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laurielegs
10-07-2015, 09:21 AM
I have singed with them and I am about to get my hands down on clips I do femdom anyways and yesterday my reg told me the horror story about iwantclips...
He is a huge consumer of femdom clips and he buys there quite often...so he logged in his account and then the paged refreshed itself and landed him in some model account...can you just imagine that? Your account details with your real name and address...She is lucky he is a good boy.
Now I am not so sure about them, sounds like the worst nightmare. woah

OMG.

I haven't uploaded many clips there yet.

This is beyond scary. I may go in and delete my info.

Edited to add

They have apparently done a security update. I wonder if the problem is fixed now. Still feeling very iffy about this site though.

"Many of you may have noticed iWantClips recently received an extensive Security Update! As there's been an increase of content pirating in the community, it's been a large priority of ours to take every action possible to further secure the site, and mitigate any/all malicious activity.There may be small changes you notice to your account but, most of the updates occurred behind the scenes. "

justsometwat
10-07-2015, 05:53 PM
I have tried logging into a few different sites and have been taken to some other model's page where I could access their info. This happened on MGF, C4U, NaughtyFactory, and one other one that I can't remember. I think it just happens sometimes. I've never had an issue with IWC and make quite a bit of money there :)

PetraAnn
10-07-2015, 11:56 PM
I have tried logging into a few different sites and have been taken to some other model's page where I could access their info. This happened on MGF, C4U, NaughtyFactory, and one other one that I can't remember. I think it just happens sometimes. I've never had an issue with IWC and make quite a bit of money there :)

Hey, could you do me a favor? If it EVER happens on C4U (especially once the new site is launched and I guarantee a lot of attention to safety and security has been paid to it), please, please, please drop me a line at [email protected] Or put a ticket in if it happens on the new site.

This shouldn't happen, ever!!

Thanks! ;-)

justsometwat
10-08-2015, 08:54 AM
I emailed them right away when it first happened. I've only ever emailed twice, once someone tried resetting my password - which wasn't me and I never heard back. Second was when this happened. I'd never share anyone's info, but I was able to look around her account, I could even see her ID. This happened on another site as well, so it was a little freaky, but it happens on a lot of sites occasionally. I'll definitely email if there's ever an issue.

justsometwat
10-09-2015, 03:42 PM
Hello justsometwat,

Thank you for the nice feedback! Please let me know if you have any suggestions, improvements, or just need general information related to iWantClips.

Kind Regards,
Dave

I love for you to make a move towards removing the guest checkout. I like being able to see who has bought what and it helps with determining who is pirating content. Most of my videos have been pirated from C4S and Kinkbomb. I was able to email KB about the person that pirated when we all compiled information on the C4S thread. If registering an account is free, they have no reason not to take the minute to sign up. There's also something comforting knowing a small bit of information about our customers, even if it's just initials and a country.

mnsweet
10-13-2015, 08:15 PM
Hello mnsweet,

Sinna replied to your post and I replied to her with the message below in quotations but, there is more I would like add to your comment.

You had some concerns about the site that was mentioned on reddit (not iWantClips) I would like to address as much as I can here publicly on behalf of iWantClips though.

Before iWantClips was launched the founders did in fact recruit a model/store team, law team, accounting team, and many other groups of professionals that any company should put in place before a site is launched. Each individual that has helped build iWantClips to what it is today have signed non-disclosure agreements and in those agreements neither party is allowed to discuss personal/professional information. In order to open a new clip site there are tremendous hurdles to market-entry, especially if the site were to "turn the lights on but, no one is home". iWantClips has never asked a store operator for exclusivity for their content. Store operators can of course keep the same content on which ever clip site they like they just make more money with the new age sales platform iWantClips. ($70 out of $100 vs $60 out of $100) Gatsby Enterprises, INC is a privately held company with shareholders just like most companies.

"I have read through the quite extensive reddit post and it is quite an interesting read! I have been with IWC since its inception (in one form or another) and can assure you that we are not the "one man machine" that the individual is in that post. Gatsby Enterprises, INC is the holding company for and (which is who I work for). We are an extensive team of individuals who come from diverse backgrounds and work in various departments throughout the company. We have our own internal developers/designers and have them working diligently to make sure the site is continually improving and we are very excited for what's to come from them next!"

I look forward to discussing this further with you,

Dave
Social Media Coordinator


Thanks for the reply Dave :)

Unless I get a higher percentage payout from the beginning (80% or more) like some other studios on IWC then I rather stick with Clips4Sale. Or if there's a way to apply to get a higher percentage then I'm all ears.

Also, knowing that a studio(s) is getting a percentage of all sales because they were recruited from the beginning still feels unfair to me. It would be cool if everyone got a percentage of all sales.

Why join if I'm only getting 70% when others are getting more? That's what stopping me from opening a studio and the traffic seems to only come from studios telling their fanbase to buy their clips on IWC-- especially from the studios getting a higher percentage because obviously they're getting more money than regular studios on IWC.

Thanks again for your reply!

justsometwat
10-14-2015, 06:05 AM
I have a few repeat customers that buy all of my new content as they go up, but I don't have a massive following. As far as I see it, I'll take 70% if that means that these girls that have a massive following are bringing customers to the site, which means more exposure for me.

If I were one of the first people on their site I would be pretty pissed if they gave me 71%+ then lowered me down to whatever percentage that they decided worked best for them I would be pissed. I honestly don't mind people getting paid more, because I do pretty well there.


