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Here they are: my choices for round two of the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs.
| MATCH | TO WIN | GAME 1 | GAME 2 | GAME 3 | GAME 4 | GAME 5 | GAME 6 | GAME 7 |
| NYR/WAS | NYR in 6 | NYR | WAS | NYR | NYR | WAS | NYR | |
| PHI/NJD | NJD in 7 | PHI | NJD | NJD | PHI | PHI | NJD | NJD |
| STL/LAK | STL in 7 | STL | LAK | STL | LAK | STL | LAK | STL |
| PHX/NSH | PHX in 6 | NSH | PHX | PHX | NSH | PHX | PHX |
Having a jolly old time with the guests in my room last night, when, all of a sudden, out of the clear blue sky, came this rude comment. Now, any normal person, under normal circumstances would have cringed. I wasn’t the least bit surprised. This is typical behavior that occurs in my room every shift I work. The equivalent to someone at the office running around posting insults on a sticky note every time you leave your desk. A coward with nothing better to do with their time and noone to spend it with. Sad really.
The first insult: “your hideous” had me laughing my ass off at their misuse of the word “your”, so I proceeded to educate them on the difference between “your” and “you’re”, providing examples on how to use the words correctly in sentences. I asked if insulting people was what got them off, floated their boat, rocked their world. Their reply: “not really”. I then continued to attempt to find the real reason behind all their anger and apparent issue with me. They completely misunderstood what I was saying and must have assumed their silly anonymous, retarded comment actually got to me because the next thing to appear in my chat was “yeah truth hurts”. No signs of intelligent life form in this conversation! Just as I had my finger on the trigger, ready to block this idiot, into my chat appeared the words “phd whore”, which sent me reeling, laughing so hard that I couldn’t stop shaking long enough to gain any precision on the hand that wanted to block the little psycho. Next thing I knew, they were gone. Just like that. I had a few regulars in my room who were enjoying this nearly as much as I was. We joked about “PhD Whore” for pretty much the rest of the night, off and on.
Dear Anonymous Idiot (whoever and wherever you are now), I just want to thank you for bringing such joy and laughter to my room, my life and the lives of my guests and adoring fans that were in my room last night. Without your presence, I don’t think we would have laughed that hard.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Amanda36c (aka your “PhD Whore”).
Here are a few ways to work it, that I’ve found to be most successful.
Before signing in, here ‘s what I like to do to get myself in the mood, especially for those times when I’m not feeling my sexiest.
Incorporate this frame of mind, attitude and confidence into your pre-sign-in ritual and see if it works for you, too.
This is the third installment of the Amanda36c Series of
This is a general overview of how the lights should be positioned, to obtain the best possible results. I did not include filters or diffusers in this tutorial. This is strictly to show you the positioning. The images below demonstrate how the light reflects upon the subject. A few feet extra can be allowed. Sitting on a bed rather than standing (we don’t all stand when we work, do we?) can also apply to this setup. This is just a general idea.
The key light – this is the main light, the brightest light that lights the subject (you).
The fill light – fills in the shadows created by the key light.
The backlight – provides definition to the subject, making the edges look crisper.
It also serves to illuminate the room a little more.
All 3 lights, in action!
Experiment with lightbulb types to get the mood/feel you’re looking for.
I use harsh lightbulbs with a diffuser, to soften my image. Remember though, this part only
discusses positioning.
This is the second installment of the Amanda36c Series of Camgirl Tips, Tricks & Tutorials!
Well, you know what they say about “necessity” being the mother of invention. In this case, it’s re-invention. While I was in town, poking around in the fabric store on Ste Catherine street, I came across this great, durable fabric, so I looked to see what it was called. 100% nylon. I stocked up on the stuff, thinking it was the exact fabric I needed for my DIY light diffusers. For years, I have been reluctant to pay the hefty price for light diffusers to tone down those harsh lights I use for camming. The nylon I found is the perfect solution and gives my cam image a much softer overall look, while smoothing over what were once crisp shadows. Needless to say, lighting is the most difficult part of photography and videography. What this does is allows me to use brighter lights without the harshness or glare, while still having sufficient luminosity to light the target area (myself and my background). The best thing about this is the total cost; next to nothing! Here’s a rundown of what it cost me to make 1 diffuser (12″x12″, circular shaped):
100% nylon fabric = $1.00
Embroidery Hoop (double-ringed) = $2.99
Total = $3.99 (+applicable taxes).
1) Separate the rings. You’ll need the outer one first. Cut a piece of nylon, this size, roughly.
2) Place your nylon over top of the larger ring and center it.
3) Take the inner ring and place it over the nylon, into the outer ring. Push down to lock in place.
4) This part is a little tricky. Pull the nylon lightly on opposite ends all around until the nylon
looks snug as a bug on a rug (or until it’s tight in the ring).
5) Not bad, eh? Now, pull the nylon lightly to keep it tight and staple the nylon to the inner
part of the ring. I used 5 staples in total.
6) Should look something like this (tight, looking like a drum with a beautiful, flowy skirt on).
7) Now, cut the skirt off, right along the egde of the ring, as close as possible to the ring.
