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In serious need of some help!
Ok, so I'm not sure if there are threads already like this or what, but I have been reading around. I have a series of questions.
I started camming/selling pics/vids two years ago. My laptop broke, so I was like ok, I guess that's it, and dipped out.
Right now I'm in a desperate need for money. There aren't many jobs in my area, transportation is a huge issue, and on top of that, I have been diagnosed with multiple different anxiety disorders that are all making eachother worse, so I tend to panic and fail during every job interview. Camming is the ONLY job that I've ever had where I can just be myself. I feel in control, I'm owning my body and sexuality, and best of all, I suffer little to no anxiety when I'm doing it.
Now that my introduction is over, lol, here are my concerns.
I'm trying to at least make enough money to get a laptop and continue camming, but it's SO difficult when every guy wants to cam! I sell pics/videos, but most guys aren't interested. I'd make the bulk of my money on My Free Cams, where I do pretty well, but I can't use the site on my phone. The other site I use is My Girl Fund, and I have a few people who admire me/talk to me often, but still, they want to cam.
I've heard about using Skype, and I signed up for a SkyPrivate account (currently having issues taking a good enough quality pic of my id info/etc - they're really hard to please for some reason.) but I don't know how to get customers. Can I direct guys to my Skype account on MFC or MGF without getting banned for sending them off-site?
I don't know how to get paid. I literally have like five dollars to my name in pocket, so I don't have a bank account. What are the reliable and safe ways I can have guys pay me without worrying they'll rip me off?
Basically, how can I cam using just my phone (temporarily) and if I can get to doing that, how do I get guys to pay me?
Thank you in advance. Getting back into this industry is a little difficult with limited resources, but I'm really determined right now. I don't want to drive customers away for making them lose patience.
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Re: In serious need of some help!
Have you thought of how you would do a skype show from your phone? I'd ask the guys who are wanting to see you on cam if they'd mind if you skyped from a cell phone, first of all. MGF does NOT allow girls to use anything other than their site, period. MFC allows skype shows, but ONLY if you are accepting MFC tokens to do the shows. Do you currently have a payoneer card? Every site I've ever heard of pays through payoneer, so I'd suggest getting a payoneer account/card if you haven't already. I believe you should be able to get one through MGF.
The biggest concern I'd have if I were in your situation would be guys wanting their money back once they realize I'm camming from a cell phone and not an HD cam on my computer, where they can have a full view. When guys I skype with use their phones to do cam to cam, they're always struggling to show me what they want to show me, and half the time their video/sound is cutting out.
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How about phone chat/phone sex? Niteflirt are one of the biggest companies for this.
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I've been thinking about how I would go about doing it to make it the best possible quality, but I'm not entirely sure yet. I try to sell myself as the girl-next-door and play a little dumb when it comes to camming/etc. so I thought I could make that work for me to explain why I don't have the BEST quality pics/vids/etc. Like, a young girl doing this secretly in her room type shit. I try to make long-lasting customers who feel a little bad for me, and talk about how I like this more than I thought, and when I have enough money, can upgrade to a computer. I thought maybe they'd be like ok, if I pay for her content, the quality will get way better. But I don't know.
Doesn't payoneer ask for bank info, which I won't be able to give, considering I don't have the money to really put in an account. I mean, maybe I could scrape up as much money as I can around the house and put in the minimum to make one?
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I was thinking about doing that, actually, though it's going to be really hard because I live with my boyfriend who would be pissed to find out I do any of this stuff. Do you get to control the calls/texts so that you don't get bombarded in a bad situation, like when I let my bf use my phone?
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gothpuppy
I was thinking about doing that, actually, though it's going to be really hard because I live with my boyfriend who would be pissed to find out I do any of this stuff. Do you get to control the calls/texts so that you don't get bombarded in a bad situation, like when I let my bf use my phone?
Yes, you just switch off the thing that says you're available (on the site), and no calls will come through.
What is your boyfriend doing to support the relationship financially?
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He was recently let off, so we're just using his savings and the help of my parents. My cover for camming is that I do transcriptions for a company, and that I'm gonna go back to doing it once I can buy a laptop.
Do you know of any cheap laptops that I could buy and use temporarily until I can upgrade to a better one?
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You can stream from the puffin browser on MFC.
Skyprivate/skypes ARE camming, so I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. If you get on well with MFC why not stick with it? You'll get more money via tokens there than you will diverting guys away to skype. Get daily pay if you need the money fast. You should be able to get an i5 that's a few years old on ebay for under £200 x
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I'm sorry, I have no idea what the puffin browser is or how to get to it?
