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Originally Posted by plsureking
i find most people still working in this industry these days are honest and work hard. scammers are rare and gone quick now. it was different a decade ago. the industry got a lot smaller (not including OF "models" and cam performers).
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I'm not really talking about the scammers and fly-by-night outfits, who proliferate in boom times and leave seeking easy money during bust periods.
My metric for many years about the honesty of an adult company was quite singular: do they, or do they not, treat affiliate money with the same fiduciary caution as they treat their own money, making it a top priority to make sure that their affiliates get paid in full, every penny, on time, and without demand?
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very few companies have met that standard over time. Of the companies I deal with, I can count the "honest" (by my standard) ones on my fingers. Special shoutout here to Colin at Wasteland/Spicecash (longevity award), Kink.com (who have more than once clusterfucked things on the tech side that cost me money, but who always pay timely the money showing in the console) and Stockroom (currently unusable due to affiliate links that take 90 seconds to load, but I've only ever had to chase one payment from them in fifteen years).
I love the adult industry. It has a lot of hard-working forward-thinking people and companies. But affiliate funds, aka "non-recourse loans given to us by people we don't know who live a long way away, so fuck 'em", are a temptation that most companies in my experience have failed to resist when their cash crunches eventually happen. Often they paid cheerfully for years when it was easy, but when it gets hard? That's when character shows, or more often, doesn't.