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    Ok..I recieved an offer from www.adultwebcamworld.com:

    "Hi Cameron Keys,we would like to hire you to work from home or our office in Vancouver as a solo web cam model. Set your own hours and weekly payouts. Great way to make extra cash in your spare time. Model pay listed below.
    Based on private minutes only in a week
    0 - 299 minutes @ $1.25US per min
    300 - 499 minutes @ $1.35US per min
    500 - 749 minutes @ $1.50US per min
    750 - 1000 minutes @$1.70US per min
    Over 1000 minutes @ $1.90US per min
    Plus you can self promote for an extra 1.00 per minute"

    Has anyone worked with or heard of this company? Has anyone done webcam work? Is it worth it?

    Any imput would be helpful...thanks!
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    I dunno about that company, but when I did webcam work, I never did anything less than $1.99 a minute. Usually more. $2.99 and up.
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    interesting...just a cam in room or do you need to be "doing" something?

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    I never did anything less than $1.99 a minute. Usually more. $2.99 and up.
    Yes, but ... if you were working through a webcam host that kept 50% for hosting fees, this only amounted to $.99 or $1.49 per minute in terms of actual payout.

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    inless youre independant they will take a % of what u bring in
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    thanks for the help...it sounded shady and i passed!
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    good girl

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    Hey , I am new but I wanted to comment on this because I just got an offer from Estrip ?? They haven't even launched yet but what they guy told me is that I can charge $1 - $5 a minute and that I can sit in the free chat and get as many people to view my show as I want etc etc . I am not sure if I am going to try it but it does easy . Right now I guess they are offering 50% commision to anyone signs up right away . I don't know much more about it than that . If I try it I will post about it !!
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    ^^^ this is pretty standard fare for a webcam host. The girl supplies her 'image' and time for free chatting and trying to 'sell' her pay webcam show to guys who visit the webcam site. The host supplies streaming video software and bandwidth. The girl and the host split the actual earnings from paid webcam shows 50/50, with all of the girl's earnings being reported to the IRS via form 1099 (meaning that probably 1/3 of those earnings will go towards self-employment and income tax). The supposed ability for the girl to charge any amount per hour for her webcam show is essentially meaningless, since if she attempts to price herself above the 'competition' i.e. other girls offering similar sorts of content she isn't going to be able to sell her pay webcam shows.

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    Mel , So then is this a raw deal or something worth trying ?? In your opinion ? I think I am going to try it maybe but I am worried about competition from girls doing alot more than dancing which is all I was going to do ..........
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    I dont see anything wrong with it.. Its hard to tell if they arent really up and running yet to check them out first or check with other workers but i would say if u wana .. go for it. I havent worked for any big sites.. Im pretty much independant.



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    I think I am going to try it maybe but I am worried about competition from girls doing alot more than dancing which is all I was going to do ..........
    This is the crux of the problem about actually being able to 'sell' pay webcam sessions at a per-minute rate that actually makes the time you spend worthwhile ! There are a whole lot of girls out there now who are wiling to do toy shows, girl-girl shows, boy-girl shows, and more 'exotic fare' yet - and many would-be webcam customers have come to expect this sort of content.

    Also, unlike live dancing in clubs and getting paid in cash, with webcams you're dealing with credit card customers. This means that in certain cases, even though you think that you have sold a webcam session and gotten paid for it, in reality the customer can dispute the charges if dissatisfied meaning that you don't get paid and did the show for nothing ! If a girl has too many of these 'chargebacks' the webcam host will give them the boot. Thus, unlike selling private dances in clubs, a girl has to be careful about promising something in free chat which she doesn't actually deliver after the 'sale' is made.

    And even if the girl isn't in trouble from 'chargebacks', guys who are webcam customers can communicate with each other via various sites regarding which new webcam girls put on 'hot' shows vs which ones don't. Thus if a new girl puts on too many 'tame' shows for a few curious customers, word will quickly get out and many other potential customers will simply disappear without buying webcam shows to find out for themselves.

    5 or so years ago when webcams first became popular, it was a whole different situation. Very few girls were technically 'savvy' enough, and very few webcam hosts were prepared with easy to use software, so that there was a very high percentage of would-be webcam customers versus webcam girls able to provide a quality video stream. There also wasn't any organized customer comment 'database' meaning that if a guy wanted to find out what a particular girl's webcam show was like he had to buy one ! However with each passing year the technical side has become easier, thus allowing more and more girls to join in the competition with their own webcam. But at the same time, the size of the would-be webcam customer base has grown much more slowly than the number of webcam girls, which has allowed the would-be webcam customers to become more choosy and to have higher 'expectations'. And the growth of customer comment 'databases' has allowed many customers to evaluate in advance which girls' webcams are and aren't 'worth' spending money on.

    As you probably already know, last year I decided to shut down my own webcam because I wasn't willing to 'cross the line' in regard to content, and without providing such content webcam sessions became increasingly more difficult to sell - to the point where the total time I was spending in free chat plus paid webcam sessions simply wasn't worth the amount of after-tax earnings it provided. I'm not saying that it's impossible to earn money doing webcam today, but it certainly isn't as easy / lucrative as it used to be !

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    Thanks Mel , thats was really helpful I still don't know what I may do but now if it sucks at least I wont be upset . Oh well working from home always seems to be to good to be true doesn't it .......
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