I know it's camming. I've never done it before, my questions were surrounding how to go about doing it because at this point, I'm clueless. I guess it's just that when I can access a laptop and log on, almost everyone wants to do skype or nothing.
And thank you for the reccommendation! I'm just having a lot of anxiety trying to figure this out, so I apologize if it seems I didn't think things through very well before posting this asking for help - it's kind of hard to think straight when you're financially fucked and mentally ill, lol.
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Ok, looked up the puffin browser, thank you so much! I'll see if my phone decides to cooperate.
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See if you can do a rent-to-own on a computer. If you are in the USA they have them at some larger Rent-a-centers and Aarons.
It's a horrible deal because the interest rate is huge so I'd return it as soon as you can afford to buy one outright somewhere else, but in a pinch that would let you put a small down payment down and make weekly payments for a few weeks until you can make enough money to get your own.
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Like Sexysusie said use the puffin browser, I dont know where you live but if you have a rent a center or something like that rent a laptop for a month. Back story when I first decided I wanted to cam I rented a laptop from Aarons because I didn't have a lot of money started on MFC my first paycheck I bought an i7 went to Aarons returned the laptop and I didn't owe them anything you can return it whenever you want. You should probably tell your boyfriend what you're really doing though. If I was in that position he could get with it or get lost y'all need money.
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Puffin got me to the chat room when I go online, but the webcam area is just a white screen with a "play" arrow symbol ? It's been saying "linux is not compatible" or something. I have an iphone 4s, is that my issue?
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Ah laurielegs beat me to it.
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That's a great idea.
Yeah, I'll think about telling him, but he'll 100% break up with me and tbh I don't think I could emotionally handle that in my current state of mind.
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Do you have a bank debit card? If not, can u get one?
All the home shopping channels have computers for sale. HSN, QVC, EVINELIVE.
They only ask for $100 down, then u make monthly pymts. The shipping is sometimes free.
Computer will arrive in a couple of day.
I had to do this when my laptop died. I have bad credit , yet was able to get a $600 computer with only $100 down.
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Check out newegg. Laptops might not be as expensive as you think.
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Re: In serious need of some help!
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Originally Posted by
gothpuppy
That's a great idea.
Yeah, I'll think about telling him, but he'll 100% break up with me and tbh I don't think I could emotionally handle that in my current state of mind.
You may be shocked! I had been camming for about a year when I met my current boyfriend. When we started dating I shut it down and decided to never mention it, and after about 3 years of dating it somehow randomly came up and he was so supportive of the idea! He encourages me everyday and tells me he's proud of how hard I work. and I promise you I was 100% sure he would not be ok with me doing this work. Maybe if you just explain that this is work, its not like you're making an Ashley Madison account.
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Go to Rent-A-Center and try to rent a laptop from there. I did this years ago, and at that time I only paid $65 to rent a Toshiba laptop for two weeks. They had someone deliver it to me for free, and when the two weeks was up, they picked it up for free. I had to give them a few references though.
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Originally Posted by
TheBrownFox
Go to Rent-A-Center and try to rent a laptop from there. I did this years ago, and at that time I only paid $65 to rent a Toshiba laptop for two weeks. They had someone deliver it to me for free, and when the two weeks was up, they picked it up for free. I had to give them a few references though.
But $35 more, she can own one.
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Can you rent a laptop or borrow one? Have a friend drive you to strip TEMPORARILY, as you can make enough for a good laptop in one night? Get a loan, since you'd be able to pay it back quickly?
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You are more worried about losing a man over having a place to live & food to eat.
Move back home, since your parent already try to help you out financially & regroup. He is a grown man, not your job to take care of him.
Can't take care of other people until you take care of yourself. He is bringing you down, cut and run now.
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Start dumpster diving to look for metal to get paid taking to a recycling place. A friend of mine, pulls metal out dumpsters all the time & brings in about $300 a week for about 20 hours of work.
There is baby sitting, cleaning houses all kinds of work & money to make out there in this world.
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Only reason guys suggest SKYPE on MFC is so they can rip you off. You are not going to be able to work them with the poor little me stuff, nope they will work you & all for free. They will only take advantage of your bad situation.
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Desperation can hurt your income big time. I have been there before. It makes you look unhappy/stressed on cam and guys can sense that. Start filming fetish videos and uploading to Clips4sale. It pays monthly but you can at least make a couple hundred to help keep you afloat. That got me by in 2014 when I was struggling financially. I couldn't cam from my own home (didn't have on at the time) so filming as much videos as I could and uploading got me at least $300. Saved my butt big time to get into fetish clips. I hope that you can get yourself out of this rut because it's super scary to not be able to financially support yourself.