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BubblyBlonde
01-30-2018, 01:39 AM
Anybody not get their Direct Deposit this morning? I've only ever not got mine on a Monday one time (barring holidays, of course) and it was when the new service girl started and she effed it up. Just curious.

It is now Tuesday and I still have not received my Direct Deposit. Did you get yours?

DahliaSimone
01-30-2018, 12:09 PM
It is now Tuesday and I still have not received my Direct Deposit. Did you get yours?

I got mine, I emailed support and they said there was a payment delay and that Direct Deposits should be in accounts no later than Wednesday.

sweetandnaughty
01-31-2018, 02:23 PM
I got down and dirty with my CMD pricing and I feel good about it. No more cheap 5 min shows!!! Now 5 mins is $20 bitch!! Cheapass fucks are driving me mad. Also added .50 a minute to new rates for all fetish, costume, roleplay requests etc. U want it, u pay for it now!! I clicked on almost every add in CMD so I'm in line with most models rates on what I offer and I listed my show rules on every ad. I know the dipshits will still inquire but I have my ban hammer ready!!!..lol

sweetandnaughty
02-04-2018, 01:34 PM
Anyone else having trouble getting the website to load?? It's taking fucking forever and it's is not my internet or system!

SylvySinclair
02-04-2018, 02:27 PM
yes, same here.

DahliaSimone
02-05-2018, 01:31 PM
Sooooo....no more payment emails on Sunday, fine. Cool, no biggie. But if our payments are going to be later from now on, they could at least announce it....woke up last Monday to no deposit. Emailed them to see if it was a change in our paydays, she said it was an error and that payments would be late. Wake up today...no deposit. Again. I understand that new management means new...stuff.....but you would think that if they are going to either lag or change our payment time structure, then fucking TELL US.

Susperia
02-05-2018, 03:44 PM
I have a beligerant customer on CMD right now. He got several shows with me in the past, they are all deepthroat shows...anyway...long story short, I was busy on another site today when this custie messaged me to get a show. I told him hang on, I was busy in and out of shows and then 5 hours later he comes back and yells at me that he's waited all day for me and is going to leave me a bad review because I didn't play with him right then and there. My question is will the site remove the bad review? I didn't do anything to deserve a bad review from this jerk.

Susperia
02-05-2018, 04:43 PM
Update, CMD support is very helpful. I told them about the situation and they took care of it.

sovereignv
02-13-2018, 01:19 AM
CMD support is being so weird to me... I was getting FirstChoice Pay payments directly to my bank account before, but when I added the new payment source it was added as going directly to the card instead, which I absolutely do not want. They told me FCP don't do payments directly to bank accounts for adult businesses anymore but that can't be true because I still get my Streamate payments from them. CMD offered to transfer the money to my bank directly without FCP but when I sent them the details they were like "Why don't you want this on your card? The owners would prefer it if you used the card." Not cool. Stop messing around!

ep2002
02-20-2018, 08:51 AM
CMD support is being so weird to me... I was getting FirstChoice Pay payments directly to my bank account before, but when I added the new payment source it was added as going directly to the card instead, which I absolutely do not want. They told me FCP don't do payments directly to bank accounts for adult businesses anymore but that can't be true because I still get my Streamate payments from them. CMD offered to transfer the money to my bank directly without FCP but when I sent them the details they were like "Why don't you want this on your card? The owners would prefer it if you used the card." Not cool. Stop messing around!

The stress of these things has been ongoing for months now. :(

First it was SP
Then it was CMD
Then it was another site I can't remember now.

Did you get the money into your bank account?

ep2002
02-20-2018, 08:53 AM
Has anyone noticed an increase in customers in the last couple of weeks?

I'm hoping this is b/c of new ownership. :)

But I'm STILL having issues with being logged out while it says I'm logged in.

I always have 2 tabs open.

1. My dashboard where it says I'm logged in
2. One of my profiles with the BIG buttons that are either red or green depending on whether you are logged in or not

I learned a year or so ago that just b/c it says I'm logged in doesn't mean I am. I complained twice & of course nothing was done about it just blaming it on my cookies.

Anyone else ever notice this problem?

BubblyBlonde
02-20-2018, 09:08 PM
Sooooo....no more payment emails on Sunday, fine. Cool, no biggie. But if our payments are going to be later from now on, they could at least announce it....woke up last Monday to no deposit. Emailed them to see if it was a change in our paydays, she said it was an error and that payments would be late. Wake up today...no deposit. Again. I understand that new management means new...stuff.....but you would think that if they are going to either lag or change our payment time structure, then fucking TELL US.

I'm beyond pissed. Payouts have been late for 4 weeks in a row! This new ownership needs to get it together NOW.

ep2002
02-21-2018, 05:44 AM
I'm beyond pissed. Payouts have been late for 4 weeks in a row! This new ownership needs to get it together NOW.

