Pay 59$ only to reduce prices such of a nonsens
(no credits, one free card, and still have pay 4/5 of the price on any card I want weekly)
If the premium was accompanied by credits, there would be no problem, but it's not...

Ok, I put rougthly 200$ a year but add an extra 59$ with any credits in the premium to make that 200 become a 219 (200+59-40), I'm out of my annual budget this, for what ?

Plus for optimizing disk space I DON'T download show in 3K EVER, why should I pay to buy 4K which is way much heavy then 1080p show I'm used to take?

Give me just one good reason to by that?

You just argued that a 20% discount with 4k and a free special card is not a huge discount but paying 29% is a great sacrifice. Which is it? If you pay $239 a year the premium will be paid for...so it looks like you are going to come out head by $20...plus 4k.

So what ruined what 1st? Live service porn or live service video games? VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET. They can't push a failing idea.

Give me just one good reason to by that?

You get a little crown next to your name...

@pumpdude48, thanks. I'll do that now.

oh, lol. Yay...

I also got no premium skin.

@boan000

I answered your other post.

You need to update to 1.2.2.38 first to get the proper pricing to display.

Pay 59$ only to reduce prices such of a nonsens
(no credits, one free card, and still have pay 4/5 of the price on any card I want weekly)
If the premium was accompanied by credits, there would be no problem, but it's not...

Ok, I put rougthly 200$ a year but add an extra 59$ with any credits in the premium to make that 200 become a 219 (200+59-40), I'm out of my annual budget this, for what ?

Plus for optimizing disk space I DON'T download show in 3K EVER, why should I pay to buy 4K which is way much heavy then 1080p show I'm used to take?

Give me just one good reason to by that?

I subscribed to premium and am not getting my 20% discount on any cards. I have not bought any of the new releases so they sould all be discounted from the past ten days. I synched and restarted - even rebuilt. Nothing. Can a Totem team member help please?

Pay 59$ only to reduce prices such of a nonsens !!!
(no credits, one free card, and still have to pay 4/5 of the price on any card I want weekly to keep the discount).
If the premium was accompanied by credits, there would be no problem, but it's not...

@boan000

Edit: you have to have the latest version of the software 1.2.2.38

Update that first and then:

Completely close the iStripper app and restart it. (just the app, not your computer)

That should get your new pricing to show up.

OK, I bought a premium subscription and got the joker card for a free card, but none of the 20% discounts are showing up, and I haven't bought any of the past ten days'new releases. Can somebody on the Totem team help please?

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering - your EFFECTIVE discount over a YEAR is about 8% once you take into account the extra $59 you're paying - ASSUMING you purchase EVERY card for a YEAR.

Your "discount" will be MUCH LESS than that if you don't buy all the cards, or indeed could be negative unless you plan to buy over 215 cards in the next year (about 20 cards a month).

So, not really that much benefit for the customer - but a lot of "Free Money" for Totem.

Be informed about your purchases.

HEYdude thanks for responding minora lips im looking for

OK, I folded. I bought your damned PREMIUM membership, but only because I figured:

1. I buy every card anyway, so I'm no WORSE off for the next 5-6 months
2. I wanted the Skye Blue card, and the only way to get it is a JOKER (included)
3. After 5-6 months, I will start SAVING money / credits - a total of about $40/yr

I still think the deal stinks for most people, and I really think that Totem should go with something much simpler than all this JOKER card and PREMIUM stuff.

Just reward people for being loyal, and updating their collection. Do away with all these scratch cards, slot machines and other silly things. Do this instead:

1. Issue a new "Monthly Exclusive" card EVERY month in addition to all the regular cards
2. Announce the exclusive card at the start of the month, but don't release it until the 15th of the month
3. Offer people the Exclusive card for FREE with any 12 or more cards purchased in that month (perhaps Talent of the Month?)
4. Once the Exclusive card expires, place it back in the store for a 30% premium after the end of the month
5. Make additional "Special Event" cards separate, and price them at a 30% premium (e.g. Halloween, Xmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, July 4, FIFA, F1, whatever) on release

This way, it would be:
1. Straightforward to obtain exclusive monthly cards, simply by being a regular purchaser
2. If you missed a month of the FREE card, or you don't like at least 12 shows, you could always purchase that card anyway
3. You could always purchase "Special Event" cards whenever you want
4. By regularly buying 12 or more cards every month, you'll get a BONUS, rather than having to pay a PREMIUM (a very different feeling for customers)
5. People who don't want to buy EVERY card are still happy, because they can always buy 12 cards they actually WANT
6. Cheaper for Totem to implement, as the discount would be 1/13 (about 7.5%), rather than the 20% discsount with PREMIUM

If Totem did this, I think lots of people would be happy with that. I also think it isn't necessarily incompatible with the other promotions - like slot machine, scratch card, etc. These could be another way to "WIN" the exclusive card instead of buying shows you don't want.

