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    So the pioneers in the chat hosting world, Ifriends, have finally thrown in the towel after 20 years. If you go to their website they give an explanation having to do with the demise of Net Neutrality as well as legislative changes. Ifriends was dying down in terms of traffic and popularity over the last years but it's crazy to think that things got so bad that the owners would opt to completely shut down operations considering they likely still received a passive income from replays and affiliate marketing, not to mention long standing hosts who still had regulars. I wonder how other platforms will adjust to the changing landscape in the future. What are your thoughts ladies?

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    I am working on an article that will be published on ynotcam. already made a youtube video on the subject since it happen while stripperweb was down.

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    They payed yesterday so everything's peachy. Personally I was on the GPO so I'm not having much of those 6months fund release, which is great.
    I don t think there were girls exclusive to IFriends, the closest would be they were hustling at least two sites. I wish they would have adapted to new times and implement changes, they were trying to keep it more as a boutique style. Same goes for CC, the other site where girls still make big sums on it, but the site doesn t wannna follow the trend and it just got stuck behind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KatM View Post
    No notice, they closed abruptly on the 18th at midnite, i read the news in another local forum when SW went down, they just issued me a payment for the remaining $80 i made from video and fan-club sales this year, did not expect them to be this fair but yay!!
    Yes, when SW went down on 18-19th i checked another local forum and a girl said Ifriends shut down and i was like "What?!"
    I went to look up my stats and all was operable but when i wanted to start a session i saw the message, same when i wanted to check on models.

    OMG that is sad news for sure and i was wondering where their top models will go now, probably on other available sites.
    I left the site for live streaming 8 years ago when i migrated to SM cause the traffic there was terrible lately, i had my account open since then and made some passive income from fan-club and video sales and rarely streamed live just to see once again how dead it was for me.
    This site was my 1st site back in the year 2000 and i made great money there for a few years, i was young, slim & fresh
    They took some bad business decisions especially killing us with the huge chargebacks to have a reason to introduce a smaller percentage, imagine if i was camming normally at 50% pay i'll have some traffic but risk chargebacks, when i went to 35% GPO there was no more traffic and they checked on members very carefully when one came in paid chat and disconnect them if their card was not ok right away.

    I mean pretty shitty business ethics but i am happy they paid me thorough Paxum the last money i made there from fan-club and video sales this year ($80). I did not expect them to pay anymore to be honest but glad they did.
    Yeah, is scary in a way to see such a site go out of business overnight, i hope SM is going to stay & if it's flooded with Ifriends models i hope they'll bring in their members as well *wink wink*

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ginnyyy View Post
    They payed yesterday so everything's peachy. Personally I was on the GPO so I'm not having much of those 6months fund release, which is great.
    I don t think there were girls exclusive to IFriends, the closest would be they were hustling at least two sites. I wish they would have adapted to new times and implement changes, they were trying to keep it more as a boutique style. Same goes for CC, the other site where girls still make big sums on it, but the site doesn t wannna follow the trend and it just got stuck behind.
    I've been getting emails. some have been emailing who were exclusive to ifriends or been with them for a long time wondering what websites to work next.

    the ones who are exclusive made me wonder how could they only have one source of income.

    good you were paid yesterday i estimated I would get my last check on Monday. When it arrives there will be a video on my channel.

    I took the 50% program on ifriends thought because they had me featured as a amateur star it would work , it did once I finally got healthy again from my bipolar was getting back focused on working full-time again. it was a hard blow. Well I mean no need to really write it again I did make the video.

    was told that my reserve funds would be release after their 6 months dates. which i think is dumb but whatever if a $19 check shows up later in 2019 I will be framing that check.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KatM View Post
    Yes, when SW went down on 18-19th i checked another local forum and a girl said Ifriends shut down and i was like "What?!"
    I went to look up my stats and all was operable but when i wanted to start a session i saw the message, same when i wanted to check on models.

    OMG that is sad news for sure and i was wondering where their top models will go now, probably on other available sites.
    I left the site for live streaming 8 years ago when i migrated to SM cause the traffic there was terrible lately, i had my account open since then and made some passive income from fan-club and video sales and rarely streamed live just to see once again how dead it was for me.
    This site was my 1st site back in the year 2000 and i made great money there for a few years, i was young, slim & fresh
    They took some bad business decisions especially killing us with the huge chargebacks to have a reason to introduce a smaller percentage, imagine if i was camming normally at 50% pay i'll have some traffic but risk chargebacks, when i went to 35% GPO there was no more traffic and they checked on members very carefully when one came in paid chat and disconnect them if their card was not ok right away.

    I mean pretty shitty business ethics but i am happy they paid me thorough Paxum the last money i made there from fan-club and video sales this year ($80). I did not expect them to pay anymore to be honest but glad they did.
    Yeah, is scary in a way to see such a site go out of business overnight, i hope SM is going to stay & if it's flooded with Ifriends models i hope they'll bring in their members as well *wink wink*
    Yes, I had been on there since 2003.. still using it as a side site .. but those chargebacks.. I stayed on 50% for so long , but I kept getting more chargebacks than I was making, so I was forced to switch to 35% so I can be guaranteed to be paid.. You got me thinking if these chargebacks were even real?? Maybe they weren't to force girls into being paid 35%

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    ^^^ I dont think all chargebacks were real same like on Imlive, they just took a lot of money from models claiming chargebacks, they never proved it was real CB's so yeah, just a tactic to grab more money and force models to pick a lower guaranteed percentage.

    That's why i love SM, they fair and cover chargebacks and i bet they do their best not to have too many CB's but very little.
    That's a huge plus with SM, they really dont fuck with our money, i respect them for that!

    Dont wanna bash Ifriends cause they were great in their 'golden era' plus they paid me the last money that i just used to pay me a seat at a nice restaurant for New Year's evening party, cant wait to be there, thank you Ifriends, i wanted soo much to go to this party and now i can (booked the seat last week but paid it today) **happy dance**

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    I was wondering if any of you ladies knew of a site similar to ifriends? Or I should say a private based site (free chat not mandatory) I lost ifriends now. Adultwork was another one I lost just because I was in the US. I split with streamate but trying to find some private based sites I could split along with streamate but seems like there becoming harder and harder to find. And I like to charge 9.99 or more. Ugh the struggles are real =( thanks ladies!

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    Niteflirt and the skype sites like livecammodelshows and cammodeldirectory. IndieBill are amazeballs BabeStationCams here in the UK is open to the US as well and works very much like Adultwork with the justcamit encoder and optional free chat. There is also TalkToMe, i used to do ok on private cam there although the site is mostly known for phone. I haven't been on in over a year as they stopped having any decent payment method for the UK so not sure how things are now x
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