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If you are considering working for Register Talent LLC “RT” in Williamsville New York or any other studio or agency with your Streamate account, please read my review. I predict that RT will post many phony positive reviews after I spread my negative experience to as many people who I can get to read it. Please note that I will show my face to show you that I am a REAL person.
I want to tell you about my experience with RT Cams and the nightmare “Kristopher Howard” and his company (one person) has put me through. I beg you to learn from my mistake, and AVOID this company like the plague.
I am an amateur porn girl with a growing business. I contacted RT to help with my own website, and “Kristopher” was quick to direct me to his studio to webcam with Streamates. I have worked with Streamates before and with disappointing results (before my porn videos). Kris told me that some of his models are making 20-100% more from than what they made on their own, and also he would help me with my settings and make sure I was streaming in HD quality. He would also raise my private and exclusive rates and label my stream account as pornstar, all of this I could have done on my own, but the allure of his extra help with promotions, and confident voice made me quick to agree to sign on with him “verbally, ” not written.
Everything seemed perfect while he got me set up, a new webcam (I bought), new settings for my encoder, etc., until I got on and started working with him. I found that I was making the same on streamate that I was before, but was selling more of my videos, and custom videos. This is business that I would have made without him, because obviously I didn’t have the porn business before. I was making the same as I did with him on the webcam alone, well almost minus his “5% cut.”
RT studios takes 5% of your pay and they “advertise” you on three of their sites that don’t even show up in the top 10 pages of google search for “cam girls, cam sex, or cam nude modeling;” basically this means their sites are garbage. They also charge you $3 simply to write out a check for you, but he justifies it by telling you they do work by showing what you have made annually with their company. Which means nothing to me, I could do that by my own by logging in my earnings on an excel file, or just “look it up” because streamates saves your earnings information.
I knew I wanted out right away, but I wanted to give them a fair shot. I gave them four weeks. I thought this was kind of me because this was “repaying Kris” for his time with me in setting up my account; he did help with my encoder and telling me my supposed HD webcam was garbage. The settings, by the way, is something you can also look up with streamates “on your own.”
When I called to have Kris release me, he said that his manager, “Evan” might not allow me to be released. I was livid! I did what anyone would do when they are dissatisfied with a service. I asked to speak to a manager, which I will discuss later, I let him know that I will write honest reviews online of my experiences with RT, and I told him I will meet with a lawyer to help right their wrong. Kris saw this as “threats, ” but I see it is a kindness to let him know that I am not one to be used and treated like a “[censored] in his stable.”
Two days later I get a call from Kris, “good news, they will release me. I sent an email to Streamate to release you from our studio.” Phew! I was relieved but still suspicious. I popped onto my MissMissa account and did a private session with a customer. I looked at my earnings and saw that I was still working for Kris at RT.
I emailed Stream Mates:
Chris from RT studios told me that he emailed you to release me. I signed on today, and found that they are still taking his 5 percent cut, so I quickly signed off. Please let me know when I am 100% with Streamates and NOT RT studios. Thanks, Melissa -- MissMissa on Streamate
Stream mate emailed me back with a confusing response. They did not answer my question but left more questions to be answered:
'I'm sorry, but currently its not possible to just "switch" accounts. Accounts within studios are protected and cannot just close and open up elsewhere. Please contact your studio manager for any further questions. Hope this helps' Thanks
Kris said that he would CC me on the email when he would release me previously, but he never did. I suspect that he never emailed Streamates at all! Why would he? If I get on, I work for him and his 5%, if I don’t get on, there is no money to be made for him. There is no benefit in his mind to release me from his studio. I have texted him, and asked him to email again and CC me on the “release” email. No response.
I am not able to speak to manager “Evan, ” nor will Kris tell me the manager’s last name. If you do a search for RT company, it shows the company as “1” employee. This makes sense because the only person I have spoken with is Kris and he answers my streaming questions at different times of the day and night. The fact that this is a one man operation, doesn’t bother me, but it does bother me when I am lied to. The fact that Streamate allows studios like RT to hijack your account, and sort of force you to work in a slavery type environment is outrageous, shocking, and just wrong. I sell independently on other website, and have other sources of income. If Streamate was my only income, I would be even more upset than I am. I shudder to think of all the women who are working in slavery type situations where they can not be released from their studios. It is my hope that as many women as possible read my story, and stay as far away from RT and other studios as possible.
My prediction is that RT will post many “fake” positive reviews of his company. But to show you that I am a real person, I will post my face here.
This is awful that this happened to you. Streamates is iron-clad on their studio agreements, so at least you know Streamate stood by their part of the bargain. On the other hand, apparently he did not have the ability to offer the correct PR. I am a camhost, a webmaster, + been in Advertisging for years. Wish you would of worked for me before you got hooked up with this person. I could maximize a performer via remote access. Something they could not do theirself. Anyway, you're right, the encoder settings and your porn status are nothing new. That is not too hard to figure out and tweek the encoder out. Don't know if you will read this, and I am bad at remembering names, but visit me if online. I am Joysquirt peekshowonline com
As "Joysquirt" pointed out in the other reply from 2012 joining a proper studio that assists you in making more money can be a solid plan, and works well for many models. As with any industry there are good companies to work with and there are bad companies to work with, however most will take considerably more than a 5% cut . If all they want to take is 5% after setting you up with a new camera, and proper encoder settings and some ongoing promotions then you were actually getting an extraordinary value, and to complain about 5% in this scenario is entirely petty on your part. Also, to refer to them as slavers is dramatic and slanderous.
You apparently believe that you are entitled to being "released" in regards to your identity on Streamate, but that is simply not the case and this is how Streamate protects it's studios from models who would otherwise exploit studios. In a world without such protections studios would constantly lose and fail due to the fact that models will use them to get on their feet and begin making an income, the studio may even assist the model in acquiring equipment just to be kicked to the curb by the model as she runs off with their proprietary strategies, technical settings, training, and a network (one that she would not normally have access to if it weren't for the studio), which is quite obviously not fair to the studio who initially provided her with all of these things that allowed her to become a success in the first place.
The studio you speak of in your rant is well within it's rights and the policy that you are protesting is Streamate's policy so if you want to confront somebody about this you would need to confront Streamate itself, and i doubt that you could assemble a legal team of the caliber required for such an undertaking. You and your attorneys would lose that battle and you would be left with legal fees to pay when it is finished, so that would be a dead-end and a waste of time for you, therefore i cannot suggest going down that path.
Honestly, if your panties are in such a twist over 5% then why not just forget about Streamate and join one of the many other popular cam services out there, there are plenty to choose from such as IMlive, MFC, Live Jasmin, Chaturbate, Kink dot com, so there is no need to obsess over Streamate the way you do, not when alternative options are so abundant.