You sure it's not just a new descriptor? I just e-mailed them as I'm sure the descriptor has changed b/c I have a deposit I don't recognize.

I'll try to remember to post it here if it's them.

SylvySinclair
02-21-2018, 05:44 AM
Add Gerald from Indiebill as he is the one paying out CMD now. Hes skype id: billoirgerald

LottieLouise
02-21-2018, 11:20 AM
And now they fucked up payments by giving us all the wrong amounts. My god, get a handle on things guys

AuroraJade
02-21-2018, 11:55 AM
Indiebill is a total shitshow with communications and payments. I feel for you guys ;)

DahliaSimone
02-21-2018, 03:04 PM
They did drop the ball as far as sending out the wrong payments this week, but I will give them some credit.....they messaged me on Skype and apologized for the late payments, I guess they did not know until they read my post here that payments were being sent out late. Seemed very genuine and professional, which is a lot more than I got from CMD Support before. I'm sure new site= new learning experience, so I'm still very confident that they will strive to improve CMD.

ExoticBeauty4U
02-21-2018, 03:09 PM
Yeah I got the wrong amount too, I wonder how and when they plan to correct that.

DahliaSimone
02-21-2018, 03:16 PM
Yeah I got the wrong amount too, I wonder how and when they plan to correct that.

They sent out a mass email to the models explaining

BubblyBlonde
02-21-2018, 05:29 PM
They did drop the ball as far as sending out the wrong payments this week, but I will give them some credit.....they messaged me on Skype and apologized for the late payments, I guess they did not know until they read my post here that payments were being sent out late. Seemed very genuine and professional, which is a lot more than I got from CMD Support before. I'm sure new site= new learning experience, so I'm still very confident that they will strive to improve CMD.

I'm really unhappy with the new ownership. I response I got back from my most recent "I haven't been paid on time AGAIN" email, was that they have in fact changed the payout day to Monday's. I also got a snarky remark about the Federal Holiday we had on Monday and an unnecessary explanation on how banks are closed for Federal Holidays. So incredibly insulting. Why don't YOU just ANNOUNCE to EVERYONE THAT YOU CHANGED THE PAYOUT DAY!?

Now I just logged in to find my account NEGATIVE because of their fuck up. How about putting a notice on the dashboard explaining your constant screw ups rather than leaving me in a panic thinking a customer requested a refund and I was never informed about it? I did not know Mark very well, but he was much more professional than whatever the hell this shit is.

CMDAlly
02-27-2018, 07:08 AM
Hello everyone,

First, sorry for the delay in answering here - we had no CMD account to post after we’ve heard of the concerns being expressed here. We created one but learned this is a part of the forum where only females are allowed to post, then created another one.

This first message is from Gérald and following messages will be from Ally who handles most of CMD support - so to respect the forum’s rules. Additionally, Ally will check this thread every few days in case of new questions (please remember that Skype & [email protected] remain the medium for support).

The following concerns are addressed below, in case you’d like to scroll directly:

-ACH payouts being late
-ACH overpayments
-FirstchoicePay & GBT
-Temporary site slowness
-More traffic



ACH payouts being late

This is my bad: when talking with Mark in order to pick up CMD’s routines, note them down, and execute them so that the acquisition would not bring any change to habits developed in the last few years I understood that ACH payouts were issued on Monday.

Therefore, we issued ACH payouts every Monday for 4 weeks thinking we were doing it just right (especially when nobody complained). Then we learned reading here that ACH payouts were actually being issued on Fridays so that they arrive by Monday.

We have since then changed the payout issuance back to Fridays, I do hope everyone receive their earnings today.

It was not our intention to delay or otherwise change the date of ACH payouts. The only payout date we changed is for FirstChoicePay - from Sundays to Fridays (2 days earlier).


ACH overpayments

This is my bad as well. I used a new process which took the wrong values and did not notice, therefore everyone got paid the sales amount (what the customer pays) instead of the earnings amount (sales amount minus CMD fees).

The overpayment will be offset against future payouts, meaning we will deduct earnings from your future payouts until you have been paid out just the right amount for your sales.

Everyone impacted has received an email today stating how much they were overpaid, and whether they’d like their next payout to be reduced from this week or the one after.

Please note that in order to seize this 1 week additional delay, it is necessary to contact [email protected] by Thursday evening.

Also, the overpaid amount can no longer be seen from your admin panel - it’s been removed urgently on Friday after noticing it was impacting site ranking.


FirstChoicePay & GBT

CMD used to have an older type of FirstChoicePay wallet, with the Global Bank Transfer feature enabled. This was the favorite payout method of 15 - 20 models.

When we noticed that feature was missing from our own wallet, we immediately contacted Payoneer. We got told that this was no longer available to adult companies, and that CMD had essentially been lucky for getting to keep it after it’s been deprecated.