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I understand why people want anonymity but it still sucks =(

I think one change that would be really good is to remove the redundancy in the categories. For instance, there's "smoking" and "smoking fetish", they are both bascially. There's a ton of other categories that are oddly very specific but probably don't need to be. There's a lot of "bra" categories going on the first one I clicked on has only 18 videos in it, so those could be pushed into just Bra fetish, just an example since there are 5 categories for "bra".

EllieGold
10-15-2015, 08:53 PM
My store sells like crap here too.. I don't think its worth having open. Then again, I'm not heavy into female domination either. I have sold 2 clips in the duration of 5 months.

Sinna (2pee4you)
10-16-2015, 02:35 PM
I can't read all of your replies Dave, that was a little too much. Especially going back to answer posts that were not really relevant anymore.

Actually, about being the fastest growing clipsite, I told manyvids that you are saying that (as well, everyone seems to be the fastest growing site, since you can't be the biggest, because that is c4s). They replied with some stats that actually show you behind everyone else in terms of traffic rank, considering that offbeatr is invite only and not really a competitor (yet).

42913

Since everyone is saying whatever they want, we rely more than ever on inside information that shows what is really going on. To provide other producers with valuable insights, I am updating to a few stores and recording the results. Iwantclips is one of them: http://adult-income.com/iwantclips/

I agree that some features are interesting, but there are so many things obviously copied from c4s (and I don't blame you, lots of others do it as well, I am just saying) and there are still huge issues, like your clipsearch is really inferior to c4s's and to me, it's useless, although I would need it as I have many clips. Then the lack of any statistics on your site. I don't even know how many visitors I had. How should I be able to track my success? Why would I promote my store on iwc when I can't even monitor results of my campaigns? The display of updates is inferior in terms of exposure compared to c4s but also manyvids, in my opinion. And yes, there have been a lot of issues in the past and I am also not really comfortable about the fact that there was a much needed security update but when you ask about it, everything has been alright the whole time - then why the update? I can see hy, I just want to tell you that this does not feel good. And that was before I ever heard that people log into other people's accounts by accident.

One more thing about support. When I stated that there was an issue with the updates showing on the front page, it was said that everything is alright, there should be no issue. Same with the time stamp not working correctly. Both things have been fixed now, so there were issues. Just when I contacted support about those, I did not have the feeling that they were actually believing me. Seen the time it took until these issues got fixed, I got the feeling that you really didn't believe it. You believe that you are best just a little too much, in my opinion. I think iWantclips has become really good and has improved continuously on many levels. But you are not the best. In the end, you can have all the features you want, but traffic is more important because traffic means business. The competition has improved as well, by the way. Even the old dinosaur.

Sinna (2pee4you)
10-16-2015, 02:56 PM
Woh, I just log into iwc to see that you will be adding your own logo as a short video to the beginning of all clips? If you do that to my clips as well, I am out immediately. These are my clips, you should not add things to them or alter them in any way. Especially not in a way that makes you seem like the producer/owner of the clip - who else puts their name in front of a clip than the producer?

In my opinion, this does nothing to fight piracy, it just makes piracy work in your favor, because from now on, you will have your name splashing fat on every pirated clip. The longer these stay around, the better for you - and you did nothing to earn your logo being played before all the clips! In terms of piracy, I have my watermark on the clip throughout the video - no need for your pre-roll clip that annoys my customers

Edit: Just an assumption, but that was the security update right? So that was why we could not add clips for a while, so you could put in your pre-roll video idea with which you basically claim all our content. I am not happy about this. In fact, I miss a bulge edit and delete button on the sell items tab.

mnsweet
10-17-2015, 10:11 PM
I appreciate the effort IWC is doing as it's always good to have a little competition against the superior site C4S.

Still not going to join though.

Everyone should be paid the same. I don't care if it's less than 1% who are getting paid more because they're "popular."

I still don't buy that studios who were recruited from the beginning aren't getting a cut in the total sales of IWC.

But good luck with your company and I wish you the best. Hopefully it won't end up like Clipvia.

justsometwat
10-24-2015, 01:30 PM
What about allowing models to individually remove the option of guest check out? You could make it so if the person signs up while trying to check out they are offered a coupon of the model's % if they choose. If they do not want to sign up they can't buy videos from that model until they do.

Sinna (2pee4you)
10-24-2015, 02:55 PM
Taking your numbers, manyvids has increased 17.3% in world rank while you have increased 13.8%.



iWantClips is the fast growing clip site in the world (with no outside traffic purchased)


I don't understand why you correct the statistics and leave out purchased traffic. Relentlessly spending hundreds of thousands of $ on traffic (several sources; see adult-income) is what makes clips4sale so strong and you relying on traffic brought in by models was actually one point of early criticism on this forum. Of course you grow (with no outside traffic purchased) when you ask the top models from c4s to join your site and offer them 10% more so they bring their customers over.


Sinna (2Pee4you),

iWantClips has reviewed your emails and forum posts.

[...]

To date we have spent more in hosting your content than we have profited from the sale of it. If you feel so strongly about the pre-roll you can always close your IWC store.

~The iWantClips Admin

This is not really an answer to anything I asked and I would appreciate if you answer my private email to you with a private email back, not mix your answer into a public forum post and send me a copy. That, together with the double posting is the reason why I did not approve your comment on my own site either.