8) If pieces stick up a little, just use Scotch tape to tame them down. If you have metallic tape,
even better. Voila – le diffuser!
Here are a few more looks at it. This light, undiffused, is super bright and very hard on the eyes.
Completely covering the light. The final result. Le piece de resistance. The diffuser extraordinaire!
Took me all of 5 minutes and cost $3.99+tx to make!
It is important to keep the diffuser a safe distance from the light. If you want the diffuser closer,
then I recommend one of those LED lightbulbs that do not heat up.
For a stand, there are tons of things you can do. This diffuser is easy to work with because it’s
so lightweight.
I hope you enjoyed my Light Diffuser DIY Tutorial.
This is the first installment of the Amanda36c Series of Camgirl Tips, Tricks & Tutorials!
Women in this industry who allow themselves to be called a “slut” or “whore” really need to grow a set of balls and learn that we teach others how to treat us simply by the way we choose to respond. It’s not par for the course to be treated this way, and no, we never asked for it. This is abuse that no self-respecting woman should have to put up with. It sickens me when women revert to calling themselves a slut, in an effort to appease their customers or impress their bosses with what they perceive to be a general good attitude or “openmindedness” toward their occupation.
I can’t, even jokingly, refer to myself as a “slut” or a “whore”. This is not who I am. I am not permiscuous and I do not have sex with people for money.
I take my clothes off in front of the camera, from the comfort of my own home. No promiscuity involved. I don’t have sex with anyone for money. Of all the gray area that could possibly define “sex”, someone standing before a camera is in no way, “having sex” with the person on the other end of the computer chatroom. If virtual sex is real sex, then I suppose virtual marriage is legit, too, and let’s toss in a few virtual kids, then we can buy a virtual house and live virtually ever after! Reality check, please!
As far as I’m concerned, I’m as distant, to that viewer, as Miss November in Playboy is. Ridiculous to think we’re any more obtainable.
Are these the same women who would have never thought of themselves as sluts before, suddenly playing the part? Perhaps there is a silent complacency where this type of mental abuse is concerned. What makes it acceptable? Why do women choose to suffer at the hands of these webpimps for such small sums of money, in comparison to what the webpimps are earning off of the girls’ hard work? Why is it such a male-dominated industry when it’s the WOMEN that are the main attraction here, by and large? If made to feel small, belittled, degraded (the standard in brainwashing 101), these men can easily gain control over them, and eventually the entire industry. It’s already happening.
One can create a website, fill it with content, earn money and NEVER have to pay the girl whose content they used, because they chose to hide under a moniker with camgirl content floating abundant. One can be certain that the girls are not being paid (the reason these sites keep so well hidden). Good luck finding out who the owner is. Better luck suing them!
What about turning the tables on these webpimps? Dare little miss “whore” call her boss a “pimp”, even though the shoe fits?
It’s amazing how complacent people are and how afraid people are to claim what is theirs, or to sue for what rightfully is theirs. They would rather sit in silence, do as they’re told and not have to do any real work or have to deal with the ramifications of what the spotlight might bring them, tying them to this industry and all of its shadiness.
In no other industry is there so much theft, fraud, copyright infringement, extortion (add every other crime you can think of) going on, right under everyone’s noses. Doesn’t our dirty little industry deserve the same justice as the rest of the world?
We’re not whores, we’re just suckers!
Hi Amanda,
First off, you certainly have a right to feel the way you do about everything expressed in your article. I’m going to share what came up as I read it.
For me the words slut and whore have no energy in them, so I don’t mind the words being used.
For me words are just words. It’s the energy we imbue them with which gives them power. On cam when I call myself a slut, tramp or whore I have no energy on it. Like you, I know I’m not really one. But you’ve got to admit, trading out sexual scenarios for money is, on most peoples moral compass, pretty slutty. LOL At least here in the States, sex for money, in person or online is a seedy, slutty thing for a ‘good girl’ to do. ha ha ha
Believe it or not, I’ve done a lot of spiritual study (religions love to control people by giving them terrible names….. sinners, for one). One of the spiritual truths I have embraced is, people by nature are whores. We ALL become a whore when we ‘sell ourselves out’ for something in return. Work a job we hate because of the great benefits and pay, stay in a relationship we’re not happy with because of the money or status, or stay in a marriage even though we no longer love or respect our partner. All humans occasionally whore themselves, selling out for something they want.
Lucky for me the time I spend on cam is not what I consider whoring. I’m an actress & exhibitionist by nature; I actually enjoy spending time with ‘my guys’. When it stops being fun, I quit doing it. That’s why you’ll only see me on for 1.5-2 hours at a time, and without a set schedule. I do it because it’s fun. When we don’t follow our heart in our career, THEN we are a whore. We’ve sold ourselves for a paycheck. There are some women on SM who really seem to hate what they do. When they’re on cam they’re always bitching and being disagreeable. It makes me wonder, why are they on cam if they hate it so much? Now THAT is what I consider whoring, doing something you hate for a paycheck.
