10.23.06

Niteflirt in the news…kind of…Part I?

Posted in Bad girls, Modern life, News at 10:36 am by angela

First, why is there a question mark after ‘Part I’?

Those of you who read my blog know that I tend to write long posts when I have something to say. But I have only just begun here, and it already looks like it’s going to be covering multiple related topics at length, so what’s probably going to happen is it’s going to get repeated rewrites and edits and end up as multiple posts. Either that, or when I run out of things to say, the question mark will mysteriously vanish.

Now, an intro, a question, a vocabulary word. What is Niteflirt? Silly, if you don’t know, you’d better call me RIGHT NOW! because you’ve been very neglectful. The Principal has been waiting for you in her Office, and you are LATE. You’re gonna catch HELL. I’m gonna whoop your ass. Why, I might even have to make a note on your permanent record!

But seriously. Back to reality. Niteflirt is the billing platform many of us doing phone sex and domination use to receive our pay. It’s not perfect, but compared to all other options that are available, it’s damned fine. Those of us who work that platform are called “Speakers” or “Flirts”.

The original news story can be found here. On a slow news weekend, it was picked up and run by just about every newsroom in the country, and now sits on all their websites. There were errors in the story, and there were also some questionable statements made – that were not questioned by the ‘reporter’.

Now before I start making my comments, I’ll give you the blog entry of another flirt, which will save me rewriting what she wrote as well as I would have liked to:

From Madame Knows: Don’t Be Diss’in MY Nite Flirt!

Words can’t properly express how livid this wee lil Fem Dom is at a recent media report, that tells a sad tale, and incorrectly highlights the company we are affiliated with.

TheKansasCityChannel.com. news station interview with Ms. Huge included a video lead- in shot of the Nite Flirt landing page, in spite of the fact she was working for a company that is using Keen’s stellar reputation to possibly cheat hard werkin’ phone actresses! (more…)

The company that supposedly ripped off this woman and others was not Niteflirt. It was a company that was using Niteflirt’s platform to run its business. It’s too easy (in my opinion – many flirts feel it should not even be possible) to start a company to do this, and there are no safeguards whatever for the workers. But nevertheless, there are some legitimate companies that run their phone sex businesses this way, though only a few pay their girls well.

What is “well”? Flirts working on Niteflirt pay a .20 a minute connection fee plus 30% for the use of the platform. They can set their own prices. So someone charging $1.64 a minute will receive up to $1 of that, depending on whether they choose to buy pay-per-click featuring (advertising) on the site.

Of course, a company that runs its business using Niteflirt has expenses. There may not be a lot of different expenses, as there would be if you were buying a phone dispatch system, 800 numbers, office space, etc., but they are still significant. Besides payroll for the workers, there are featuring and other advertising costs, and then you have to make enough money yourself to make the whole thing worthwhile. Advertising can be a big expense if you are actually going to get enough calls so the girls earn enough money to make it worth staying in your employ.

So what usually happens is someone looking for easy money will start one of these companies and hire naive women as independent contractors. They will usually pay .27 to .40 a minute of call time, so the women are dependent on their employer doing enough marketing to send them enough calls to pay their bills.

Unfortunately, one of the marketing strategies is to charge the customer rock bottom prices in order to get more calls, rating points/feedback, and return customers, then raise the prices later. By the time the owner realizes that this strategy is not reliable – rating points don’t bring in new customers and regualars are notoriously unreliable, not to mention the fact that customers who call low-priced girls often move on when the price is raised – the company is in the red and ready to miss paychecks.

Now here’s where the “scam artist” personality aspect of the fly-by-night make-money-fast business operator comes in. They know they are not going to be held accountable for scamming their workers, as the workers are not employees in the eyes of the law. It is an easy step to start making excuses as to why the paycheck is late or does not show up this week. Small excuses seamlessly move up to bigger excuses. The fact that the owner hired naive and unquestioning workers is now working to his or her advantage in a major way. Not only are these workers more likely to accept the excuses for late or non-payment, but they have not been learning about how the industry works or how independent operators all around them are running successful businesses without companies like these.

Trusting, gullible, yes. I’ve heard of situations where a company that paid really well stopped giving paychecks, and over a period of weeks ended up owing their top earners thousands of dollars. But work for 3 months for a company that has never given you a paycheck at all? That’s neither trusting nor gullible, it’s just plain not credible. Supposedly there were lots of these workers in exactly the same situation…Nope. This in itself is fishy.

Even if she told them that they were going to be receiving the money that the little recording announces at the end of each call (“$_.__ has been credited to your account”), it is not possible that these inexperienced workers would have been suddenly earning as much as top earners on Niteflirt do.

I admit it. When I got started, I did work for a company that used Niteflirt as a payment processor. They flew the coop the day before we started getting notifications from our banks that a paycheck had bounced. So even before we got those notices, we knew something very strange was happening, and we had already stopped working. Since the next paycheck had not been paid, they ended up owing about 3 weeks’ pay to all of us.

We knew something fishy was going on, we were able to communicate with each other, and we had already stopped working.

She is saying she worked for 3 months and never received any pay. All of them knew that none of them were being paid, but they kept working.

Sorry. Next!

So, for review, reinforcement, and application of learning: when you see the following call buttons on a girl’s website, she’s a Niteflirt girl, and she’s probably an independent operator who gets to keep most of the money she earns.

Your homework: call now!

Coming soon: Who me, check facts?

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