut is true and I always wonder why so many girls believe it's 65 % when it's actually closer to 67 %. However, the 5 % and 30 % fees are not related to why the negative balance issue occurs. It's mainly because they keep mixing credits which aren't transferred yet, with credits which have already been included in previous transfer requests. This way the balance may appear higher than it actually is. Sometimes just a few credits higher, sometimes a lot more. But it's easy to figure out how much you need to untick to go back in the green, and this way to keep a few credits in the balance which you can use for positioning/featuring.
JaneBurgess
03-20-2014, 04:41 PM
Are they still only accepting passports? Im sorry but it's easier to make a fake passport than it is a drivers license
alexismay
03-21-2014, 03:36 AM
Are they still only accepting passports? Im sorry but it's easier to make a fake passport than it is a drivers license
as far as i know yes you need a passport as ID
tropo
03-21-2014, 11:02 PM
I wanted to share what I think is going on with the "Transfer Credits" page and the box ticking thing. AW isn't my main site, and I don't have a lot of earnings history there, so I'm able to look over all my numbers and sort out exactly where all of it ended up.
Credits: The total credits you have ever earned - the total credits you have ever transferred
Current Balance: Total credits you have ever earned - 5% of the total credits you have ever earned (the JCI fee) - the total credits you have ever transferred - the total credits you have ever spent on other stuff like placement, email forwarding, etc.
Value: The same as "Credits" but with a pounds sign in front
Admin Fee: 30% of "Value" (this is AW's cut)
Amount Available for Transfer: "Value" - "Admin Fee" (the amount you get)
You have to uncheck boxes to make "Credits" equal or less than "Current Balance." You still owe AW for all the JCI fees you have ever incurred in your AW career (5% of your total DirectCam earnings), and you also owe AW for all credits that you spent on stuff (emails, placement), and the "Credits" amount doesn't include those deductions.
So, here's an example (I'm making this cleaner than my own numbers, but mine match up properly):
In your whole career, you have earned 1000.00 credits on DirectCam. 5% of 1000.00 goes to JCI, so that would be 50.00 credits. You have never spent any credits. You have transferred 800.00 credits; 30% of that was AWs cut, so you got paid 560.00 credits, and AW got 240.00 credits.
Both columns of your "Credit Transfer Screen" will look like this:
Credits: 200.00 (1000.00 credits ever earned - 800.00 credits ever transferred)
Current Balance: 150.00 in red (1000.00 credits ever earned - 800.00 credits ever transferred - 50.00 credits for JCI fees - 0.00 credits spent by you)
Value: 200.00 pounds
Admin Fee: 60.00 pounds (200.00 * 30%)
Amount Available for Transfer: 140.00 pounds
You can't actually transfer 200.00 credits, because then you'd owe 50.00 for JCI. So you uncheck 52.00 worth of boxes (let's say you can't get it to an even 50.00), and now your screen looks like this:
Credits: 200.00 / 148.00
Current balance: 150.00 in red / 150.00 in green
Value: 200.00 pounds / 148.00 pounds
Admin Fee: 60.00 pounds / 44.40 pounds (148.00 * 30%)
Amount Available for Transfer: 140.00 pounds / 103.60 pounds (148.00-44.40)
So, you to take home 103.60 pounds, and you will have 2.00 pounds left over to for the next transfer (1.40 for you, 0.60 for AW).
What's interesting is that JCI takes 5%, leaving you 95%. Then AW takes 30% of the 95%, so they're actually only taking 28.5% of your total earnings. In reality, your cut is of the total earnings is 66.5% (I was able to confirm this using my numbers)!
I appreciate your mammoth effort here to solve the mystery, but I don't see that it works out as you describe.
When you try to transfer your credits, the 30% commission is deducted from the full amount earned from the privates. You'll see a line up of boxes ticked, and those boxes represent the credits earned BEFORE the 5% has been deducted. Your available balance represents the amount after the 5% has been deducted.
The 30% admin fee is definitely taken from the gross amount, not the 95% amount.
Using my numbers, I have a total gross amount of around 550 credits since I started (before 35% deducted), yet the discrepancy showing when try to transfer all my credits is 9.98 credits. 5% would represent about 27 credits.
The discrepancy amount (9.98 credits) represents about 1.8% of my total credits earned to date.
It's not really a big deal, but it would be nice to know how they arrive at this figure.
wabisophie
03-24-2014, 11:00 AM
If I understood correctly from reading few topics on SW, AdultWork shows the real country you are broadcasting from (doesnt bother me), but is there any form of geo-blocking? Or anyone from my country will be able to see my profile and my shows?
Based on what I ve read they show users from X country models from the same country. So I imagine if I dont want users from my country and I can block it somehow, there would be noone in my room? AW seems less and less appealing to me.