View Full Version : The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
jackandcoke
09-25-2013, 11:24 PM
THREE FUCKING HOURS AND I MADE SEVENTY CENTS. FML. I just signed a lease yesterday and I am fucking terrified. God fucking damnit. I literally logged off because I started crying and I didn't want to fucking cry on fucking cam.
FUCK.
Blovely
09-25-2013, 11:59 PM
The last 2 nights were bad for me too. Hopefully things will pick up.
CurvyWinona
09-26-2013, 01:41 AM
all i can say....
damn.
Charlotteslut
09-26-2013, 02:10 AM
It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great tonight either. I'm going to try again in a few hours.
takiaya
09-26-2013, 02:40 AM
:( I'm grumpy, made $115 in the 2 and half hours I worked yesterday before it got dead and today been online an hour and more ppl in my room made $4 -.-
stupid mfc lol. Oh well XD if still dead in an hour will go try imlive...
SoloDesire
09-26-2013, 05:22 AM
I made $1 in two hours last night. I logged off and cried. I haven't made my daily goals at all this week. It's been so bad. Now I don't wanna log on at all today. It's scary to think your income can just stop. I really hope it gets better soon.
SadieTaylor
09-26-2013, 05:59 AM
SM is killing me this week. 10.50 in 2 hours last night. Wtf
SamanthaSugar
09-26-2013, 07:29 AM
I've been camming for about 3 years and I remember when a full room (45+) meant lots of privates now a full room seams to be just a lot of Time Wasters and Beggars. I've had a lot of traffic but the quality of the traffic sucks ass!!
I swear to fuck I couldn't sell five cent crack in a methadone clinic right now. I LOOK GREAT, WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, GUYS, DAMN
Vela Valentine
09-27-2013, 04:16 PM
2 hours, no dollars the other day. UGHHH. Back to try again tonight, though. Every day is a new chance to hop on over to the camming rocks thread. Lets keep our heads up, ladies!
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
09-27-2013, 06:01 PM
I swear to fuck I couldn't sell five cent crack in a methadone clinic right now. I LOOK GREAT, WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, GUYS, DAMN
By any chance have you been watching the #BreakingBadMarathon on AMC lately? I know it's fucked up but that show has inspired me this week. It got me in a hustlers state of mind. Reminded me that I have the ability to flip any situation to cater to my needs and my needs only. I know this is a vent thread, but recently I've been drawing inspiration from unconventional places to maintain.
Blovely
09-27-2013, 06:05 PM
I just realized that its the end of the month. I felt like I was working a ton of hours because of how slows its been but then I looked at my time sheet and I've only worked 16 hours this week. I've only made my daily goal one time this week but I'm happy that I'm at least making money. Anything is better then 0.
Procrasturbator
09-27-2013, 09:52 PM
http://i.imgur.com/cqTEmS0.gif
I just. I don't even know if this is the right place for this because camming doesn't suck, I suck. But this couldn't go unshared. What the fuck, Internet? What did I ever do to you? I'm made up, I'm dressed up, I have my lights and cam set up, and then this.
WendiStarr
09-28-2013, 12:51 PM
SecretFriends/IPG sucks right now. I love the fact that they pay weekly and at first the hourly rate of $8 didn't bother me because I had gone from making decent money to a pathetic $4 an hour on MFC. When I first started at SecretFriends I was thrilled about being paid hourly. I looked at it as,"At least I'm getting paid to chat with freeloaders and don't have to get naked in free chat".You are required to work 20 hours a week minimum, and follow a strict schedule. When you're a single mom and you have health problems it's a nightmare. For example, on the week that I had agreed to work 28 hours my period ended up starting. I tend to not want to cam during my period because they are usually excruciatingly painful and heavy. On a different week my IBS decided to flare up and for those of you who don't know what that is, you pretty much live in the bathroom during a flare up :-/ I tried to rough it out but I had to keep signing off to run to the bathroom. I immediately received an email the next day from the lady that runs the site, with a list of smart ass questions like, "Is camming for a minimum 4 hours hard work?", "Do you not know how to do this job?", "Do you need to be trained on how to do this job?" I was required to answer the questions or she said that she would take it as me not being serious about my job and therefore would not mail my check out unless I emailed her back, answering her questions. If this wasn't my main cam income, I would've quit already. I believe they are firing me soon anyways because my chat rating has been low. The whole chat rating system sucks because we are paid by how many registered/verified/paying members come into our chatroom. Traffic is so slow for this website that so far today I have cammed for 2 hours and only got 1 person in my room but it was a freeloader. Since all the freeloaders get a 5 minute free preview of your cam, why would they bother to pay? Many guys on that site can get all the free jerk off material they need within 5 minutes.