I have uploaded mesmerize, fitting room, crush, religious, transgender, findom, femdom, humiliation, legs, foot, wetting, high heel, abused shoes, sock fetish, pussy play and taboo clips.

I had repeatedly asked you to not add all my clips just to the #pee category when your team put up my initial clips. There are plenty of other options for basically all my clips, like pantyhose, nude, hairy, amateur, barefoot, upskirt, taboo, toilet fetish, wetting, desperation, shower scenes, jeans fetish etc.. You went on adding the clips to #pee, despite my efforts to counter that "problem". I since used many different categories to try and make your site work for me.

If you excel in special categories, maybe emphasize that so other models don't put in effort and fail. After all, unlike c4s, it is not easy to see what works on your site.

EDit: Hours later, I have deleted over 800 clips. There are no clips left posted in #pee.

Luna66
10-24-2015, 03:51 PM
As you pointed out yourself, your sales have been extremely low for our site. To date we have spent more in hosting your content than we have profited from the sale of it. If you feel so strongly about the pre-roll you can always close your IWC store.

That is one of the most fucked up things I have ever seen a website promoter/spokesperson (who is supposed to be using this forum partly to advertise to clip girls) post on here. So if someone asks you some legit (and politely worded) questions here, you're just going to blast their lack of sales all over the forum for everyone to see? I can only assume you are either clueless to the etiquette on forums like these (and in life, really) that dictates an employer or sales facilitator doesn't broadcast their employees'/contractors' income without their permission, or this was a not-so-subtle attempt to humilate/silence/discredit someone who was questioning you about your site. Either way, I was going to join up (I am actively making an effort to join sites other than c4s to broaden my audience) but you are doing a very bad job of advertising your site to me. So rude.

DonaDiabla
10-25-2015, 01:19 AM
Iwantclips,

I was going to join however do not have my section on your website. I do not understand why your site has anime, 3d, animation but not machinima? Plus, it seems like you are willing to out models' sales records :( Strange marketing technique.

justsometwat
10-28-2015, 04:29 PM
Someone did answer me about my DMCA problems, but no one has gotten back to me about my issue with the pre-roll breaking my WMV videos. My problem is that any new videos that I upload that are WMV that have the pre-roll automatically applied are not showing the actual video. The pre-roll pops up and when the logo disappears it is stuck on the grey screen and though you can hear audio, you cannot see the video.

The ONLY thing that is fixing it is me going in and converting my existing and new videos to mp4. I had to do this to all videos that have the pre-roll - which was about 20 videos and reupload all of them.

That's a huge blow to the amount of videos I can upload. I am on several sites, so that's a lot of time spent on fixing something that I shouldn't have to fix in the first place. I know MP4s are better to upload as they work on all platforms but with my demographic wmv sells better than mp4 (don't ask I have no idea why).

Sinna (2pee4you)
11-02-2015, 08:38 AM
So, I deleted most of my clips and my iwantclips store does not matter anymore. That was a personal decision because of the pre-roll, but I honestly must say this was my last try to get something out of iwantclips anyway and it would not have been enough - pre-roll or no pre-roll.

My last advice for you girls: Iwantclips had about XX.XXX sales orders total in Oct. Clips4sale had XXX.XXX (I keep the numbers to myself for their companies sake, pm me if interested) Iwantclips had around 3% of the orders c4s did. Comparing my main c4s store and iwantclip store (they contained 1000 of the same clips) I can confirm that. Their traffic of 87k vs 2.75mio reflects those 3% as well. Now I don't say that you can't do better - some models might even do better on iwantclips than c4s - but the grand average will distribute around the average, which is 3% - some will do worse, some better. But that's the baseline when you compare c4s and iwantclips in october 2015.

Just so you know before you start.

By the way Dave, I think you should have opened a thread in the name of iwantclips and not full on crashed into this one, where we talk about what we think from girl to girl (or producer to producer) - as the thread says "thoughts on this". Now it's polluted with loads of your posts and the "thoughts" can't be read without interruption from you anymore.

And a parting gift:
Your major glitch with the update list is NOT resolved. While I was cleaning and tweaking my 1000+ clips the past week, I was constantly #1 in the newest updates list, because every change makes you go to the top again. I noticed, while I did that to improve my store (adding other categories than pee) that other studios take advantage of this as well.


Here is some proof:


I am the third in the list, 43124
I just fix a typo in my clip description, I am first again: 43125

I wait for an hour and eat something, I am 9th: 43123.
I just add another keyword to an already existing clip, I am first again: 43122

If you check internally you can see: other models know about this glitch and use it.

Sorry to SophiaSylvan for pushing you one down without really adding a clip there. If you want to get back up, just change a letter or add a keyword and save the clip again.

Although I was constantly #1, I made the amount you see on my blog. Don't create an illusion for the girls here. It is what it is. Some will sign up and try you, some won't. If you constantly tell them how great you are, it may sound like you are a serious competitor to c4s and they may start a store at yours, because their c4s is not doing well or in hopes to earn enough money.

Reality in that case will be, that their iwantclips store is doing even worse than their c4s and they are even more frustrated and split their energy, which they, in my opinion, should really use to focus on c4s first.

If they are big and have a following then, they can always try to get those 70% of yours and bring their own traffic. That's the best advice I can give and also the last in this thread. Dave you only pick out small parts of my posts and answer to them in your convenience. You have not answered any real questions and disturbed this thread (in my opinion) which is why I'll have to ignore you all together in this thread. It's for the models.

