Cams.com Review
Quick Summary
- About 25,000 performers on the site, with about 500-1000 available at any given time
- Nice, straightforward, and relatively clean design and layout
- Some of the models get stroppy when you ask them to do unusual stuff!
- Unless you’re spending a LOT of time and money on the site, the upgrade features (premium membership and joining fan clubs) aren’t worth it.
- The price varies from model to model but we’ve seen prices as low as $1.49 per minute up to $5.99 per minute with a site average of around $2.99 per minute. This is a very competitive price compared to a lot of site available on the market today and with hundreds of models charging as low as $1.99 you will be in for a great time.
All in all Cams.com is a good quality webcam website with all the features you could imagine the only other webcam site that even compares is Wowfreecam.com
My experience
After hearing for a while about this site I
thought it’d be a good idea to do a review of it, to give you guys some idea of
what you can expect should you sign up.
The design is a lot cleaner than some other sites, this is an image of
their homepage. That’s at least partially reflective of the more
straightforward nature of the site’s offerings, which are:
1 ) Camgirls doing and saying stuff that you ask them to for money
2) Watching prerecorded camgirl shows
3) Having cam 2 cam with the models
Like most similar sites, cams.com offers a free “teaser†camgirl chat to
people. You just have to supply them with your email address and confirm it
(expect to receive some follow-up marketing emails). Also be aware when you’re
chatting to models that the girls can see how much credit you have in your
account and whether or not you belong to her “fan club†(it costs extra to join
a girl’s fan club, but you receive a discount on her private shows – full
details in this image.) Additionally, if you buy more than 30 minutes worth of
private shows over the course of a month, you get free access to a girl’s fan
club, or an extra month on one you already belong to.
Cams.com also has a “premiere†account–basically a “gold member†type deal that
provides further discounts on shows and allows you to have email contact with
the models. You can see a screenshot of the signup page for that listing the
features and benefits here. My call would be that unless you get REALLY hooked
on cams in general or a particular camgirl specifically, the upsell options
aren’t worth the cash you’d save.
Well, enough about the options and mechanics. Time to answer the questions
you’re really asking.
Are the girls hot?
Well, yeah. I mean, for any definition of “hot†you might
subscribe to, with 25,000 models on the site and about 500-1000 available at
any given time, if you can’t find one you think is attractive the problem is
probably not with the site.
Are the prerecorded shows any good?
I had a look at the top-rated video show at the time of the review, this one
here. This is what it looked like in full-screen resolution. The girl was
certainly very attractive (face and body), as well as being, uh, eager to
please (she accidentally the whole dildo!) I did find the sound a bit jerky,
but that may just have been my connection, as the video was streaming (Flash).
I noticed that her accent was Eastern European, something you’ll find with a
lot of the camgirls for reasons beyond the scope of this review. Which brings
me to a point that might be worth making – a lot of the models will have
limited English, even if they SAY they speak it. If this matters to you (and
keeping it real – it probably doesn’t) be sure to check out their profiles
before paying for a show; they’ll usually give you an idea of where the model
is from, which should inform your expectations.
Another thing about the prerecorded shows is that there’s no option to save
them, and paying to see one only gives you a single streamed viewing. If you
want to record them yourself to re-watch at your leisure you’ll have to find a
3rd party solution–perhaps a browser plugin or standalone session-recording
application.
When you ask them to jump, do they say “how high?
Some of the models are picky about what they’ll do or not do
on camera. It’s pretty common for them to refuse anal, DP, watersports,
etcetera, or to charge a premium for such services. For example, the girl in
the prerecorded show mentioned above states that there’s certain acts she’ll
only perform for guys who join her fan club. To get a feel for how generally
complicit the models are on the site, I thought I’d masquerade as a guy with a
slightly unusual fetish and see how many of them I could get to go along with
it.
I figured I wouldn’t choose anything too bizarre or disgusting. I settled on
just asking to see the performer place a shoe on her head. At $2 a minute, it
doesn’t seem like some big huge thing to ask for, right? WRONG. I got turned
down by FOUR girls consecutively until a BBW angel gave me what I was asking
for. Very disappointing. And what reasons did they give for turning down my
entirely reasonable request?
- Aliciasforms figured she could do better out of one of the other guys pestering her (reasonable?)
- The inappropriately-namedMistressKinks decided playing with her hair and ignoring me was way more awesome than getting paid.
- Morticia decided she was too much of a big bad dominatrix to do anything so demeaning as putting a shoe on her head. Though she at least had the good grace to laugh hysterically when I asked her if she would.
- Oxygen thought she could do better out of one of the other guys (reasonable redux?)
Parting shots
The other way around
If you are into getting dominated by hot mistresses, that’s a good place to do it, they have plenty of them. And with the cam 2 cam feature, they can make you strip for them. Err, anyway if you don’t like to play role of a victim, just go for the normal mode.
So what was my overall impression of cams.com?
You get what you pay for. If you’re responsible with your spending, it’s certainly a cut or seven above the usual “jerking it to a porn movie†Friday night finger-shuffle.
Conclusion: Very Good Site