LexiConn
09-28-2013, 01:08 PM
MFC. Made $1.50 in two hours. Was reminded by a premium that girls are shoving coke cans in their vaginas in free chat.
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
09-28-2013, 02:10 PM
Really? Can you link me I would love to see that. Just kidding
CourtneyRaine
09-29-2013, 07:04 PM
It's not that camming sucks, but it does SUCK that I've been puking nonstop since yesterday and I can't cam because I feel like shit. Especially considering that I rely heavily on deep throat BJ shows. Not gonna happen. I have to make a custom non-nude video but I have to smoke in it and my body's just like, no.
At my last "real" job I used to sometimes get pukey but I was still making that hourly and still able to go right back to meeting with clients after kneeling before the porcelain throne. I am willing to work, you see. I just don't want to permanently lose regs by blowing chunks. Let's pray I can get back in the game tomorrow.
Procrasturbator
09-29-2013, 10:12 PM
Since all the freeloaders get a 5 minute free preview of your cam, why would they bother to pay? Many guys on that site can get all the free jerk off material they need within 5 minutes.
Wow, that sucks. Sorry to hear about your health problems and that lady sounds so rude. I was kind of interested when you mentioned base pay but wait, what? They get a 5 minute preview of your cam, like you actually naked on cam? JFC, why would they pay, half of guys (especially cheapskates) have already been jerking it for 10+ minutes and just click pvt to come. That's ridiculous.
Anyway, my best reg's card just got declined. He's trying another one but this guy is like 1/3 of my income, if he's running low on money it's really going to hurt. This sucks. :(
takiaya
09-30-2013, 03:27 AM
$11 in 1 hour on mfcs this morning, while I would normally stay online atleast 30mins to an hour more to see if it picked up....there were only 10 ppl in my room after an hour @
[email protected], most of which were guests, so not wasting my time today with it...maybe luck will go better elsewhere...imlive here I come
WendiStarr
09-30-2013, 10:18 AM
Procrasturbator,
Yes, I found out that even when I'm in private chat with a paying customer the freeloaders can still get a 5 minute preview. I found this out after a regular freeloader to my chatroom told me that was a good show and asked if he could see me use the black butt plug again. Seeing as how I did not bring out the toy until I was in private, all I could figure was that they must get a 5 minute free show. I asked one of my friends to test this out during a private show and he too could see a free 5 minutes of my show. That bothers me. That's an obvious flaw of the main site I cam for and I don't know how they expect us to increase our chat rating and bring in more paying customers when these freeloaders have figured it out. Now lets say the average freeloading 'tard takes 10 minutes to blow. All he'd need to do is go to one models room for 5 minutes, watch her show for free and then go to another model's room for 5 minutes and do the same. This is why my rating went from being high to very low. My total average rating for this entire month has been around a pathetic 12%-16% every week. If you get a rating below 20% they'll threaten to fire you. I have yet to be fired but I have heard of models who were fired over it. That part really sucks major balls. The only thing that keeps me here is the fact that it's my main source of income and I can't afford to quit or be fired right now because I have rent, bills, groceries, and a daughter and no boyfriend or anybody to help me. On the bright side at least I get a weekly check and know how much I will make just by calculating my hourly rate by how many hours a work. I tend to put in at least 28 hours. This week will be 40 because my daughter's birthday is coming up.
Busygirl
10-01-2013, 08:07 PM
Everyone else must be making money, because i'm not, and nothing works anymore, i swear :(
Angeliqua
10-02-2013, 08:26 AM
THREE FUCKING HOURS AND I MADE SEVENTY CENTS. FML. I just signed a lease yesterday and I am fucking terrified. God fucking damnit. I literally logged off because I started crying and I didn't want to fucking cry on fucking cam.