Since then, we’ve learned (thanks to SW again!) that Streamate had it - and Streamate is definitely too big to “be lucky”. Therefore we asked Payoneer again, in a more insistent way, and learned this feature was currently only awarded to adult businesses on an “I like you” basis.

We’re trying our best to have it as well since then.


Temporary site slowness

Many noticed that CMD had some temporary technical issues in the past few weeks, being slow sometime for periods ranging from a few seconds to an hour. We’ve counted 7 events in 5 weeks, but there might have been a few more.

Firstly, I’d like to reassure everyone that we have not changed how CMD operates technically - for now we’ve kept the same code, on the same servers, at the same hosting company.

What happened is the following:

-Some bots from China were opening many concurrent connections on the site at times, slowing it down considerably. This happened a couple times prior to the acquisition as well.

-We doubled the servers’ CPU and RAM in order to temporary resolve the problem, and followed the hosting company’s recommendations to upgrade servers’ operating systems to better block the bots.

-While implementing the upgrades, the hosting company made - several times - manipulations which slowed the site down (we only learned about this recently and at the time had no idea what was going on).

-The new OS is now installed and the bot issue resolved (so far).

-However, this weekend, the hosting company got issues with a faulty device which was replaced on Sunday. It slowed the site again for some time.

This is not to say this is not our fault, but simply to exhibit that this issue is unrelated to CMD’s acquisition. We will change hosting company as soon as possible, we cannot tolerate so many issues in such a small time frame.


More traffic

Many people hope for more traffic following the acquisition, and we certainly hope that we will be able to grow CMD’s customer base as well.

For now, we’re focused on having CMD & IndieBill operated as smoothly as possible . However, we have hired a marketing agency specialized in AdWords campaigns (purchasing traffic on Google).

Since last week, they’re experimenting with a $100 / day budget to purchase traffic for CMD and we’re tracking the results.

We do not know yet if we will be able to purchase traffic profitably like this because CMD’s margin per transaction is pretty low compared to sites like LiveJasmin or Streamate. We’re giving it a try though, and if it works out we’ll increase the daily budget tenfold.


A few additions

I am sincerely sorry for the issues which happened and take full responsibility for those.

We are not the best, the biggest, the fastest or any other superlatives. We’re a small bunch of young & genuine people trying to build a great toolchain for independent entrepreneurs in the adult industry.

We believe the cut taken by most sites of the industry is disproportionate for the services they provide. So we’d like to shake things up a little bit and build fairer alternatives.

In the last 6 months we’ve evolved from a basically 1 man operation working from his kitchen, to a small team of 7 operating both CMD & IndieBill. We’re not always doing as great of a job as we’d like, but we’re on your side and you can count on us to rectify any mistakes to the best of our ability.

Please know that you are welcome to add me on Skype (billoirgerald) if you’d like to give some feedback (by chat or talking directly if you prefer) or are concerned about anything.

Kind regards,
Gérald

sweetandnaughty
02-27-2018, 04:23 PM
Hello everyone,

First, sorry for the delay in answering here - we had no CMD account to post after we’ve heard of the concerns being expressed here. We created one but learned this is a part of the forum where only females are allowed to post, then created another one.

This first message is from Gérald and following messages will be from Ally who handles most of CMD support - so to respect the forum’s rules. Additionally, Ally will check this thread every few days in case of new questions (please remember that Skype & [email protected] remain the medium for support).

The following concerns are addressed below, in case you’d like to scroll directly:

-ACH payouts being late
-ACH overpayments
-FirstchoicePay & GBT
-Temporary site slowness
-More traffic



ACH payouts being late

This is my bad: when talking with Mark in order to pick up CMD’s routines, note them down, and execute them so that the acquisition would not bring any change to habits developed in the last few years I understood that ACH payouts were issued on Monday.

Therefore, we issued ACH payouts every Monday for 4 weeks thinking we were doing it just right (especially when nobody complained). Then we learned reading here that ACH payouts were actually being issued on Fridays so that they arrive by Monday.

We have since then changed the payout issuance back to Fridays, I do hope everyone receive their earnings today.

It was not our intention to delay or otherwise change the date of ACH payouts. The only payout date we changed is for FirstChoicePay - from Sundays to Fridays (2 days earlier).


ACH overpayments

This is my bad as well. I used a new process which took the wrong values and did not notice, therefore everyone got paid the sales amount (what the customer pays) instead of the earnings amount (sales amount minus CMD fees).

The overpayment will be offset against future payouts, meaning we will deduct earnings from your future payouts until you have been paid out just the right amount for your sales.

Everyone impacted has received an email today stating how much they were overpaid, and whether they’d like their next payout to be reduced from this week or the one after.

Please note that in order to seize this 1 week additional delay, it is necessary to contact [email protected] by Thursday evening.

