I was just looking on P411 as I look to schedule a date next week with the right lady and I came across two ladies that offer a 15 minute Webcam chat for a mere $25. I was wondering what everyone feels the positives and the negatives are in doing this. There was no explanation on this helps with screening or it is to get you aroused or or or...... Thoughts please

Message her and ask.  Some use it as a form of screening, other use it as a fun prelude to a meet to get more comfortable with one another, others more as a private cam session...

Not a bad thing for a gal to "kinda" screen you. But if you think it from that POV its kind of stupid that you are actually paying to be screened.  Since I live alone and don't have an SO issue, I can do it without any worry, but I ain't paying for that shit.  If she wants to just chat with me to get to know me beforehand, I can always meet her at a bar, have a few drinks and then retire to her hotel room.  

lots of free porn on the web. I really don't see how it would help with screening, and I don't feel that paying for screening (beyond the hundreds I already spend on verification/screening sites) makes any sense at all. As for building comfort and anticipation, wouldn't a phone call or email exchange so just as well? Maybe better? I like having a bit of the unknown present when I meet a new lady; that thrill and excitement is part of the anticipation for me.  

With all of the crying about giving out personal info...why in the hell would someone happily give his credit card number to a complete stranger?

How are you going to pay for it. Give her your cc info. The next thing you know you'll be the proud owner of a Gucci handbag.

Wait, you have to give her your CC# too?  Is there another way like paypal or something? Also, theSPshould be willing to refund the fee if you go through with the date.

As that's of NO interest to me.  But feel free to pay for that if it's something that interests you.

arrangement can be made through Greendot. If she is using hosted services, then you just pay it to the service provider. The mechanics of paying are not hard, and wasn't the point of my response. Its the rationale behind paying is whats more important to me.

So I guess I can’t interest you in my cyber dinner date package. For a fraction of the cost of an actual dinner date, you can log on and watch me eat.

only if I can see you cook naked...

So you're ordering one Rasha to go with nothing on.

There is no credit card to give, it is via Green dot, etc... Neither say it is for pre-screening. They are simply options which I have never seen before.  

This is pretty easy here...
With all the bait & switch, if a provider has access to a bit of technology, she can easily "verify she is indeed the girl in the picture"- and perhaps offered or decided to post "webcam available" or something other, that in the end turned out to be WAYYY too vague, or a couple of potential clients viewed & then didn't book (time wasted on her end, right? free web cam show for them, right?) After a couple times of that happening... Or.. on the other hand...  Like my one client, that I got on webcam for free to verify (before scheduling a 5 hour appointment without ever seeing me, which I think is not the most brilliant idea, chemistry/real life etc etc...) now this dude was harassing me to webcam all-the-time for free...
When I told him, I don't webcam for free like that...
He hit me with a ..."I would like 20 hours for $200"  

For example, they have some gal who is a 10 be on the cam, then her friend who's a 5 shows up at the door.

And no way I'd give a credit card.

You also don't get the chemistry factor either until someone events smell-0-vision.

$25 isn't a lot to pay to find out who you're going to meet, but I'm not convinced this is the best use of it.

I'd be more impressed with a free five minute Skype hello session, an idea whose time, I think, has come.

She would also have a chance to back out if she doesn't like what she sees, hears.

Lots of gal already do a lengthy phone screen before agreeing to see someone, so why not?

a remote M&G.... everyone piled on with the negative aspects of web cam for $$$'s with some legitimate argument, but I agree that the Skype hello idea is valid.. down side is there is bound to be lots of time wasters ruining the concept... that and the provider that has to be "image perfect" all the time... she's going to spend hours putting on her war paint just for a broadcast (there's a pun here, I'm sure of it) M&G ?