Originally Posted by
Tbean
Does anyone here actually cam under certain circumstances without being paid for it first? I was going to ask this in Verified, but I decided I wanted to get as many girls in on the discussion as possible...and maybe help some girls decide against doing anything for free if they are new to camming.
Just to be clear, in most cases I believe it's a mistake to cam for someone with the promise of payment afterwards, it's just asking to get scammed! BUT, is it a mistake to turn down some offers, for example, a few hours ago, a guy who enjoys SPH (small penis humiliation) proposed that we cam long enough to snap a few pics of him (probably without his face in the frame) with a cam phone to blackmail him with. The deal would have been he'd tip me $75 to delete the photo. I counter-offered with him paying for a few minutes in advance, as one would normally do, and then send the difference in a tip, so he'd still be sending the $75 but in two separate payments, one before and one after camming. I hope that made sense. I have done this on a few rare occasions with customers that I already trusted, but I'm not comfortable doing this for a cam stranger no matter how desperate I am for the money.
I REALLY do not like the idea of the possibility of not being paid the agreed upon amount, and there are a few reasons why the payment might not happen. He may decide that he really doesn't give a shit if his faceless photo ends up online, especially when I google his non-identifying skype ID and have absolutely no search results other than one on our own JaneBurgess's twitter, which only tells me that he enjoys sph. He may have already had that idea to con me in mind when making the proposal in the very first place. He also may have trouble making the payment, or his card may decline it, etc. my point is, there are a number of reasons why one may not end up getting paid. The reason I offer to do a show for my regular cam prices for the few minutes on cam is because regardless of what happens after the show, I don't want to lose out on the money I should be paid for the minutes I cammed, know what I mean? Do I want the whole $75? Damn right I do! BUT as long as I am paid for the minutes I cammed for, it's totally okay if I'm not tipped on top of it, I wouldn't feel like I had been cheated.
At the same time, I wouldn't *really* be losing out all that much, whats risking two minutes on cam for the potential to make $75? I suppose it is just the principle for me.
I read the skype history I had with this guy and he had made the same offer in the past, but when I made the very same counter offer, he replied that he had found someone else to do it the "regular" way for him...I suppose to him, the regular way is just tipping all at once. I'm not sure if it just adds to the feeling of reality for them, but I don't like the potential to be conned even being a possibility.
Anyway, what do you ladies do in such situations? I figured I'd ask here because I get offers like this from time to time, and clearly, there are others who do accept these offers.
Thoughts?