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PrivateFeeds provides free live chat and then it's up to you to take the
chathost to one-on-one chat. No credit card is required to have a live
chat, you no longer even have to choose a handle, you can go right in as a
"guest1234" and type text chat to any of the online hosts in free chat.
You'll find around 80-100 chatrooms running most of the time, with perhaps a
third of that being guys.
A free account will avoid you getting kicked out of free chat. It is a
verification-with-card kind of free account though, VISA or Mastercard.
They'll suggest you buy a block of credits at the same time but that is
optional. You can't avoid giving your CC details thouhg, if you skip this
step then you get it again when you try to login next. Despite the "your
credit card will not be charged." we know nobody believes that
regardless of it being true or not. It doesn't help that the CC form is on
a site called inoveo.com without any explanation. Actually that is the
parent company of PrivateFeeds.
PrivateFeeds has a very complicated way of calculating credits. Basically it's about $1 to
0.83 credit, and you need 2 credits per minute for a semi-private 1 on 1 shows.
But very sensibly (and unlike a lot of other sites) they do give a discount if you buy more credits.
Free phone to US, Canada and UK viewers.
It uses lots of fancy technologies; flash movies and java
applets. Video can either be their own pure java based solution, which is
basically a fast slide show, or the new Windows Media Player 9 (WMP9) stream
which is like watching TV.
A link under the video window lets you switch back and forth from the normal to
the "broadband webcam video". If you have a high speed connection then
this is worth trying for sure.
Broadband means they are using real WMP9 streaming and this gives extremely high
quality and fluid video. The first time you switch to broadband it has to
load a Java based wrapper around the WMP and so you'll get a Java security
warning to trust a signed applet from DHLive, Inc -- which is the company who
owns Privatefeeds.
In private chat you are allowed to switch to full
screen mode as well if you are using broadband which will get you
maybe not "DVD" quality about at least "TV" quality video.
Not any more! Now it's a very good, but not outstanding flash video
system like so many others. There are "HD" cams which mean H264 but
only for the hosts that support it, which is around half overall and most of the
top models.
You will also have to be in private to get sound, as long as the host has the
speaker icon beside them that means when you are in private chat you'll be able
to hear them.
Introduced cam2cam in May 2009 as a standard part of privates.
There don't seem to be any more purely
free signups (just give an email address). You can chat as a guest, but if
you want a membership then it will cost you $1.99 (lifetime fee) -- or for $9.99
you get the lifetime membership and some credits thrown in.
There doesn't seem to be a separate "VIP membership" any more.
VIP membership, unlike that at sites like flirt4free where it's a monthly fee,
is free. PrivateFeeds VIP membership basically means they have
authenticated you as genuine, and that's done with a phone call and providing
your credit card details.
The benefits of being VIP not only are the 20 free credits for shows, but you
also get 10% extra credits on every purchase.
When you join you have to give a username and a password. they are
unusually strict about using sensible, secure, names -- the name has to have
letters AND numbers. While the password has to be at least 12 characters.
While slightly inconvenient this is very sensible and we should see more sites
doing this.
The only real down site to the site is the lack of girls I think -- 25 online
including two guys as I write. But they
put up a schedule so you can easily tell when your favorites are going to be
there! There are now plenty of hosts, ok not
livejasmin level or imlive, but as many as
Flirt4free if not more.
Private feeds has separate sub sites for:
I heard they did a deal with a studio to ensure that there are at least
some guys on the gay channel at all times. That's a real problem for
small gay sites, just not enough models. In the case of "Male
PrivateFeeds" as they call it there are a good selection for at
times.
A nice small but actually quite useful feature is that you can choose two
different color schemes for the site (once you are registered that is).
Either "day time" or "night time" for a light white look or a dark black
look:
Choose the one that's easier on your eyes.
PrivateFeeds mostly (always?) the same hosts as
Pornication.
LoveSexxxy is now the same as
privatefeeds though it used to be an independent site. You'll also
find the same hosts online realliveguys, livelatina,
HomeCams.com and
camsters which are all owned by livebucks.
Models signup here:
http://www.homecams.com/models/?id=2964
The pay out is 35% to 45% depending on -- well, depending on what they
think of you so I'm not sure what people really get.
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