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Stupid Newb Question RE: Streamate Payments
I just worked my first week on Streamate, yay! but their information about processing payments is vague at best.
"Payments are sent weekly. However, payments are on a three week delay due to the processors schedule. For example in week 4 of your account being approved you will receive a check for week 1's earnings."
Does that mean ALL payments, no matter which method? I can't imagine all of you love Streamate so much if they can't send out iPayout payments except on a 3 week delay!
FYI my payments are going to my iPayout/EMC2 account, if that makes a difference.
Thanks in advance!
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I've read on here you can send them an email asking to remove you from the 3 week delay. I did that and they said I wasn't on it, so I guess I will never know. I get the check payment which I guess cuts on Wednesday and is in my mailbox every Saturday. Hope this helps!
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yes, I read that too, but if that's true why wouldn't they update their FAQs? why would it be such an insider secret? weird!!! whatever hopefully I get it soon.
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Once you pass their "probationary" period you can get your payments weekly. But your earnings from the previous weeks will still be paid on the SM schedule....
The sooner you do it the better....
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I didn't have to wait any weeks without pay, but honestly I was b2b from the first time I signed on so I guess I was legit in their books.
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For me it went like this. I started last week and I got paid this week. It was pretty sweet to know that I didn't have to wait the 3 week delay. Now that I have switched to Princess Jenny's daily pay, I don't have to wait at all! :-)
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thanks ladies!! hopefully it'll be a non-issue - I'm not depending on this one to pay for anything so its nbd for now :)
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I inquired about that when I first started. They told me that the 3-week delay was for the studios they had working up under them. Not if you sign directly with them.
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Yeah, it's confusing, what I understood: paid weekly, for the prev. wk., pay week runs from Sat - Sun., with checks sent out on Thur. Payoneer, I-Payout, & wires are sent out on Fri. Checks have a minimum amt. of $20. to be issued, Payoneer & I Payout $100.00, Wire transfers $240.00
I'm in the US, so I don't know if it's different for other countries
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This Topic has been really helpful,as i have been with Streamate for about a year and a half and have been in the 3 week delay since i signed up and i am not in a studio. So i am going to email them right now. Thanks ladies. It does suck to have to wait 3 weeks at times when u need that paycheck.
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Honestly, it sounds like everyone's experience with their payments is different. But here is how mine was..
When I signed up with SM (myself, no studio) I was on a three week delay. I did not get my first check issued until 3 weeks after I made the money. And if I didn't work one week- I would go back on the 3 week delay. So say I started January 1st 2011, I worked weeks 1-7; 7-14 but didn't work 14-21.. I got my first check issued January 24th.. the next check was issued the 31st, the next was February 7th.. okay but because I didn't work January 14-21st I would be put back on the 3 week delay, and had to wait 3 weeks to get the next check.
It was just annoying, and I had to e-mail them well over 5 times to get off of the one week delay. First they said they would, then they said no, such a thing didn't exist, then they said I was already on a one week delay, then they finally resolved it for me after a few more e-mails, and they said that they had me down as on a one week delay, but the accounting dept. didn't recognize it, and they fixed it. It took months of e-mailing them to get it straightened out.
I hope you have better luck!
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If you request a pause button on your page, they will respond with "I have forwarded your request to accounting." I have a bit of a background in accounting, and if accounting handles "pause buttons," then it shouldn't be surprising that these payment variances occur with relative frequency.
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I joined Sm about a month ago now...I get check payments, and like others said - they cut the check Wednesday, and I get mine in the mail Monday...it's always a great start to the week!
It only took 2 week delay to get my first check, so if you have the time to wait, I would recommend that, so you don't have to pay any other fees (on top of the 65 they already take out!)
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^^I also get a check every Monday. I've fedex'd it a couple times,but its sssooooo damn expensive(to me)! Might as well wait the extra three days to get it.
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I signed up to SM, directly (no studio), in early July of this year. But I didn't start camming until the week starting Aug 12th (Sunday). I contacted Vanessa (on here), as advised, a few weeks ago and asked her to remove the 3-week hold on my acct. I believe she said she didn't see a hold on my acct. According to the SM site, my check for the week starting Aug 12th was isssued on 08/22/12 (Wednesday). So I guess this means I'm not on a waiting period.
