liveparadise.com

A good looking site that is based in France liveparadise can be navigated to some extent in English if you click the US flag button first, and look out for hosts who speak English.  Most Western European people of course speak some English, many of them do it better than the English!  (I'm looking at you Dutch people).  But there are a few clumsy wordings due I suppose to translations, like you go into chat with a model named Karyna and it is "Dialogue with Karyna" rather than "chat".  No biggie.  More of a problem is pages like buying credit which are in French only.  Unless you are a Francophone you may find this a hard site to use.

Although live chat appears to be offered as a guest visitors the system does keep prompting you to join up when you try to type, so you do need to do at the free registration.  Just needs an email address, doesn't even ask  you for a password as it will automatically generate that.  I guess they are tired of people choosing bad passwords.

They are selective though; you can't register if you are in certain countries, and you need to use a real email address, not a disposable one, though free email like hotmail is fine.  Annoyingly even after you have selected English for the language the free email signup thankyou page is entirely in French.  Using a translator I see that it says I can login right away, no need to have my email validated, and my password is in the URL!   When the email arrives it is also in French, and just has my username and password; no link to click to validate so seems they are not erally checking your email is real.

LiveParadise.com chooses some kind of random username for you too, but first time you try to go into chat it prompts you to choose a better name to be used in the live video text chat.   Type in your name and click the green button.  I don't think you have to be French to know that the green button is the right one to use, I mean it's the only button on the page.

Quite a conventional chat system with video that can be expanded to double size, no full screen though, sound, favorite and ratings. No tip button as far as I can see though.

Even after creating a free account, which gives a proper username in chat, it still isn't possible to chat as it prompts you to get credits.  I don't think credits are needed to chat, but you have to have some credits in order to have the right to talk.  So in a way that is similar to being a basic member in MFC where most of the time basic users are silenced.  Though over there at least you can see others talking but here at LiveParadise it is rather quiet and there may well be nobody else in chat.

Basic group show is 3 tokens a minute for each viewer, as a token is about 0.30 euros that works out to be $1.10/minute to participate in a group.

Privates are not per minute as such but come in 5 minute blocks.  Great for hosts but not so good for people wanting a quick look.  The basic minimum 5 minute show is 40 tokens.  So 40 x 0.30 = 12 then divide that into minutes gives you 2.40 euro a minute, or in US dollars that is then about $3/minute.  A moderate price for first world performers.

This 40 tokens a minute is a current "deal" as the "regular price" is 80 tokens, but I'm going to presume that the pricing isn't going to go up any time soon.

There are discounts for longer shows, so for example 20 minutes is 145 tokens.  Do the arithmetic on that and it works out to about 2.20 Euros a minute or to look at it another way a 10% discount.

You can also get tokens at a discount by purchasing more at once.  The 0.30 euro a token price I mentioned is if you buy the minimum block of 50 tokens for 15 Euros.  But you can buy 550 tokens for 110 Euros which is only 0.20 Euros a minute.

Adding both discounts together your cheapest private ends up being 145/20*0.2 - 1.45 euro a minute which is $1.80/minute, a very low cost comparable to sites like camcontacts.

But wow you had to jump through hoops to get that, I'm not convinced that on a daily basis you would be able to manage getting the best discount all the time.

Of course there is a catch here in what happens if you buy a 20 minute show but the host or you is unable to complete it and has to stop after 5 minutes.  Do you pay the 20 minute pricing in full, or pro-rata or get credits for the future?  This is not clear to me and I'll be asking for clarification.

All the payment pages are in French so though it is pretty easy to fill in a Credit Card form without reading the fields  I'm not sure that many English speakers will actually do that.

So all in all an interesting small site but really a bit impractical to use unless you are happy to read some French, ignore it, or try to rely on a translator.

If you'd like to comment more on liveparadise.com please post a message in the forum, or read other peoples comments.  Thanks.

For Models:

They are looking for English and well as French speaking models and you can sign up here.  Its a Swiss site.

Payments are weekly via bank transfers, though you can also request other methods.  There is a 100 euro minimum though which is quite a lot if you are just testing out the system. 

A percentage payout is not mentioned, instead they say "Private Show: € 0.75 / Min to € 1.00 / Min depending on the show duration", presumably less for the longer shows as per the viewer discount.  So if a short-expensive 5 minute show is 2.40 Euros a minute for the customer, but you get paid 1 euro then the payout is about 40%.

That's not particularly impressive and is more in line with streamate or imlive rather than the newer sites like MFC or CassCams.