Like any service where you are going to be putting down hard cash, or flexible plastic, when it comes to live webcam chat it always pays to check out a few reviews first.  Trouble is that with the porn sites you can’t check out amazon.com or ebay or even nextag.com to find out about these sites.  Try searching nextag for adult webcam and what you get a strange list indeed!  None of the “mainstream” consumer review systems really make sense for a porn user as either they just don’t cover the sites you want to know about, or all they do is moan about how indecent and dodgy they are.  But we knew that, that’s why we are visiting them!

It is sometimes worth looking at consumer protection sites like Better Business Bureau which runs a site at www.bbb.org but again they don’t cover a site like Camcontacts.com so if you want a review you’ll need to look at porn specific review sites.  However the whole porn review field is so extremely competitive it is hard to know which sites are really providing valid information, and which ones are just out there for the advertising dollars.  This is one of those cases where top-of-Google is not at all an indication of whether a site is a useful resource, merely how good they are at gaming Google.

Another strategy of course is to look at niche specific review sites, not just porn review, but actually live webcam chat review sites.  Yes there are plenty of those out there and not surprisingly they also compete to get eyes in front of HTML and clicks to their advertisers.  Beware, as everywhere but particularly on the internet, the hyped up promos which just say how wonderful things are.

You need to look for reviews that are balanced, with details not only of the girls who are online, which of course is very variable from time to time, but also whether the sites are functioning efficiently on a technical and financial basis.

Beware of reviews that just say how hot xxx girl is without being specific about how you are supposed to pay, what you can expect to get for free or for fees and so on.  Even if you are not a techie geeky sort of person it still pays to know whether this is live streaming video, does it need Flash (so it won’t work on your iPad for example) and is payment handled real time or by buying credits in advance.

Another thing to is to check out the review of a site you already know about.  Say you are a regular on Camcontacts so check out the review of camcontacts and see if it agrees with your own experience.  If so you know that this review site is good for you, but if not, then maybe you won’t agree with their opinion about other sites as well.

Finally don’t worry too much about rankings or ratings in adult webcam review sites, they tend to be rather arbitrary, but instead focus on the details of what makes a site look interesting to you.  Is it a wide range of girls, good filters to let you find the ones you want, tipping based shows or some other aspect that attracts you.