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bongacams.com

BongaCams.com
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www.bongacams.com
Attention dear models!

We would like to inform you about the changes that have occurred at the site in recent times. Most of the models, which continue to work successfully on our site are already known about these changes, but for some models that come to the site extremely rare, these changes are unknown. Therefore, we want to inform all our models about these innovations that will make your job more interesting, more varied and and will allow you to earn even more!

Now, what changes have occurred in model's profile:
We have created for models a more modern and user-friendly profile, with lots of new useful features:

- Now models can upload their videos and SELL them. This is very popular thing among our customers and also it's a good possibility to earn good additional money for you.
- Obtain from customers virtual and REAL gifts. We have many categories of gifts in our store, where models can choose what they want.
- There will be two new fields: "Achievements" and "Virtual gifts".
- Ability to add the best customers in your profile.
- We have created a wishlist for models, where they may show all their wishes.
- Added schedule. This will allow your customers to always know when you appear on the site.
- Very convenient system of private messages with a lot of different criteria.

This is just a small part of all the changes that we plan to do in the near future. But we are already confident that these changes will please you and give you pleasure every time you visit the site!

If you will have any problems or questions, please contact our main administrator.

Contacts:
skype: leo.bongacams
e-mail:leo@bongacams.com
yahoo: leobongacams
icq: 633934013

Thank you all for your attention, and of course good luck!

P.S. See you online on BongaCams.com!
 
I don't see a reason to doubt them, tbh. They have nearly 400 models online right now, which doesn't break records, but they definitely have their clientele. They also do a fair bit of promotion. That doesn't mean it's the best or biggest site ever, but there's no reason to poop on them.
 
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I don't see a reason to doubt them, tbh. They have nearly 400 models online right now, which doesn't break records, but they definitely have their clientele. They also do a fair bit of promotion. That doesn't mean it's the best or biggest site ever, but there's no reason to poop on them.
No certainly they're doing just fine, clearly. But when people lean on traffic stats and try to say they're doing better than say, MFC, SM, or CB, that's when I say "well, not so fast..."
 
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I don't know anything about the site other than occasional gigglesnorts from this thread, and that it pops up if you're on like pornhub or wherever. From that kind of quick look, it looks the same as a SM white label and I wouldn't know it as any different without clicking on an individual model. The home pages all look the same.

For good or bad that's one thing MFC has going for it's look in that it stands out. Every other camsite looks exactly the same initially. And Chaturbate kind of looks like all the others and MFC had a raunchy lovechild.
 
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I went to the site for the first time today. Spent about 3 minutes there. A huge detractor for me was all the girls who don't speak English. Not the girls themselves, mind you, but the fact that within that 3 minutes, I didn't see an easy way to filter for "English-speaking only." Granted, there might be a way to filter, but I'm lazy. And I like to assume that the average cam watcher is similar. If you don't find easy wank material within the first few minutes, you're gonna go back to a camsite you already know.
 
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Dear BongaCams.

I'm a big fan of your site. I mean, I've never actually used it but I admire the way you engage with potential customers and models in threads like this one. Would you consider commissioning my BongaCams rap and using it in your marketing materials? I have a flat fee of $5000 but will accept an unlimited supply of BB Cream as part-payment. I've taken the liberty of typing up a verse from the rap. It's fire.

Bonga
Wonga
Man, this shit is cray
Like Willy fucking Wonka
Dem girls are here to play
Bonga Bonga
Bonga Bonga boo
Now I gotta get me some of that BB Cream and rub it on dem titties too
Yeah, my flow is fire and my rap game is strong
Biddly biddly biddly biddly biddly biddly bong

So confident am I that you'll love my rap, that I've gone ahead and produced 7000 physical copies on CD, and have included your company's logo on the front in the name of corporate synergy. I trust this is okay, but just let me know if it's not. I have some promotional Guitar Hero stickers at home that I can use to cover up your logo with if need be.
 
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Not sure what site that's from, but didn't we (ACF) at some point determine that traffic rating sites are pretty bogus?

Similarweb As you say, no stats site is 100%

Bonga dude does have a very unusual approach to PR but he's found a gap and filled it...very few of the models speak english but as most of the traffic seems to be from Russia, I guess models and customers are a good match.

Bonga Dude's post though do make me smile over my morning coffee!
 
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Dear independent models and studios,

We have a great news! BongaCams is now on Instagram!

