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[bluetortilla]

I found one site from NOVA called 'Woman.' It's a Skype Eikaiwa site run out of Cebu City for, who would not suppose I guess- lonely Japanese men??

Anyway, minimum wage in the Philippines is about 2 USD an hour and from their prices it seems that's about what the women are making.

Other searches yielded similar, ridiculously low prices, like 95 yen for 25 minutes. Teachers from lots of different countries too. But I couldn't crack the prices further without actually signing up for a free lesson.

So what gives here? They must be charging some bigger prices for 'texts' or something. You can't get person to person attention for 2 bucks an hour anywhere. Can you?

One reason I'm asking is that if I were, in the future, to teach English over Skype I'd want at least 3000 JPY for one hour, or 1500 for 30 minutes. I know there are teachers out there who would teach for as low as 1500 an hour, but that's still way more than two bucks! I'd like to know a good justification for charging a higher price. There must be a hidden cost at these sites...I think...

[RM1983]

I guess they push the students to buy blocks of lessons, and the teachers are mainly housewives? They dont have to leave home and they get paid. You might struggle to justify a higher price, unless you could perhaps offer training in digital literacy or something like that

[Shimokitazawa]

[RM1983]