Originally Posted by Trixie

I think it's funny that nobody even mentions the possibility that they aren't just trying to screw affiliates, but maybe they're royally fucked because their (and a whole lot of other sponsors') business model is all wrong, outdated, and unable to sustain itself paying tons of money on every signup when few of those signups result in real sales in a world where there are now tons of competing camsites, shitloads of free porn (and please don't delude yourself into thinking that it doesn't hurt at all; sure, everyone needs to accept it and adapt but the business models and payouts constructed BEFORE that need to adapt too).

A few years ago when iFriends started giving away camfeeds for free / free previews like some of the other camsites they were/are competing against things took a nosedive for the performers. Tons of camsites are doing it; sure, people might still be signing up to these sites in record numbers, but fewer and fewer of them have any need to actually BUY A SHOW when they're getting their rocks off for free and never even bother to find out why it's more satisfying/entertaining/addictive to pay for a show.

This looks like the end of an era for sure. Of course, the girls who actually WORK on camsites have known that era has been over for a few years now, at least. It kind of makes me want to barf knowing how much more money affiliates have made off of iFriends relative to how much the webwhores doing the actual shows have made. It's an indecently unfair, irrational, fucked up system that deserves to go down in flames. I'm not blaming the web"masters" who've taken advantage of a pretty sweet deal and I realize that if women had any brains at all we would understand that it's a lot easier to make money as web"masters" getting at least $40 a pop just to send a looky-loo to the site than by dildoing our cunts with baseball bats for less than 50% of a couple bucks a minute, if that.

For the system to sustain itself they should have been paying you guys $1 a join and paying the camgirls $40 every time they gave a new join his first show, tiered bonuses for every time they got a viewer to go over a certain number of minutes, etc. They should have made AFFILIATES pay for the chargebacks instead of the girls. Web"masters" who don't run their own paysites and haven't actually served customers directly have a totally unrealistic, bizarrely-entitled perception of how this stuff works.

How long did you guys really think something like this would last the way that it was structured? I can understand being frustrated because it sucks to lose your income, but acting all shocked and caught unawares and totally not being able to conceive of the possibility that maybe the sponsors aren't just "greedy" (sure they're that) but MAYBE THEY HAVE BEEN PAYING YOU ALL TOO MUCH for what you've been giving, taking, and giving away for free (maybe not with iFriends, but with other stuff) and aren't just hoarding all the money, but are seriously FUCKED/bleeding money out of their asses.

Maybe desperate times call for desperate measures. Maybe you all should thank your lucky fucking stars you made WAY MORE MONEY THAN YOUR WEB"MASTERING" WARRANTED and move on. Maybe you should promote sponsors that actually serve customers and build business in ethical, sustainable ways instead of serving YOU with inflated, outrageous, ridiculous payouts.

CCBill-administered revshare programs. Small sites without a bunch of middlemen. Smaller payouts that grow over time and pay more realistic (but still inflated) percentages of sales instead of trying to pay you 4000% of $1. We will still be here when all the fancy programs with their scammy pre-checked cross-sales, dead member-areas, ludicrous webmaster rimjobs and unjustifiably-high payouts have finished shooting themselves in the foot. I don't blame you for taking advantage of it while you can, but don't. Look. So. SURPRISED! when this shit happens.