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    Skull Just sharing My Experience With A 'Physical' Cam Studio

    Sharing this here, because, I really don't have anyone to share my cam experiences with, and maybe a few ladies can relate.
    As a lot of You know, I'm living in a house with a landlord/roommate, roommates who don't know I cam.
    I am finding it difficult to really cam the way I like, because she is home a lot, so I answered an ad for cam models at a physical studio.
    It's a studio who cams with SM, so I explained to the recruiter that I already have been camming with them for 5 years.
    He said that he would include in the contract a clause that I could take my 'account' back, should it not work out.
    I was sooo excited to work there, because the rooms on their face book page looked beautiful.

    Even though the rules were pretty strict... MUST put in 7 hours, at least 3 days per week (with a promise that I will DEF. make $1000 or more (Even though I would be giving up 10% MORE than I am already giving up.)
    The rates are set to $3.99 premium/$7.99 Exclusive...NO gold shows, NO block sessions. Okay.....
    Then I got there....OMG!
    They are in an office space in a REALLY rough area of town, with parking a block away.(I felt like I was going to get raped on the walk from the parking to their office, but that's a whole other story.)

    The cam rooms were no bigger than a public bathroom stall! No beds, just pillows on the floor, with a small table with the computer/cam on. Low ceilings. I asked why they were so small, and the recruiter told me it's because the owner wanted to utilize the space, and put as many cam rooms as possible... The REAL deal breaker....NO Air Conditioning! When I asked him about that, he said that the office building had control over the a/c, and most of the time it is off..BUT, he said, they have fans. Are You f..king kidding me? The temps in that area of town are well over 100 degrees most of the year!
    Plus, there was no private bathroom. I would have to go to the public bathroom, which was so dirty and old.
    I was so disappointed, because I thought it would be like the first studio I worked for, which was clean, spacious, and beautiful.
    I felt so claustrophobic, and dirty just walking through there, and couldn't wait to get the hell out of there!
    I got out my calculator, and figured out that I could very easily get a hotel room, and bring my internet a couple of days per week and make the same, or even more than at that studio.
    When I came home, I looked in on the girls who were working at that studio, and none of them had more than 1 person in their room, and were sitting there sweating their balls off, and looking soo bored.
    I wish I had the money to open my own studio. Cattle, has more room to move around then that studio.

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    Studios are all about illusions. The studios are like a movie theater set; it's mainly for the viewer. I'm not surprised about this at all. There is a local studio here that has a handful of bbs on SM and they all work out of a flipped store front with no heat or anything. A lot of studio owners don't care because they want the women to do their business and get out. They don't see the investment outside of keeping the lights on and hand sanitizer wipes and yet you're paying them like 20%. This is why it's best to do it from your home unless the studio is 100% professional. If I went to see a studio and it looked like that I'd be out of there.

    I understand that everyone doesn't have the option of working from home but it sounds like you should just cam without sound, do what you gotta do from home, save up, and move out on your own. Those that do it in a studio usually have a family or stay at home with their parents. They don't have the option to lock the door for a shift without someone bothering them. I had to stay with my grandparents for 6 weeks or so while waiting for my condo. My grandparent's home is a revolving door with visitors, etc. I was able to hustle $4k with barely whispers in private chat- no phone sex(even lost $1k to a bad landlord). If I can do it, anyone can.

    Hopefully this experience gives you the courage to do what you have to do from home. No wasting % on a studio, no paying a hotel for shitty internet. It might not be the way "you" want to cam but it will save you $$ in the long run until you can afford a place of your own to cam the way you want. Buy one of those door stoppers, place a fan down in front of the door, and do what you gotta do.




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    I'm sorry to hear that Glam - I was really hopefully it would be a good situation for you

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikki_Fox View Post
    I'm sorry to hear that Glam - I was really hopefully it would be a good situation for you
    Me too, and thank you for your help with the referral! I havent given up yet. There might be another studio that is a better fit.
    It's not a matter of just needing money to get my own place...Its that I havent found a rental for people with evictions and horrible credit.
    Ill never stop looking, because, after all of the no's, all it takes is one "Yes". That's how I got into my current home...She didn't care about all of that..She just said yes!

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    Sorry this is still going on out there. when I started camming back in 2003 I was in a similar situation expect that cam studio never let me leave at all for a year and a half. never let me leave = I was held captive.

    Yes if you can handle the cost and it works out for you then get a hotel and see how you can turn things around for yourself.

    But also know there are other ways of making money from home and using the internet as your platform where you could do from home with your roomates or parents.
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    Wow! This is great for the newbies out there. If you thinking of joining a studio go and check it out before signing up with them!

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    Jesus that sounds horrendous.


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    Ugh, how vile. You can definitely do better than that, Glammy.


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    Default Re: Just sharing My Experience With A 'Physical' Cam Studio

    And I didn't even go into detail about where the cam girls stores their dildos...Hint, Hint...it's next to their food. So gross!

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    We ran numbers on having a physical studio, and at 25% on SM the margins would be enough to run a very clean place in a safe part of town. Unfortunately this town, despite a college population of 50,000+ within 45 minutes (20k local and several nearby), they won't even let an adult bookstore open and we'd run into all kinds of city council shenanigans.

    I am NOT understanding though the "slash and burn" recruiting policy. Most models do not make their high earnings potential right out the gate, so treating them respectfully while they find their stride is far more profitable in the long run for everyone concerned. This is true for physical as well as the virtual recruiters. Relying on total ignorance to fleece them and throw their bodies in the ditch when you're done is not the way to go about things.

    If anyone is interested in a partnership for a well-run physical studio, we're all ears. The standards should be at least above US prisoner requirements

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    From my own personal history and understanding of physical studios they're not looking for a clean place in a good part of town, they're interested in cheap surroundings filled with people who are desperate and sign up for huge takes in their pay because they are looking to make enough just to survive the day.

    I worked for a studio when I first started and the owner had good intentions at the start: Taking 25% and trying to really be a mentor to the girls (make them dinner, keep the place nice and upgrade furniture and equipment, etc) but after months of quick turnover he became frustrated and stopped any kind of matinence and started taking 50% of the hires paychecks (by that time I had started working from home). He decided that the best thing to do was move to a more urban city and follow the new model and discovered if you had people desperate enough to sell their pussy on the street (his words, not mine) you could take as much from them as you wanted and if they didn't come back, there was always someone else desperate enough to fill their shoes.

    Does it make a lot of sense? No, of course not, a top earning model could make so much more than a new model, but he had a really hard time keeping those models in the studio, generally they'd just leave, wait out their studio account on another site, and start again without him taking a cut. So, quantity over quality.

    Just tossing in my two cents

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