Your subtle attacks on c4s are the last thing I want to mention. From the idea of a clipstore, to categories, twitter auto updates and rules, you got "inspired" (not to say copied) from c4s. Maybe show some love. Consider that most models will have a c4s store first, before they come to you. So bashing on c4s might not make you very popular - and to be honest, you are not in the position to do that (yet, I know you dream to be, as you said, but right now you are not).

I'll be over in the c4s thread.

justsometwat
11-03-2015, 05:20 AM
No one has bothered answering either of my support tickets about the pre-roll breaking my videos. I sent two tickets over a week This is a huge issue, had the person that brought it to my attention not been someone I already know I could have gotten chargebacks or lost a customer. Last month I made less than 50% of what I made on C4S and I update both sites at the same rate. I do almost no marketing at all for C4S but put IWC because I enjoy getting my money every week, but that doesn't grant me a lot of money.

It took them 10 days to get back to me on a site that is pirated thousands of videos from IWC's top top top models.
This was part of their response:

Anytime you find your content up on any pirate site you can send us a link and we’ll get back to you with an answer if it was from IWC or another site.

Also, IWC is proactive in fighting piracy and will ban customers and IP addresses from being able to purchase content all together. But that other sites (c4s included) don’t fight piracy and simply pass chargebacks along to their stores…so the decision of where content is published is important. We look out for you here at IWC. ;)

C4S has banned customers before when we knew they were pirating videos. Don't they also ban/block accounts of people that do chargebacks, then if they want to come back to the site they have to repay the chargeback?

Do you know why IWC is able to say they "care" more? Because they are a MUCH (read significantly) smaller site in comparison to C4S and they require less effort to keep up with support tickets and issues. Though, they still can't get back to me on an issue that is severely impacting my store.

Sinna (2pee4you)
11-30-2015, 07:50 PM
Also, we will be introducing the new Request Pay option

You already had this option. It was one of the things I liked before you terminated my account.

When you throw out a producer without warning or explanation, it would be nice to at least notify them so they can try to bug you about the funds they still had in their account. No contact whatsoever, not even an automated "your account has been closed" email is pretty unorthodox.

Then, after finally answering the girl, demanding exclusive communication, when the girl answers you back within 15 minutes, try not leaving the office for 7 days without writing back. At least notify the girl that you will be gone and without email availability.

If I violated your store operators agreement, it is because it's basically prohibiting adult content, especially pee content:

"iWantClips.com specifically prohibits any content related to bestiality, rape sex, incest, sex with graphic violence or degradation, excretory functions, bodily fluids, fisting and any other content which may be judged as obscene"

This mandatory store operators agreement gives you a carte blanche (=permission to do something in any way you wish to do it) to throw out any producer at any time:

"You understand that if you violate these Terms and Conditions, iWantClips.com may terminate your account and you may forfeit any revenues"

Bodily fluids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fluid) can easily be defined as, well, bodily fluids: saliva, sweat, pussy juice, pee, tears, sperm, female ejaculate and many more. When I read about content that "may be judged as obscene", I noticed it's a very broad term. It's all up to you, right? The producers are at your mercy (if they don't act like you want)

justsometwat
12-01-2015, 10:38 AM
I wondered, I saw that in the custom clips part of the site it showed your name with cancelled next to it. Is you search for "pee" there's 4 pages of results. Most of the top results have pee or piss in their titles and there's actually at least one studio where the woman takes a shit. I am not sure if she shows it, but there's a LOT of videos of her on the toilet "taking a dump" as she says. If they are going to enforce the rules on you, they should take a look at other people's stuff :/

I still haven't heard back from IWC about the issue with WMV files. They emailed me on November 13th to tell me that I was right (I knew that!) and that they were trying to recreate my issue and hoped to have it done by the next week. I haven't heard a peep back yet. I like the site, I make decent money on it, but I am not impressed with their customer service. I am lucky to get any kind of response from them, which really really disappoints me. As much money as they must be making (one top model said tweeted that she made $13,000 last month!) they could at least hire an additional team to answer emails and tweets.

Sinna (2pee4you)
12-01-2015, 10:28 PM
I am pretty sure that it wasn't because of the bodily fluids. There is another paragraph that forbids talking about customers sales (vague) "in a negative connotation on public forums". That could have been a thing. Whatever the case, I hope to conclude this chapter when I receive my last payout (upon my own request in January) and then I am done with that. I hope they re-write their agreement, because it's not fair to producers and I hope they work on some real features, like extended statistics for store owners.

Miss_Bohemian
12-24-2015, 07:37 AM
Hi Dave! (And Hi girls!)

Something weird happened to me and now I have some doubts

I have an international store.

With my first sale (before you change the payout methods...) I earned a 70% of the total.

I made my second sale yesterday (I don't sell a lot there xD), the email showed that I earned a 70% (same in the Transaction History tab -where it shows my Payout Earnings)... but when I checked my Transaction History today I saw that I have a little bit more than $1 less than yesterday....

Doing my numbers I understand that my sales from yesterday gave me just a 65%

I checked the "Payouts" tab and saw that my cut is 65%!

So I read here and there for a few hours until understand that in my "Payout Information" my chosen "pay period" is set to "Request Payout" and it makes me lost a 5%.... So I changed it and noticed that now the pink circles say that my cut is 70% again.