Send us your most seductive and exciting photos to: jane@bongacash.com
The best photos will be daily published on the official BongaCams Instagram.
Sharing your pictures in BongaCams Instagram will help you to attract more visitors into your chat room, and earn more money! ;)




Best Regards,
BongaCams Team
 
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Dear Models,

Please be informed that the additional point "Start Countdown" was added to the chat for your convenience.
You need to select how much tokens you want to earn for this webcam session to start the countdown.

You have to use certain variables to make your chat room topic be updated automatically:
@total: shows the total number of the tokens for the countdown
@sofar: shows number of tokens have been already earned in the countdown
@remain: shows the number of tokens left in the countdown

If you have any questions or problems, please contact our support team

Thank you for attention!
BongaCams Team
 
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Dear Friends!

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Another year filled with joyous memories has passed. All of you have made 2015 year very special, and we wish for you to continue to do so! It is time for new dreams, experiences and joys. We hope you have a great year ahead! Thank you for being with us! We promise to make more efforts that you feel comfortable working with BongaCams.

With your help and support we always have the power to add new features and try to make your life more enjoyable! We really hope that in 2016 we will succeed it even better!
We wish you Happy New Year from the bottom of our hearts!

With kindest regards,
BongaCams Team

P.S. As an early gift for the upcoming New Year 2016, we have sent you your payments today! ;)
 
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Dear models!

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We are happy to inform you that from now on BongaCams is completely free from chargebacks and refunds! You will never have to deal with any payment disputes ever again!
At BongaCams, we always try to put our models well-being at the center of everything we do and payment disputes are no different. Being an online model comes with many challenges – chargebacks shouldn’t be one of them!

From now on we'll cover all chargebacks and refunds (regardless of the cause), so that you can focus on your work and let us worry about the rest! If you don't have an account with us - now is the time to sign up and start earning money!

Wtih kind regards,
BongaCams Team
 
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I went to the site for the first time today. Spent about 3 minutes there. A huge detractor for me was all the girls who don't speak English. Not the girls themselves, mind you, but the fact that within that 3 minutes, I didn't see an easy way to filter for "English-speaking only." Granted, there might be a way to filter, but I'm lazy. And I like to assume that the average cam watcher is similar. If you don't find easy wank material within the first few minutes, you're gonna go back to a camsite you already know.

Most of girls are from the Eastern Europe.
 
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Dear models!

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Do you want to light up in the top of BongaCams models? We have made several changes to make it more real! So we start hold the weekly contest 'Top 100 of the Week'! As before, the higher position will bring you more points. But now it would be 100 participants, not 50!

Conditions remain almost unchanged. The only thing that becomes different - is the number of participants. And also the fact that the model, who took 51 place and above, will receive 15 USD.

Furthermore, from now it will be the separate 'Top Chatroom Contest' for transsexuals! The prize for the first place is 5 USD, for the second is 3 USD. Winners are determined every hour.

More details about conditions can be found here.

Please note that contests are created for fun and motivation of our members. So do not take it too seriously. Moreover, all of you are special, and we appreciate each and every one of our models!

Kind regards,
BongaCams Team
 
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Hello, everyone!

We’ve noticed that models, especially the new ones, often ask us for useful tips and tricks for increasing their income. As it turns out many of them are completely unaware of different ways to make money on our site.

This is why we’ve decided to give you a brief overview of all the income possibilities at BongaCams, while discussing some of them in greater detail.

Let’s not get into details about the necessity of constantly changing your appearance, attracting new members, smiling and looking good on camera, maintaining good sound and image quality as well as many other things that have to do with your live performance.

We can discuss all that some other time. Right now let’s just look at the numbers:

1. The first and the most significant source of a models income is your commission money. You get over 50% of all the tokens that you earn at BongaCams.

So how do you earn tokens? First of all, by getting tips from members. Most successful models on our site get about 80-90% of their income from tips. Secondly, by participating in live chats. Here are the prices for different types of live chats.
  • Group Chat – 15 tokens a minute
  • Private Chat – 30 tokens a minute
  • Full Private Chat – 45 tokens a minute
  • Spying – 7 tokens a minute

2. The second major source of a models income is the cash prices that you get for getting top places in different contests. Let’s have a closer look at what those contests are, and what are the prices for getting top places.