FUCK.
Seeing this made me feel so much better! Not that you didn't earn what you needed but in general about camming. Lastnight was my first night on cam and I literally got 30 tokens on MFC!!! I felt like such a loser. I went through these threads, did my homework, set goals and then nothing. So I'm a little disappointed today. However, I am going to read through the threads some more, especially regarding the hustling, change some tactics and get that ass back on cam again tonight! Wish you better luck and thanks for sharing your experience.
cherryblossomsinspring
10-02-2013, 10:31 AM
Wow this is just wtf. I'm logged onto 4 sites and each and every one of them is dead. I mean I have men in my room but they aren't saying anything or the beggar comes out. Then some other guy did this whole speech on " you're only on here for the money" -- Yup that's a cam4 guy. Go figure asshole has a girlfriend but womanfolk are put on the earth to serve his sexual needs for free. What a fuckface! I think it's going to only be AW for me.
Naked =Dead+No Music+ Chargebacks+Escort Requests+ Cheap Members+ Haggling
MFC=Dead/
Cam4= Too Many Entitled Assholes/ Scammers/ Time Wasters/ Extremely cheap members
Adultwork= Slow and guys blow their load too fast there. Still they are a huge step above sites that have an American Crowd. I'm American and it's shameful for me to even state this.
It may be time for me to head back into the real world because camming right now is just way too dead and men are requiring too much for pennies.
SexyAleks
10-02-2013, 11:46 AM
Adultwork is good for long privates too. I offer special offers for 15, 20 and 30 minutes with discount (like the block sessions on SM), and they buy them often. But many entitled jerks on there as well, maybe just a bit more polite when begging for free stuff.
anonymous camgirl
10-02-2013, 12:10 PM
Yea! it's suckity, suck , suck, suckity suck.. but I have 2 more hours left so we'll see what's up!..
rachelleigh
10-02-2013, 12:49 PM
Okay, I straight up don't get the guys who are like YOU'RE ONLY ON HERE FOR THE MONEY. Do you know what I don't say to my hairdresser, bartender, grocery check out girl, gas pump man, and IT guy? That they're only here for the money. Why? Because they're at work. Of *course* they're only here for the money. Otherwise they'd be masturbating in their underwear. Duh.
Angeliqua
10-02-2013, 01:19 PM
Okay, I straight up don't get the guys who are like YOU'RE ONLY ON HERE FOR THE MONEY. Do you know what I don't say to my hairdresser, bartender, grocery check out girl, gas pump man, and IT guy? That they're only here for the money. Why? Because they're at work. Of *course* they're only here for the money. Otherwise they'd be masturbating in their underwear. Duh.
I actually had the exact opposite happen to me last night lol! I had some asshole, a guest, keep making snarky comments about me being a rich bitch ripping men off. He kept telling everyone in the chat room I obviously didn't need the money. I was like wtf? He didn't have any money to spend so why did he give a shit!!! He was just mad cause I wouldn't flash him for free. I thought some of the comments at my vanilla job were crazy, but damn. And then a guy got mad cause he wanted me to get down and dirty in chat, I told him if he wanted to go to group or private and he informed me that I just lost a big tip. Well, he only had a few tokens. I'm a nurse by day and while I have never been told I was just there for the money, I have been told I should be ashamed of myself for not being available to all my patients whenever they wanted me as much as I got paid, despite the fact I just took lunch 9 hours into a 16 hour shift. It takes all kinds apparently.
SoloDesire
10-02-2013, 01:42 PM
It was like pulling teeth today to get anyone to spend money on SM. I managed to barely make my daily goal but I'm already behind for the week because it's been so slow. Now I'm in an awful mood :( Right now camming SUCKS.
