^ Well speaking from a personal perspective as a regular caller down the years I will only call if I feel the level of visual stimulus is high enough.
Precisely because I call less then I used to I can only assume that the level of visual stimulus has dropped over time or that I am setting higher demands on babes than other callers for whatever reason.
A stalemate situation has been in play for some while imo on the basis of a growing anti freeloader mentality on the part of babes and channels alike.
Calls merit action v Action merits calls.
The babes increasingly seem to take the view
'I'm not willing to consider anything daring or interesting until loads of people are in the queue and asking me to do stuff'
A lot of viewers and increasingly I have become one of them take the following view.
'I am not willing to call unless and until you (the babe) do something daring and stimulating'.
I have heard babe after babe compound frustration by saying things like
'Unless I get loads of calls my clothes are going back on'
Or
'If you want me to do something then ring up and ask'
The number of times I have rung up in response to that second scenario and made a perfectly polite reasonable request only for it to be declined for little or no good reason is ridiculous.
One night a babe will be allowed to do something, the next they won't. 'Sorry babe I'm not allowed to do that'.
Yeah right but you were last week and probably will again next week
. No consistency whatsoever.
The channels are ruthless money making machines and are screwing as much money out of all and sundry by fair means or foul. The problem with the 'Calls merit action' babe view is frustrating in the extreme because of the time out rule.
You can choose option 1 to speak to a babe and never actually get through before being timed out due to the limit on either time spent or money spent. So the whole purpose of the call has been defeated from the caller point of view. I fully appreciate the channels don't care about that precisely because it is what they want.
To make money hand over fist.
But I like to think eventually it will get to a point when the viewers say 'Enough is enough - I want value for money and I want visual stimulation worthy of the cost of the call'
Impossible dream
.