FOR FEMALES:

1. Female Top 100 of the Week
At the end of every week, the top 100 models with the most points will receive a prize!
  • 1 place – $1000
  • 2 place – $500
  • 3 place – $300
  • 4-15 place – $100
  • 16-30 place – $50
  • 31-50 place – $25
  • 51-100 ace – $15

2. Top chat room competition
Every hour BongaCams pays prize money to two models who manage to attract the largest amount of visitors into their chatrooms at the same time. Both females and couples are welcome to participate!
  • 1 place – $10
  • 2 place – $5
Prize fund: $20 000 every single month!


FOR MALES AND SHEMALES:

1. Male & Shemale Top 10 of the Week
At the end of every week, the top 10 models with the most points will receive a prize!
  • 1 place – $200
  • 2 place – $100
  • 3 place – $50
  • 4-10 place – $25

2. Top chat room competition for transsexuals
Every hour BongaCams pays prize money to two models who manage to attract the largest amount of visitors into their chatrooms at the same time. Both shemales and shemale couples are welcome to participate!
  • 1 place – $5
  • 2 place – $3
Prize fund: $5 952 every single month!

NB! You can read more about the terms of different contests right here.

3. The third way to make money on our site is by receiving up to 25% cut of all the purchases that a member that you referred to BongaCams makes on the site. Surely you have some friends or acquaintances that might enjoy live cams. Or some admirers that you enjoyed chatting with on some other site you used to work at. You might even have a clever plan to lure them to our site all in the name of increasing your profits :)

Refer members to BongaCams using your Referral Link and get up to 25 % of all their token purchases regardless whether they spend them on you or some other model.

4. And the last but not least important fourth way to make money on our site is by referring potential models to BongaCash and getting 5% of their earnings. There’s nothing complicated about it! Now you know all the income possibilities for models and know how to motivate them in order to better profit from their income ;)

NB! And don’t forget about the fact that we provide all our models with 100% protection against chargebacks and refunds! So you can rest assured knowing that you are never going to lose money due to annoying payment disputes.

And it goes without saying that if you need more information or get any questions you can always consult our FAQ or write to our Support team.
 
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I really wish Bonga Cams would stop with this misleading and false information. Please, stop.

Bonga Cams is a wonderful place to cam but their marketing is so bad and I truly believe this inhibits a lot of people from trying out the website. It's starting to be embarrassing that so much of their marketing is false.

If you're a model and you are looking for real information about Bonga, please see this thread in the Model's only section started by me: https://www.ambercutie.com/forums/threads/bonga-cams-questions-information.23182

Now, to clear this up:

The first and the most significant source of a models income is your commission money. You get over 50% of all the tokens that you earn at BongaCams.

Models DO NOT get over 50% of the tokens at Bonga Cams. The breakdown is as follows:

Members purchase tokens at 16 cents (for the smallest package) up to 11 cents (for the largest package). If we keep 5 cents per token, that would make our commission 31.2% - 45.5%.

For our referring referred members, depending on which token package they buy, we'd keep 50.1% - 60.5% if they spend the tokens on us. However, for any purchase they make, we keep 15%.

Most successful models on our site get about 80-90% of their income from tips.

I don't know where this number comes from but it's been my experience personally and from watching others and from hearing from other fellow models that work on Bonga that the majority of our income comes from privates (spy, group, private and full private) and not free chat tips as this statement implies.

In fact, it's my experience that the Bonga chat free chat experience is much cheaper than that of other sites. I would guess this is partly due to their token packages being much more expensive than say MFC and CB.

The third way to make money on our site is by receiving up to 25% cut of all the purchases that a member that you referred to BongaCams makes on the site.
Refer members to BongaCams using your Referral Link and get up to 25 % of all their token purchases regardless whether they spend them on you or some other model.

This is completely false. The rate is 15% for members that are referred.
 
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So many likes for your response above!!!!!! ha. Also, I see why the tip culture there is so cheap - the maximum guys can buy is 500.. wtf? That's only $25 to us and goodness knows how much the poor shmucks have to pay to purchase that. No wonder the norm seems to be 1 and 10 token tips!
 
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maximum packages has a lower cap initially of 666 but as your membership increases (from purchasing) so too do the size packages members can purchase. it's the same system as MFC, CB, etc. as example at the second tier of membership, Platinum, members have the following options for purchases.
as Miqote pointed out above, even using the lower cost packages, at .109 each and the model gaining .05 per token, that still works out to 45.87%, still under the 50% the propaganda states. and yes those values are not a consistent decline in per token cost, its been discussed among members and no one understands the pricing but the per unit costs are printed on the page so anyone with basic math skills can compare cost efficiency when purchasing.