Does this mean that you took the 5% from my last sale just because the "pay period" option is selected? I'm not sure if it was an automatic change....
It's weird that you take that 5% cut before even request the payout, and even more strange that 1 day say one thing and next day say another one!...
If it's a commision related to when we receive our money, I think it must be deducted when we request our money!!

As you can see all of this is a bit confusing for me and I dont feel that it's fair... Can you tell me what is going to happen with the money missed from sales I made yesterday?

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Edited: Hey! and will I earn the 80% you say from those clip sales? Or does it just affect to tips/tributes?



(Excuse my English but it's not my first language)

gingerstripper
01-03-2016, 12:41 AM
hmmm I was going to make an account but seems like this site is kinda scary in regards of payouts, glitches, customers getting into models accounts..
Makes me uneasy that someone might get my info and my damn money

KatyBoleyn
01-05-2016, 11:59 AM
We've been working with them a few months now and haven't had any major issues with about 30 or so models on there. Their differentiated payouts can be a little glitchy, but they've been very fast in correcting it when bugs are found, and they do pay right on time.

TBK
01-05-2016, 01:31 PM
I haven't noticed any bugs or glitches with the % paid, however I only requested my 1st payout on the 31st of last month, via express wire international. Will keep on eye out, thanks for the heads up :)

Sinna (2pee4you)
01-07-2016, 08:16 PM
The obvious strategy of hijacking this thread, spamming it with advertisements and liking the positive posts while ignoring the negatives/questions/feedback is your issue, iWantClips. But everyone can see that you have been here - and not answering the questions, although you literally said 2 posts before Miss_Bohemian's questions: "I just want to let you all know that I am here to clarify anything or answer any questions"

Your 'Director of Communications' asked me to exclusively converse with him regarding EVERYTHING. It's impossible to converse though, since I am waiting for an answer since the 1st of December already and you need at least 2 to converse. Before that, I was waiting and waiting and waiting as well. Which seems to be another strategy dealing with someone who actually made about 8 suggestions that could really improve your site for producers.

I obviously still ignore all your messages here, since your superior ('Director of Communications') wanted exclusive contact ("Please contact me exclusively from this point forward for any comments, questions, or concerns you may have.") and should be able to email me with any news regarding my case. He is a director of communications after all.

I noticed that last time he didn't answer for 8 days, then wrote an email, was the same day you wrote a new post here. Maybe you have a double identity and confuse writing an email to me with posting here?

If you find the 'Director of Communications', please tell him I got someone to respond to my payout request although he had asked me to contact HIM about that, because he just wouldn't answer me so I basically had to reach out to someone else. I am grateful to that person, as I noticed that our month long friendly conversation had turned into a very distanced, using only my studio name instead of sinna, dialogue. I had the strong feeling (a personal interpretation) that he was actually not allowed to talk to me and needed to create some distance that had never been there before.

I hope I got everything done with you, iwantclips, despite the very difficult contact (for readers who think I spammed iwantclips, no. I just wrote one email that still isn't answered, despite telling me before that email that I would still get an answer as soon as my document, which I had requested, would be ready. I guess the document will never find me)


I am not angry at all by the way, I just don't want the strategy of washing away the negatives by adding more advertisements to work as long as crucial issues (like the store operators agreement) are not resolved for the models. If I had been a pure asshole and a nuisance - okay, kick me. But in my opinion I provided constructive ideas (not even criticism) and my account was closed because of it. Now I get the silent treatment while on the public forums, it's being announced that everything is alright.

You threw me out without notice or warning. You fail to answer me, yet request things from me. Imagine your site were as big as you wish, the #1 clipsite, and I would have made my living on your site instead of c4s. Imagine I wouldn't be able to pay any bills from one day to another because of - yes, because of what? I still don't have an answer to that either. If I would have had to rely on you the way I rely on other sites, I would be ruined right now, at your mercy. If you think about that, how could I ever sign up for you again (by the way, my store is still there, you would just have to activate it again)

@KatyBoleyn

as you represent models, I would be interested in your thoughts about the iwantclips store operators agreement that forbids basically everything adult and puts everyones accounts at risk of being terminated at any time while forfeiting all funds. How can that be a baseline for a safe working environment? It's probably like installing any app that wants to completely control your cellphone. You just hope that nothing bad will happen.

TBK
01-08-2016, 03:55 AM
Actually I am now having issues with the payout time frame.
It says expresswire takes no longer than 3 working days given the amount requested and the country I hold my bank in. I requested this on the 31st, which would have meant latest would had been Wednesday. Come the evening I went onto live help to ask why it still had not gone through to which I was told I had to provide more info.
More info given and I was assured they would process my payment there and then. Still nothing and the payment was only marked completed in the early hours of last night.

KatyBoleyn
01-09-2016, 06:35 PM
@KatyBoleyn

as you represent models, I would be interested in your thoughts about the iwantclips store operators agreement that forbids basically everything adult and puts everyones accounts at risk of being terminated at any time while forfeiting all funds. How can that be a baseline for a safe working environment? It's probably like installing any app that wants to completely control your cellphone. You just hope that nothing bad will happen.

I sent a more thorough private message, but its basically to clear up some basic misunderstandings of how credit card processing and obscenity rules work together, as well as the purpose of content ownership clauses that are standard in every TOS I've seen. Everyone has the absolute right to consent to who they work with and what they do to earn a living, its the same rules for everyone top to bottom.

cearagrynch
01-10-2016, 06:04 AM
Hi Sinna,

My name is Dave the social media coordinator from iWantClips. I actually will be emailing you later today regarding another project as well...