Also, the overpaid amount can no longer be seen from your admin panel - it’s been removed urgently on Friday after noticing it was impacting site ranking.


FirstChoicePay & GBT

CMD used to have an older type of FirstChoicePay wallet, with the Global Bank Transfer feature enabled. This was the favorite payout method of 15 - 20 models.

When we noticed that feature was missing from our own wallet, we immediately contacted Payoneer. We got told that this was no longer available to adult companies, and that CMD had essentially been lucky for getting to keep it after it’s been deprecated.

Since then, we’ve learned (thanks to SW again!) that Streamate had it - and Streamate is definitely too big to “be lucky”. Therefore we asked Payoneer again, in a more insistent way, and learned this feature was currently only awarded to adult businesses on an “I like you” basis.

We’re trying our best to have it as well since then.


Temporary site slowness

Many noticed that CMD had some temporary technical issues in the past few weeks, being slow sometime for periods ranging from a few seconds to an hour. We’ve counted 7 events in 5 weeks, but there might have been a few more.

Firstly, I’d like to reassure everyone that we have not changed how CMD operates technically - for now we’ve kept the same code, on the same servers, at the same hosting company.

What happened is the following:

-Some bots from China were opening many concurrent connections on the site at times, slowing it down considerably. This happened a couple times prior to the acquisition as well.

-We doubled the servers’ CPU and RAM in order to temporary resolve the problem, and followed the hosting company’s recommendations to upgrade servers’ operating systems to better block the bots.

-While implementing the upgrades, the hosting company made - several times - manipulations which slowed the site down (we only learned about this recently and at the time had no idea what was going on).

-The new OS is now installed and the bot issue resolved (so far).

-However, this weekend, the hosting company got issues with a faulty device which was replaced on Sunday. It slowed the site again for some time.

This is not to say this is not our fault, but simply to exhibit that this issue is unrelated to CMD’s acquisition. We will change hosting company as soon as possible, we cannot tolerate so many issues in such a small time frame.


More traffic

Many people hope for more traffic following the acquisition, and we certainly hope that we will be able to grow CMD’s customer base as well.

For now, we’re focused on having CMD & IndieBill operated as smoothly as possible . However, we have hired a marketing agency specialized in AdWords campaigns (purchasing traffic on Google).

Since last week, they’re experimenting with a $100 / day budget to purchase traffic for CMD and we’re tracking the results.

We do not know yet if we will be able to purchase traffic profitably like this because CMD’s margin per transaction is pretty low compared to sites like LiveJasmin or Streamate. We’re giving it a try though, and if it works out we’ll increase the daily budget tenfold.


A few additions

I am sincerely sorry for the issues which happened and take full responsibility for those.

We are not the best, the biggest, the fastest or any other superlatives. We’re a small bunch of young & genuine people trying to build a great toolchain for independent entrepreneurs in the adult industry.

We believe the cut taken by most sites of the industry is disproportionate for the services they provide. So we’d like to shake things up a little bit and build fairer alternatives.

In the last 6 months we’ve evolved from a basically 1 man operation working from his kitchen, to a small team of 7 operating both CMD & IndieBill. We’re not always doing as great of a job as we’d like, but we’re on your side and you can count on us to rectify any mistakes to the best of our ability.

Please know that you are welcome to add me on Skype (billoirgerald) if you’d like to give some feedback (by chat or talking directly if you prefer) or are concerned about anything.

Kind regards,
Gérald

Could have kept it short and sweet and just typed.." excuse the mess while we get our shit together.."

malika29
02-28-2018, 05:27 PM
Just going to pop this here as CMD is under new managemrnt etc.

I am wanting to add the CMD string to my bow especially as Gerald from IB has taken over, i feel this could move in the right direction for models and i for one cannot wait to see what is in the pipeline here. I completely understand why others have been unhappy with recent service but in all fairness every aquisition or take over has teething problems, trust me in my vanilla job we recently took on a billion pound account and you should really see the work we had to pull to try and bring it back up to an acceptable level.

My main question though is if i opt for first choice pay as i am UK based, i already have an account with them, i so far only have bank transfer, wouls i need to sign up for a second account and get the card or would i still be able to get my money directly into my account?

anoncamgirl
03-01-2018, 07:26 AM
I'm glad to see they're trying. We should have expected issues, maintaining a site is hard! Mass credit to the new CMD team. I hope you guys continue to make it. <3

CMDAlly
03-01-2018, 07:37 AM
Just going to pop this here as CMD is under new managemrnt etc.

I am wanting to add the CMD string to my bow especially as thr Gerald from IB has taken over, i feel this could move in the right direction for models and i for one cannot wait to see what is in the pipeline here. I completely understand why others have been unhappy witj recent service but in all fairness every aquisition or take over has teething problems, trust me in my vanilla job we recently took on a billion pound account and you should really see the work we had to pull to try and bring it back up to an acceptable level.

