To warn our members and other cammodels about the potential problems of using Paypal EmelieSky decided to write an article about it. She also gives you good alternatives what you could use instead of Paypal...
Paypal has a zero tolerance towards adult content. If they find out that you use an account for that, you will lose both the account and the money on it. If you have a personal account too, it's possible that you will also lose that one. You can even be black listed and not be able to open up a new account in the future. Many customers know this. They can insist on paying you through Paypal, get their skypeshow (for example) and then contact Paypal and say something about their account been hacked or used by a friend. They can't say that THEY paid for adult material through the service, because then they will lose their account too. They just have to give PP a hint about what's going on. PP is like a blood hound on sniffing out accounts used for this. It's not a question about IF they find out; it's a question about WHEN they find out. Someone WILL eventually "sell you out" to them.
Other options
Another thing is that your personal information can become visible, often quite easily. Since Paypal is a good service to use online, it's not worth the risk of losing accounts and become black listed. Even if you transfer all the money directly after seeing them on the account, it's not worth the risk. There are other options out there.
- Dwolla (US only. They have confirmed that adult content is okay.)
- EntroPay (US only)
- OKPay (Non US)
- Paxum (They have confirmed that adult content is okay.)
- CCBill (They have confirmed that adult content is okay.)
- Zombaio (Customized for Adult entertainment industry.)
- Amazon Gift Cards.
- Bitcoins
- CosmoPayment
- ePayService
- Your camsite currency.
If you work on a camsite, using that currency is often the best alternative. I think every payment service is taking a small fee, and some of them don't make the payment go through directly. Make sure to read what you sign up for regarding this and how they handle your personal information.
Amazon gifts
Regarding Amazon gifts, if you accept this, the customer can cancel the purchase if it's not shipped yet. Don't see a service as paid as a gift until you have it in your hands. Remember that Amazon can reveal your personal information if the product is from a third party seller. Gift cards are a more secure way to go. Remember that even if some of the services has confirmed that they are okay with adult content, they often have a stipulation about bestiality, child pornography (which can involve pretending to be under age) and obscenity.
If that's not an option you have to check out some of the payment methods posted in the article and decide witch one suits you best. I only have experience with payoneer and they are not the best alternative for payment of content because of delay and fees.
Most of the payment alternative have fees for various things.
So beware of clients who want to use Paypal as well! I hope this helps
so glad I saw this in time.
RAYNAJEANNE
I'm Canadian and the options are more scarce than someone that's living in the USA. At one point I had considered Bitcoin but the more I read about the 'underground web' and the red flags it raised, the less I wanted that burden.
Sorry I wrote a book. For me anyhow, this is an important topic.
I had a gift only chip in on my MFC profile not too long ago. Which is connected to paypal. It was to help raise money for my new house. It was reported and frozen for 180 days. They have the option to charge back and extra. Eep! Don't use it.
SeeMe: Read the Terms of Use or your Agreement with the cam site. I am sure non of them allow your to promote cam sales off site, that would be entirely unethical anyway IMO - some may allow you to garner transactions off site for goods/services you can not sell on their site. And there are those that do not allow you to have any sort of personal interaction off site (at least you can not give the client another means of contacting you - either via twitter, email - anything) of course, that doesn't stop anyone from doing a Google search for you (which points to the important of keeping the same stage name across platforms). Once you know the terms of use for the site you are working on then you can make an informed decision from there.
Keep in mind that gift cards can be sold for cash, too, so they can pay bills, although possibly at a bit of a loss.
Awesome advice though
heheOther than that I would never use chip in or paypal again.
I actually prefer giftrocket. All they need is your email and that's it. They pay and you select the method of how you want to receive your funds be it cash in check form, paypal deposit , DD or an actual gift card. This was an epic find! Glad a fellow camgirl brought it up
every1 has paypal, but only a few ppl have paxum..
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