Ok, how weird is this? My roomie hit his head while helping a friend fix his car and then started vomiting so my cousin is taking him to the hospital. I’m sure he’ll be ok…at least I hope so.

So I’m watching their 1 yr. old until 8 or so (his bedtime) and then I’ll be on to take calls! Sorry guys!

when guys call me up and want me to do and talk about things that I clearly do NOT advertise and then give me bad ratings. I just had a guy leave me a 1 star rating on a call we did five days ago where he called me up to tell me that he’d gone to a professional domme and she’d tied him up and made him suck cock and now he had post traumatic stress disorder.

What? Do I look like the kind of girl who knows anything about that? I guess I’d suggest seeking counseling? lol He only talked for 5 minutes, but apparently that was enough for him to decide that *I* am the one who needs to be rated badly…of course he’s not at fault for choosing a flirt who doesn’t do that kind of call.

Here’s another example of how NOT to have phone sex:

Me: “Hey there, how are you today?”

Caller: “I want to play.”

Me: “Mmm honey, that sounds like fun. I love to play. What do you enjoy?”

Caller: “I just want to play.”

Me: (thinking, “holy crap, does this guy not understand that guys call to talk to me about 1,000 different things) “Well, what would you want me to do if I were standing right there in front of you, completely naked?”

Caller: “I just want to talk dirty and play.”

CLICK

For God’s sake.

I had a guy call pussy juice “gravy” and “love juice” and seriously said “it’s yummy in my tummy” during a call. Sometimes I don’t know how I keep a straight face.

< end rant >

A lot of you don’t know very much about Niteflirt in general and I’m sure that many of you really don’t care. I probably wouldn’t if I were in your shoes either . I love Niteflirt; It’s a great site. I sign on, I do my calls, I have awesome tools to help me keep track of my callers and I just love the freedom I have in my life by being able to use the site. That said, there are some major problems with it and the past couple of days have been really tough for a lot of us flirts.

Without even touching on technical glitches which cause calls not to be connected, mail not to be delivered, money lost (my biggest complaint is that I don’t get credit for callers I bring to Niteflirt…it’s why I stopped advertising my site) and tempers frayed, Niteflirt just seems to have gone and lots its damn mind!

A little bit of background…it’s not free to me to have my calls go through Niteflirt. For every minute I talk to a caller, Niteflirt takes a $.20/min. connection fee (which I think is ridiculous in the days of VOIP) and then 30% of the remaining charge to the caller. So when I charge $1.69/min. I actually get paid $1.04 or 62% of the overall charge. Considering that I don’t really do much outside advertising and almost all of my callers come from Niteflirt traffic, I’m actually ok with that. I wish it were lower for flirts like me who generate a lot of repeat business, but I doubt that will ever happen.

I’m sure that most of you are aware that each listing I have on Niteflirt has a points value. As I’m typing this, my highest rated listing has 8899 pts. I am one of only two flirts who have managed to get into the top 25 flirts in 2 yrs. or less. When callers surf through the listings, they are given various ways of browsing for flirts. The default way the list arranges itself is by “featured listings.” What is a featured listing? Well, that is when Niteflirt charges the flirts per click for callers looking at our listings. We bid against each other for the ranks and then when a person who has a credit card on file with Niteflirt clicks the listing title or picture to see what we have to offer, we are charged for it…regardless of whether they actually initiate a call.

Now featuring has only been around on Niteflirt for a few years. Before that, the lists were all arranged in order of points. You can still sort by “highest rated” or “top available” or look for prices, but the list DEFAULTS to featured listings and a lot of guys don’t know that you can change that. So really in order to be seen by new callers, a flirt pretty much has to feature her listings. Flirts who had a lot of points when featuring came into being hated it…it wasn’t fair to them, they worked hard for their top spot and how dare Niteflirt take that away from them? But eventually they adjusted to it and most established flirts did choose to feature their listings. They really didn’t have much of a choice.

