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Re: Bad Monday day
Monday is pretty weird... It can go great or bad. I'm under the Transgender category so my customers base are a lot smaller than regular mainstream. I did however have two long pvts that made my night so much better. I've learned that it only take a few of those custies to make it all better.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
It's been pretty rough on SM for me as well. I've had to work more hours and spread out my schedule a bit, which is a bummer b/c it means basically staying home all week and watching trends to see when I should jump on for an hour. My ratings have also been in the toilet. Sometimes it gets bad enough that I have to stay online & basically beg for good ratings, just to feel safe enough to sign off. But I'm watching other people in my category, and their ratings are dropping as well. I don't know if this has to do with stream quality, but some of the top models in my cat have awesome cameras with perfect quality, and I've noticed that their streams have been worse lately.
Monday morning was actually decent for me. Monday night my main competition signed on and she was rocking it, doing countdown after countdown, making every single goal. So I thought I shouldn't sign on. But I was like screw it and signed on. I made a really good hourly while she was on :) I was ecstatic.
It's been really frustrating how slow it is on SM, but I also think I had some unrealistic expectations about how getting a new computer would affect my income. I have to remember that the site is probably still making changes & the customers are also adjusting & probably frustrated. Regardless of how slow it is and how many hours I have to work, I am grateful for what I have. I spent over $1000 on that new computer/ service plan. I think that was 3 weeks ago, and I've already paid off $500 on it (I put it on an empty credit card, solely devoted to this kind of thing & am paying off what I can when I notice I have "extra" money in my checking). I've had to watch my spending in order to do this, because the computer isn't bringing any extra income. But this time last year I was seriously struggling to make goal, so I am grateful that I can make what I'm making.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
No matter how bad it gets, I'm still extremely thankful to be making over $30 an hour. There are people with much higher college degrees that don't make that, they are miserable at work.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Indy camming is driving me insane. Due to being a stay-at-home mom with a toddler (and therefor extremely limited time to myself), I can only actually cam at night. I have my YIM and Skype signed on during the day to pre-book, but no one ever wants to pre-book. The people who contact me want a show RIGHT NOW. The only people who actually contact me during my available hours always (as in, there has been ONE exception, and he wanted incest) want a domme. I'm tired of telling people that I'm not a domme, when it's in the bio on the site they contacted me from.
I'm just about ready to give up indy and stick with content production and big-box sites.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Assholes (like one I just had) cannot read what I said. I said something I cannot do, repeatedly, and he still took me to private and demanding me to do things I cannot do and I already told him in the free chat. That made me feel like I am giving him a bad service, but really, he was at the fault and I had to sign off to avoid him. Ugh.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
As someone who's new to camming, I've been doing it for just a few months and I have noticed the last few weeks are slow. I just gained the ability to do gold shows and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
However, I've been on a lot and I'm already showing up quite a bit and have a five star rating. (Yay!)
However since I got gold show status, everything has been super slow! It makes me cry and I feel like I'm probably the one at fault for the low income since I struggle to make past 800 a month. I do 6 hour shifts quite a bit, but when the going is super slow I log off early after a few hours of waiting. Like this night.
At least I know I'm not alone with the slowness though.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
It gets better with time. Camming has ups and downs. It's not specific to you. When I started camming I made less than minimum wage per hour while everyone on here seemed like they were making at least $50-$60 an hour. Now I can make in an hour what it used to take all day to make. That doesn't mean you won't have slow days but just keep logging on and staying consistent.
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Zell Axis
As someone who's new to camming, I've been doing it for just a few months and I have noticed the last few weeks are slow. I just gained the ability to do gold shows and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
However, I've been on a lot and I'm already showing up quite a bit and have a five star rating. (Yay!)
However since I got gold show status, everything has been super slow! It makes me cry and I feel like I'm probably the one at fault for the low income since I struggle to make past 800 a month. I do 6 hour shifts quite a bit, but when the going is super slow I log off early after a few hours of waiting. Like this night.
At least I know I'm not alone with the slowness though.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
I had a weird day...yesterday sucked and today was set to follow, I started at 10am but all my private shows appeared between 2pm and 3pm to save the day! I lost one private though because he couldn't hear me for some reason (I could hear crackling from his end so think it was him rather than justcamit repeating this weekend's performance).
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Welp, that'll teach me not to randomly sign in outside my normal times. Got my ass in gear to jump on cam mega early today. $4 in 90 mins... Yeah, fuck that noise. Gonna take a break and head back on nearer my usual hours.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
streamate is pissing me off it's so slow and everyone is cheap and annoying im so fed up and I'm not fit enough to do well on mfc fml.
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I made $23 tonight. I have never had so much traffic in and out of my chat room. Guys poking in to see if I'm showing tits, talking dirty, bending over. I don't do any of that fool shit in my free chat. I'm so fucking sick of this. ANGRY, UGLY, MEAN... time to log off.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Fuck i made no money tonight I feel so done with SM right now. A whole bunch of freeloaders n even my regular who usually drops about a hundred every time he is with me is telling me hes jerking off to me just sitting there n free chat wtf. So fucking mad and frustrated I could scream. Maybe I should look into stripping smfh.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Two dollars today working ImLive and AW. Where are the whales??? I get that I don't have a bunch of regulars yet but christ I'd make more money holding a homeless sign up on the corner of the street. Great thread by the way.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Ive been doing extremely well this whole week. Ive gone over my goal every day so far!