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Dear Miqote,

We would like to start off by saying THANK YOU for how passionate you are about our site! We are very grateful for all the valuable feedback you have given us, especially the criticism. In addition to that, your attitude toward other models is unbelievably kind and helpful! The way you take the time to help other performers, and provide them with much needed information and advice is nothing but admirable. :)

Your social networking activity is also very impressive! We wish more models were like you. You have your own site, run a blog about working on BongaCams, participate in modeling discussion threads and are active on various social media platforms! We are absolutely delighted that you have decided to work with us!

All your comments and suggestions were heard and appreciated. This is why it is so unfortunate that you do not always have the correct information about working on our site. We would like to take this opportunity to clarify some of the issues raised in your posts.

Models DO NOT get over 50% of the tokens at Bonga Cams. The breakdown is as follows:

Members purchase tokens at 16 cents (for the smallest package) up to 11 cents (for the largest package). If we keep 5 cents per token, that would make our commission 31.2% - 45.5%.

For our referring referred members, depending on which token package they buy, we'd keep 50.1% - 60.5% if they spend the tokens on us. However, for any purchase they make, we keep 15%.
First of all, we would like to explain how your commission money is calculated. The percentage is NOT based on the amount that a member spends in your chat room. It is based on the commission rate indicated in your profile and the price of 1 Token. Models are always paid THE SAME amount (0.1 EUR) per Token.

For example, if a models has 50% in her/his profile, (s)he gets 0,05 EUR from 1 token. If 40% - 0,04 EUR. Later this amount is converted from euros to dollars. The conversion rate depends on our partner bank.

Models really can get more than 50%. To illustrate this let us look at an example of a token purchase from Australia:




As you can see this member from Australia pays 50 euros for 555 tokens by Wire transfer. If he spends these tokens on a model, who has 50%, then she will get 555 tokens * 0,05 EUR = 27,75 EUR.
So: 27.75 euros / 50 euros * 100% = 55.5% (is the models commission rate). And that is MORE than 50%.

I don't know where this number comes from but it's been my experience personally and from watching others and from hearing from other fellow models that work on Bonga that the majority of our income comes from privates (spy, group, private and full private) and not free chat tips as this statement implies.

In fact, it's my experience that the Bonga chat free chat experience is much cheaper than that of other sites. I would guess this is partly due to their token packages being much more expensive than say MFC and CB.
The majority of our models really get most of their income from tips. Of course, the exact percentage varies with time. If you use BongaCams for split camming, then you're really better off sticking to private, group and spy mode chats.

This is completely false. The rate is 15% for members that are referred.
Yes, you are entirely correct about 15% being the initial rate for all models. But everyone has the opportunity to earn up to 25%! Please contact our Support Team if you want to receive a higher percentage.

In any case, thank you for your attention! We will try to work harder to make all models feel more comfortable working with us ;)
 
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@bongacams.com Thank you for kind words about me and for taking the time to respond thoughtfully. A big criticism of Bonga is that inquiries on the forums are not responded to, so this is surely a step in the right direction. If I have incorrect information, I would certainly welcome the opportunity to be corrected - however, I am still not convinced.

The biggest concern here still seems to be rate. Please re-look at your original post, particularly this section here:
. You get over 50% of all the tokens that you earn at BongaCams.

Stating that models get over 50% on ALL of the tokens earned on Bonga Cams is just not correct.

This is a big difference than your second post here:

Models really can get more than 50%.

"Can get more than 50%" is much different than "you get over 50% of all the tokens you earn at BongaCams".

Do you see what a big difference this makes? I never disagreed about model's being able to receive 50% "or more" - I disagreed that model's receive 50% "or more" on ALL tokens. In fact, the referred member's rate is over 50% that I quoted. With your example, looking at my member's account and talking to my regulars that are members of Bonga, I do see that the "Bank Transfer" option is a better deal buying tokens. However, I feel as though very few people would even use this option over a credit card, especially if a member would have a delay in receiving the tokens via the bank transfer. So, I feel as though your example is more of an exception rather than typical.

