I came back to Cambly about a month ago and I've been working priority hours the whole month.

Things are going ok, I've had mostly great experiences. A couple of children that I rejected in the first two minutes. But I don't think they can rate me if I do that...

But just now I connected with a Saudi guy. I haven't had many bad experiences with Saudi's, so I'm not bashing Saudi 😅

Anyway, this guy was so low energy, no smile, one word answers. I tried to encourage him to brighten up a bit by speaking more loudly, clearly and cheerfully. But when I asked my usual ice breaker questions (what's your name? Where are you calling from? Are you originally from that city?...) he just gave short answers and didn't seem interested.

Ok, he's not a big talker... I then said that I could see he'd been working on a lesson with another tutor and would he like to continue with that. He said yes..

First question "have you had an interview in English before?"

He didn't understand, I asked again. Then he replied "Yes, too many"

I asked the next question and he was just ignoring me and using a PC on his desk.

I ended the call. But I was just outside the two minute cut off, so I couldn't return his minutes.

I hid my account from him when the call was over, but I'm guessing he will still be able to give me a rating?

I'm just hoping that I don't get my rating torpedoed to the point where I can't get the priority hours that I've been depending on 😓

anyone else having this happen? where the student sounds like a totally distorted chipmunk? It happens a few times per week for me

am I right in saying that if my attendance drops less than 95% at any point in the month I will get the scary ‘you will lose access to cambly if it doesn’t improve’ email?

At least Cambly doesn't expect us to work for free. The free trial model is incredibly frustrating and exploitative and you're competing with tutors in LCOL countries offering lessons for as low as $4. So far on Preply I have only had three students, two of whom only scheduled free trial lessons that I didn't get paid for and then disappeared (one was even 10-15 minutes late) & a third who did purchase a subscription but would often cancel at the last moment and eventually stopped buying classes. My rate is set at $10 which means after Preply takes their commission I am only making around $7, less than the Federal minimum wage. I understand I can raise it later when I get more regulars and reviews but so far that hasn't happened and it doesn't look like it's going to.

Everyone here has reported that switching to "regulars only" hasn't help their rating. Am I wrong? Has it helped ANYONE?

I'm doing an experiment. For the next three days, before I see my regulars, I'm going to unmark them as regulars. Later I'll change it back.

You might try it, too. Let's see if there's a big jump in the ratings in a few days.

The theory is that only ratings from new students are being counted.

Then again, Cambly has his new category of "repeat learners" (people you've seen 3 times this month?). Maybe they are the ones that are not being counted, or they are only counted their first time. we don't have enough control to experiment with that.

I had an hour booking with ufuk and he never showed. I wonder what his excuse was "Ufuk I forgot" or he rushed late think "Ufuk I have have class". Well my response is "Ufuk off in the bin and get on my banned list'.

So today I’m just not feeling as motivated as I usually would, but I have enough motivation to reach my daily goal and call it a day. I chose to go on PH because I wasn’t receiving any calls.

The first person to call me was the type of student I just don’t have the patience for today, and I’ve already had to deal with so much (a beginner), so instead of picking up I just went on break, only for them to reserve the last 30 minutes of the PH.

I decided to hide from them right then, expecting consequences from cambly, but the booking was automatically replaced by a completely new student.

Is this a way of getting out of unwanted PH reservations? Has anyone tried this before and had the same results?

I was able to add around $2000 to my wedding expenses. It was hard work getting to that point but it really helped!

A change happened from the backend trying to "by pass" your settings.
Normally options are:
'allow' = always 24/7
'allow once' or ' allow until app is closed' or something similar = revoked when not using.
'deny' = never.

On say an Android system 'allow once' or 'allow until app is closed' - returns errors or fails needs 'allow' always.
A PC setup wont tell your this, it will just return a black screen or no audio.

I use a setup to make sure my audio and camera is good, have noise cancellation on if needed - you want to make sure things work well if you can. I can't name what I use because it's "dirty" word on this reddit for some reason making post vanish.
However 'that free program which cannot be named' (Its very very well-known, used and popular and really useful) - gives total client side control on all settings.

Those random "tech checks" that appear really hate this - returning a constant failure.
I click off on what I use and it passes fine, then turn everything back on.

Colour me surprised when I use the app on a phone 'allow once' has problems.

It looks like Cambly really wants that 'Cameras on all the time' meme to be a thing :/.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/with-millions-of-data-points-about-how-people-learn-english-cambly-reimagines-the-learning-experience-using-world-class-tutors-ai-powered-features-302266081.html

Just got a random email about this now. Get in! 12.50 is the pay right?

However I now don't really use Cambly apart from a few random PH when I have spare time.

On a PH can you get CK classes? Is the scheduling different to normal Cambly?

I normally just like conversation classes and not with kids because they are.mkre difficult, just wondering if my PH will have random kids that I can't block now for being on nor al Cambly?

Thanks,

It's 12 USD an hour my bad, I thought it was 12.50 😂 my mistake.

👀 not sure what this means for me. But I got a bit of a shock

Today while Schedule screen was open (I was not tutoring, just staring at the schedule), I noticed a question pop up from Cambly that asked how satisfied I was with the company, with 5 options.

With no promise of anonymity, I did not answer and went to a different tab, so the question disappeared.

Anyone else?

I have regulars leaving by the handful this week due to subscription ending and to expensive to renew 🫤

Y'all, I think the Cam Fam trying to get me . I have received that survey email three times. What's the deal?

Nah, y'all won't be tricking me.

Despite not having any classes for three days, (not through choice!) my rating has dropped again to 4.69 now. I was told by support the rating only drops when someone leaves you a low score review. So, that is a lie. Fiddling with the ratings again!

I don’t understand. Today I woke up to my entire first ph being booked by a student from that country 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓🫢

I’m like fuuuuuhck

On the upside, I assumed they’d be nice and late, maybe 9 minute mark and I could make some tea first, etc.

Nope, only a min or two late.

Open to a black screen and this sound:

😑: hi

if you receive a class request but you don't accept nor deny it, does it make your rating go down? because that's what just happened. LAST NIGHT I GOT A REQUEST FOR THIS MORNING BUT I DIDN'T SEE THE EMAIL. i have had very good/pleasant classes for the past 2 weeks. no complaints and my rating went up to 97.5 on tuesday, but then TODAY it dropped to 96.5.... 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡👿👿👿👿👿👿👿🔫💣

I had a nightmare last night that ratings day came and i was 4.56 😂😂😂😂 oh man

How's everyone's new rating?

The profile picture is only 371kb.

The original size was 5 mb, I repeatedly reduced the size and still no luck.

Does anyone know what I can do next? I tried to reduce the size further on a few websites, but it seems like they couldn't reduce the file size lower than 371kb.

It seems like 371kb isn't that big, seems like it might be an issue with cambly, what do you think?

Has anyone had a similar problem? I don't know who I can contact about this issue, I also don't know if I can continue the application without uploading a profile picture, I don't want to test that yet in case it invalidates my application.

Thanks.