Does anybody know what city and state the checks are mailed from? I'm hoping my check comes no later than tomorrow or Tuesday. :)
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I was on streamate since 2004 and I didn't know you can ask them for weekly payout until I heard about it here, you have to send them an eamil and ask them abotu getting your payment every week, you might also want to mention to them that their website isn't clear on what the payout schedule is not that they care because its been like that for years and no one truely knows how they send out payments.
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Originally Posted by
toryburch
I signed up to SM, directly (no studio), in early July of this year. But I didn't start camming until the week starting Aug 12th (Sunday). I contacted Vanessa (on here), as advised, a few weeks ago and asked her to remove the 3-week hold on my acct. I believe she said she didn't see a hold on my acct. According to the SM site, my check for the week starting Aug 12th was isssued on 08/22/12 (Wednesday). So I guess this means I'm not on a waiting period.
Does anybody know what city and state the checks are mailed from? I'm hoping my check comes no later than tomorrow or Tuesday. :)
Not sure which city or state, I never noticed but yes, you should get it Monday. I am in Ga and that's when I always had mine, remember you can opt for FedEx delivery if you made over $200 for a $30 fee (if that is worth it to you) and would have gotten it Fridays instead.
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sweetgapeach
Not sure which city or state, I never noticed but yes, you should get it Monday. I am in Ga and that's when I always had mine, remember you can opt for FedEx delivery if you made over $200 for a $30 fee (if that is worth it to you) and would have gotten it Fridays instead.
Hiya neighbor,
Thanks for answering my question. I guess this means I get my check tomorrow! Thank god! Is the Fedex option a one-time thing? Like can you choose certain paychecks to be mailed via Fedex? Or is it something you opt into and all of your paychecks will be mailed via Fedex?
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toryburch
Hiya neighbor,
Thanks for answering my question. I guess this means I get my check tomorrow! Thank god! Is the Fedex option a one-time thing? Like can you choose certain paychecks to be mailed via Fedex? Or is it something you opt into and all of your paychecks will be mailed via Fedex?
You can change i weekly from FedEx to mail, pay period ends saturday @ 8est (until time change then 7), change it before the end of the day the following tuesday. Make sure if you are changing back to mail that you change the amount back to anything over $20. FedEx is anything $200 and up minus the fee.
Good Luck!
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Originally Posted by
toryburch
I signed up to SM, directly (no studio), in early July of this year. But I didn't start camming until the week starting Aug 12th (Sunday). I contacted Vanessa (on here), as advised, a few weeks ago and asked her to remove the 3-week hold on my acct. I believe she said she didn't see a hold on my acct. According to the SM site, my check for the week starting Aug 12th was isssued on 08/22/12 (Wednesday). So I guess this means I'm not on a waiting period.
Does anybody know what city and state the checks are mailed from? I'm hoping my check comes no later than tomorrow or Tuesday. :)
They are mailed from Seattle, WA.
Here in Texas, I get mine on Mondays. RARELY I get them on Saturdays, but it has happened once or twice. But never later than Monday.
Of course keep in mind, the pay week that just ended on the 25th will probably arrive on Tuesday the 4th since Labor Day is Monday.
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Thanks SarahTime & Sweetgapeach for answering my questions. :grouphug: I got my first two paychecks on time, like you both said I would! My paycheck for the week starting August 26th was mailed out on Sept 4, which was last Tuesday (no more wednesday?). I checked my mailbox today (Monday) and I didn't receive it. I live in a complex that has two other residents with the same street as me. One of them has the same apt number as me. I knocked on their door and they didn't receive my paycheck today either. But they received my sister's (not a SM worker) check 2 days ago and had yet to walk around the corner and give it to us. I am so sick of this bullshit! I don't know if the mailman has put my check in someone else's mailbox or he/she just didn't have my check today. I'm hoping I get it tomorrow. I can't afford the $40 fee SM charges for direct deposit. I also can't afford to have my check reissued. I'm making under $100 on SM. I might buy a PO Box at USPS and have my checks mailed there.
Does anyone know if SM can mail checks to PO Boxes?
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about the same here. I emailed a woman that was mentioned on this site asking to not have the delay and I got paid right away. I was surprised!
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AudrinaCams
I didn't have to wait any weeks without pay, but honestly I was b2b from the first time I signed on so I guess I was legit in their books.
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