Camming sucks for me right now b/c it's been so BAD lately that I couldn't even make myself log on.
cherryblossomsinspring
10-02-2013, 04:54 PM
As I said before. So I still stayed on 4 sites and finally made $190 total on AW. All of the other sites were just bullshit. One guy on MFC tipped but he was already talking about meeting up. Asked me where I live "4 fucking times!!". Like do you really think I can't see that ? I'm ignoring your question on purpose asshat! He showed up in my dead room to shop. Then went into some pitch about being a CEO. I was like ooh here we go another guy that thinks to drop the " money" catch phrases. CEO, Travel. When I asked him what he does he just repeated himself. Lol Don't know the duties of a CEO there champ? Then said I have a team of.... Lol .I didn't ask who works for you. I asked what you do. Then that's when he said "ohh got to go" lol. Yup that's what I thought. Tipping 10 tokens at a time isn't high dollar status there Warren Buffet! Pfft!
I'm grateful for all my tips but bullshit I could do without.
rachelleigh
10-02-2013, 05:20 PM
Ughhhhh fuck my period. Fuck it. I felt it coming all day...the cramps, the inexplicable crying about something not really important...here we go. Anal and blowjobs. I can do this.
JuniperGold
10-03-2013, 03:45 PM
Everyone's being cheap as hell and there are lots of cute little 15 year old looking blonde chicks in nearly every room, so naturally all the guys are flocking to them. I'd dye my hair blonde but it doesn't fit my italian features :/ But I won't give up, and I'm always nice to the other girls though. I'm just a jelly bitch lol.
vivianbear
10-03-2013, 03:58 PM
OMG, I need to make $205, today, on my chat site and I've been on for an hour and fourty-five minutes and have brought in $6.40. I want to die. I have no idea what to do. I've tried getting guys into going for one, large goal. I've tried breaking it up into smaller, shorter goals. But all I'm getting are $2 tips and guys begging/staring/spamming me. I'm so demoralized. I'm gonna make another fruit shake and pop a damn Xanax. I really should stay on for two more hours but I don't know if I can fake the smile. Camming sucks so hard today. :(
SexyAleks
10-03-2013, 05:21 PM
Don't give up! Today I sat 2 hrs with nothing on AW, then suddenly a guy went for a whole 1 hour in private, not expecting anything but a chat. All that waiting was totally worth it.
Busygirl
10-03-2013, 06:22 PM
I,m on the end of page one, then beginning of page 2 and hardly get 1 , 2 members in my room. if i show my ass i get over 10 or more, but they leave as soon as i sit down. I charge 4 99 then today 3 99. I think i may need to go 1 99 just to test stuff. This is ridiculous.
Blovely
10-03-2013, 06:48 PM
Well tonight was def better for me then yesterday and probably even the whole week. I've worked everyday this week and just barely got to $300. Smh my goal was $675 but that clearly isn't going to happen. These last 2 weeks have been so super duper sucky for me. Tonight I think I just might make my daily goal.
rachelleigh
10-03-2013, 06:54 PM
This week was sooooo good for me. And then I got my period. But nbd, was camming through that yesterday! I'm a champion! Then this morning the pain in my ear turned into a mess of ear infection. Now I have a migraine, cramps, an ear infection, and a stomachache from meds. Oh, and the ear infection symptom treaters are making me angry and dumb/confused at the same time. I barely got my homework done. I'm not making it on. I was at about 600 this week. I was going to surpass my goal this week...maybe I'll bank tomorrow if I can even make it on.
cherryblossomsinspring
10-04-2013, 08:51 AM
^that's what messed up my cam flow. I was doing ok and on consistently then boom "Dexter Scene". So I'm off for a week which turns into two and a half. Get on cam and it's like dead. One thing that shocked me was the goals in models room on naked. Models asking for $15 for a full squirt show in free chat and then of course there were the anal for $10 offers. I'm like wait what? With all of the chargebacks that seems dangerously too cheap.
cherryblossomsinspring
10-04-2013, 08:57 AM
^ Wow some girl is desperately trying to get tips she's doing a show without any. These are sad times.
sara100
10-04-2013, 09:50 AM
Hi girls! I was on vacation,and come back,but yesterday and today SM is totally dead for me..... :( also myfreecams !!
gingerstripper
10-04-2013, 10:27 AM
camming sucks because I get over my yeast infection and then.... THEEEEEN... i start my period before coming back on cam. REALLY!?!?!?!?