I think we can simplify this by stating the following: If a member pays more than 10 cents (Euros or USD - because the conversion rate is, at this time, so similar), then the model is NOT receiving 50% or more.

And, most of the token packages, especially those available via credit card are more than 10 cents. So, I dare say that, much of the time, the model is not receiving 50% or more - even though, it is possible that he or she can. I feel as though we're in agreement on this, yes?

Finally, regarding this issue, I'd like to point out the following false information on the Bonga home page on their FAQ:
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I feel as though this information should be corrected immediately.

Yes, you are entirely correct about 15% being the initial rate for all models. But everyone has the opportunity to earn up to 25%! Please contact our Support Team if you want to receive a higher percentage.

I have contacted support and will report back here, when they get back to me. It is not stated anywhere on the referral page that there is an opportunity to earn more than 15% on referrals. Perhaps this information should be more clearly shown?

Again, thank you for your response and I look forward to being apart of the process that improves Bonga Cams for everyone! :)
 
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Bonga Cams is a pretty good site, but I think there's a lot that can be changed or altered to make it even better and potentially more profitable for both the site and models.
  • Twitter - Currently you do not allow models to post their Twitter information. This should be changed so they can... if a model can give out their twitter info, the members can follow and receive notices when the model is online and know when to go online when their favorite model is online. This obviously can bring in more traffic to the site
  • Video Purchases - Currently you do allow models to post videos on their profiles for sale. If you're a VIP, you can see these for free. If you're crafty enough, you can just create a new account and pay $1 for a week of VIP and see all the videos you want for free. This isn't beneficial to the model in any way. With talking with models, the ones that I have talked to have had 0 people actually pay to watch the video. I think it would be advantageous for the models that this VIP free feature be removed and/or allow models to post links to their video sites and/or allow them to advertise video sales for tokens and allow them to give links (like through Project Maenad) to the members (via PM) who tip for them. Obviously the last option would be best for both parties, as Bonga Cams would be getting the tokens and models can get content out to their members.
  • Room Helpers - Currently there is no system. If a model is doing a show and away from her keyboard, there is no way for her to moderate her own room. Allowing a member to ban can create issues with power hungry people who like to ban people for little to no reason... I wouldn't suggest to add a banning system. But, possibly allow the model to assign a room helper who can clear the chat when unwanted spam is posted, mute members who are being disrespectful, and edit topics/countdowns.
 
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@bongacams.com Thank you for kind words about me and for taking the time to respond thoughtfully. A big criticism of Bonga is that inquiries on the forums are not responded to, so this is surely a step in the right direction. If I have incorrect information, I would certainly welcome the opportunity to be corrected - however, I am still not convinced.

The biggest concern here still seems to be rate. Please re-look at your original post, particularly this section here:


Stating that models get over 50% on ALL of the tokens earned on Bonga Cams is just not correct.

This is a big difference than your second post here:



"Can get more than 50%" is much different than "you get over 50% of all the tokens you earn at BongaCams".

Do you see what a big difference this makes? I never disagreed about model's being able to receive 50% "or more" - I disagreed that model's receive 50% "or more" on ALL tokens. In fact, the referred member's rate is over 50% that I quoted. With your example, looking at my member's account and talking to my regulars that are members of Bonga, I do see that the "Bank Transfer" option is a better deal buying tokens. However, I feel as though very few people would even use this option over a credit card, especially if a member would have a delay in receiving the tokens via the bank transfer. So, I feel as though your example is more of an exception rather than typical.

I think we can simplify this by stating the following: If a member pays more than 10 cents (Euros or USD - because the conversion rate is, at this time, so similar), then the model is NOT receiving 50% or more.

And, most of the token packages, especially those available via credit card are more than 10 cents. So, I dare say that, much of the time, the model is not receiving 50% or more - even though, it is possible that he or she can. I feel as though we're in agreement on this, yes?

Finally, regarding this issue, I'd like to point out the following false information on the Bonga home page on their FAQ:
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I feel as though this information should be corrected immediately.



I have contacted support and will report back here, when they get back to me. It is not stated anywhere on the referral page that there is an opportunity to earn more than 15% on referrals. Perhaps this information should be more clearly shown?

Again, thank you for your response and I look forward to being apart of the process that improves Bonga Cams for everyone! :)
Thank you for taking the time to post this and wording it so clearly Miqote!

I also want to point out that Bonga stole most of the text on their token info page directly from MFC's haha.

