I don't have a "plain" jamoncam site, but use them since 9 years for customisation stuff of a site once based on jamoncam, also note most our site(s) are in house developed by other people so don't look at tubecamgirl this is NOT theirs.
Thesquealer posted and will continue to post in every thread his 2003 horror story, that is legit, I believe him. Others got shocked by them too, but mostly as they got a mainstream way of operate (and prices) which may not fit the practical, quick and cheap (I mean, effective) adult site way of ICQ a bro to solve stuff for a beer.
It is true in 2003 it was Tim reselling a few romanians, but should be added than in last few years they hired people in 2 offices, use ticket based web projects, have different team for develop and do testing, so you no more simply talk with Tim (who is not a developer and may promise stuff his developers disagree with later). In most cases you not even talk with him ever (if this is the issue). But instead with a number of other sales people , project managers and so on.
In fact most their business it is mainstream and you can tell by their prices which is no joke:
http://jamoncam.com/platform_prices.php
http://www.eyepartner.com/custom-development/
So an unlimited jamoncan site cost startup $7k then other $7k later = $14k. The other licenses are limited so you would upgrade anyway, make no sense.
Then most changes they not allow you to edit yourself (code is "proprietary") and add hours which as you see are sold at $150 each unless you buy hundreds, so "cheapest" deal is 401+ hours at $99/hour = $39k minimum.
So if you have the budget, that can work ok. If you want launch with $5k you will end very bad, as get cheaper license then learn you need upgrade and custom hours and really it was 15k - 20k.
For completeness: it was agreed in previous threads that to launch a real cam site it is required few $100k's investment, most going in advertising and bonuses for models and affiliates to care to such new cam site. So relatively the above price is not high, also consider doing in house code means hire basically full time one or two developers, plus your own bugs, which is also not so cheap.
I suggest then: who who wants to simply experiment a cam site or do it for an own small project etc., where really budget is $1k to $5k total including marketing, go for some opensource script + bro developer kid. You experiment for cheap and can do different later. If budget is $50k+ (but better $100k+), then jamoncam is one of the options for sure, just be prepared for custom work at $150 per hour for each change you ask who is not included.
Since i'm here I would suggest also this russian developer:
http://www.softservice.org/products.html
http://www.softservice.org/contact.html
I passed this contact to a few people (mostly cam studios), some of which launched a cam site with them and they're happy. One is:
http://www.elita-girl.com/exec/custo...nguage=english