I am one of the woman who will call myself a slut or whore, although not too often in free chat. My specialty is roleplay and fetish, and often times those words are used within the scenarios with my guys. If I have one of ‘my guys’ who likes me to use those words, I will often tease them during public chat by using those words. But personally I do not hold any energy around those words myself. Just as I don’t have any energy on calling my vagina a cunt, pussy, twat, snatch, fuck hole, cooter, whatever. They’re just words. I’m acting, doing improv, the words are just a role I’m playing. These days, with the economy being so tight, there are many people doing jobs they hate for the money.
As an example, the time I spent working for an airline making reservations for people, I was a total whore. I hated every minute of it, yet was trapped by the pay (it use to be high paying), the flight benefits and the ‘glamor’ people perceived working for an airline. I was a whore and hated nearly everything about my life because I hated what I had to do every day. Then there is camming. I enjoy spending time on cam, believe I’m being fairly treated, paid well and with regularity, and I am in control of my schedule, no body is breathing down my neck, I have very few tasks to deal with when I sign off for the night. I have lots of control in my career and none of the risk!
On a lighter note, there is an entertaining (and revealing?), How Slutty Are You ‘scientific’ survey:
http://www.okcupid.com/slut
I took it and it revealed I’m 57% slutty, which sounds about right. ha ha ha
As for our only getting 35%, if you’ve ever run an adult internet business you’d understand why 35% is a reasonable sum for guaranteed transactions/paychecks. As you’ve pointed out with your other posts, the company that offers more money also makes the camgirl eat it when the credit is bad or they get a refund. With SM they carry ALL the credit risk, to all the programming and engineering, PAY for traffic to the site, and lots more you can only begin to imagine unless you’ve run a porn related business. You can’t just start one up from your back bedroom, believe me! Just the other day I read about another credit processing company who has quit processing all ‘adult industry’ transactions because the risk of fraud, etc. is just too high. High risk porn transactions (whether selling your worn panties, or porn pictures, or streaming your own cam) are very costly, it’s not like running your VISA at your local Fredrerick’s of Hollywood. Even sites that sell adult toys pay higher processing fees than a regular retail store. It’s VERY expensive and time consuming, dealing with credit, fraud, charge-backs and bank disputes.
OK, thanks for listening =)
Hey Joy,
Thanks for your comments. We see the whole “whore” thing differently, which is fine. I have always understood its definition as this, the simple one:
— n
a prostitute or promiscuous woman: often a term of abuse
With terms today used so loosely, wrongly (ie: “could of” instead of “could have”, “could care less” instead of “couldn’t care less”, etc.), it’s not likely everyone will agree to use one definition either, since there are probably a thousand versions of the word in all the different dictionaries and more meanings when considering a variety of scenarios.
I agree that people, by nature, are whores because of the things we do in order to achieve the things we want. In the exact way you explained it, with focus on those who do this in the workplace all the time. Is that really whoring though? It can be considered slavery, for the exact same reason, (though if given the choice, we’d take our jobs any day over having to actually work the cotton fields). The same can be said of having to work the streets. I guess on a larger scale, it all boils down to perspective. If someone called me a “whore”, I wouldn’t feel the need to ask them if they meant because I work hard at a job I hate. The term, used as a comment, almost always means the same thing. Unless, of course the discussion prior involved how we generally whore ourselves out to earn a living.
I enjoy what I do on cam (always have) but have had to endure harrassment for the entire time I was on Streamate. In fact, the last few years on iFriends, before I finally left, had the exact same harrassment (even mannerisms and insults). This is not a typical case of someone poking and getting their thrills in my chatroom, climaxing over the attention and reactions they are getting from me. In fact, I block them every time. It doesn’t help and Streamate does nothing about it, though I reported it when it first started happening. I don’t encourage it or give them any reason to return. They have made their mission clear in a statement they made once and that was to blatently tell me, in my own chatroom to “stay offline”. The harrassment continues, to this day. The only way to stop them would be to file harrassment charges and have law enforcement get a warrant to search Streamate’s servers to find the account and trace the ip of the person doing this. I’d be willing to bet that the credit cards plus IDs used and the person harrassing me are not one in the same and I’m also certain the ip was well masked. In any case, this is the only thing truly stopping me from enjoying every moment on cam. I pay no attention to them or their stupid comments but it is very obvious to me who they are. This will probably never stop but there’s no way in hell I am going to let them have any say in my decision to leave this industry. That is simply not going to happen.
Joy – You think 35% is fair? If traffic is fairly distributed, across the board, perhaps. If the site actually buys traffic. If broken features get fixed. If upgrades are made to work with the latest versions of the cam program (the very heart of our revenue source). I would agree with you that it is fair, but that is clearly not the case.