My main question though is if i opt for firdt choice pay as i am UK based, i already have an account with them, i so far only have bank transfer, wouls i need to sign up for a second account and get the card or would i still be able to get my money directly into my account?

At this time we are unable to offer the Global Bank Transfer (GBT) option. We are working with First Choice Pay to establish the option to offer GBT. We understand Pre-paid cards are not always convenient or trustworthy so we want to be as flexible as we can with those living outside of the USA. I will update this thread once I have heard news that we will be able to offer GBT.

Side note: Thank you for your kind words. We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding :)

malika29
03-01-2018, 11:36 AM
Thanks CMDAlly, I will keep my eyes open for the update.

LolaLu
03-03-2018, 05:29 AM
Just going to pop this here as CMD is under new managemrnt etc.

I am wanting to add the CMD string to my bow especially as Gerald from IB has taken over, i feel this could move in the right direction for models and i for one cannot wait to see what is in the pipeline here. I completely understand why others have been unhappy with recent service but in all fairness every aquisition or take over has teething problems, trust me in my vanilla job we recently took on a billion pound account and you should really see the work we had to pull to try and bring it back up to an acceptable level.

My main question though is if i opt for first choice pay as i am UK based, i already have an account with them, i so far only have bank transfer, wouls i need to sign up for a second account and get the card or would i still be able to get my money directly into my account?

There is a Daily Pay sudio for UK girls. You get the money to your account within 2 days of making it

SuperPookie
03-07-2018, 08:10 AM
@CMDAlly Is there in plans or the ability to set up placement bidding to something similar to eBay where you can just put in your maximum amount you're willing to bid and the system will autobid until you reach that price? The current setup is very inconvenient as you have to be sitting right in front of your computer at just the right time

CMDAlly
03-07-2018, 08:27 AM
@CMDAlly Is there in plans or the ability to set up placement bidding to something similar to eBay where you can just put in your maximum amount you're willing to bid and the system will autobid until you reach that price? The current setup is very inconvenient as you have to be sitting right in front of your computer at just the right time
At this time there are not plans to change the bidding process, but that is a great idea!! I will bring this up, because I do agree that the current system could use an upgrade. Thank you for bringing this up :) We love feedback and are open to hearing ideas about what we can do to improve the overall functionality of CMD to help us and the community grow :)

sweetandnaughty
03-07-2018, 02:58 PM
At this time there are not plans to change the bidding process, but that is a great idea!! I will bring this up, because I do agree that the current system could use an upgrade. Thank you for bringing this up :) We love feedback and are open to hearing ideas about what we can do to improve the overall functionality of CMD to help us and the community grow :)

I've got some feedback..how about more traffic!!!???? I'd start there first.

CMDAlly
03-07-2018, 03:03 PM
I've got some feedback..how about more traffic!!!???? I'd start there first.

Many people hope for more traffic following the acquisition, and we certainly hope that we will be able to grow CMD’s customer base as well.

For now, we’re focused on having CMD & IndieBill operated as smoothly as possible . However, we have hired a marketing agency specialized in AdWords campaigns (purchasing traffic on Google).

For a couple of weeks, they’re experimenting with a $100 / day budget to purchase traffic for CMD and we’re tracking the results.

We do not know yet if we will be able to purchase traffic profitably like this because CMD’s margin per transaction is pretty low compared to sites like LiveJasmin or Streamate. We’re giving it a try though, and if it works out we’ll increase the daily budget tenfold.

PhatGirlDynomite!!!
03-07-2018, 03:05 PM
I've got some feedback..how about more traffic!!!???? I'd start there first.

She answered that question already here:

More traffic

Many people hope for more traffic following the acquisition, and we certainly hope that we will be able to grow CMD’s customer base as well.

For now, we’re focused on having CMD & IndieBill operated as smoothly as possible . However, we have hired a marketing agency specialized in AdWords campaigns (purchasing traffic on Google).

Since last week, they’re experimenting with a $100 / day budget to purchase traffic for CMD and we’re tracking the results.

We do not know yet if we will be able to purchase traffic profitably like this because CMD’s margin per transaction is pretty low compared to sites like LiveJasmin or Streamate. We’re giving it a try though, and if it works out we’ll increase the daily budget tenfold.


And then you responded with something about how they should keep it short and sweet next time. Please try to be more pleasant. That's how you get representatives to stick around.

SuperPookie
03-07-2018, 03:21 PM
At this time there are not plans to change the bidding process, but that is a great idea!! I will bring this up, because I do agree that the current system could use an upgrade. Thank you for bringing this up :) We love feedback and are open to hearing ideas about what we can do to improve the overall functionality of CMD to help us and the community grow :)
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my question . I really appreciate you coming to the forum to answer us

sweetandnaughty
03-07-2018, 03:35 PM
She answered that question already here:

More traffic

Many people hope for more traffic following the acquisition, and we certainly hope that we will be able to grow CMD’s customer base as well.

