Some models assume someone with lots of credits in his account is willing to spend and someone with little or no credits will not spend. Which may not be the case. I for one do not keep my account fat all the time. In fact I almost never reload when I'm out of credits. Unless I see someone whom I feel is worth paying to watch, then I reload. So obviously judging a potential customer by the number of credits he has is not the smartest thing to do.
With regards to hiding in premium, well IMO if its a model who most people are familiar with and we know she's in great shape and all then I guess she can afford to hide 'cos she knows people will pay to chat. But if its someone who is not so well known, who is willing to take the risk? I for one am not prepared to waste even a few bucks to enter a premium chat with someone when I don't even know if she looks anything like her pics.
Which brings me again to another point that I've often bitched about. Many models have pics which look nothing like them. Its either pics taken years ago, or in some cases the pics don't even show the face so we don't even know if its them. I appreciate that its not easy to stay lean & ripped 365 days and while some models somehow manage to do it, other's can't. So the so called "off season" shape may be quite different from when she is about to compete or just finished competing.
Now if the model is in free chat then that's fine. We see her pics, she looks super ripped. We enter free chat. Damn, she looks like she's piled on the pounds. We exit. Fair enough. But imagine if that happens in premium. You see her pics, damn she looks fine. You find her waiting in premium so you go in. Shit, she looks like she had 20 cheese burgers too many. Sure you can exist but you've wasted your credits, no matter how little credits it is.
Of course some will argue that you had a choice. No one forced you to enter. Indeed. Which is why I personally will never chat with a model hiding in premium unless I've chatted with her before recently and know she's still in great shape. But I still feel that uploading pics that do not remotely look like you, or pics taken 20 years ago, is false advertising on the model's part. She knows she is not in great shape now and if she was to upload her current pics, chances are very few if any people will chat with her. So she choses to hide in premium and post super dated pics.
Whether that is ethical or not is debatable. But I certainly wish HBC would enforce some kind of regulations. Imagine buying something on Amazon and the pic and actual product look nothing like each other. How would you feel?