Here they are: my choices for round one of the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs.
| MATCH | TO WIN | GAME 1 | GAME 2 | GAME 3 | GAME 4 | GAME 5 | GAME 6 | GAME 7 |
| PIT/PHI | PIT in 6 | PIT | PHI | PIT | PIT | PHI | PIT | |
| STL/SJS | STL in 6 | SJS | STL | STL | STL | SJS | STL | |
| FLA/NJD | NJD in 5 | NJD | NJD | FLA | NJD | NJD | ||
| PHX/CHI | CHI in 7 | PHX | CHI | CHI | PHX | CHI | PHX | CHI |
| NSH/DET | DET in 7 | DET | NSH | DET | DET | NSH | NSH | DET |
| VAN/LAK | VAN in 6 | VAN | VAN | LAK | LAK | VAN | VAN | |
| NYR/OTT | NYR in 5 | NYR | OTT | NYR | NYR | NYR | ||
| BOS/WAS | WAS in 6 | WAS | BOS | BOS | WAS | WAS | WAS |
In a recent comment to my blog, I was asked a few questions. Rather than respond there, I decided to create a new blog entry, so that I can embed a short video, which facilitates the process of explaining how the fan club accounts work. His questions are as follows:
1) Can you access the archives of all your daily revenue reports from all the other sites you have worked on since leaving Webpower/Ifriends?
2) Do any of the other sites hold back 10% of revenues for refunds/chargebacks in an account for the Video Hosts?
3) Can you show me and others what you mean by multiple Fanclub accounts for the same member and an account where it looks like you weren’t ever paid for the renewals of the Fan Club memberships?
My answers:
1) Yes. Every other site I’ve worked on, has provided this information, dating back to the start. Nothing hidden, no records expired after x-length of time.
2) None that I am aware of. I have never had a single site hold back 10% or refunds/chargebacks from me, period. Only iFriends.
3) Click to play the video below. Here are a few examples. Click the bottom right corner to enlarge the video to full-screen to view it better.
I was asked, in a recent blog comment: “What made you look into your 10% reserve account and ask Webpower/Ifriends for a statement of your revenues after all those years?”. There is no simple answer, so here it is.
In november of 2009, I went to check my online earnings report to see what I had coming to me in the week ahead, as I do every week. According to my pay statement, I had nothing coming to me. My next cheque was at nil. Concerned that there was an error, I phoned iFriends to let them know my pay stats was reflecting no earnings. This is when they informed me that I owed them money due to refunds.
Below, is what showed up in my refunds list (the “V_0000017………” sequences are the specific number assigned to the member, whose handles are MACADOO1983 and TROLLYMAN).
(MACADOO1983) Total refunded: $98.57
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 13.48
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 4.49
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 4.49
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 4.49
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 22.46
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 7.49
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 6.74
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 4.99
V_000001791939 11/07/09 $ 29.94
(TROLLYMAN). Total refunded: $736.71
V_000001703833 10/28/09 $ 132.49
V_000001703833 10/28/09 $ 38.18
V_000001703833 10/28/09 $ 47.16
V_000001703833 10/24/09 $ 226.80
V_000001703833 10/24/09 $ 53.89
V_000001703833 10/12/09 $ 3.58
V_000001703833 10/12/09 $ 5.38
V_000001703833 10/09/09 $ 36.82
V_000001703833 10/09/09 $ 95.53
V_000001703833 10/09/09 $ 59.20
V_000001703833 10/08/09 $ 37.68
Needless to say, I was pissed to find out that I owed them money for services I performed, which tiFriends told me were actually members “frauding the system”. I was not involved in this scam, so why was money deducted from me? I performed the service (so well, in fact, that they returned on multiple occasions). An e-mail response came to me from Webpower Inc./iFriends.
With regards to TROLLYMAN, this was not simply an instance of a customer
service representative making nice with a complaining viewer. This was an
instance of what we call “true knowledge fraud,” where a customer uses valid
information on the iFriends service without the intent to actually pay for
their usage.We received a call from the bank on the customer’s behalf, and the bank
advised that the customer indicated this was fraud. The bank sided with the
customer in this instance, despite our ability to provide evidence to the
contrary. Our hands, in effect, were tied with regards to the refunds that
were issued to the customer.As you know, online transactions are very easy for customers to dispute,
especially when the merchant is an adult merchant. In order to maintain our
ability to process transactions, there are very strict guidelines as to what
can and cannot be contested on our end with the bank. This was a situation
where the customer took advantage of the system, and his misusage impacted
not only you, but several other video hosts as well as iFriends itself.We have made the decision to issue you a bonus based on the TROLLYMAN usage
to cover what he spent in your sessions. Our VCH support team had actually
already started looking into this matter when they saw the refund
adjustments come through. This bonus is being applied to your reserve
balance for the full amount of the customer’s usage with you in your
session.I would appreciate if you would maintain the confidentiality of our
discussions on this user, as this is not information that would normally
have been shared. The customer *is* still protected under our privacy
policy, even if he has defrauded us. I would also appreciate if you would
maintain the confidentiality of the outcome of this situation.
I responded:
About the reserves – how will I be able to track this now, to know
the balance of what’s in my reserves, since you do not furnish us with
this information? As far as I’m concerned, this money has not been
issued back to me, it’s sitting in your account, collecting interest
and the next time some jackoff like TRIOLLYMAN decides to screw me,
it’s automatically taken off. It benefits iFriends more to have the
money sitting in there than to simply return it to me and treat it
like revenue I, in fact worked for. I do not often get refunds. This
is not common for viewers to complain about something I have done
wrong in a session. If anything, it is the direct result of problems
with the site. You can see this clearly by reading my user reviews. I
want my money from those sessions. I don;t know how much longer I can
work on iFriends with all this going on, and from what I have wrote to
you about, which all still remains unsolved.I am becoming more and more leery about working on iFriends now.