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Bonga Cams is a pretty good site, but I think there's a lot that can be changed or altered to make it even better and potentially more profitable for both the site and models.
  • Twitter - Currently you do not allow models to post their Twitter information. This should be changed so they can... if a model can give out their twitter info, the members can follow and receive notices when the model is online and know when to go online when their favorite model is online. This obviously can bring in more traffic to the site
  • Video Purchases - Currently you do allow models to post videos on their profiles for sale. If you're a VIP, you can see these for free. If you're crafty enough, you can just create a new account and pay $1 for a week of VIP and see all the videos you want for free. This isn't beneficial to the model in any way. With talking with models, the ones that I have talked to have had 0 people actually pay to watch the video. I think it would be advantageous for the models that this VIP free feature be removed and/or allow models to post links to their video sites and/or allow them to advertise video sales for tokens and allow them to give links (like through Project Maenad) to the members (via PM) who tip for them. Obviously the last option would be best for both parties, as Bonga Cams would be getting the tokens and models can get content out to their members.
  • Room Helpers - Currently there is no system. If a model is doing a show and away from her keyboard, there is no way for her to moderate her own room. Allowing a member to ban can create issues with power hungry people who like to ban people for little to no reason... I wouldn't suggest to add a banning system. But, possibly allow the model to assign a room helper who can clear the chat when unwanted spam is posted, mute members who are being disrespectful, and edit topics/countdowns.

Thank you so much, @MiqDroid ! I couldn't agree with you more about these changes. I actually sent Bonga Cams support a long e-mail on 2/11/16 about my suggestions and feedback about the site but I have not received a response. This leads me to believe they don't care about my suggestions, which is in direct opposition to any logical business model and certainly the way they come across here in the forums.

I will provide a few highlights of my e-mail here:

- Twitter / Other Social Media - absolutely! I'd love to be able to directly give my fans on Bonga my Twitter / Tumblr and personal website. In fact, these are things Bonga cams said they really like and encourage other models to do. All of my sites direct traffic to my Bonga Cams profile. I feel as though if I'm advertising Bonga on all of my websites, it stands to reason that I can advertise myself on Bonga as well. It doesn't seem fair that I should be advertising for Bonga on all of my websites but Bonga does not let me advertise myself or provide any other way to be noticed (more on that below). As you stated Droid, it isn't to "steal" Bonga's traffic but rather to provide my fans updates about my online time on Bonga and/or new content available for sale. These are just examples. Currently, a simple google search will lead the user to my website and social media but it seems silly that this "barrier" is in place. All other popular token sites, such as MFC/CB, do not have this silly and pointless restriction.

- Video purchases - YES, YES, YES! On the model side of things, it is common talk for more experienced models on Bonga to advise newer models on Bonga to make sure they do NOT put up more than the 1 required video on Bonga because VIP members see the video for free. Although I can understand that as a "perk" of being a VIP member on Bonga, models should choose which videos can be viewed for free to VIP members and which videos absolutely must be tipped for. I myself would love to put up more of my videos to sell on Bonga but absolutely refuse to because of this flawed system. Additionally, as you stated, I cannot use Project Maenad, either. I asked support several times and they said that it will not go past their website filters. It's also important to note, as you said, many users can easily game the VIP system by paying $1 to try it out and then just create multiple accounts to keep it going.

Stemming off of this, currently, there is not any way for me to reward individual members. For example, I cannot reward my highest tipper, I cannot have raffles (users would pay tokens for raffle tickets) to give away a prize (such as a video or a free private session or my snapchat) or anything else. It would be wonderful to have this way to reward individual members, which also gives a BIG an incentive to tip! This is very common practice on MFC and I'm shocked that Bonga does not have anyway for models to do this.

- Room helper - SO MUCH YES here! It is absolutely annoying to be doing a show, only to have to stop what I'm doing to police my chat. Here again, all successful token chat sites, such as CB and MFC, have some kind of system in place for the model to assign a helper/moderator for the room to help.

- Model Advertisement - This is one thing I really feel Bonga can improve on. Currently, only the #1 model from the Bonga weekly contest is featured as the model of the week and there are no other ways to be featured on the Bonga cams website or blog or anything else. It would be nice to feature other models as well.

