I left my account for a long time; long enough for it to be shut down. This year, with C4S (my main gig for a while), messing up so terribly with payments this year, I thought I'd get into SM again. Well. I emailed support, and they kindly opened my account again. Awesome! I just needed to send off my ID again. All done, but I got rejected.. With this email:
"Hello, the ID you used for your account is not one we really accept.
We have set the expiration date on the ID for 12/31/2016.
Please upload a different/current ID to your account in the next two months, so we can approve it & get the account in proper order.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks"
My response:
"Ah crap, it's the only one I have being as it's widely accepted in my country (UK).
It's the one I originally started working on Streamate for and it was fine back then. I worked SM for a few years. Shall I just upload another pic of it? I still use it as my current and legal ID.
Thanks!"
Their response:
"It actually wasn’t fine back then. It was incorrectly approved.
Do you have a Passport or Driver’s License?
You have until the end of the year to obtain a different ID.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks"
......HOLY..... FUCK.....
My response:
"Good God. I worked for Streamate for years, even doing TV broadcasts, thousands of shows, all with an incorrectly approved form of ID and now, years later, I can't use my account even though I'm now almost 30 years old? It strikes me as unfair that I'm being rejected now until I pay out for other form of ID (if I want a passport, I would have to pay upward of £100), when I had worked for Streamate for so long, when I already possess a form of ID which serves as proof of my age and identity."
I just have no idea wtf is going on... So it's amazing I EVER was able to work on SM.
I was so highly regarded on their site a couple years ago earning upwards of $100 per hour all with an ID they weren't even supposed to approve of!!! and now I get this shit. Great.



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