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    Duh Things that annoy me about Streamate.

    I just started on Streamate. So far I really enjoy it!

    But there are a couple things that really bother me.

    #1 is I'll be talking with someone and then all of a sudden I'll be pulled into a private with someone who didn't take the time to say "Hi" at all. Or they didn't read my room rules (ie. no anal in private, no cam2cam) so sometimes they leave or sometimes they will exit private to switch exclusive. If they leave then usually all the people from my room have left by that point and it's such a waste. I wish there was an option to decline a private.

    #2 Someone didn't read my rules. They take my private and keep trying to turn on their camera. Streamate gives you like 10 seconds to press okay or decline, and if I can't get to it ASAP (or I'm in the middle of grabbing toys or doing something) it automatically turns on. Can other members see their camera? I'm curious about that because when I first started and I did cam2cam in privates because I didn't know better I got a ton of the "30 second men"

    #3 There's no way to message a member unless they message you first. Is this correct? Or maybe I haven't figured it out yet... I like to talk to the people who were in my room or have tipped, but if they haven't messaged me I have no way to communicate. One guy chipped in over 80% for my first Gold Show and he left within 30 seconds of it starting. I think maybe he had connection problems... but I'd like to know!?

    What annoys you about Streamate? How do you work around it?

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    Default Re: Things that annoy me about Streamate.

    The 35% cut. If they gave us a higher percentage I could pay my bills with ease rather than dig in the couch for change to put gas in my car.

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    Default Re: Things that annoy me about Streamate.

    #1 support: usually it takes an eternity until they react. They're sometimes rude and incompetent, too.

    #2 credit limits for customers: my whale is at the highest daily limit ($300) and could probably spend much more if they allowed him to. He complained about it to support and they won't change it. Additionally, neither the customer nor me gets a prior warning before he hits his credit limit. The site just kicks him out. I would like to be able to say bye and so would he. He has calculate his maximum time and set a timer on his cellphone to be able to say bye. That is poor customer service.

    #3 server issues: they definitely need to upgrade their IT infrastructure. The site is down way too often.

    #4 closing customer accounts of models: Why do they hate the fact that some girls are having customer accounts? We don't troll, we don't freeload, we cause no trouble... Why do they close some of our customer accounts?

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    Default Re: Things that annoy me about Streamate.

    #1 - their obvious favoritism. Never assume you can do something, just because you see another girl doing it.
    #2 - server issues....so tired of lagging, disconnecting, etc...

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    Quote Originally Posted by smaddy View Post
    I just started on Streamate. So far I really enjoy it!

    But there are a couple things that really bother me.

    #1 is I'll be talking with someone and then all of a sudden I'll be pulled into a private with someone who didn't take the time to say "Hi" at all. Or they didn't read my room rules (ie. no anal in private, no cam2cam) so sometimes they leave or sometimes they will exit private to switch exclusive. If they leave then usually all the people from my room have left by that point and it's such a waste. I wish there was an option to decline a private.

    #2 Someone didn't read my rules. They take my private and keep trying to turn on their camera. Streamate gives you like 10 seconds to press okay or decline, and if I can't get to it ASAP (or I'm in the middle of grabbing toys or doing something) it automatically turns on. Can other members see their camera? I'm curious about that because when I first started and I did cam2cam in privates because I didn't know better I got a ton of the "30 second men"

    #3 There's no way to message a member unless they message you first. Is this correct? Or maybe I haven't figured it out yet... I like to talk to the people who were in my room or have tipped, but if they haven't messaged me I have no way to communicate. One guy chipped in over 80% for my first Gold Show and he left within 30 seconds of it starting. I think maybe he had connection problems... but I'd like to know!?

    What annoys you about Streamate? How do you work around it?
    You're right, you can only reply to messages sent to you. You can't message a user. There are multiple customers with the same username too so even if u could then this is a problem. I agree it's really stupid

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    Quote Originally Posted by RockabillySwag View Post
    The 35% cut. If they gave us a higher percentage I could pay my bills with ease rather than dig in the couch for change to put gas in my car.
    You can have 70% if you bring your own customers, which is more than fair given the traffic they already give to us with 35%. Bandwidth, running a platform, and tons of traffic doesn't come for free.

    Streamate is only keeping 30%. 30% goes to Streamate to cover bandwidth, platform, and employees, 35% goes to us, and 35% goes to affiliates who recruit guys/traffic (35% is a good incentive!) or can go to us instead if we bring the traffic through our cammodels link or affiliate code. The traffic didn't bring itself to the site, each guy was recruited by some affiliate or cam girl. Those numbers seem very fair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tinybug View Post

    #2 credit limits for customers: my whale is at the highest daily limit ($300) and could probably spend much more if they allowed him to. He complained about it to support and they won't change it. Additionally, neither the customer nor me gets a prior warning before he hits his credit limit. The site just kicks him out. I would like to be able to say bye and so would he. He has calculate his maximum time and set a timer on his cellphone to be able to say bye. That is poor customer service.
    Is 300 the highest anyone can get now? I've been wondering about this because when I first started I had some customers that would spend more than 300 in a day but its been well over a year since I've had one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lemonberry View Post
    Is 300 the highest anyone can get now? I've been wondering about this because when I first started I had some customers that would spend more than 300 in a day but its been well over a year since I've had one.
    No, you can have it raised if you have a higher member level. You know those #s next to a guys name? You have to spend a certain amount before they raise your limit. I have guys with limits higher than $300 like financial domination guys during exclusives. Either that, or they have some way to add money into their Streamate account.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post
    No, you can have it raised if you have a higher member level. You know those #s next to a guys name? You have to spend a certain amount before they raise your limit. I have guys with limits higher than $300 like financial domination guys during exclusives. Either that, or they have some way to add money into their Streamate account.
    Good to know. I thought I read somewhere once that they lowered the spending limits for everyone, I think in 2012? So I've been worried that was why.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lemonberry View Post
    Good to know. I thought I read somewhere once that they lowered the spending limits for everyone, I think in 2012? So I've been worried that was why.
    I guess they could have. They do it to avoid fraudulent charges, which is usually imposed by the payment processor or credit card companies like visa/mastercard. Processors and credit card companies really hate adult stuff, so they are always changing the rules and making it more difficult. There may be some way to add money into your account, I don't know.