For now, we’re focused on having CMD & IndieBill operated as smoothly as possible . However, we have hired a marketing agency specialized in AdWords campaigns (purchasing traffic on Google).

Since last week, they’re experimenting with a $100 / day budget to purchase traffic for CMD and we’re tracking the results.

We do not know yet if we will be able to purchase traffic profitably like this because CMD’s margin per transaction is pretty low compared to sites like LiveJasmin or Streamate. We’re giving it a try though, and if it works out we’ll increase the daily budget tenfold.


And then you responded with something about how they should keep it short and sweet next time. Please try to be more pleasant. That's how you get representatives to stick around.

"Please try to be more pleasant"???? Ok MOM..thanks for your input. For your info, this forum is a place to speak what we are thinking. They asked for input and I responded. I did see the reply earlier and I didn't threaten, intimidate or violate any policies with my reply. As for your two cents on how I should "act" on this forum..it's not wanted and unasked for. If I want to know "how to act in the future", I'll keep you in mind but until then..hold your breath for my phone call. It's not my job to see if "reps" can't handle feedback or criticism. If there sweet little baby feelings get hurt..not my problem. Maybe they shouldn't open up for "feedback" in that case...

PhatGirlDynomite!!!
03-07-2018, 03:41 PM
"Please try to be more pleasant"???? Ok MOM..thanks for your input. For your info, this forum is a place to speak what we are thinking. They asked for input and I responded. I did see the reply earlier and I didn't threaten, intimidate or violate any policies with my reply. As for your two cents on how I should "act" on this forum..it's not wanted and unasked for. If I want to know "how to act in the future", I'll keep you in mind but until then..hold your breath for my phone call. It's not my job to see if "reps" can't handle feedback or criticism. If there sweet little baby feelings get hurt..not my problem. Maybe they shouldn't open up for "feedback" in that case...

You really wanna do this?

DahliaSimone
03-07-2018, 03:47 PM
Thank you for the transparency, Ally. It was lacking before, so I, for one, appreciate you being open and honest and keeping us in the loop on here.

CMDAlly
03-07-2018, 03:55 PM
Thank you for the transparency, Ally. It was lacking before, so I, for one, appreciate you being open and honest and keeping us in the loop on here.

Thank you to you all as well. We are trying to be as transparent as possible. We want CMD to grow and prosper and there to be trust between the site representatives, moderators, owners, and the performers.

Melyssax
03-13-2018, 12:29 PM
I really wish somehow they could integrate a required payment for Skype IDs. that would eliminate a lot of time wasters.

JaneBurgess
03-13-2018, 05:49 PM
I really wish somehow they could integrate a required payment for Skype IDs. that would eliminate a lot of time wasters.

Yes it sure would. We should be able to sell our ids or at least dont have it open to the public

ep2002
03-14-2018, 02:46 PM
Hello everyone,

First, sorry for the delay in answering here - we had no CMD account to post after we’ve heard of the concerns being expressed here. We created one but learned this is a part of the forum where only females are allowed to post, then created another one.

This first message is from Gérald and following messages will be from Ally who handles most of CMD support - so to respect the forum’s rules. Additionally, Ally will check this thread every few days in case of new questions (please remember that Skype & [email protected] remain the medium for support).

The following concerns are addressed below, in case you’d like to scroll directly:

-ACH payouts being late
-ACH overpayments
-FirstchoicePay & GBT
-Temporary site slowness
-More traffic



ACH payouts being late

This is my bad: when talking with Mark in order to pick up CMD’s routines, note them down, and execute them so that the acquisition would not bring any change to habits developed in the last few years I understood that ACH payouts were issued on Monday.

Therefore, we issued ACH payouts every Monday for 4 weeks thinking we were doing it just right (especially when nobody complained). Then we learned reading here that ACH payouts were actually being issued on Fridays so that they arrive by Monday.

We have since then changed the payout issuance back to Fridays, I do hope everyone receive their earnings today.

It was not our intention to delay or otherwise change the date of ACH payouts. The only payout date we changed is for FirstChoicePay - from Sundays to Fridays (2 days earlier).


ACH overpayments

This is my bad as well. I used a new process which took the wrong values and did not notice, therefore everyone got paid the sales amount (what the customer pays) instead of the earnings amount (sales amount minus CMD fees).

The overpayment will be offset against future payouts, meaning we will deduct earnings from your future payouts until you have been paid out just the right amount for your sales.

Everyone impacted has received an email today stating how much they were overpaid, and whether they’d like their next payout to be reduced from this week or the one after.

Please note that in order to seize this 1 week additional delay, it is necessary to contact [email protected] by Thursday evening.

