My payment came in today as well :)
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My payment came in today as well :)
my payment (all three unpaid weeks) was deposited this morning. :D
thank you for the heads up jolee. i wouldn't have known to check otherwise.
still hope we get some acknowledgment/explanation from jesse at some point, but i'm glad she stepped up and did the right thing.
All of my last four weeks were deposited this morning as well, all up to date now also.
I got paid too. I'm in the UK btw, so international payments are happening.
I also got paid, thanks Jesse!
I’m kinda pissed. I thought LCMS doesn’t do payments on Paxum anymore and now I woke up and Paxum is asking me for evidence about that transfer, cause Jesse didn’t care to send it to my bank account, even tho she has that info. Argh!
But apparently my money is on the way, so at least that.
I received my older pending payment, thanks Jesse. I hope all is well and that a statement will be made so we all can continue to work together and trust be established again. I think many of us would hate to lose you as a payment processor! I figured Jesse would come through, but it is a bit worrying that she seems to be the only one in charge of payments, if something happens to her etc. I don't like the thought of giving my 20% in future to the big sites though.
Hi, just letting everybody know I got paid in full too.
Same. With Indiebill shutting down and CMD having payment issues for years now (not payouts, but accepting payments) there are precious few ways left to safely take indy payments and I really don't want to lose LCMS. I did get paid and I'm really happy about that. However, I'd need to know what measures are being taken to prevent this from happening in the future before I would feel comfortable taking payments here again.
In order for me to feel comfortable using LCMS again, I would need Jesse to announce she has hired a separate, non-family, non-friend person (or business) to do payouts.
Not trying to defend or justify any of the recent issues with LCMS - I only know what you guys know in that regard.
From a business standpoint, I dont see how it would be possible to keep the 85% payout if an outside business is hired.
Processing credit cards is expensive for ANY business and exponentially more for an adult business. The processing fee percentage is only one of the fees that these companies charge. That 15% has to cover ALL of the fees that the processor charges, banking fees ( normal business banking account charges) , reserves to cover chargebacks ( she has always covered them to my knowledge) , accounting time/fees to calculate our payouts and issue them, then lastly the business also has to make a profit ( it is not there as a favor to us) .
( crude overview)
When I was looking into using a CC merchant directly I was kind of astounded that the fees were still so high -- honestly I don't understand the incentive for people like Jesse or Indiebill to only take 15% when that is so close to what they have to give the high risk merchant anyway. I'd think they'd barely make a profit on that, but I suppose a very small profit margin could add up? Still, as PGD said on another related thread, the 15/85 payment model isn't sustainable. I've pretty much accepted that going forward I'll have to give up 20% to find a reliable third party indie processor.
I'm not sure what Jesse would have to say or do to get me on board with LCMS again, but she's definitely lost my trust at this point. It really sucks because ideally I'd like to be able to continue using the site. I would potentially be okay with giving up 20% to continue using LCMS if she got another person to reliably do the payouts.
Has anyone on checks received theirs?? I assumed they would take longer. Mine has not come yet. Im in the southern USA
11/9 update still no check
Am I the only one getting a check????/:O
Update 11/10 check came today:smellie_g
After Indiebill wasshut down I wanted something similar, found this on here. I just sent them an email that I want to be a model, then read 2 last pages of this thread...damn.
I guess, it's not worthy to sign up to LCMS now?;/
kinda surprised but i got another deposit today for only $18 (it was from a customer who sent me an unprompted $25 tip a couple weeks ago). i suppose that's a good sign that payout is continuing to happen (now on time), but i can't fathom why jesse hasn't made any type of post/acknowledgment about this yet. i am having a hard time finding a good alternative indie site and i'd REALLY like to keep using LCMS, but i just can't do it without more word from Jesse first.
