What should you pay for a Yahoo cam babe session?
Lots of women earn a few bucks by strolling around the Yahoo chat rooms to pick up customers for some camsex. Prices range from $1-3 per minute. A 10 minute session is usually $15-30. You decide on the amount of minutes needed before going ahead with the transaction, then you pay, then she does what you want her to do on her cam.
Some tips for customers:
1) Lots of scammers out there - always insist on getting a sneak peek of her cam before paying her.
2) Women from Asia is usually a lot cheaper than American girls… hey do not shoot the messenger, it is the fluctations of the international money markets I am sure!
A tip for camgirls
Have as many payment options available as possible to avoid potential customers leaking away. They prefer: PayPal, ccBill and other big names. If you can accomodate this you are a winner.
While it’s a good tip for customers looking to buy low-end Yahoo cam shows, it should be noted that there’s a difference between asking a girl to verify her cam quality and asking for a “sneak peak” of her body. As someone who cams on a big network, I never do anything unless I’m being paid for it. Ever, period, no free anything. Why? I am constantly being requested to “prove myself” to a “potential customers” by changing outfits, getting naked, “masturbating a little”, etc. There are countless numbers of guys who get off solely on promising a girl a paid show if she’ll just strip for him and give him a “preview”, and then signs off without buying anything. Cam girls know this, so advising customers to also require a “sneak peak” will most likely be met with resistance, and rightly so, since it’s also the tactic of liars who just want some free tits and ass.
Paypal is not an option, and hasn’t been for what, 5 years? Paypal will seize your funds and close your account if they find out that you’re using it for anything remotely “adult”. An angry customer or cam performer can easily report the other party and see their account closed and funds seized.
I’ve heard of people running payments through a CCBill account, but I’m not sure if that’s up to snuff with CCBill’s policies.
The real solution is for everyone to give up on the 1998-era habit of Yahoo camming and trying to be all underhanded and sketchy in how they pay and get paid. The quality of Yahoo’s cam feature is absolutely awful, not the kind of real streaming video you’ll get at big cam networks. With big networks, the customer can verify stream quality before whipping out a credit card, and the performer doesn’t have to waste time giving guys “sneak peaks” to show that her cam actually works.
I’ll almost never sing the praises of working for a big company over doing it yourself, but the Yahoo/Paypal thing is just too outdated to offer much of anything to anyone. It’s like trying to sell homemade porn on Betamax tapes and telling customers to pay in pennies left in a jar at midnight at a nearby park. Sometimes technology and practicality trump indie-ness.
Comment by Furry Girl — May 11, 2007 @ 7:29 pm
If Paypal and CCBill is not an option because of their no adult content policies is there a real and viable alternative ? Do any of your readers have any suggestions except for ” the big networks”
Comment by Adult — February 14, 2009 @ 10:33 am
Can you use regular credit card merchant services ?
Comment by Fucking — February 14, 2009 @ 10:35 am
ePassporte is great, accepts adult payments, and it takes CC or bank wires….you can get a dibit card with your account or spend it online. If you don’t care of you get all of your gifts in cash then Amazon.com is a good option, they sell everything! Amazon has an eGift account option…people can send you gift cards online and you can keep the balance until you spend it.
I have guys get me Victorias Secret eGift cards too….they come to my email.
If the guy can book the session early….then he can run to the WalMart, Meijer’s, CVS, Rite Aid, etc and get a money pak for Green Dot. He doesn’t need an account and it’s a cash transaction at the local store he chooses…he comes back and just sends you the code that is on the card. The Cam Girl, however, will need an account there. The account comes with a debit card to use at ATMs or stores.
Hope that helps! I have been doing cam for years and find it’s great fun!
Comment by Buttery Babe — April 23, 2009 @ 10:52 am