Thank you for responding to mnsweet's comment, as you are correct :)

I have read through the quite extensive reddit post and it is quite an interesting read! I have been with IWC since its inception (in one form or another) and can assure you that we are not the "one man machine" that the individual is in that post. Gatsby Enterprises, INC is the holding company for and (which is who I work for). We are an extensive team of individuals who come from diverse backgrounds and work in various departments throughout the company. We have our own internal developers/designers and have them working diligently to make sure the site is continually improving and we are very excited for what's to come from them next!

I hope this sheds some light on this subject and I look forward to discussing more with you.

Kind Regards,
Dave

So, I looked into Gatsby Enterprises, INC on google.. I noticed that the president/director, Jude Hudson, was also the president of ECO Pet Solutions, Inc before the corporation was sued for patent infringement. From my understanding, whoever this "Jude Hudson" is, he stole another company's idea and took it as his own for profit. Isn't that basically what Iwantclips is doing, riding off of clips4sale's business model?



The document in that link (I read it pretty thorougly) details some pretty unethical, malicious behavior and it also stuck out to me how the case said that Eco Pet Solutions made various FALSE CLAIMS about its product being SUPERIOR to others of its kind (while LYING about factual data about a competing product). I just thought that it was interesting how the case says that Eco Pet Solutions literally claimed incorrect, malicious things about their competitors (while knowingly stealing their patent), since IWantClips seems to be virtually copying everything about Clips4Sale while also covertly/indirectly disparaging them all of the time. The case talks about unfair competition? I mean, this is all conjecture, but it doesn't change the fact that Jude Hudson owns Gatsby Enterprises, INC and he also was the director of Eco Pet Solutions, Inc (which owned pottypark.com before they got sued for infringement).
Honestly, as a camgirl myself, I won't be using Iwantclips. My loyalty remains with clips4sale because unethical behavior like this concerns me. Also, Dave's way of treating Sinna like a person of no value and bombarding the thread with his own IWC propaganda (let's call it what it is) got under my skin. Oh well. These sorts of people do exist, after all.

Oh, and Jude/Eco Pet Solutions are associated with a Scottsdale, AZ address? I figured out that he's a man but I know that Bratty Nikki lived in Scottsdale before she moved to Miami. I wonder whether that's a coincidence or very much not. Bet it's not.

ruinator
01-10-2016, 06:34 PM
Pretty sure she(Bratty Nikki) still lives in Arizona. She only travels/vacations in Miami.


So, I looked into Gatsby Enterprises, INC on google.. I noticed that the president/director, Jude Hudson, was also the president of ECO Pet Solutions, Inc before the corporation was sued for patent infringement. From my understanding, whoever this "Jude Hudson" is, he stole another company's idea and took it as his own for profit. Isn't that basically what Iwantclips is doing, riding off of clips4sale's business model?

https://search.rpxcorp.com/lit/tnedce-68352-radio-systems-v-eco-pet-solutions

The document in that link (I read it pretty thorougly) details some pretty unethical, malicious behavior and it also stuck out to me how the case said that Eco Pet Solutions made various FALSE CLAIMS about its product being SUPERIOR to others of its kind (while LYING about factual data about a competing product). I just thought that it was interesting how the case says that Eco Pet Solutions literally claimed incorrect, malicious things about their competitors (while knowingly stealing their patent), since IWantClips seems to be virtually copying everything about Clips4Sale while also covertly/indirectly disparaging them all of the time. The case talks about unfair competition? I mean, this is all conjecture, but it doesn't change the fact that Jude Hudson owns Gatsby Enterprises, INC and he also was the director of Eco Pet Solutions, Inc (which owned pottypark.com before they got sued for infringement).
Honestly, as a camgirl myself, I won't be using Iwantclips. My loyalty remains with clips4sale because unethical behavior like this concerns me. Also, Dave's way of treating Sinna like a person of no value and bombarding the thread with his own IWC propaganda (let's call it what it is) got under my skin. Oh well. These sorts of people do exist, after all.

Oh, and Jude/Eco Pet Solutions are associated with a Scottsdale, AZ address? I figured out that he's a man but I know that Bratty Nikki lived in Scottsdale before she moved to Miami. I wonder whether that's a coincidence or very much not. Bet it's not.

Gia2608
01-10-2016, 06:57 PM
You can copy someone else's "business model" just not their intellectual property or anything they have a patent on.

cearagrynch
01-10-2016, 09:28 PM
You can copy someone else's "business model" just not their intellectual property or anything they have a patent on.

The whole idea was that the person behind the business model has bad intentions in general but obviously you found it necessary to insult my intelligence.

cearagrynch
01-12-2016, 02:19 AM
Pretty sure she(Bratty Nikki) still lives in Arizona. She only travels/vacations in Miami.

Ohh.. I thought that I saw something about her moving to Miami a few months ago, but I'm sure you know better than I do.

NervousBeaver
01-12-2016, 05:15 PM
Made about 140$ last month on iwc. Previous months I made 45$ and 20$. I was finally having hope with the site but this month has been really bad so far. I made only 6.99$. Pretty discouraging. I think if you don't already have a following and if you are not a Barbie-Domme it's very difficult to make money on iwc. I would really want to succeed on iwc.