Knowing that, at any time, any amount of money can be deducted from me
with no proof of why. An explanation if I kick up a stink, but no
solid proof. This is not right. I’m sure you’d want proof of why money
was taken from what you earned. What if I owed you money but deducted
money without any explanation to you? You have to ask every single
time about deductions because I refuse to tell you anything except
that the money was deducted from Joeblow69 on the 5th of september?
Why doesn’t iFriends furnish us with this information? Furthermore,
the link to e-mail the fans from our member list in the fan club
disappears when their account becomes inactive. Why on earth would you
do that? You should let us contact them to see what was wrong and
possibly to get them back. There’s already a thing in place so that we
can’t spam when sending out e-mails. It just looks like iFriends is
hiding something, regardless if this is true or not.
Webpower Inc./iFriends responded:
I believe that when you forward along an e-mail that has attachments, the attachments from the original e-mail are not preserved. That was the problem with these attachments. You forwarded me an e-mail that cited attachments, but they did not get passed along by your email client.
I am checking your IDCard from the inside and outside connections. I do not see QQQQQQQQQQ or JRZOOOOOOO. I only see handles that are seem to have been created by you for your IDCard. Again, can you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing? They do come through on the original e-mails, just not when you forward an e-mail that has an attachment.
As for TROLLYMAN, as I explained to you previously, this is a situation that is considered “True Knowledge Fraud.” I am sorry that I apparently did not explain this situation clear enough. This was an instance where the user committed “True Knowledge Fraud,” and his bank backed him up on it. Sometimes, given the nature of the service provided by our site, banks are more likely to simply side with their customer, rather than review the documentation that the merchant has that would prove the legitimacy of the transactions. Banks, especially in this economy, would rather have a customer who pays their bills monthly than do something that will cause an otherwise good customer of theirs to take their business elsewhere.
There’s no way to know when a user signs up and uses the site using valid, legitimate information that he will then turn around and charge back everything with the bank, or that the bank will honor the chargebacks after speaking with our customer service department. A chargeback is a refund for bank purposes, as the amount is still refunded back through our payment processors. The only difference is that WebPower absorbs the fees attached by the bank. Banks do charge fees per chargeback transaction, so each of those refunds you observed was also accompanied by a per-transaction fee (sometimes up to $30 per transaction) that we pay. This fee is not passed along to video hosts.
In this instance, after careful review of the situation with our billing department, we’ve taken additional steps to make it easier to spotlight those users who have the potential to be “True Knowledge Fraud”-sters, fine-tuning some of the procedures we already have in place to catch some users before they are able to spend large sums of money in pay sessions on iFriends. If only the Psychic Hotlines of the ‘80’s could be employed to catch such customers!
Thank you for the suggestion you have offered! I will pass it along, but would also suggest that you use the “Help Us Improve This Feature” link to send it directly through to our development queue as well. While I do have the ear of our staff, when the input comes to us via the “Help Us Improve This Feature” directly from video hosts like yourself, they tend to get reviewed and potentially implemented much quicker.
I responded:
Thanks for clarifying that. Attached are 2 screenshots of what I’m
seeing in my ID Card settings page. I know what page you were looking
at but need you to click on the AMANDA36CISME link from that page,
which will take you right to the page with all those strange
characters I mentioned.And the e-mail address on top of the page – I already changed that
back to amanda36c_@hotmail.com a couple of weeks ago, from
jaime@webpower.com. Somehow, it keeps reverting back to jaime.
Hopefully it sticks this time.Also, someone noted that TROLLYMAN may have signed up again under
TROLLEYMAN this time. Just a heads-up.There was a $280.00 reserve adjustment added to my latest cheque. What
is it for? It doesn’t match up with any of my records.
When cross-referencing these reports with the information derived from the online reports I have, I started to notice major discrepancies. Strange things were happening in my fan club, as well. Jaime (an employee of the company, whose job was ‘chathost support’) had her e-mail address, on a few separate occasions, kept replacing mine in my settings. She had trouble offering any believable explanation for the TROLLEYMAN/TROLLYMAN concern I had. Webpower Inc./iFriends’ response:
Thanks for the screenshots! That certainly is making it easier to track
this down. I’m working to get these purged out, as they were from the
original iFriendsV2 testing and should no longer be on your account.As for the head’s up, I’ve double-checked and triple-checked the TROLLEYMAN
account and do not see that he is linked to the TROLLYMAN account from
before. Usage is inconsistent (heck, it’s even a different country) and
from what I’m seeing, the new TROLLEYMAN is not the old TROLLYMAN.VCH Support advises me that the $280 was a reimbursement for what was
previously deducted from the reserve account for the TROLLYMAN refunds. It
had been done before we issued the bonus to your payouts, so this was the
final adjustment.And, as requested, attached is a spreadsheet that shows what we have in your
reserves, and the checks associated with those figures. I hope this answers
the questions you have regarding what’s currently in the reserve. If not,
please let me know any specific questions you have based on this report and
I’d be happy to address them.