SoloDesire
10-04-2013, 10:44 AM
camming sucks because I get over my yeast infection and then.... THEEEEEN... i start my period before coming back on cam. REALLY!?!?!?!?
Story of my life.
Busygirl
10-04-2013, 07:13 PM
In a full hour, not one spender on streamate. Who are this people????????? they don't want it even if i give it free.
cherryblossomsinspring
10-04-2013, 07:26 PM
I thought about my favorite pick me up " watching models hit their goals doing gold shows". Instead it was depressing. Models weren't hitting their goals and there were just assholes everywhere time wasting.
Oliviababy
10-04-2013, 07:29 PM
I am new to camming and I feel my rooms are ghost towns, complete with a tumbleweed. My bf is a camera man and editor in porn and so I've been using his "professional" lights and he's been filming me and yet I cannot get much. I really feel a bit self conscious to be honest, I'm not gorgeous but I don't think I am terrible look either. Guys come into my rooms or to MGF and will only send me free messages, want to chat for free and get mad when I wont give them previews... or a quick flash.
CourtneyRaine
10-04-2013, 07:39 PM
One thing that shocked me was the goals in models room on naked. Models asking for $15 for a full squirt show in free chat and then of course there were the anal for $10 offers. I'm like wait what? With all of the chargebacks that seems dangerously too cheap.
Are you sure they hadn't originally asked for a higher amount that got tipped down to $15 left when you saw their rooms? Because that's just.... Sad.
What I bolded is exactly why I am no longer offering cum shows at goal. I'll still flash (including pussy) for tips but if they want a toy show they can have one in private. Unless I have at least 4-5 guys tipping for my goal it's just too risky to do public cum shows and lose a ton of money, but of course on naked only 1 and maaaaaaybe two guys will tip towards a show, anyway.
A few nights ago I had a dream that I had a chargeback for $68.41. *sigh* Camming sucks right now because even in my dreams I can't escape this shit.
cherryblossomsinspring
10-04-2013, 08:41 PM
Are you sure they hadn't originally asked for a higher amount that got tipped down to $15 left when you saw their rooms? Because that's just.... Sad.
What I bolded is exactly why I am no longer offering cum shows at goal. I'll still flash (including pussy) for tips but if they want a toy show they can have one in private. Unless I have at least 4-5 guys tipping for my goal it's just too risky to do public cum shows and lose a ton of money, but of course on naked only 1 and maaaaaaybe two guys will tip towards a show, anyway.
A few nights ago I had a dream that I had a chargeback for $68.41. *sigh* Camming sucks right now because even in my dreams I can't escape this shit.
No it's in their topic not in the goal tip down. The goal is tip $15 for squirt. Anal for $10. At first I thought Ass for 10 but no it's Anal for 10. Plus I'm seeing alot of " please" in topics now. Tip me please /take me private please.
JaneBurgess
10-04-2013, 09:25 PM
Try another site. If that's you in your avatar you are really pretty. Sometimes you just have to find the right web cam site for you. I don't knwo much about MGF but you could try NiteFlirt or MyPornProfile and see how you like those. There's also Streamate, Cams.com, MyFreeCams, Flirt4Free, etc that you can try.
I am new to camming and I feel my rooms are ghost towns, complete with a tumbleweed. My bf is a camera man and editor in porn and so I've been using his "professional" lights and he's been filming me and yet I cannot get much. I really feel a bit self conscious to be honest, I'm not gorgeous but I don't think I am terrible look either. Guys come into my rooms or to MGF and will only send me free messages, want to chat for free and get mad when I wont give them previews... or a quick flash.
Graceface
10-04-2013, 10:12 PM
Traffic on SM is wonky right now.
Oliviababy
10-04-2013, 10:14 PM
Try another site. If that's you in your avatar you are really pretty. Sometimes you just have to find the right web cam site for you. I don't knwo much about MGF but you could try NiteFlirt or MyPornProfile and see how you like those. There's also Streamate, Cams.com, MyFreeCams, Flirt4Free, etc that you can try.
it is me in my avatar and thank you so much, lovely. I will try the sites you mentioned. Thanks again for your help :)