Also, the overpaid amount can no longer be seen from your admin panel - it’s been removed urgently on Friday after noticing it was impacting site ranking.


FirstChoicePay & GBT

CMD used to have an older type of FirstChoicePay wallet, with the Global Bank Transfer feature enabled. This was the favorite payout method of 15 - 20 models.

When we noticed that feature was missing from our own wallet, we immediately contacted Payoneer. We got told that this was no longer available to adult companies, and that CMD had essentially been lucky for getting to keep it after it’s been deprecated.

Since then, we’ve learned (thanks to SW again!) that Streamate had it - and Streamate is definitely too big to “be lucky”. Therefore we asked Payoneer again, in a more insistent way, and learned this feature was currently only awarded to adult businesses on an “I like you” basis.

We’re trying our best to have it as well since then.


Temporary site slowness

Many noticed that CMD had some temporary technical issues in the past few weeks, being slow sometime for periods ranging from a few seconds to an hour. We’ve counted 7 events in 5 weeks, but there might have been a few more.

Firstly, I’d like to reassure everyone that we have not changed how CMD operates technically - for now we’ve kept the same code, on the same servers, at the same hosting company.

What happened is the following:

-Some bots from China were opening many concurrent connections on the site at times, slowing it down considerably. This happened a couple times prior to the acquisition as well.

-We doubled the servers’ CPU and RAM in order to temporary resolve the problem, and followed the hosting company’s recommendations to upgrade servers’ operating systems to better block the bots.

-While implementing the upgrades, the hosting company made - several times - manipulations which slowed the site down (we only learned about this recently and at the time had no idea what was going on).

-The new OS is now installed and the bot issue resolved (so far).

-However, this weekend, the hosting company got issues with a faulty device which was replaced on Sunday. It slowed the site again for some time.

This is not to say this is not our fault, but simply to exhibit that this issue is unrelated to CMD’s acquisition. We will change hosting company as soon as possible, we cannot tolerate so many issues in such a small time frame.


More traffic

Many people hope for more traffic following the acquisition, and we certainly hope that we will be able to grow CMD’s customer base as well.

For now, we’re focused on having CMD & IndieBill operated as smoothly as possible . However, we have hired a marketing agency specialized in AdWords campaigns (purchasing traffic on Google).

Since last week, they’re experimenting with a $100 / day budget to purchase traffic for CMD and we’re tracking the results.

We do not know yet if we will be able to purchase traffic profitably like this because CMD’s margin per transaction is pretty low compared to sites like LiveJasmin or Streamate. We’re giving it a try though, and if it works out we’ll increase the daily budget tenfold.


A few additions

I am sincerely sorry for the issues which happened and take full responsibility for those.

We are not the best, the biggest, the fastest or any other superlatives. We’re a small bunch of young & genuine people trying to build a great toolchain for independent entrepreneurs in the adult industry.

We believe the cut taken by most sites of the industry is disproportionate for the services they provide. So we’d like to shake things up a little bit and build fairer alternatives.

In the last 6 months we’ve evolved from a basically 1 man operation working from his kitchen, to a small team of 7 operating both CMD & IndieBill. We’re not always doing as great of a job as we’d like, but we’re on your side and you can count on us to rectify any mistakes to the best of our ability.

Please know that you are welcome to add me on Skype (billoirgerald) if you’d like to give some feedback (by chat or talking directly if you prefer) or are concerned about anything.

Kind regards,
Gérald

Ahh, you are sooo sweet. Thank you soooo much for the details & apologies. That means a lot to me. :)

A few things:

1. Wow, good to know about FC. I went thru hell with them & Skye Private. Now I know they are unethical if they play favorites. :(
2. I have noticed more traffic (for me anyway) & more sessions, until this past week when all I've gotten are time wasters & FLs. Is that already from the PPC? I came on here to bitch about how I've gotten min. 4 of them in the last 24 hours. LOL
3. Does Google allow your kws? I thought they ditched all adult, but maybe that's just my other adult industry.
4. Are you sticking with the new MID Mark got or moving it over to your Indie MID? I ask b/c there were a lot of restrictions put on what we could say in our profiles. It would be great if we could open that up again. :)
5. I used to get upset that I was logged out soooo often, but in the last 2 weeks I've been logged in continuously, so I hope you fixed whatever the problem is :)

5b) this also caused an issue where I would appear to be logged in, but I really wasn't b/c if I went to one of my profile pages, it would show I was offline even though the dashboard page still showed I was logged in. I was constantly refreshing just to make sure I was logged in.

I wrote about this at least 3 times & no one cared, so I'm hoping this is fixed now.