The information contained in that spreadsheet didn’t match up with any of the information I had access to online in my revenue stats. The rest is all on Ripoffreport.com
http://www.ripoffreport.com/adult-web-site/1-800-ifriends-ifrie/1-800-ifriends-ifriends-webpo-c9a5f.htm
Wow, you were smart enough to see through their games and leave from their site when you did.
Webpower/Ifriends were clearly lying and taking advantage of you as well as the other video hosts for many years. After reading your blog, I am now more sure than ever that every one attached to the companies of Webpower/Ifriends should not only be investigated but put in jail if found to have knowledge of this fraud.
This 10% reserve account was 10% revenue money taken from your weekly revenue and returned to you six months later, less any deduction for whatever refunds/chargebacks (which you had could see on your own refund list on their site?). Webpower/Ifriends never gave any of the video hosts a monthly account statement of all the transactions for 10% reserve account from the start of the deductions from your revenue? Nobody asked why there wasn’t a statement? What company deducts money from people that work for them on a weekly basis but never once gave them any kind of statement of accounts. I don’t even want to do the math on this number of 10% revenue withdrawn weekly for 6 months, held to make interest and any amount can be given back or not at all with no questions allowed to be asked, because the amount has to be staggeringly large.
Let’s see if I get this straight: Webpower/Ifriends takes all your revenue amounts for Trollyman and MacAdoo away from you because they received a chargeback from the customer’s bank for fraud even though the site has proof that all the information is that of the cardholder and he has to have knowledge of the fraud. Webpower/Ifriends never contacts you about the withdrawal of your paycheck but when you call them, you are told that you now owe the site money. When you email your company contact with Webpower/Ifriends, a different story comes out to you that it is “true knowledge fraud” and their VCH support were already investigating the fraud and refund adjustments. They go on to inform you that the amounts for Trolleyman taken from you would be put back into your reserve account as a bonus and to keep it confidential. Why were other video hosts who were affected by this customer fraud not compensated for it because they didn’t complain? You emailed your contact back to complain about this treatment and you are told a whole story about how Webpower/Ifriends can’t do anything about this kind of fraud and that the videohosts were lucky that the possible up to $30 charged for all chargebacks weren’t also deducted from you. So how did Trollyman and MacAdoo spent that much money, sometimes multiple times on the same day for quite some time without raising RED FLAGS in the payments dept. of Webpower/Ifriends? They fail to see this as a potential fraud or problem but only investigate it after the fact not during the transactions themselves? It seems to me the site was at fault not any video hosts who were just doing their job while expecting the site to do their due diligence. There are so many holes in this fraud that it only leaves more questions.
There are just so many questions that I would love for you to answer for me if you can. Here they all are about just this episode:
-Did Webpower/Ifriends always take refunds/chargebacks from the videohosts during your time working on their site? Did Webpower/Ifriends ever explain any of the refunds/chargebacks taken from your revenues?
-What was the $280 extra amount for and what happen to the MacAdoo refund amounts as you don’t mention anything about it so then why is it even there at the top of your blog?
How many times was your email address in your account settings changed to this Jaime@webpower.com and what was this email account for? Why would they change your email address for testing and not put it back? What was the explanation for your email address being changed?
-In your ripoff report file, you don’t ever explain or showed Webpower/Ifriends’ explanation as to why your revenue statements which was only available for a short period of time in your account on their site. Why were these accounts not archived for you to look back on at any time?Why were they all confidential information only when you ask for them all and showed no personnal customer information, according to you? Why did they need to speak only to your lawyer and did they ever even attempt to send you the confidentiality agreement only without the statements they had prepared for you?
Thank you for answering my question with a blog as I had no idea it would require such a bizarre answer. I hope my new questions aren’t annoying to you.
Thanks for your honesty.
ElliotNess29
To answer your questions:
No, in the beginning, they absorbed the chargebacks/refunds. Their excuse to hand them down to us came as the result of an apparent overwhelming number of people trying to fraud them with friends and their credit cards.
No, they never explained anything to us, with regards to those accounts or the transactions/balances, unless we specifically asked about it. Who is going to ask about every single refund? They seemed to be getting worse and worse and at one point, became too numerous to even keep track of, let alone, inquire about, one by one. All I can say about that is, when I asked, I got the standard answer “it was a true-knowledge fraud” – whatever the hell that is supposed to mean! The member truly knew he was frauding the system? Or is it that iFriends knew about it and let it continue? Look how long this supposed member TROLLEYMAN got away with this! Yes, there certainly was some ‘true knowledge’ there. I only found out about all those sessions charging back, that day I was told I owed iFriends money!
The answer (of course, her version passed down from VCH Support) was:
“VCH Support advises me that the $280 was a reimbursement for what was
previously deducted from the reserve account for the TROLLYMAN refunds. It
had been done before we issued the bonus to your payouts, so this was the
final adjustment.”