Also had 2 customers who had problems with my vids. One of them bought 3 vids and 2 out of the 3 were not the right videos when he downloaded them. I re-uploaded each videos and he was able to get the videos he paid for. But that also mean he got 2 vids for free. Another customer tried to download a vid he paid for but it said the file was available. Again I had to re-upload the file and he was able to get it.

Has anybody had similar problems with iwc or is it just me?

justsometwat
01-12-2016, 07:21 PM
Made about 140$ last month on iwc. Previous months I made 45$ and 20$. I was finally having hope with the site but this month has been really bad so far. I made only 6.99$. Pretty discouraging. I think if you don't already have a following and if you are not a Barbie-Domme it's very difficult to make money on iwc. I would really want to succeed on iwc.

Also had 2 customers who had problems with my vids. One of them bought 3 vids and 2 out of the 3 were not the right videos when he downloaded them. I re-uploaded each videos and he was able to get the videos he paid for. But that also mean he got 2 vids for free. Another customer tried to download a vid he paid for but it said the file was available. Again I had to re-upload the file and he was able to get it.

Has anybody had similar problems with iwc or is it just me?

I do humiliation videos, all solo, just myself and I don't look like a barbie. No fake boobs, no plastic surgery, and to be honest I could stand to lose about 10 pounds. I don't get naked and rarely wear lingerie or anything very sexy and I do alright there. I had signed up a year or so ago when I still did masturbation videos and ended up closing my account. I made NO money at all and it wasn't worth my time. In November I made $1,300 but in October I made $500. It's very wishywashy.

If you don't update regularly then you don't get much traffic. My biggest irritation with their site is that they push and promote their top models and the rest of us get nothing. Even on twitter! I make about $1,000 a month on average, some months quite a bit more and I get no promotion whatsoever, even when I tweet at them they won't retweet!

The issue with their videos is so fucking annoying. I emailed them and told them that I was having issues and they basically told me that the issue was on my end and not theirs. I kept emailing them because I was getting "reupload requests" from them and people were telling me the videos were broken. It was NOT on my end and it took over 2 months for them to finally sort out the issue. Honestly, it was irritating to have them basically tell me to fuck off an fix it on my own before they realized that THEY had fucked shit up.

It was showing wrong videos, incomplete videos, wrong gifs to go with videos, pretty much everything under the sun. They told me it was a good idea to "view item" after uploading to check and make sure it worked properly. Why? I shouldn't have to do that!

I suggest you email them ad give them details or you're going to keep having this issue and it's sooooo not worth the time!

NervousBeaver
01-18-2016, 05:47 PM
I do humiliation videos, all solo, just myself and I don't look like a barbie. No fake boobs, no plastic surgery, and to be honest I could stand to lose about 10 pounds. I don't get naked and rarely wear lingerie or anything very sexy and I do alright there. I had signed up a year or so ago when I still did masturbation videos and ended up closing my account. I made NO money at all and it wasn't worth my time. In November I made $1,300 but in October I made $500. It's very wishywashy.

If you don't update regularly then you don't get much traffic. My biggest irritation with their site is that they push and promote their top models and the rest of us get nothing. Even on twitter! I make about $1,000 a month on average, some months quite a bit more and I get no promotion whatsoever, even when I tweet at them they won't retweet!

The issue with their videos is so fucking annoying. I emailed them and told them that I was having issues and they basically told me that the issue was on my end and not theirs. I kept emailing them because I was getting "reupload requests" from them and people were telling me the videos were broken. It was NOT on my end and it took over 2 months for them to finally sort out the issue. Honestly, it was irritating to have them basically tell me to fuck off an fix it on my own before they realized that THEY had fucked shit up.

It was showing wrong videos, incomplete videos, wrong gifs to go with videos, pretty much everything under the sun. They told me it was a good idea to "view item" after uploading to check and make sure it worked properly. Why? I shouldn't have to do that!

I suggest you email them ad give them details or you're going to keep having this issue and it's sooooo not worth the time!

Thanks! I don't want to give up yet, I'll keep uploading on the site and promote and hopefully in a couple of months I can make more. (I made 2 more sales since last time I posted, made $18.17 this month...)

I noticed they seem to promote top models too. I tag them and they almost never re-tweet me. Sometimes they will like my post, but that is useless to me.

For the wrong vid issue, maybe that is my fault cause sometimes I have 2 tabs open and upload 2 vids at the same time. I'll stop doing this.

NervousBeaver
01-18-2016, 05:59 PM
Hello NervousBeaver,

As justsometwat mentioned we always suggest using the view item button (eyeball) to confirm that your published/publish later clips are fully uploaded and are correct. If you are in the process of publishing an item you cannot navigate the site at all or it will interrupt the publish. If you are using filezilla to upload your clips please be sure to check the "failed transfers" tab at the bottom to confirm that there were no issues uploading your clip(s). If a transfer fails it will appear that it was successful on IWC, but will not be a complete clip. Below you will find some tips that we recommend to increase sales, but if you would like additional information please email us at [email protected]:

Tips for Success
Bring your entire content library with you using our FTP service
Update you Bio and Profile GIF/JPEG
Promote your new clips and store on twitter and attach a preview image
Include the @iWantClips twitter handle and iWantClips customer perk in each tweet
Add your iWantClips store link to your twitter page
Utilize the iWantClips tip widget, content widget, custom clip widget, and other promotional tools on your website
Promote iWantClips as your preferred clip site
Promote links to your store on blogs and other forums

Please let me know if I may assist you further.

