XMerchant

I just wanted to warn people on this board about the business practices of LCN / Live Cam Network / 2Much.net. Let me share my wonderful experience with you:

- Early last year I was looking for a private label webcam solution for my site, and found what looked like true HD streaming. It carried a big pricetag, a $6000 license fee, but I decided to try it, since I thought the quality was better than average.

- Their system is designed for us to recruit models, and provide traffic, and our models will then be shared with other sites on their network.

- During that year, there were numerous botched upgrades which resulted in downtime of as much as 1 week for my site. The final "upgrade" reduced the quality of the stream substantially, as it went from a Flash Media Encoder to just a regular Flash Player plugin.

- They also claimed that my site had a lot of fraud transactions, yet they advertised that they have the best anti fraud solution, which I was required to pay for $75/month. This is on top of the already high hosting fee of $125. Yes, they charged me to host a site that promoted their models.

- Finally, I was told to get my own merchant account, so I would not be on theirs. This I did as well. Their "techs" charged me $85 for the change, and my site was down for a week.

- To make a long story short, after 1 year of losing money, and paying LCN a small fortune, I decided to switch back ends to a much larger and well known company that had more realistic business practices.

- Since I already spent $6,000 on their license, I decided to move my primary domain away from them, and put another, smaller domain on their network to keep for models that were used to working on this site.

- Once Mark Prince, the owner of LCN found out I am changing domains (this was my damn domain to begin with), he threw a fit, and gave me some song and dance about how I am not allowed to switch the DNS on my own domain, blah blah blah.

- Keep in mind that at this point, he still owed me money for 4 months, while I dutifully paid his fees of course.

Now ladies and gentlemen, here's the kicker!!! Of course I am going to leave, what does he think I am a charity, here to support his sorry ass operation? So I go and change sites, and what does he do, he emails one of our models telling her he no longer works with me, and tries to recruit her to work for him at a guaranteed hourly rate (I have the email to prove it that she sent me). Yes, you heard right! Not only did he have the balls to charge me $6,000 for a worthless license plus all those fees to promote his models and sites, he has the guts to recruit my models too.

As icing on the cake, I just got notice that the last payment of $1,700 that I received from LCN bounced. So that put the balance they owe me at over $10,000.

Well, you know what they say, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... Sorry for the rant, but I just wanted to prevent others from making the costly mistake that I made. So if you do business with 2Much.net, expect to pay a lot, recruit models that they will try to take for themselves, and if you leave you will not get paid a dime!