This is the whole problem – amounts never added up! Nothing was reconsilable with these figures I was given. My very reason for inquiring about seeing more. That’s when they clammed up, lawyered up and refused to give me a report of my 10% reserve account. Yes, they held back 10% from me, never showed me a damn thing about the balance of that acct, nor the transactions. When I asked for a report, they gave me one but I found a ton of deiscrpancies, things just not adding up with my own records, the ones they give me online. Nothing was adding up. So, I have no clue as to what happened to Macad00. Can’t make heads or tails of anything. Look at the answers I was getting. The revenue reports they showed me were an afterthought. I needed to see more. They refused to let me.
I don’t know how many times my e-mail was changed to Jaime’s but on the few occasions I returned to that page, (cookies cleared and all), it kept reverting back to jaime@webpower.com
This was in my account settings. Had my name, with all my information, my screennames. Noone was supposed to have access to this, except myself. Other odd things happened in there. Under the list of screennames I used, were entered a bunch of weird names that were not my screennames. I told her about that but she claimed she could not reproduce it and wanted me to send her a screenshot of what I was seeing. I did and apparently, they were using my account settings page as some sort of ‘testing’ platform. Why my page? Don’t they have a whole (active) site to tinker with? Why test with my settings? They used me an awful lot for tersting purposes. I never clued in as to why. Was it only me, or did they use others as well? My fan club was just as bad and I think was used for many test-level projects of theirs.
They only allowed us access to reports dating back 10 weeks. Anything beyond that (going back further), you would have to request a report for. I’m not sure if they would even give it to you, but I suppose one can try. Strangely, the 10% is held for much longer than that; 6 months. Not adding up in my mind, but heck, maybe that’s just because I like to actually look at my revenues. When I am given that privelege. You know? It’s convenient to know what kind of paycheck you have coming to you. Us little chathosts must be so lucky to be given such ‘confidential’ information. 
Those reports weren’t just confidentail when we asked for them, they were confidential all along, before we asked, as well as after we asked. I asked why, when it contained absolutely NO personal information on the member, why I wasn’t shown this and they never did offer a response for that. Just ignored that question, even though I repeatedly asked it. They had no control in the Ripoffreport.com forums over what I stated, nor did they even attempt to resolve anything there with me. They made a very vague, general statement, to acknowledge that they saw my complaint and then ran off, never to be heard from again. Claimed my statements were “unfounded”, but then when I came back and posted a screenshot to back up what I was saying, well, they were burnt. What can you say when someone posts a screenshot, proving you a liar?
They wanted to send my lawyer the confidentiality agreement to look over and then have me sign it. They refused to give me that statement of my 10% reserves without my signature on that ‘confidentiality agreement’ first. I didn’t have the money to lawyer up and somehow, I think they knew that. If I did, this would have gotten really ugly.
I hope this answers most of your questions. I chose to jot this all down very quickly, in order to get all the facts down in this elongated version of what I’m trying to cram into a ‘nutshell’.
It answered some of my questions but it just brought a whole lot more questions which just seems to be the norm when dealing with Webpower/Ifriends, like their other 430 complaints on Ripoff Report.
So if I have this right Webpower/Ifriends which is owned by Ex-wall Street analyst, Allan E Hadhazy who also has a computer engineering degree can’t or doesn/t bother to produce a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual statements of the Video Hosts 10% reserve account from day 1. He can’t seem to be able to allow you access to, on his site’s system, your own daily revenue reports from the day you started with his site. He couldn’t even find a way to archive the information in your account with their site. His two partners, Mark N Albers, a CPA and Andrew H Kayton, a lawyer who was once appointed as a Master to the Los Angeles County Court for Attorney Fraud cases, can’t figure out that they needed to give the Video Host access to daily revenue information for more than just 10 weeks and some kind of statement of account for the Video Hosts’ 10% reserve accounts. These three SUPPOSED upstanding citizens and wealthy businessmen decided that the Video Hosts 10% reserve accounts were their very own six-month credit line. They were able to do as they pleased with the funds, return some, return all or nothing on the Video Hosts weekly revenue checks and never even have to explain or give any kind of an account statement. This is the equivalent to a company’s ownership using an employee’s pension fund as they please without ever getting permission and never showing any kind of pension plan statement or records to the employees. It is called embezzlement which against the law!
When you decided to ask for the information which should have been given to you by law, they inform you that it is has confidential information and you will need to sign a ” Confidentiality agreement because these statements contain proprietary business information. You said on Ripoff report that your daily revenues for video chat and fans clubs only show customers handles and the amounts spent. So what’s confidential about that information or proprietary? The 10% reserve account should only have transactions and explantions of deposits, adjusts, refunds or chargebacks and the balance of the account, again where’s the confidential information? Why would it take three weeks to come up with those reports when it had to be at their finger tips at all times? This behavior by Webpower/Ifriends and the use of their General Counsel in this manner is highly suspicious and indicates something fraudulent is happening here.