Kind Regards,
Dave

Thanks for the tips. I wish your site had more traffic because I have less than 700 followers on Twitter at the moment and this is not enough to bring enough people to my page to make a decent amount. I post gifs previews or pics my clips with links all the time but people seem to only look at the pics and click like. Guess I have to be patient, I'll get more followers over time. I know promotion is part of my work but I don't want to spend 4-5 hours a day to promote. I tag Iwantclips in some tweets but I don't get re-tweeted often by your twitter account. Sometimes I get a like but that is not very useful to me.

Thanks for telling me I should not navigate the site while I upload, that might be the problem. Sometimes I have 2 tabs open and upload 2 vids at the same time or upload in a tab and navigate the site on another. I won't do that again.

justsometwat
01-18-2016, 06:45 PM
....
Sometimes I have 2 tabs open and upload 2 vids at the same time or upload in a tab and navigate the site on another. I won't do that again.

You should use the FTP uploader. It would be a lot better for you so you don't have to worry about uploading one at a time!

cearagrynch
01-27-2016, 12:39 AM
I like how Dave tried to bury my original post (the one regarding the director of IWantClips being sued for patent infringement) as damage control. He literally posted 3 separate posts FOUR HOURS after mine. Super passive aggressive behavior.

PrincessfromHell
03-14-2016, 04:46 AM
Girls, I am new to IWC. I have downloaded items, my name is showing on the right side amongst stores with the newest updates. I get to my page and it is empty. CS is currently offline.
Is it normal?
Ty, bbs

justsometwat
03-14-2016, 12:43 PM
Do you have 5 videos uploaded? When you go to your account and click sell items do they show as published or processing?

adorablecocoa
03-15-2016, 08:27 AM
Anyone else having problems with customs?
The site advertises that models receive 100% of all custom videos but one of my customers paid an exact amount for a video
but when I checked my account im missing $80 from the amount he paid.

He sent me a screenshot and my per min is $2 extra, my category is $12 extra, my delivery date is $8 extra
-__-
I sent them an email about it, and they completely ignored what I wrote

justsometwat
03-15-2016, 12:06 PM
Anyone else having problems with customs?
The site advertises that models receive 100% of all custom videos but one of my customers paid an exact amount for a video
but when I checked my account im missing $80 from the amount he paid.

He sent me a screenshot and my per min is $2 extra, my category is $12 extra, my delivery date is $8 extra
-__-
I sent them an email about it, and they completely ignored what I wrote
You set the prices in your settings, so I have $10 a minute for 5 & 10 minutes with no discount.

When someone buys a 5 minute custom video it would say $50 but IWC adds their cut into it. Mine shows that the customer pays $70 for a 5 minute video. You only get 100% of the price YOU choose including any addons or props or exclusivity etc. then the site adds on a % depending on the price you chose so they still make money off your custom request.

adorablecocoa
03-15-2016, 02:28 PM
You set the prices in your settings, so I have $10 a minute for 5 & 10 minutes with no discount.

When someone buys a 5 minute custom video it would say $50 but IWC adds their cut into it. Mine shows that the customer pays $70 for a 5 minute video. You only get 100% of the price YOU choose including any addons or props or exclusivity etc. then the site adds on a % depending on the price you chose so they still make money off your custom request.

thank you!
I was super confused

Sinna (2pee4you)
03-24-2016, 03:58 AM
It's just a trick to make you believe you get 100%. Other companies have used it and stopped doing it, because it's confusing for studios and customers. Saying you get 100% but then adding their fee on top essentially gives them the right to say you get 100% (of YOUR price), when in reality, it's just a wrapping to sell what others honestly communicate: Your customer pays an amount and you get a share of that.

The only reason to word it like that and confuse you, is to initially make you see the "100%" and think how awesome they are - and of course sign up because of that. A common strategy that seems to backfire a little as customers and studios get confused and feel cheated. But the funny thing is, you won't cancel your account after realizing they tricked you - would you? So they got a new sign-up, which is what they wanted. Albeit a sign-up that's a little less happy. They don't mind, as long as you stay and sell stuff.

Reminds me of teleshopping: "The product is 100% FREE, you just pay a raised shipping fee because it's such a special product" - there is no raised shipping fee of course. They just trick people into thinking the product is free. I guess even "smart" people subconsciously like "FREE" and could be more likely to buy, although they know every step of the way that this "raised shipping fee" is just another way to pay for the product (which is of course not free).

Lacy Luck
03-26-2016, 05:45 PM
Anybody having any luck with their new preview generator? The buttons don't work for me. Dud.

PrincessfromHell
03-26-2016, 07:26 PM
Anybody having any luck with their new preview generator? The buttons don't work for me. Dud.

I have used it and I love this feature so much!
It works fine for me )

Lacy Luck
03-28-2016, 04:47 PM
I have used it and I love this feature so much!
It works fine for me )
Great! I want it to work, perhaps its incompatible with my browser or I need to update firefox or something. Will try again with chrome...

SuperPookie
03-28-2016, 04:52 PM
It just froze my computer both times I tried it and I had to start the upload over again. I'm on IE.

Missjayne77
04-05-2016, 04:36 PM
How do you get your banner in rotation on Iwantclips?