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    Ok so this maybe illegal and/or unrealistic but what if all the cam girls got together and tried to price fix (in another words set our prices all around the same price or no one goes under a set amount) I mean the customers would have no choice pay good money to get a show or jerk off to free porn. Do you think there are enough girls on here to start to make a difference? While I am dreaming why isn't there a way to do something about the ridiculous 30% most sites give us? If this is illegal or against the (SW) rules tell me and I'll take it down. I have no desire to go to jail.

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    It's not a bad idea but chicks are catty bitches. We can barely keep are claws retracted in our downtime here, let alone work together on something like this.

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    I like the idea of setting a minimum... but having all girls charge the same is just not realistic, imho.

    I do understand where the sentiment is coming from, though.
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    @BlakeDahlia lmao! That made me crack up it is so true!

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    everyone should just raise their prices...its 2012 now...
    they should not be paying the same amount as last year..all other prices go up
    ours should too
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    I was thinking the same thing. There's not much we can do to change a site's mind and have them give us more than 35 percent so this would be a good solution. Convincing everyone else is a whole nother matter. But maybe if models set a certain price depending on what they offer? For example if you have x amount of years of experience and offer extreme entertainment (sorry not sure what word to use there) like big toys, anal, tons of outfits and/or fetishes, charge 10.99 a min. Whereas more vanilla/typical stuff would be 4.99 a min and if we were to make a guideline of recommended prices in a post then the newbies could get an idea of what to charge. I don't know if that makes sense. But then we (most cam girls)would all be above 2.99 a min, but still at different price ranges depending on what is offered, make sense?

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    In a strip club a lap dance costs $20 or whatever. All they dancers are supposed to charge the same amount per dance. It would be interesting to see how webcam models would step up their game, if we all had to charge the same per minute rate. Just something to think about...
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    This has already happened somewhat. I've been watching prices and they have gone up across the board.

    If you do raise your price though, it's not going to help you if you aren't offering enough for what they are buying. Be sure your lighting, cam quality and shows are awesome so you get loyal, repeat customers who are happy with what they are buying.


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    Quote Originally Posted by laurielegs View Post
    This has already happened somewhat. I've been watching prices and they have gone up across the board.

    If you do raise your price though, it's not going to help you if you aren't offering enough for what they are buying. Be sure your lighting, cam quality and shows are awesome so you get loyal, repeat customers who are happy with what they are buying.
    I have also noticed that they have gone up and a lot of the the girls are bridging the big gaps in pricing. I'm liking it =)

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    I think this is a smart idea but the issue is that some women are more acceptable of less since they feel they will have consistent spenders. Also location plays another major part.

    The idea is great and 30% is robbery.

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    A great idea but a difficult one to achieve. Even with a Cammers' Union, if we had one!

    I have been noticing recently, at least on AW, that a lot of girls are putting their prices up, including Asian and E. European girls. This is a very good thing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vlodina View Post
    A great idea but a difficult one to achieve. Even with a Cammers' Union, if we had one!

    I have been noticing recently, at least on AW, that a lot of girls are putting their prices up, including Asian and E. European girls. This is a very good thing!
    Yes it bloody is, at last! It sickens to me to see the new viewing page now after 3am till around 7am, it's all eastern europeans charging 60p!!!!

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    Great idea. I don't think it will ever happen though unless the site sets the prices, and personally I don't want them to do that.

    But I have seen people raising their prices too and I think that's great. I raised mine and am doing better because of it.

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    I agree 100%! I voiced this years ago on the site I work on, on their forums and some hosts agreed and others didnt. The idea of setting it up at nothing less than $3.99 per min even for "vanilla stuff" to me just says that were worth this much no matter what were doing. And of course for those who do more than that, raise it more. I just think its crazy that hosts wanna sooo much away for peanuts and why, when we could get more for it. And trust me, even with raising the price there will always be horny men/women who want the live action. Just like higher gas prices dont stop people from going to work! lol

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    I think the girls who charge 0.49 cents a min do it for a reason , I don't believe they are a threat nor competition to me , I don't like the idea of everyone offering the same price one bit , competition is healthy , we all should be charging the maximum WE can , the price differences separate the cream from the crop ;-)

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    This would be nice but I don't think it would work. There are thousands of us on hundreds of different sites. Even if you got all the girls on this forum to price fix there are tons of people who aren't on these forums and don't feel the camaraderie we feel here. There are lots of girls, new girls, studio girls, girls who don't speak English, who we'd never reach who would keep their prices low.

    There are also girls whose cams/lights/internet connections aren't as good as ours who probably shouldn't charge a premium and girls who do less in their shows, like say, not getting nude, who also shouldn't charge a premium. Perhaps they could be the minimum tier of the price fixing, but I think the major problems would be that we wouldn't be able to reach all the camgirls on all the site to tell them about the idea, let alone sell them on it.

    Another thought: Lots of sites, like LJ, set the prices artificially low as introductory rates or specials. Nothing we could do about that.


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    Nothing that a union doesn't do. There are cam sites that pay more. MFC pays 50% we pay 50%, I'm sure there are others doing the same. Some won't give out more, simply because they don't have to, atlest for now.

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    Good idea but I don't think it would ever pan out either... It's great that women are raising their prices. I'm planning on making another price increase soon too!

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    Privates are $4.99
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    Granted if I see anyone charing $1.99 for shows shows i will know its from this site..
    $1.99 for gold shows is unheard of..

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    Quote Originally Posted by VelvetRose View Post
    In a strip club a lap dance costs $20 or whatever. All they dancers are supposed to charge the same amount per dance. It would be interesting to see how webcam models would step up their game, if we all had to charge the same per minute rate. Just something to think about...
    I just had to respond to this....strip clubs have exactly the same issues that cam girls have, so it is a fallacy to compare strip clubs to "fixed prices" on camsites. Specific clubs have "suggested rates", but this ranges from $1 in a jug from everyone at the start of a stage show to $40 a song, to $500 an hour for VIP, to rates per set for travelling stage dancers.....so its like the differences between sites, most of which have a set "range" of prices.

    Even within a specific club (as an example, I'm going to use the rates of some of the clubs I have worked at over the years) there are girls charging different rates and "screwing the system" so to speak. This can be anything from undercharging (which theoretically gets you more dances, so you walk away with more money despite getting less per dance) to creating "deals" like $40 a dance OR 3 for $100. This can also be overcharging - where a standard dance price is $20, you offer a better dance for $30, or a really "good" (read: dirty) dance for $40. There are girls that charge the VIP rate plus chamagne cost, and girls who charge it minus the champagne costs. There are girls that add on extra money to their charges to cover their tip out to the bouncers, waiters and housemom. Then there are the girls that just flat out overcharge because they can.

    The long and short of it is that in all areas of this industry, girls are using different tactics to make the most that they can - some of which work and are good for the industry, and some of which only work short-term, and some that just straight up backfire. Using stripclubs as an example is just a perfect way to prove that even if every site had a set per minute rate, there would still be girls that play the game to charge more or less.
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