Here’s just a couple of questions more for you to answer, if you wish or even can:
Can you access the archives of all your daily revenue reports from all the other sites you have worked on since leaving Webpower/Ifriends?
Do any of the other sites hold back 10% of revenues for refunds/chargebacks in an account for the Video Hosts?
Can you show me and others what you mean by multiple Fanclub accounts for the same member and an account where it looks like you weren’t ever paid for the renewals of the Fan Club memberships?
Thanks again,
Elliotness29
Rudeness: Examples taken from my free chat, the early morning hours of march 9th, 2012.
First, the opener:
TPJM19: canada sucks only losers live there who aren’t smart enough to be in the us i wouldn’t f u w a hockey stick eh
Then, the usual, monotonous routine of the loser that enters my room on a nightly basis, spewing the same crap, day after day. The very same stuff they have been saying for the last 2 years. I’m thinking this person is in need of a hobby. Perhaps they might want to attend a crafts seminar or workshop, just to better manage their spare time, which they appear to have plenty of.
Bostonian99: ur creepy your as old as my mom
Bostonian99: get a college degree you fucking moron
Bostonian99: i got one bitch
Bostonian99: have fun doing this for a job
Bostonian99: how about cunt
sure as hell not milf far from that
Bostonian99: i feel bad for you
Bostonian99 has successfully sent you $1.00 of GOLD.
Bostonian99: wow your job sucks huh
Bostonian99: ok well you can keep finger blasting yourself to that gross canadien symbol in the background
im sorry i was staring at your gross stomach can you repeat the question
Bostonian99: how does it feel to watch the bruins beat them everytime and you obviously know where im from
Bostonian99: thats funny you cant see my ip
Bostonian99 has been blocked
I should have blocked them sooner but what’s the difference, when they have been getting around it for 2 years? They will just re-enter with a new handle within seconds. Always do!
And just in the nick of time, enters my knight in shining armor. My Romeo – here to rescue me from the evil clenches of my harrasser, wanting to whisk me away, with the help of a hacker friend of his. All this, just for lil me? And wanting/asking nothing in return? This guy wants so desperately to help lil me get rid of a harrasser! Well, golly gee, lucky me! Oh, and who refers to himself as “some bum.from Denver..”?
I call “bullshit”…all the way. Read anyway. He’s pretty entertaining.
milehgh420: im somme bum from denevr
what i would do
is
milehgh420: get deep in to some hacking shit like i did
milehgh420: to break in to my iphone
milehgh420: if you need some names ill be happy to help you out
milehgh420: wow you are really up tight
milehgh420: im on your side here
chill
damn
hackers
milehgh420: im trying to help
milehgh420: to trace the people that are fuking with you
milehgh420: ok so just got spiked for trying to help nut if you dont want help thenkool
milehgh420: not a prob just trying to help but fuk it
milehgh420: not a prob
milehgh420: who do you think i am
milehgh420: here you want me
milehgh420: ill give me up go to facebook
milehgh420: (possibly using someone’s real name, so I won’t post it here, just in case) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is my name
milehgh420: im going to post just for you
watch my wall
We’re not supposed to take conversations (or anything else for that matter) off the platform. But perhaps milehgh420 knew that.
This was just weird. Looks to be nothing but a little bit of HTML coding! I guess this was a scare tactic of some sort. Supposed to make me squeal and hurry offline for fear that (oh my GOD!) I’ve been hacked! Yeah, not buying it, dweeb. Try morse code. It’s not so easily detectable.
yuloulou: Hack…
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yuloulou: color:transparent;background-image:none;_background-image:none;background-position:0 -102px;background-repeat:repeat-x;outline:none;text-decoration:none !important}.gbpdjs .gbto .gbm{min-width:99%}.gbz0l .gbtb2{border-top-color:transparent!importanFreeGol
yuloulou has been blocked
What an idiot.
Last words from someone who (apparently) didn’t give a damn and was “just trying to help”. Hmmm… lol
milehgh420: did you check
your post is up
you wanted to know who i was
milehgh420: YOU WANTED TO KNOW WHO I WAS THERE YOU GO
milehgh420: OPEN BOOK
IM NOT HIDDEN SHIT
my point
what ever
dude
There you have it – the life of a camgirl. Well, results may vary. This is definitely not typical and doesn’t reflect the industry as a whole. There is a reason I am being harrassed like this. My harrasser has made it clear in previous attacks, that they want me offline. I’ve even been threatened by them to “stay offline”. Pretty bold, but I don’t take orders very well. Never have. I’m more of a leader than a follower. In any case, if this doesn’t make much sense right now, it will, in time. Some things just take time but when they’re finally exposed, and only then, can I say “you wouldn’t have believed me anyway!”.
I have read all of your blogs and I would completely believe anything you would have to say. It is very clear to me as I am sure it is to you, who, why and what is the motive behind your harassment on Streamate for the last two years.
There is only one question that has nagged at me from all my reading of your writings: What made you look into your 10% reserve account and ask Webpower/Ifriends for a statement of your revenues after all those years?
I have some work to finish up here, so let me get back to you on this. I might have to post that in a separate blog entry for you, as it is quite long to explain.
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