Background:
I was a gray user for months and just started paying for shows last week. I'm pretty savy in computers and know a lot of girls who are expert scammers. I never used to pay because the concept doesn't make sense to me. Why should I pay for girls to have orgasms? No one pays me for an orgasm! And I know none of these girls are really turned on by their users, nor do they see them as anything else but customers. And after many months of viewing these women, I've seen everything they could ever possibly do for free, so it doesn't make sense to pay.
My biggest thing is photos. I love photos of women. I would honestly choose a good photo of a girl over videos. My hope was that by becoming a green user, I could finally purchase some pictures of my favorite models and I could tip the people who treated me nicely as a gray user.
Becoming a paid user:
My very first day wasn't a good one. I don't use credit cards for stuff like this, so I bought a giftcard and exchanged it for tokens. I got 92 tokens on XHL for $15, which was not the exchange rate I was expecting.
On my first day as a paid user, I got close to around 30 messages. Keep in mind, I had been viewing some of these girls for months without them ever acknowledging me. So obviously, I knew they weren't really sincere and I was quite annoyed with my new found popularity.
Within the first hour of being a paid user, I was banned from a model for 30 days. What was my horrendous crime you may ask? I don't know. I thanked them for their work in private chat and told them I was busy at the moment and would chat with them later. I came back from lunch and discovered I was banned. NOTE TO ALL PERFORMERS - Banning users is a horrible way to get tips out of them.
While I was a gray, I did make friends with 2-3 models. I actually became a paid user just so I could tip them for being so cool to me. Becoming a paid user has ruined both of those friendships:
- I've been chatting with one for a month or two now. As soon as I became a green user, she got a lot more interested in me. This weekend she said her kid was really sick. She sent me a photo of her and she hit me up on whatsapp for tokens. I didn't really want anything from her, but I offered to buy some photos of her for some of the amount she wanted. Her kid may be sick, but she isn't sick enough to sell any photos for the price I was thinking. I really have no interest in chatting with someone who uses their kid for cash and that's the end of our friendship.
- The other model, I was tipping regularly and we became whatsapp friends. I asked to buy a photo, since they didn't have any available. She said I could, and asked me to tip her a few tokens for it. I did. She said she would do it for me after her show. I even said, "I will only do this because I trust you", and she said "I'm very trustworthy". I went to bed and when I woke up, no picture was on our whatsapp chat. While I use a translator to talk to her, she basically said something to the effect of "I price my work a little higher" and seemed to be wanting me to pay her more for a photo. I said "forget it, I don't want it anymore" and was not happy that I was getting held up for cash. She was very offended by this, and said something to the effect of "unless you apologize for saying that, you aren't getting a photo" and 4 days later, I still have no photo. In the end, she has likely lost $50 from me this month to scam me out of a small fee.
It's been about a week and it hasn't been a real fun one. Most of the girls do not take photos and do not seem to want to sell any. It is extremely confusing to me as these girls do everything on cam mostly to people who will never pay a single cent, while I'm willing to pay and most of them are not very interested. I really don't get the difference between photos and videos, but it is clear there must be a major one. I did find one girl who takes photos and she has gotten more money out of me than everyone else combined, which has been nice.
I've also ended up having to create a new account. I constantly feel pressured to tip, which I don't like. And I feel like if I don't tip, I'm going to get banned, as two girls have already done. Meanwhile, on my free account, no one bothers me and I can watch for hours without ever getting an annoying new friend request or getting banned for nothing.
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