So I am completely lost. I was traveling so didn't cam for a bit, and now my profile is gone, Jesse's profile on discord either blocked me or is deleted, no one is replying to me. I told a customer who wanted to pay through lcms that I had to wait to see what's happening and he said "everything is fine, I spoke to the owner" I don't know wtf he's talking about. I told him good luck because my profile is gone. I had requested profile update months ago, to make it easier to take payments, and only thing that came from it is my profile disappeared. No communication or heads, up.
Jesse has always been great and super helpful, so not sure what is going on. Is anyone having any luck communicating with anyone at lcms?
^ I sent an email yesterday but not surprisingly no response yet, if I do get one I'll update here. I would hope anyone else who's had successful contact would also post about it here, since so many of us have had failed attempts over the past month.
I will note, my profile is not deleted so not sure what happened there in your case, Lynn.
Curious if anyone has resumed taking payments and whether or not they're getting processed on time?
Sent an email 2 weeks ago to update my profile and nothing. No update or answer.
Even when I
Am on, I cannot find my profile on the site, I think I’m deleted as well SMH.
Sorry if I am not allowed to share link, I forget the rules. Here is my link http://www.livecammodelshows.com/lynn-wu
That's what it looks like, I'll have to remove the link from my social media and profiles.
I also can't log on anymore from the model admin page. :-(
When I asked for a profile update two months ago, (then again month later) it was to update the prices and add more times ( I used to only offer half hour and 1 hour. ) My indies grew more than streaming and I wanted to start directing my own to lcms instead of the "other" site, customers liked using lcms better in general, and lcms is better than 75%, PLUS I loved my simple page Jesse made, I loved it, not too much, not too little. She had just finished resolving my payment issue, so I was soooo ready to start hustling lcms.
Such a bummer.
I know some have had bad experiences with Jesse, but mine were always good, and she always showed concern, gone out of her way to help, and didn't give up until a solution was found. No one else has done that in this industry and rarely in others. It does seem her personal life gets in the way of her business, and I'm not going to judge, just hope she can get that balance and is ok.
The email I sent earlier this week specifically asked if she was going to address the late payment issue and make an official statement about it, and whether or not LCMS was even going to continue as a business.
It is so unprofessional to just ghost on all your models without answers, particularly because she's a veteran cammodel who specifically made an indie site for other cammodels, which implied a certain level of trust and understanding. I mean if Jesse is really so overwhelmed with personal issues that she can't run her business, the least she could do is send out a mass email/admin message with a generic apology and say that LCMS is temporarily or officially shut down, and make all of our profiles inactive for the time being.
I actually hate that my profile is still up and able to process payments from customers -- I'd be happier if my profile was deleted at this point. I had someone send me a random tip a few weeks ago in the midst of all of this chaos and then had to go tell them not to use my profile there anymore. (Thankfully that payment went through and I got paid, but still. I have no reason to trust that I'd continue to get paid if I keep using the site.)
My experiences with Jesse were always good, but I've taken the LCMS link off my website and will not direct guys there any longer.
I'm shocked at this development and can't help but think Jesse must have had something catastrophic happen either with mental health (I can relate and I'm sure a lot of us can) or physical health.
I hope she can get a reliable partner hired for times like this to regain trust and get back in business. It's such a needed service and there aren't many other options like this at all.
I haven't been payed since the beginning of October. My fault as I got the dates mixed up in my bank and thought things were fine.
It is quite a few thousand dollars and I'm pretty frustrated by this I know in the past Jesse has come through but judging by this thread quite a few people were paid at the beginning of the month and I wasn't in that group. Are any others still waiting on payouts?
If you still haven't been paid let me know the more heads to fix this the better. I really do hope Jesse is ok, this is a hard time for everyone and if it is a mental health issue then our, justified, reactions will only be exacerbating the pain.
I am looking at creating another option for indie models in the future maybe one that is a bit more transparent...
I will continue to give Jesse the benefit of the doubt that she will come through this again but I will be looking at how best to recover my payments if necessary.
I received a check for the last week of October ( the 25th thru the 31st )
My check should have been here the end of last week for the first week of November
Has anyone else been paid for November? Asking so I know if it is just a mail delay or not