Really, it's not that hard to imagine or implement, I think. Much better thant this scheme.

Still, I now have kept my collection up to date, and I look forward to having the discounts in 5-6 months time.

You guys must be breaking Totem's servers downloading shows in 4K. I tried to "update" a couple of cards, and the update ***** in a few seconds.

I downloaded my entire collection to 4K that is available and can not get Francys Belle 0516 and The Red Fox 0523 to complete. Both keeps aborting. All others have completed and finished.

I am happy!!

I must recognize it in an open and public way, those who have doubts, do not have them since the membership is worth 100%

• You acquire a Joker (Collectors will thank you and have the Card they couldn't have)
• 20% Additional Dscto in Downloads, very attractive and somehow you save quite progressively
• The Card Cristal Plus +. that they already had You can upgrade to 4K at no additional cost.
• Better resolution
• Those who have 1080p screens will like this because if a 200% model is scaled (you can even reach 400% with an acceptable resampling), which allows you to appreciate more "detail" of faces and other areas.
• Those with 4-5K screens will be very grateful.

My judgment on this is pure and objective since I do not work on this and I have no vested interests either. It is the appreciation of a current user.

This captivated me again and I congratulate the Team for that.

I did a video test for you to judge (Be 1080p or 4K users)

https://youtu.be/889O38ZbEko

Note: When making this note, the 4K option has not been finished processing on YouTube, you should enable it automatically in the next 2 hours.

@Gorfa91 Thanks for the info.

Also found an answer by @Celine in another thread about this.

@2manychoices this is recurring. Please be careful to choose a payment processor you trust and that has web portal for subscription management.

@Celine Can you address the concerns of those like myself whom have collected almost every card to date on how we can obtain "Special Event" Cards?

The way this system is now, you are actually punishing your longest standing and loyal supporters. I could buy this "Premium" subscription and be able to buy this event card. What happens when you implement another Event card?

Now I have a subscription that doesn't allow for me to make a direct purchase of the desired card, I can't participate in the Loot Box/Lottery to obtain a chance at a card. This actually needs to be address and stop overlooking this issue cherry picking post to address concerned patrons.

If nothing else those above 4000 cards should be granted the ability to just buy the Special Event Cards simply due to the fact they can't participate in even obtain the cards through any available means.

Can you address this issue for us please.

I far as I can tell; nobody has answered my question from 10 hours ago. Is the subscription recurring or not? I've had problems with recurring subscriptions in the past and much prefer the one-shot transactions of buying credits. Please let me know. Thank you!

So the offer says......
"This offer gives you the following :
20% discount on the new cards during the 10 days following their release,
20% discount on VR 180° clips during the 10 days following their release,
Unlock of the 4K resolution of the Crystal Clear+ quality shows,
Priority response from the customer service,
Highlighted profile and Premium skin!
This offer is available for $59 per year"

1. Is the the 20% savings off of the platinum card pricing or the original card price. Trying to do the math. $60 would buy approx 600 credits.... How many cards would I need to but to make this proposition a value.
2. Not interested in VR content at this point. I believe the tech has years to go before it will become more mainstream.
3. OK 4K resolution, now we can see hair folicles.
4. Priority response eh.... You had to go there.. I have 6 tickets in an open status aged 8 plus months. 4000+ cards purchases. But for $59.99 you'll answer my question...

How much for downloading the pictures and videos when you purchase the model rather than having to manually download the zip, extract, copy to a folder stucture and catalog?

How much to make 1000 credit button always available so that we don't get nailed for additional transaction fees?

5. No value in a highlighted profile/skin unless you live in the forums.

So I guess it between 1 and 4 for me...

Will there be an "UBER PLATINUM PREMIUM Whip cream" offer that will let us but the Special Event Cards Plus all of these features and Even faster tech support?

The is purposely both serious is some inquiry and cheeky in other observervations....
Don't lose your mind!

@Gorfa91 I guess two different users accessing that page within 30 mins frame was too much :)

@Dfner well it is even dead now... two concurrent access => DDOS attack :-)

@Wyldanimal: It's still VERY shady.

That form (
https://secure.netbilling.com/gw/native/selfservice1.2?111830671378:ISTRIPPER) asks us to fill in at least 3 fields of information, but in the purchase event only two of them were required... email-address and card number. So no luck there. It also says that if I have forgotten my "login information" (which was not even part of payment procedure), just email address is enough. Well, entering my email address only (the same used in the purchase) creates error message "No account found based on submitted information".

Found several 1/5 star reviews of Netbilling and I can understand why.

