New site - Aleful, Another scam, a free pic hustle or a creepy stalker??

If you post on Tumblr you have probably gotten a message from a guy/site called "Aleful" who is setting up a photo set selling site much like, I guess, Clips4Sale or Extra Lunch Money.

I signed up to be notified of the launch and got an email today which prompted me to do a little research. If you haven't seen the email it's just this:

The time has come! For all you sexy women to start snapping your photos! The first thing I need is proof of age all it has to be is a picture of you holding up your id so that I can verify you are over 18 years of age. This will be only on file on a secure hard drive. Now for the fun part. Follow this how to and submit your pictures to Aleful.net !!!!

Okay, nothing wrong there, some random stranger off Tumblr wants me to send him my real name, address and driver's license number. Seems perfectly logical, I do that all the time anyway, what harm could come of it?? /sarcasm.

I went and checked out the site at aleful.net and there isn't anything there, just a Wordpress install with a free theme attached. Checking the Whois information doesn't provide any additional verification either, which leaves me wondering...who or what is Aleful and why should I send him my driver's license?

Attached to the email was also this image, giving a run down on how the site works:

Seems pretty straightforward, send in a few pics, answer a few questions and get free money right to your PayPal! Nothing wrong there either, we all know how great PayPal is to work with and how much they respect and treat cam girls, models and webmasters/mistresses in the adult entertainment industry, right?? /sarcasm (again.)

I think Mr. Aleful has a little ways to go before his site becomes the next Clips4Sale, so use caution, as always, with new sites that pop up from nowhere.

Anyway, signing off for now, I gotta go take a nice clear picture of my driver's license and send it to a stranger!!

The best places to sell pics and vids.

I've been putting together a list of the best places to sell pics and vids online, to compare sites.

I had to make a judgement call on what 'best' really means, if I have to be specific I'd say there are two criteria: customers and costs. I don't know if there is a magic ratio where a lower percentage will be made up for by higher traffic or vice versa, but I've tried to compile the main outlets along with their price versus traffic below:

For starters, the sites I've done extensive research into (keep in mind this blog isn't about camming, it's about selling pre-made pics and vids and stuff):

So I did a lot of research into ExtraLunchMoney and MyGirlFund as you can see by their pages up at the top. So how do these two stack up?

1. MGF - Percentage is variable, from 10-35% depending on how much you earn over the lifetime of your fund. Traffic wise they have about 21,000 a day. Not exactly setting the internet on fire, but it's decent.

2. Extra Lunch Money - They use a credit system where a buyer pays $1 per credit and when you cash out you get 65 cents, meaning their take is 35%. As for traffic, they are pretty new and boast about 1000 visitors a day.

Raw visitor numbers are easy to quantify, but it's more difficult to judge quality. For example, ELM is very active on Twitter and message boards, so most of their visitors are probably girls on the sales side, not as many customers while most other sites leave the promotion to the models, meaning the visitors are more likely to be customers.

3. Clips 4 Sale - Probably the original place to sell pics and vids. They take a little bit more - 40%, but their traffic is huge, 427,000 a day. Granted most of it is directly to individual stores or users, but that's nothing to sneeze at.

4. Hot Movies - Seems like a very poor deal as they take 80% of the purchase price (yipe!) despite the huge amount of visitors they have, over 580,000.

5. Rude - Uses a token system but is set up to take 50% of the sale price. More than made up for by the huge amount of traffic, over 1.4 million visitors every day!

6. Skin Video - Is a decent sized site, but they charge 50%. So 51,000 a day and 50%.

7.  X-Tube - Is the biggest site on my list at 2.7 million visitors a day. They take 50% as well.

So there you have it, choose wisely and good luck, ladies.