I'm glad your company is growing & TTYL Gerald :)

CMDAlly
03-21-2018, 06:50 AM
Ahh, you are sooo sweet. Thank you soooo much for the details & apologies. That means a lot to me. :)

A few things:

1. Wow, good to know about FC. I went thru hell with them & Skye Private. Now I know they are unethical if they play favorites. :(
2. I have noticed more traffic (for me anyway) & more sessions, until this past week when all I've gotten are time wasters & FLs. Is that already from the PPC? I came on here to bitch about how I've gotten min. 4 of them in the last 24 hours. LOL
3. Does Google allow your kws? I thought they ditched all adult, but maybe that's just my other adult industry.
4. Are you sticking with the new MID Mark got or moving it over to your Indie MID? I ask b/c there were a lot of restrictions put on what we could say in our profiles. It would be great if we could open that up again. :)
5. I used to get upset that I was logged out soooo often, but in the last 2 weeks I've been logged in continuously, so I hope you fixed whatever the problem is :)

5b) this also caused an issue where I would appear to be logged in, but I really wasn't b/c if I went to one of my profile pages, it would show I was offline even though the dashboard page still showed I was logged in. I was constantly refreshing just to make sure I was logged in.

I wrote about this at least 3 times & no one cared, so I'm hoping this is fixed now.

I'm glad your company is growing & TTYL Gerald :)

Hello, thank you for your kind words. We wanted to touch on a couple of your points.

2. I have noticed more traffic (for me anyway) & more sessions, until this past week when all I’ve gotten are time wasters & FLs. Is that already from the PPC? I came on here to bitch about how I’ve gotten min. 4 of them in the last 24 hours. LOL.

This is most likely unrelated, because the PPC campaigns are bringing on average 5 new customers a day to CMD at the moment. So that is 5 new paying customers and we are looking to increase that gradually.

4. Are you sticking with the new MID Mark got or moving it over to your Indie MID? I ask b/c there were a lot of restrictions put on what we could say in our profiles. It would be great if we could open that up again.

Yes, for now we are not changing the MID. The new restrictions are a result of the site shutdown last June and to maintain confidence that that will not happen again we want to keep the restrictions as they are for now.

5. I used to get upset that I was logged out soooo often, but in the last 2 weeks I've been logged in continuously, so I hope you fixed whatever the problem is

5b) this also caused an issue where I would appear to be logged in, but I really wasn't b/c if I went to one of my profile pages, it would show I was offline even though the dashboard page still showed I was logged in. I was constantly refreshing just to make sure I was logged in.

I wrote about this at least 3 times & no one cared, so I'm hoping this is fixed now.

We are happy to see that you are no longer having these issues :) We are working diligently to grow CMD and the community as a whole and to keep moving a positive direction.


Kind Regards,
The CMD Team

SuperPookie
03-26-2018, 11:19 AM
Has the new promo kicked in yet? I've been having some contact requests from here lately and it had been several months since I'd gotten anything from someone new so I was wondering

CMDAlly
03-26-2018, 12:06 PM
Has the new promo kicked in yet? I've been having some contact requests from here lately and it had been several months since I'd gotten anything from someone new so I was wondering

Hello, yes the new promo has kicked it. But in full transparency the ad words campaign only accounts for about 6% of our current traffic flow. So the increase you are seeing is most likely not from the campaign, but it is great to see more performers noticing more traffic :)

scarletl
03-26-2018, 12:56 PM
Are models allowed two accounts on here if I have 2 model persona's that I go by?

CMDAlly
03-26-2018, 01:06 PM
Are models allowed two accounts on here if I have 2 model persona's that I go by?

Hello, we only allow models to have one account on CMD. You can post several ad listings in the categories you qualify for.

coco789
03-27-2018, 07:12 PM
I came across a Google ad. Please include Ebony women in your ad.

https://i.imgur.com/s0BTki5.gif

laurielegs
03-27-2018, 11:09 PM
I used to get way more shows but then after the site had lost it's billing provider it just wasn't the same for me.

Finally I got a new customer, and a subbie fetish one, my favorite kind! Hadn't had a show on CMD since December so hope this is a sign of things to come!

Procrasturbator
03-27-2018, 11:29 PM
Has anyone else had frequent issues with clients not being able to pay through the site? These are good clients who've had no troubles paying there before so it's super frustrating, and becoming much more frequent in the last month or so.

CMDAlly
03-29-2018, 12:41 PM
I came across a Google ad. Please include Ebony women in your ad.

https://i.imgur.com/s0BTki5.gif

Hello, this ad will be up for the next 4 days and then we will be editing it and updating it with Ebony as well as American categories as well. Thank you for your feedback We appreciate hearing from you.

CMDAlly
03-29-2018, 12:44 PM
Has anyone else had frequent issues with clients not being able to pay through the site? These are good clients who've had no troubles paying there before so it's super frustrating, and becoming much more frequent in the last month or so.


Hello, thank you for bringing this to our attention we will be reaching out personally to gather some information we need to help out these specific clients.

-CMD Support