- Twitter Advertisement: Advertising in general on Twitter / Tumblr is huge. Currently, I only see Bonga Cams using Instagram and Facebook.... and they use random, stolen images that aren't even models that work on Bonga. There surely could be a lot of improvement here...

- Fair Weekly Contest - Stemming off of model advertisement, currently, one model is winning the contest over and over by gaming the weekly contest. I also brought this up to Bonga support and received no response. It is offensive to fellow models that are actually trying to work really hard for their placement and that Bonga would allow this type of behavior to continue.

Anyway, this is starting to get really long so I'll leave it at this. I hope these suggestions can be taken seriously. '


Thank you for taking the time to post this and wording it so clearly Miqote!

I also want to point out that Bonga stole most of the text on their token info page directly from MFC's haha.

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Twitter / Other Social Media - absolutely! I'd love to be able to directly give my fans on Bonga my Twitter / Tumblr and personal website. In fact, these are things Bonga cams said they really like and encourage other models to do. All of my sites direct traffic to my Bonga Cams profile. I feel as though if I'm advertising Bonga on all of my websites, it stands to reason that I can advertise myself on Bonga as well. It doesn't seem fair that I should be advertising for Bonga on all of my websites but Bonga does not let me advertise myself or provide any other way to be noticed (more on that below). As you stated Droid, it isn't to "steal" Bonga's traffic but rather to provide my fans updates about my online time on Bonga and/or new content available for sale. These are just examples. Currently, a simple google search will lead the user to my website and social media but it seems silly that this "barrier" is in place. All other popular token sites, such as MFC/CB, do not have this silly and pointless restriction.

Stemming off of this, currently, there is not any way for me to reward individual members. For example, I cannot reward my highest tipper, I cannot have raffles (users would pay tokens for raffle tickets) to give away a prize (such as a video or a free private session or my snapchat) or anything else. It would be wonderful to have this way to reward individual members, which also gives a BIG an incentive to tip! This is very common practice on MFC and I'm shocked that Bonga does not have anyway for models to do this.
As you point out these are both big features on MFC and it IS silly for a new site who already seems to be copying (at least partially) the business/pay model of MFC to not also incorporate them. They are huge aspects on why MFC is so successful.

I hate to be participating like this for a site that I have such a small opinion of, but I do feel if they made some changes to the way they present themselves and operate, many other current MFC models might *actually* be more interested in it. So I am keeping an eye on updates.
 
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As you point out these are both big features on MFC and it IS silly for a new site who already seems to be copying (at least partially) the business/pay model of MFC to not also incorporate them. They are huge aspects on why MFC is so successful.

I hate to be participating like this for a site that I have such a small opinion of, but I do feel if they made some changes to the way they present themselves and operate, many other current MFC models might *actually* be more interested in it. So I am keeping an eye on updates.

The site really has so much potential. Despite all the flaws, I do enjoy camming on Bonga and it is currently my main site. I really hope that these improvements can be made to make the website better for everybody. I certainly agree that more models would try out the site after they implement at least some of these changes and get their marketing together.
 
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Re: BongaCams.com - Update! And still looking for new models

At the end of the day bonga is a strange site populated by mostly russian models, the support is very poor (they believed the person they were pm'ing with was the model on cam because 'she moved') and if several models i have spoken to are to be believed, the owners record the camgirls shows and upload them to tube sites. the only reason i have not closed my account there is they have an offline messaging system so i can send a model friend messages when she is offline :p

Hello eddielaw1971,

BongaCams is invested in establishing a presence in the US. We are doing so by fulfilling the demand from English-speaking members for English-speaking models by diversifying the workforce with said models.
In regards to support, BongaCams offers 'round-the-clock personalized support from representatives all around the world, including the US. BongaCams has offices in Miami, FL and has hired amenable, professional and knowledgeable personnel in efforts to provide the highest quality of support and turn it into a competitive advantage; we are aware of the lack of effective and personalized support across the industry and intend to capitalize on it. Please visit our model portal http://bongamodels.com/ and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. Here, you will find the different method through which support can be readily contacted.
BongaCams is absolutely against shows being recorded. Irrespective from the fact it doesn't make much business sense to record our own live shows, BongaCams abides by DMCA guidelines, which is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Every model has the option to add a DMCA watermark to their feed which is meant to protect against proprietary infringement. In addition, we provide legal assistance whenever deemed necessary by models or studios, at no additional cost. This type of assistance can be easily accessed through the model's portal.
 
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