Callers can also call in to 1-800-TO-FLIRT and browse the recorded voice greetings to choose a flirt to talk to. All you had to do to be heard on that toll free line was to bid your listing high enough to be in the top 15 for the “women home alone”, “fetish”, “bdsm” or “anything goes” categories on the website. We only had to pay for guys listening to our recordings if the guy actually initiated a call to us after hearing our greeting. We paid the same amount for that “click” as we did for guys going to look at our listings on the website.

Now why am I telling you all of this? Because yesterday Niteflirt lost its damn mind.

They initiated this new “Listing Value Score” which took into account a number of different factors including how often callers click to see our listings, how often callers purchase from us and how good are we at getting repeat business and gave each of our listings a new score. What does this new score do? Well, it affects how much we need to bid in order to have our listings featured.

So now instead of just bidding against each other, Niteflirt crunches the numbers with an algorithm that they are not sharing with us and says to us, “Ok, you used to bid $.36 per click to be in the top 15 of Women Home Alone most of the time…but because your listing doesn’t convert as well as other listings on the site, you now have to pay $.97/click to be in that same spot.” or “Ok, your listing seems to convert really well, so now you don’t have to pay as much to be featured high in the listings.” In addition, we now have to pay every time someone listens to our recorded greeting on the toll free line.

IN THEORY, flirts who have listings that convert very well would benefit from this new system because they would have to pay LESS than other flirts for the same rankings and less than they would have had to with the old system. The problem is that it seems that no established flirts are having their listings valued very well. What happened? Well, the listings that are new and haven’t gotten very many clicks to begin with and listings where girls break all of Niteflirt’s rules and therefore get a lot of calls from guys who struggle to find girls who will do their taboo fantasies all shot to the top of the list.

Ooh! YES! So flirts like me who make our living on this site, have amazing feedback, pay Niteflirt thousands of dollars in fees and featuring costs are all of the sudden being told, “Hey, we don’t want your listings to be seen by our callers…so if you want to be featured high enough to actually get calls from new guys, you’re going to have to pay double, triple, sometimes even 10 times what you used to pay.”

Now don’t get me wrong…I actually have some listings that benefited from the new system. They’re listings that apparently Niteflirt has judged as converting well. The only problem is that they aren’t the types of calls that I prefer to do. So now I’m being forced to feature listings that advertise those listings because they are the only ones I can afford to feature.

Ok, so how does that affect YOU, you’re probably wondering. I know I just made you read a shit ton of information that you probably could have done without! Here is how this affects you.

1. If my featuring costs end up going through the roof because I can’t afford to lose the income that is generated every month from calls that come from featuring, I will be forced to raise my prices.

2. If you get to my listing by surfing through the site in general, PLEASE do not click my listing from the “featured” list. Either add me to your favorites, bookmark my site or just remember my site URL and initiate a call from my site. Why? Because if you haven’t called me in the past 30 days, I will be charged for you going to my listing again. It doesn’t matter how much money you’ve previously spent on calls to me, I’ll be dinged for a featured listing click anyway.

3. I will probably be complaining about this stuff a lot in the days to come. I just wanted to warn you cause I might be grumpy about it and I don’t want you thinking that my life is ruined or anything…I’m just pissed! lol

4. If you’ve been enraged by this whole thing and want to do something to help, I’d encourage you to please write an email to Niteflirt and tell them that you don’t think this is a good idea! Tell them that it’s making your favorite flirt mad and that when that happens, it makes your life more stressful! lol

Anyway, other than that, life is going pretty well. I haven’t had sex with a guy in a couple of weeks though so I’m starting to get pretty fuckin’ horny. Someone call and help me out?

I guess I spoke too soon. I just talked to Erin and apparently the guy I messed with on Sat. is asking for my number. Oh well, I guess I made him a bit TOO sprung on my mouth! lol Read the entry below if you have no idea what I’m talking about.