    I think they should allow the guy to have more than one card on file, and just allow a maximum per card.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post
    No, you can have it raised if you have a higher member level. You know those #s next to a guys name? You have to spend a certain amount before they raise your limit. I have guys with limits higher than $300 like financial domination guys during exclusives. Either that, or they have some way to add money into their Streamate account.
    They told my whale that he has to be a senior member, i.e. be a long term member or something...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tinybug View Post
    They told my whale that he has to a senior member, i.e. be a long term member or something...
    Actually that makes sense too. They probably have some formula and need to make sure its not a newer account, in order to prevent fraud/chargebacks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post
    You can have 70% if you bring your own customers, which is more than fair given the traffic they already give to us with 35%. Bandwidth, running a platform, and tons of traffic doesn't come for free.

    Streamate is only keeping 30%. 30% goes to Streamate to cover bandwidth, platform, and employees, 35% goes to us, and 35% goes to affiliates who recruit guys/traffic (35% is a good incentive!) or can go to us instead if we bring the traffic through our cammodels link or affiliate code. The traffic didn't bring itself to the site, each guy was recruited by some affiliate or cam girl. Those numbers seem very fair.
    I also want to say, I know people are comparing Streamate's 35% to MFC's 50%... but I still think MFC is pocketing more money than SM is even though SM girls get paid less. MFC only recruits vanilla traffic, which is easy, so I guess they don't need affiliates. Do they even have an affiliate program? I don't even think so, but idk. SM NEEDS affiliates to recruit specialized fetish and niche traffic, because that is the backbone of the site. So they need to offer a good incentive for their affiliates, which is 35%. They let us partake in this with our cammodels link.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post
    Actually that makes sense too. They probably have some formula and need to make sure its not a newer account, in order to prevent fraud/chargebacks.
    Yea seems like a bad idea to let a new member spend hundreds a day right off the bat.

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    Nothing, nada. Streamate is perfect to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by smaddy View Post
    #1 is I'll be talking with someone and then all of a sudden I'll be pulled into a private with someone who didn't take the time to say "Hi" at all. Or they didn't read my room rules (ie. no anal in private, no cam2cam) so sometimes they leave or sometimes they will exit private to switch exclusive. If they leave then usually all the people from my room have left by that point and it's such a waste. I wish there was an option to decline a private.
    I actually like this. It gives the custys still in free chat, an incentive to go private. Many times it works for me. You can actually still type to them while you're in private and they are in free, and tell them to come in or wait for you. I do that and it works for me. Mine are mostly regulars though, but sometimes new guys.


    Quote Originally Posted by smaddy View Post
    #2 Someone didn't read my rules. They take my private and keep trying to turn on their camera. Streamate gives you like 10 seconds to press okay or decline, and if I can't get to it ASAP (or I'm in the middle of grabbing toys or doing something) it automatically turns on. Can other members see their camera? I'm curious about that because when I first started and I did cam2cam in privates because I didn't know better I got a ton of the "30 second men"
    You can just x out of it by clicking end cam session or whatever the button says. Guys in the room can't see some other customers cam unless you take your cam and point it at your computer screen or something.


    Quote Originally Posted by smaddy View Post
    #3 There's no way to message a member unless they message you first. Is this correct? Or maybe I haven't figured it out yet... I like to talk to the people who were in my room or have tipped, but if they haven't messaged me I have no way to communicate. One guy chipped in over 80% for my first Gold Show and he left within 30 seconds of it starting. I think maybe he had connection problems... but I'd like to know!?
    They have told us they do this in order to prevent off-site contact. But its a good thing, because you know those link spammers who come in our room? They would be flooding customer's inboxes with those links if we could message customers first, which would get the inbox feature shut down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post
    You can have 70% if you bring your own customers, which is more than fair given the traffic they already give to us with 35%. Bandwidth, running a platform, and tons of traffic doesn't come for free.

    Streamate is only keeping 30%. 30% goes to Streamate to cover bandwidth, platform, and employees, 35% goes to us, and 35% goes to affiliates who recruit guys/traffic (35% is a good incentive!) or can go to us instead if we bring the traffic through our cammodels link or affiliate code. The traffic didn't bring itself to the site, each guy was recruited by some affiliate or cam girl. Those numbers seem very fair.
    They also protect against charge backs.

    When the site started they gave models a bulk of the percentage. They do have a reason they don't anymore.

    Honestly when you weigh the pros and the cons, when you can make more than 300 dollars a day, why does it matter what percentage they give you? That's just a random number but you see my point?

    Also i've always looked at it as, just because you can get a higher percentage on a different website doesn't mean you'll get people wanting to spend.
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    Default Re: Things that annoy me about Streamate.

    But back on topic, the only annoying thing to me is over the last year it hasn't been as easy to get paying customers as it once was.
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