Could use some Help from Cam Models
Okay so I screwed up by not doing extensive research, can we say I was desperate and overwhelmed by bills? I cammed back in 2009 then took a break after school was done. I went back in 11/2013 because I went back to school and needed extra money for bills. Now I am being stalked online by some scumbag agency Happycammodels.com who won't leave me alone because I terminated the contract due to him violating chaturbate.com policies and skype policies. I asked for 50% because I saw him doing this or I will terminate the contract due to being misled by him (thinking he was legit). Now he is emailing chaturbate.com to get me terminated or under his account so he can start taking 80% of my pay again like he was on streammatemodels.com.
I consulted a lawyer on justanswer.com and he said it is a servitude situation and courts will not enforce it or if he did file a claim against me (im from another state) he would have a very weak claim.
I have informed this person if he contacts me again and it is not his lawyer I will contact law enforcement. This did not scare him off and he continues to email me and threatens to sue me to enforce his contract. A copy of it can be found on happycammodels.com under "forums". I left streammatemodels.com and terminated with him on 01/21/2014 and now he is trying to bind me till 01/21/2016. It is load of crap and I want to know what I can do to get rid of him or go somewhere else he won't bother me.
I am waiting for chaturbate to contact me back because they asked him to see a copy of the signed agreement. I can't believe Chaturbate.com would even entertain the idea. I told them I will leave and no one will get any money off of me then.
Am I screwed or what?
I am new here and I was refereed by London Jones, who will be doing a writeup on this outstanding agency.
~Brittany
USA
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I doubt you're screwed, although it was a pretty terrible idea to sign an agreement stipulating that you'd not work for a bunch of cam sites for a full two years after the termination of your contract.
Like most cam "pimps," this guy is probably pretty toothless. If I were you, I'd tell him that it's his business if he wants to file a lawsuit but that you consider all further contact unrelated to legal proceedings to be harassment. You might want to let him know that you're keeping records of all his attempts to harass you and that you intend to forward them to law enforcement if the harassment doesn't stop.
In reality, I don't think either of you have a leg to stand on. There's very little chance he'll take this to court; even if he won, the legal fees would probably cost him more than you'd have to pay him. And you'd be unlikely to win a harassment suit. But you still have the greater power here; these studio assholes are usually not running a clean ship, and this guy almost certainly does not want police coming by to sniff around his books.
Here's some good news: both the WhoIs lookup for his website and his LLC's profile point to a North Carolina address that looks like a single-family home. This is probably his house, and if you tell him that you're going to be contacting his *local* police and giving them his address if the harassment doesn't stop, he'll probably decide to leave you alone.
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Here's some good news: both the WhoIs lookup for his website and his LLC's profile point to a North Carolina address that looks like a single-family home. This is probably his house, and if you tell him that you're going to be contacting his *local* police and giving them his address if the harassment doesn't stop, he'll probably decide to leave you alone.
ur an evil bitch and i love u for it
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Thanks! I did inform him anymore contact and it is harassment if it is not from a lawyer. I just wish chaturbate.com would not give him the time of the day. In the contract it said no agency, chaturbate.com is independent. I don't know why they even want to see the contract from this scumball that is violating their OWN policies and I informed them of that as well. I just want to go hide under a rock. It is a single family home in NC and it is just him, he started his own cam in 2012 and thought "I can be a major scumbag and screw cam models over".
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You could always start camming for one of the sites not listed in the contract. I *only* work on MFC and I make a very comfortable living without any other source of income. That might be the low-stress option.
Or just ignore him. Honestly, this is one of those situations where ignoring someone forever is unlikely to ever hurt you.
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well its the fact that theyre probably trying to see if u singed into a studio or not and it sounds like u did and hes just a HUGE asshole of a studio owner going way to far to get this money and make sure u work for him. he probably messed up when he wrote the contract and it may not hold any water at all . but chaturbate/ skype rules did he break? that could be the thing that can save you. if he was being a bad studio owner and trying to pressure u into doing things that are against site rules CB may let u get out. was he trying to pressure u into doing skype shows for tokens? how was he communicating this with you? if it was thru emails do you still have his emails?
if this is a legit studio u cant get out of it very easily unless u have proof he was being corrupt and rejoin the site as an independent model until normally 6-1 year IF he even release you ive heard some stories about studios refusing to release the models so they can never have that 6-12 months time frame ever re-start on their own and he may try and pull this with u if he can.
theres other sites u can work on worst comes to worst i really hope u can get out of this and work by urself tho. good luck
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Some states are right to work states. Check with a lawyer. Some contracts are NOT valid when they say you can't work for a certain amount of time in that field after quitting or getting fired. It simply may not be legal at all.
Have a lawyer send him a certified letter of how the contract is illegal & not binding to him & the cam companies. And then I would search out every single model who signed up through him & let her know how she can get out of the contract legally. It may cost you a few hundred dollars to go to a lawyer, but it will be well worth it in the end. He is a bully. He sees you as stealing his money, hence all the harassment. Then let him know all future contact needs to be through your lawyer.
Many cam companies depend upon agents & studios like him to keep them in supply of girls. You are just one model, but he can sign up 100s of models each year and this is why the cam companies side with the studios/agents than the individual models.
Good Luck,
Sam
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I reported him for violating rules on his model tip blogs he tells them to send customers to twitter and then does skype shows himself for profit "cheaper as he advertises on his own site". He does urination shows on Chaturbate that got him in trouble, his under Chaturbate as independent as far as I can tell. Skype also does not allow pornographic images of any kind so he violated that as well for skype policies. I said i am not working for someone who won't pay me 50% and does all this rule breaking garbage. I like Chaturbate and don't want to leave, but I will so no one wins on that site.
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I reported him for violating rules on his model tip blogs he tells them to send customers to twitter and then does skype shows himself for profit "cheaper as he advertises on his own site". He does urination shows on Chaturbate that got him in trouble, his under Chaturbate as independent as far as I can tell. Skype also does not allow pornographic images of any kind so he violated that as well for skype policies. I said i am not working for someone who won't pay me 50% and does all this rule breaking garbage. I like Chaturbate and don't want to leave, but I will so no one wins on that site.
the fact that hes a model on CB too breaking sites TOS has nothing to do with the fact of u not wanting to working with him tho in the eyes of the law so u cant use that if push comes to shove unfortunately. but i do hope the contract u singed holds no water and u can get out of this free to be solo.
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Hi Sam thanks for answering, I went and looked up some laws If I am reading correctly, his contract is void since NC is a right to work state. I will have to find a cheap lawyer to look over it like you suggested.
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Contact your states labor board, they maybe able to help you for free.
There are laws in place to protect the workers of each state & of America.
These men think they can get on the web & bully models regardless of the LAW.
Good Luck,
Sam