seeme.com

General:

A newish cam site which seems to be in transition from being a dating site is seeme.com (no relation to the dead seemecams.com).  Seems they started up as a dating site a few months ago but are now looking to be a 3-part site with dating, cams and user-uploaded porn.  It's quite a standard type of system with tokens for tipping and privates and plenty of free chat.

For a while they were running labeled as "beta", but now that's gone and it looks like they consider themselves ready for the big time.  Certainly they have plenty of chatrooms running.  I saw about 60 running at the same time that a site like freecamstars, which is just as new, has only 30. 

Several of those rooms were in private chat or group show, so there are some paying customers, though most were in free chat.

Ok admittedly the oldest I could find in their list was 56, and a very attractive lady as well.  I can certainly believe that a show from her would appeal to many.

It has to be said though that the majority of the hosts are in the 18-21 group, but there are 10% of the online cams with ladies over 40.  So if you are looking for a mature MILF or cougar then without doubt seeme.com is a good place to have a look.

Oh and switching that "Female" to "Male" isn't going to help much as there are few men registered.  A few couples and transgender though if you have an interest.

Other good filters are Ethnicity, Hair, Height, Weight and Region.  Offering filtering both by Ethnicity and  by region is a good touch and allows for example to find North American Asians who of course are a totally different style to Asians in for example the Philippines.

One problem though is that the filters are not sticky.  So for example if you click "Asian" then "apply filter" you get all Asians, now if you click "Under 5'" because you like short girls, then click "apply filter" then you get a list of all short girls, not just short asians.  To get that you have to click both and filter.  This is not the way most filtering systems work so is confusing at first, but does work fine once you realize.

A big thing missing from the filtering though is things like Shaved/Hairy and skills or abilities or willingness like "Anal", "foot fetish" etc.  If I want to find a shaved Asian who does anal with pretty feet I'm going to have to search one by one to find her.

Once you have found the model for you then of course tips or privates are the next thought and so getting some credits.  Unlike the Friend button this buy credits does not interrupt your chat session at all, another window pops up and choose the amount to spend from $25 to $100.  That will get you from 250 to 1000 credits, so one credit is a dime ($0.10), and no discounts on bulk buying at all.  In fact as the purchase amounts are actually $24.99 and $99.99 it is actually microscopically more expensive buying large amounts, which is surely not what they intended.

Hopefully we'll see some bonus credits appear for higher purchase when they work this out. Encouraging bulk buying is a standard business process that camsites need to know about.

Payment is handled by "YazBill" and it says "http://www.seeme.com is a site of YazBill.com Ltd, UK".  I have never heard of this company and suspect it is part of SeeMe and not a 3rd party biller.  Cards accepted include Visa, Mastercard, Bleue, Switch, Maestro and Switch which shows this is a European, or more specifically British, company.  No AE, or Diners Club for example.

Realistically a lot of people are going to not notice that box, click through anyway and end up with a charge on their card next month they were not expected.  That will result in complaints and chargebacks.  Can't be a good idea.  On the other hand Ifriends has been doing very similar things for years and are still here.

The website is registered in Latvia, the company in UK, and is hosted in America.  So I'm not exactly what you'd call this except perhaps an international company!  From the way the billing is handled I'd say really a UK company though if that matters.

So presuming you have paid for credits, and carefully decided if you want a monthly charge or not, then how do you spend your money?  Tipping is happening in the top few rooms, but it is 10 tokens or even 1 token at a time.  Very slow.

Of course you can take a host into private and that will be 40 credits a minute, same for every host.  So $4/minute is a medium to slightly high price.

Alternatively if enough people tip her and get to 200 credits in tipping then the host can start a group show.  It seems a little inflexible.  And no host that I saw was setting goals for tips or anything like that.  I'm afraid the studio models are not as creative as independents when it comes to making up crazy games and goals to create a fun atmosphere.

At some times of the day they have online support via text chat, like the sort of thing you get on HP.COM or DELL.COM, weird thing is it isn't handled by their own chat software but is outsourced to one of those customer support companies.  They could answer basic questions like pricing and so on.

There is also a SeeMe.Com Wiki, again an idea pioneered by MFC for chat sites, which gives a lot of background information.  I found the wiki by searching for it, there doesn't seem to be any easy link to it from them seeme.com pages.

There is cam2cam but not for free members, you have to have at least a "premium" account which means have purchased credits at least once in your life.  Same as MFC basically.  As a premium or "upgraded" member you get to turn on your cam any time.  Of course that isn't to say anybody is going to look at it, as you know the hosts mostly don't want to watch you.

In conclusion it's a nicely made site, doing better than most for so young a site, but still experiencing start-up struggles.  Worth checking if you want a wide range of hosts on a new site, with not many other chatters to compete against.  But do be wary of the automatic monthly charging when buying credits.

If you'd like to comment more on seeme.com please post a message in the forum.  Thanks.

For Models:

Actively recruiting the best chathosts, look at their twitter feed.  Models signup http://www.seememodels.com/  There is good detailed information on their site, so much better than the majority of new sites.

The percentage is 40% pay, with higher promised for those who do well and work more on the site.  They say no chargebacks. 

If you introduce new members to the site then you get 100% of spending of the people you introduce, I'm not sure if that is just spending on you or spending on anybody.  Geoblocking by country, state, city.  Nudity not required. Payout by payoneer or wire.

They have emphasized "no chargebacks" which sounds great, perhaps slightly too good to be true, but for now if they can do it that will make a lot of hosts happy.

See their wiki for lots of tips on how to use the system to earn more.  One tip I didn't like though was that the system lets you pretend you have already received tips towards your goal. e.g. when you set a goal you don't have to start at '0'.  This is to falsely give the impression that you are already doing well in getting tips, I presume to encourage others to tip towards the goal as well.

If you have any information about this site, please let me know, thanks.