I'm not in the process of cancelling my Premium membership, but it would be nice to know that if I wanted to, there would be an actually working way to do it. I'm sure Totem's customer support would get this sorted, if I wanted to cancel and make sure that no more billing took place, but such payment processors and their utterly disfunctional net service really irritates me.

I doubt that they would care about that as this offer is for the whales who to be fair get left out of the tgif's so it's a good deal for them (just the extra % off is a good deal for them).

Nope, we actually have a discount level so high that extra 20% discount (so price 11 cr) is assured by previews discount that shows up randomly for everybody over their usual discount level so it really does not matter for me personally. BTW I am certain they excluded newest cards from that discount so it will negligate that effect or we would purchase for 8,8 in that given moment :lol -> but then it would take really long time to cash in the difference.

Regarding 4K resolution I agree, making another step in settings makes whole lotta work somebody must do and it has to be paid but I'd rather increase a bit shows price level than this. Not everybody uses over FHD screen. Not everybody needs 4K but it should be in range for everybody at price not extra subscription. Keep in mind few years ago some users ***** about problems with 4-5 FHD shows played at once with issues on not so bad PCs. 4K will require a really really top notch PC to have smooth 7-8 shows like some used to have. Then it isn't for everybody really. Perhaps in few years with more modern machines.

Not everybody has a fancy setup like mine - where for instance I would prefer to be able to assign shows to be displayed on certain screen I assign or on set of them.

I also agree that scalling 3K to 4K is very close really - you need to put your eyes close to the graphic grade screen to notice the details sometimes ;)

Regarding amounts of data required nowadays it should be in requirements 4-8 TB 7200 rpm fast HDD to have a space for them and smooth playback so this hobby becames even more expensive :lolz

@Dfner
So, why are you still here?

That was actually Ullubu's question, not mine that you answered to - just wanting to put that straight. I already posted on this matter earlier.

@Z22 - I am almost certain that an ex-QA team member has told us that they do look at all of the resolutions.

net billing self serve portal for iStripper

https://secure.netbilling.com/gw/native/selfservice1.2?111830671378:ISTRIPPER

General Contact Page

https://www.netbilling.com/contact/

Your distaste to Totem's business policies won't change the fact that there will be more hot models here in coming months that you can't avoid. You'll be back :)The fact is that those models can be watch on other websites in 4K, even in VR if I want and I don't have to pay extra cost if I want to download the highest resolution or be a premium member.

It is $4.92 a month. That is half a meal when you eat out. Or half a movie. Once a month. You then get 28 cents off of each new card you buy. You get a free special event card which was worth a ton of money to many people. And you get 4k forever. If you buy 18 new cards a month you make all of the money back. If you buy 14 new cards a month then you basically spend $1 per month for 4k...It is a thoughouly fair deal. An amazing deal for collectors...basically them giving money away to people who would buy all the cards anyway, and a fair deal for selectors like me. Even if you do not have a 4k monitor there are plenty of full screen scenes that play girls in a very immersive setting at 4k size so these new cards look great.

@Dfner

Yes true this is "Back to the future..." web pages of the 90's in Netscape ;-)

Usually I do not care about the payment processor with Totem because buying credits is one time purchase, but this time I sould have pay attention.

Anyway customer support is usually efficient so I do not worry :-)

@Dfner

So, why are you still here?

One other reason I'm still around it's because I still need the software to play my cards, so as I already mentioned in another thread, I'll still be around for a while because of that.

@Gorfa91

It was Netbilling processing my payment as well, and I have the same problem as you have: I never received any email from them confirming my purchase, and when I searched the matter further, all I found was this page, which is quite shady to say the least...

http://net-member.com/

With Epoch at least you can find your purchases and subscriptions and manage them on their site.

@Carbo

Fair enough, thanks for explaining further your stance.

@Manue @kaiju : I did subscribe the Premium offer tonight and I used the default payment processing company which was Netbilling and truely speaking this was not the best idea of the day...

They do not provide a web portal to manage subscription nor send any email to me...

I fall in the case that I want to cancel it now to avoid to forget it in one year and for two reasons:

• in one year my credit card will have expired anyway so payment attempt will be rejected.
• I want to keep control on my expenses so I dislike those recurring stuff.

So how should I proceed to cancel it?

Many thanks for your help.

But since they have intruduced SECs, gambling games, limitaion in resolution depending on your status. Also VR websites propose pretty good stuff too. The only thing that makes iStripper more appealing is the card collection principle, which keeps collectors around but this side is less appealing to me.

@Z22 - you are forgetting the extra QA time and other overheads , I know that the QA team are volenteers but they are not the only people invovled in the QA process.

