@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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So this is another reason for me not to buy anymore credits and become an ex customer of Totem once I have used up my current credits balance.

That is also my intention.

This is pretty much my promises verbatim a few months ago, in a moment of frustration, and here I am. 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 :)

(And if not, you are made of much tougher wood than I am)

@cuzzin

Just a side note to your calculations: if you are like me and really stock your credits whenever there is the reload bonus promo (= buy 600 credits for 49.99), you'll even out at approx. 70% instead of 60%.

Unless Totem gets rid of that promo, I will never have to buy the credits at €50/500 credits anymore :)

So this is another reason for me not to buy anymore credits and become an ex customer of Totem once I have used up my current credits balance.

That is also my intention.

@kutta, you should update the software to version 1.2.238.
Go to Settings (gear icon in top right corner of the window), scroll down and click the "Check for updates" button.

Thank you, updating fixed the issue. Also 4K looking noticeably fantastic on my 1440p monitor, both sharper and clearer! Sweet!!

Not only can I not see any point in upgrading to Premium Membership (not having a 4k monitor)

But Totem have now released another Special Card that I cannot obtain.
So this is another reason for me not to buy anymore credits and become an ex customer of Totem once I have used up my current credits balance.

So I decided to do the math on premium ... because ... well math is my friend :-)

Ignoring the value of getting access to 4K for now ...

$60 premium fee would alternatively buy about 600 credits.

At my level most new shows are 13.75 credits.
20% premium discount puts them at 11 credits.
If I bought a card a day for a year its about 1000 credits in savings.

This means that if I would under normal circumstances buy more than 60% of the new shows within 10 days of release then, at triple diamond, I would save money by joining Premium.

It makes even more sense at lower levels. If you are paying the full price of 25 credits per card then you only need to purchase about 32% of the new cards in one year for premium to be wise.

If not for 4K resolution, this Premium membership is only a 7-month pre-order because if you don't buy at least 60% of the next new cards within a year, you will be losing money, and extra money in Totem's pocket. So not for me !!

@kutta, you should update the software to version 1.2.238.
Go to Settings (gear icon in top right corner of the window), scroll down and click the "Check for updates" button.

And whatever happened to these automatic software updates which were to make it unnecessary for users to have to look for updates?

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42828/1?post=631939

Can we stack the 20% premium discount along with special events?

For example: 20% sale happening during the week + 20% on premium status + 45% on Triple Diamond status?

Any reason why Stella Flex isn't in 4K yet? any plans on her being upgraded with the other girls? she seems to be the only one who isn't from this year...
😕

20% discount on the new cards during the 10 days following their release,

Does this count for pre purchases like the advent calendar too?

I find it ludicrous that after 12 years and over 2700 cards, I'm not considered "premium". Also a card by a popular model like Skye Blue (literally one my usual must buys) is locked behind this "special event" joker mechanic is insane. I could understand event awards like discounts or a free card but straight up locking content surely can't be making money

Then what should I say? ;)

Regarding the special event cards, I am willing to pay more but honestly whom has a time to log on everyday to check if event is on and then with my number of cards I usually have too few new cards available in store to make 2 or 3 runs on lottery (usually 1) so I simply cannot get there - therefore being one of the top collectors actually works as disadvantage. An I am not alone in such situation...

I find it ludicrous that after 12 years and over 2700 cards, I'm not considered "premium". Also a card by a popular model like Skye Blue (literally one my usual must buys) is locked behind this "special event" joker mechanic is insane. I could understand event awards like discounts or a free card but straight up locking content surely can't be making money

According to the information visible three post above, yes.

@herve78350:

The Mac version have now been released.

To celebrate iStirpper Premium, we offer a JOKER card for every subscription run before Friday, October 25th which you can exchange for the new Skye Blue card.

So, will Mac users be able to take advantage of this offer?

Crystal clear cards won't? Will these ever be available in 4k?

Crystal Clear cards ( without the + )
are Not available in 4K
The Camera used for Crystal Clear + is higher resolution than the camera used for the Crystal Clear Cards ( without the +)
, so 4K can be made with that new Camera, but could not be made with the old Camera.

U know it's the like the slight difference between CC and CC+ 3k show, isn't it?

Not sure what more I can add, I notice a difference, others may not depending on monitor resolution. If you don't see enough diference in the images I posted then stick with 3K if you're not on a 4K monitor I guess.

Just to be clear, only crystal clear plus will be available in 4k with premium? Crystal clear cards won't? Will these ever be available in 4k?

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.

When you want to Cancel,
you will contact the 3rd Party Biller via their Support or Customer service web site.
Supply them with your details.
then you can cancel any active Subscriptions you have with them.

Since the Same 3rd Party Billers are Used by MANY sites, you could have a lot of active subscriptions
on your account page.
Make sure you Select the Correct Subscription when you cancel it.

Info for Epoch

EPOCH
Website: https://epoch.com/billing_support
Email: [email protected]
Phone support:
US/Canada toll free 1-800-893-8871
International 1-(310)-664-5810

I get same error on Red Fox - Black Fox as @Dfner gets

@Dfner

Francys Belle - incorrigible Flirt isn't downloading in 4K either for me.

I reported these in Bugs & Fixes last night.

http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/19359/65?post=636364

@kutta, you should update the software to version 1.2.238.
Go to Settings (gear icon in top right corner of the window), scroll down and click the "Check for updates" button.

I purhcased premium but don't see anything except for the joker card. Can't download 4k shows, no premium skins, no discounts on new cards, please help!

So you get a Crown for $59

@gkar45 , Yup. You will also supposedly get a Joke Card which you can use to get today's Special Event Card. I guess that's cheaper than throwing thousands of credits away on a BS scratch card game to not get a Special Event Card.

And since I do not trust Totem, or anything written by their people since the onset of their cash grab schemes and introduction of SEC in their store I can go one step further into the realm of horror and let my paranoia run wild. Just think about this bad dream - “Premium membership will be required to partake in any promotion where a Special Event Card is offered.”

Such things have not been said, but considering the company it is entirely possible that this and worse things can happen.

@DanielStoSve Hi, what's the error message ?

Please take a look at the picture here (click on the picture, as the right side gets cropped off in preview). This is what I get when I try to download 4K version of this card.

Edit by Mod:
Picture edited.

@cruisingaround = as has been explained several times before when the non-XXX shows are filmed the models are dancing to music. Totem will not have the rights to distribute this music, so there is no sound on these cards.

I would rather have sound on all the shows not just the XXX ones,

@DanielStoSve Hi, what's the error message ?

0523 The Red Fox - Black Fox (Premium Card) isn't downloading in 4k, it keeps aborting the download

U know it's the like the slight difference between CC and CC+ 3k show, isn't it?

Thanks haruchai, from the images, I can tell that there is no big difference between both, do you agree with me? Besides, what about the motions, did you notice a difference also?

It depends on what you mean by 'big difference'. There is some difference but not as pronounced as from 1080 to 3K.
Suppose it also depends on the resolution of your monitor. I'm upgrading to a 4k one soon so for me it was a simple decision.