2 Cam Sites Enabling You to Pay for Live Chats as You Go
As a rule of thumb, cam sites require that you buy credit or token packs in advance and then use them to fund your private shows and additional premium features put at your disposal. However, there are two sites where you can pay for your live chats as you go, directly from your credit card (or other payment means). You should check them out as they may better fit your desired payment strategy.
Flirt4Free.com
600+ gorgeous models ready for you day and night, hi-def streaming, multiple cam show options, plenty of kinky live action and lucrative reward and VIP programs make Flirt4Free one of the leading cam sites operating on the web today.
Chatting with the site's models will cost you $5.00/min on average. The least expensive models take $0.50/min. You won't find too many girls charging such low chat rates. However, there is no shortage of performers whose price revolves around $2.00/min. You won't need to pay extra for cam to cam shows, which you can initiate either on your computer or on your mobile device.
To save money, you can opt for a Multi User Show. The model will go all the way, getting rid of her clothes, but you'll have to share the excitement of watching her with other users and you won't be able to activate your cam (unless you were the one who started the show). On the bright side, you'll save around 20% compared to a 1-on-1 chat.
Flirt4Free has a hybrid payment system. You can buy credit packs as you'll do on other sites. Alternatively, the new Play & Pay feature allows you to pay at the end of the show directly from your credit card. You'll have to select a daily spending limit. The highest allowed limit is $500/day, which you can reach after you use Play & Pay for a while. Your account will be charged a 1-time fee of $4.50 to start the show, but it'll be subtracted from the final bill.
Play & Pay can be used only to fund private shows and tips and not other premium services the site offers. To use Play & Pay, start your show, select it as your payment option and then tap on Enter Show Now.
If you want to add some spice to your live chats, Flirt4Free is the right place for that. It has a whole section dedicated to kinky live shows called the Fetish Community. You'll find there more than 50 categories and dozens of dominatrices and submissive girls with whom you can realize all your fixations in front of the cam.
Flirt4Free has one of the best reward programs in the webcam industry. This program gives you points for every action you do on the site. These points can be converted into a variety of perks including credit bonuses and free access to paid for videos.
The VIP program gives you a bunch of benefits comprised of enhanced private messaging with models, 200 free videos a day, free hour-long feature shows, unlimited access to recorded shows, access to VIP only promos, a 5% discount on all video purchases and 150 monthly recurring credits. Registration fee is $39.95.
Streamate.com
Streamate is a top-notch freemium cam site with a large selection of around 1,500 flirtatious cam models constantly online. You can interact with them in public chats, in private chats or in exciting group Gold Shows. Almost all of these live performances are broadcast at HD quality.
Unlike Flirt4Free, on Streamate, you don't have the option to buy credit packs. You can only pay as you go. Once you sign up, you'll have to provide the payment means from which money will be delivered the moment you start a premium chat. This can be either your credit card or your PayPal account. To prevent you from being carried away, you'll be required to set a daily spending limit you can raise only be contacting Support.
The average price of a private chat on Streamate is $3.00/min. Minimum rate is $1.00/min. Be advised, other users can access your private chats as active participants if they're willing to pay the model's rate. To banish unwanted intruders, you can opt for an Exclusive show, but be prepared to pay 30-50 percent more than a regular private chat.
In our opinion, and many users would probably agree with us, Gold Shows are the most interesting live show type Streamate has to offer. In these shows, each models sets a tip goal that must be met in a predetermined time frame for her performance to begin. You'll have to pay in advance to reserve yourself a seat along with other users who paid like you.
Gold Shows are significantly cheaper than private chats. We're talking about less than $1.00/min on average. In addition, many models tend to get rid of their clothes even before their performance starts so as to lure users into paying for a seat, so this is your chance to take part in really hot live action.
Streamate has a reward program that gives you back some of the money you've spent on private cam chats depending on your reward level. This level is determined by the number of days you've been active on the site, i.e. you've engaged in at least one chat session longer than two minutes. To reach the top 10th level and get a 10% refund, you'll need to be active for 360 days.
Conclusion
Paying for live shows with your real money, as you go, has one major advantage. It enables you considerable flexibility in planning your budget and, therefore, gives you better control over your expenses. The only problem with this payment mechanism is that you may get carried away and spend more than you had initially planned. To prevent this from happening, the two sites we have reviewed here impose a daily spending limit that you can raise only be taking active measures, such as contacting their customer support.
If we had to choose the best site out of these two, we would opt for Flirt4Free. Don't get us wrong, Streamate has a wonderful platform for live shows, but Flirt4Free has better features including mobile c2c, a lucrative VIP program and more live show options. Furthermore, if you want to resort to a traditional payment system based on buying credits in advance, you can do that on Flirt4Free, unlike Streamate.