Other than checking the 4k export didn't bork the files what extra is there to check that isn't already been done for the other resolution, it's the same source data? I suppose with the higher resoultion there's a chance that glitches will show up more. Oh noes you said a naughty word /jk

For me i am voting with my wallet, i won't be spending any more money on istripper until they open up 4k for everyone. I doubt that they would care about that as this offer is for the whales who to be fair get left out of the tgif's so it's a good deal for them (just the extra % off is a good deal for them).

The fact is that those models can be watch on other websites in 4K, even in VR if I want and I don't have to pay extra cost if I want to download the highest resolution or be a premium member.

So, why are you still here?

Okay, but this has been the case all the time. All the models here have appeared and/or will appear at other websites with more affordable payment options and probably more explicit content, and still you have stuck around.

Nothing has changed in that respect... I can't see a deal breaker there all of a sudden.

But to each his own, of course, not making any judgements here.

Your distaste to Totem's business policies won't change the fact that there will be more hot models here in coming months that you can't avoid. You'll be back :)

The fact is that those models can be watch on other websites in 4K, even in VR if I want and I don't have to pay extra cost if I want to download the highest resolution or be a premium member.

@TallandSlimMan - As I understood what @kaiju explained, the cards you bought while Premium can be re-downloaded at will in 4K, even if your premium membership has ended.

About Special Event Cards... I'm also hesitant of using the Joker card now that I have one. I would like to have the new Skye Blue card in my collection, but as there are no alternative methods to get it at the moment, I'm going to sit on it for a while.

I will use my Joker when they release a SEC card that I really, really want to have and there is not a clear path to obtain one in a reasonable cost-transparent way (= NOT sheer gambling).

Installing on a Mac

I was able to install on my Mac Pro under OSX 10.14.6 by doing it from the software. In my first attempt I tried from the web and got the .exe file instead. I enrolled in premium and I'm downloading 4K versions of all my crystal clear cards (91 cards).

Results

I saw the extra 20% discount for cards starting 10/10. I just purchased 3 CC+ cards for 11 credits each today.

I've played some 4K cards on my 43" 4K display. They look great and at 90% scale they look better than the 3K versions. I should say that the 3K cards look pretty good to me at 90% also.

Strategy

This will change my buying habits a little. I have always done a triage when a new card comes out. The cards I really like I buy immediately. Thats usually 10-20 a month -- say an average of 15 each month. I will seldom make back my average of $5/month premium membership, but I'll come fairly close. Another 5 or so that I consider marginal I mark as wishlist. With the wishlist items I wait till there is a "buy 4 get the 4th free sale" or until some are discounted to 20%. With the new pricing structure there is now less of a reason to use the wishlist so I will probably buy a few more cards each month and only buy the wishlist ones when a 4-for-3 sale comes along.

The effective cost to me for being a premium member will be about $1.25 per month. For this I also get 4K cards which I do like and one "free" special event card which is probably worth $5 to me since I paid about 3 times that much in games for each of the 6 SEC cards I already have. The net result is I expect to pay about $10 for my premium membership.

Alternative

If Totem had simply announced a 30% price increase for crystal clear cards at 4K I would have been happy and Totem would have made about the same amount. That would have required less new programming.

Special Event Cards

As for the SEC cards, I plan to be very careful. I generally don't buy things like the advent calendar and I won't in the future. I have also decided not to play the scratch game again. If there is a route that lets me buy or win an SEC without spending a lot on loosing plays or cards I don't want, I'll consider that. I'll give it more serious attention if the probabilities are announced. My current strategy will be to "spend" my joker this time next year on the SEC card I'd most like to have. Then I'll repeat the same thing the following year.

Any chance we will be able to buy Joker card packs / singles in the future?

Just to let everyone know...
when you upgrade to Premium...
at the Bottom of the 1st Pay Screen, you can select a different 3rd Part Biller. ( click the word Change)
I select Epoch, and Paypal was a payment Option

I used Paypal with Epoch, to purchase my Premium Membership.

Thank you for sharing this information and the image.

Posting both on the first page of all the premium threads might help other customers who had similar issues finding the usual payment options...

Questions about Premium offer
Everything about iStripper
6 hours ago

I assume that if we buy this subscription and sownload 4k, that the 4k card resolutuion is ours to keep even if we decide not to renew the subscription??Can someone tell me what the difference is in the disk space of a given 3k show versus a 4k show?


Any 4k you got during your Premium will remain yours. Only a refund would justify that we remove them :)

@Carbo

Celine's post...different thread

Will the premium discount stack with the discounts of our level during thoes 10 days?? Or will it be witch discount is higher?

It stacks on top of whatever discount level you are currently at. Even at triple diamond it works for me. I now pay 11 credits instead of 13.75 within the 10 days.

Will the premium discount stack with the discounts of our level during thoes 10 days?? Or will it be witch discount is higher?

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