....but my placement has been HORRIBLE! It might even be worse than it what it was like right when Streamate had just changed the settings and I was still camming on my old laptop. Ever since Ive been camming on my new desktop, Ive been somewhere between the 4th and 6th row on the front page, and I was always on the top row in my category. This past week Ive been at the bottom of the front page if not on the second page, and Ive been in like the 3rd or 4th row under my category. I really dont understand why its been like this!!
Have any of you ladies been having this problem recently?
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
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CharlieDoyle
Ive been doing extremely well this whole week. Ive gone over my goal every day so far!
....but my placement has been HORRIBLE! It might even be worse than it what it was like right when Streamate had just changed the settings and I was still camming on my old laptop. Ever since Ive been camming on my new desktop, Ive been somewhere between the 4th and 6th row on the front page, and I was always on the top row in my category. This past week Ive been at the bottom of the front page if not on the second page, and Ive been in like the 3rd or 4th row under my category. I really dont understand why its been like this!!
Have any of you ladies been having this problem recently?
Yep. The other day I was about three or pages back from where I normally am. It lasted for quite a while. I tried refreshing the home page, stopping and starting my stream, and clearing my cookies. I finally stopped streaming, closed my browser, waited five minutes and signed back on. Then I was back to normal placement. It took about 20 minutes total to straighten out. And it wasn't just settings on my computer or my browser showing a weird placement. I was actually way far back a few pages. I don't check my placement that often, but I had almost no traffic and I knew something was wrong, so I checked and sure enough I was not where I should've been.
Also, I do lose my HD icon now and then, and have an immediate decrease in traffic when that happens. Basically, I'm having just as many problems now as I was before I bought my new computer. I'm working more hours and making a little less money. I'm not gonna bitch about it though, because I know there are variables involved here that are beyond my sight. I do what I can do when I can do it, I keep on trucking, and eventually it usually levels out.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
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Cam_Model_Jess
Yep. The other day I was about three or pages back from where I normally am. It lasted for quite a while. I tried refreshing the home page, stopping and starting my stream, and clearing my cookies. I finally stopped streaming, closed my browser, waited five minutes and signed back on. Then I was back to normal placement. It took about 20 minutes total to straighten out. And it wasn't just settings on my computer or my browser showing a weird placement. I was actually way far back a few pages. I don't check my placement that often, but I had almost no traffic and I knew something was wrong, so I checked and sure enough I was not where I should've been.
Also, I do lose my HD icon now and then, and have an immediate decrease in traffic when that happens. Basically, I'm having just as many problems now as I was before I bought my new computer. I'm working more hours and making a little less money. I'm not gonna bitch about it though, because I know there are variables involved here that are beyond my sight. I do what I can do when I can do it, I keep on trucking, and eventually it usually levels out.
I do think there are issues with the site right now Jess. You and I have the best computers possible and I had problems today too. My picture kept pixelating (is that a word?:-\) and lagging a little.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Well.. seems so slow on all the sites today and yesterday..what do you girls think?? how is it for you?
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It was super slow for me today and sucked yesterday too. Im kinda dreading getting back on tonight
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anonymous camgirl
Well.. seems so slow on all the sites today and yesterday..what do you girls think?? how is it for you?
Adultwork was good for me today...but then it's payday for many. I could only work this morning though and wished I could have continued. Monday wasn't great and I didn't work Tues, Wed or Thurs.
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Because I don't want to open an other topic and most websites are slow right now..
Is there anyone who is using webcams.com / ifriends.com or imlive.com as their first or second website?
My main website is a sinking ship and SM will become my first website but I'm looking for a second website to fall back on or to switch between sometimes.
I also have AW but that's really slow for me right now so I'm open to new websites.
Anyone experience with the 3 websites above?
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Imlive is pretty decent. I started on there a couple weeks ago. I haven't put in long, consistent hours so I'm not making much yet and I've denied many fetish requests because I'm not comfortable with them yet so if you do fetish it's actually a pretty decent site.
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Re: The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
Oh my god, the guys just don't seem to give a shit tonight. I don't even care about the money right now, just show me some energy so I've got something to feed off. I can't be my sexy slutty self to an apathetic room, it just doesn't work!
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Bad Cam Traffic of "Olympic" Proportions
I was curious as to how everyone's traffic is being affected by the Olympics? Are you seeing a big drop? No change at all? An influx of drunk, rowdy post-Olympic partiers who are throwing money at you (lol)? Feel free to use this thread as the Olympic Bitching Thread for the duration of the Games }:D
As for me, my traffic is bullshit. Eff you, Olympics. Eff you. That is all.
P.S. Go USA! ::)
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Re: Bad Cam Traffic of "Olympic" Proportions
Not been good for me either :( Maybe it will pick up, still the first weekend!
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Re: Bad Cam Traffic of "Olympic" Proportions
I love the Olympics. Haven't been on cam since they started so I don't know how they are affecting traffic. Hope it gets better for you!