x0o0x0o0
Savannah Sweets..

Yes the CL new verification is not cool for me either. Just as Aurora, most of my clients find me on CL.

I think it will be better in regards to the spammers who post every 10 minutes though.

I just registered and used a throw away phone number for verification. CL does not automatically cooperate with LE without a legal subpenia. In which case, if LE has one all businesses must conform wanting to or not. Let me tell you, other ads I have out there have more info about me than CL does.

Not being able to post but only every 48hrs is more of a concern to me than my go phone or blocked business number being traced. I sense CL did this more from spam complaints than anything else.

xoxo
Taylor Storm

My question...how are some of the people on there able to post several times in one day? Registering a ton of phone numbers?

The majority of my clients comes from CL as well. I'm happy to see
the spam cut down but the limitation concerns me.

>I just registered and used a throw away phone number for
>verification.

I'm assuming that didn't work. Did it? I received the requirement from CL when I tried to post this morning too.

>Not being able to post but only every 48hrs is more of a
>concern to me than my go phone or blocked business number
>being traced.

Have you tried posting within 48 hours after being flagged yet? I've been getting flagged sometimes within a 1/2 hour of posting and my ads are very clean. This could be a real bummer.

Olivia

Yes, using my throw away phone number worked. It just needs to be activated so their automated system can call with the one time verification code.

And yes, the reason you are already seeing multiple posts from providers is they are using different emails, ip addresses and phone numbers for each account. I am assuming CL computer software is not only matching account phone numbers to emails, but also ip addresses.

Honestly, if one were to "beat" the system all they would need to do is purchase a few go phones for the sole purpose of using the phone number, then discard. I don't support the major spammers, but only being able to post every 2 days is not realistic for those of us who want to stay in business.

Perhaps those of us who do rely on CL for a majority of our clients should email CL asking them to reconsider the 48hr rule. Perhaps every 2-4 hours. If enough of us chime in, they might listen.

What do you guys think?

xoxo
Taylor

What I like about CL IS it's unregulated nature. It's a message board. Parties interested in the same thing get together and decide privately what they both want to do next. Perfect. The farther it gets away from that the more I want to go back to doing accounting...

Their constant need to "improve" things can get annoying.

If they want to improve things they should register the flaggers. That way they can make sure that some a hole doesn't just go on a tear and take everybodies ad down.

Wait... 48 hours. They would have a very empty board if they enforced that. And yeah, the spammers are still there. Worse it almost seems....

Not sure about IP addresses, I did register both my LA and local number
and it went through fine.

The thing about the spamming is, as mentioned upthread, the pimps
and over spammers can get lots of phones and do the same thing.

I really wish they would let things be. It's difficult enough
already.

I saw a post in the Help forum about how one person can reload certain ES pages and multiple flag them to the point of the ad going down. I tried it myself with someone who had a number of ads up simultaneously within a couple of hours. It worked. I tried again today to see if they restricted that with the new phone thing - same deal. I was able to flag away an ad by myself.

That sucks.

From my experience as well as others all you ever attract on CL is the low rent, bottom of the rung, lack of social skills type of schlubs anyway off there.

Pretty much takes the fun out of escorting if you ask me. If that is all I could/would attract off that site going thru the headache of all their restrictions then yes, accounting would be a dream job.

What with all the new rules/restrictions it seems to me that CL is discouraging prostitution, which is illegal anyway. It makes more sense just to shit can the erotic services section and be done with it. It certainly would cut back on more than half their workload.

Folly where do you advertise for 100 or so a month?

And all the new rules would be great if other providers followed them however I have seen multiple postings from 3 women and it doesn't work for me to have to spam to be seen and buy extra throw away phones.

What else is possible?

Aurora

And I know many clients and providers have had poor experiences from CL, but I have not in the least. I don't even have one single client whom I would not see again. And for the most part, my clients are affluent gentlemen who enjoy pampering their dates. Yes, I do receive a few phone calls where the CL client is not wanting to spend the rate I charge, but I have also had the same from RB clients. There's nothing wrong with it either way. I just suggest they call when they are ready to see me.

I'm not sure why some providers/clients have wonderful experiences with CL and some don't. Perhaps it is demographics, style of ad or even what you expect is what you get.

All in all, do whatever works for you. Stay safe and remember no matter where your client comes from treat them well.

I really don't believe that the loss can be made up by paid advertising on RB.

Sahana The Sacred Sensualist.
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives,
the touch of spirit on the body.
~Rumi

I researched all day , looking for free call forwarding , free disposable phone numbers and free voice mail to cover that base.

What I discovered is that craigs list doesn't seem to want to leave a message in voice mail , the call forwarding doesn't exist , and numbr dot com.. otherwise known as craigsnumber.. and the site that google bought are not accepting new " clients " .. that is they are NOT giving out numbers anymore.

Now, after buying a second phone, I am waiting for OVER an hour to receive the phone verifiation. Perhaps they only do it after eight in the morning.

Oh well , maybe I will get some sleep tonight.

just wondering...

do you guys got a spam from this c.l. phone verification?

>they wrote a program to hack womens computers that had used cl and that is why some of us were seeing the phone number verification thing...

CL isn't in the "hacking" business dear.

You might read this post from the General forum:

http://forum.myredbook.com/dcforum2/general/40619.html

pay particular attention to slick150 post.

When you quote too, try getting the entire quote and not just part.

In any case, cl IS in the business of hacking. That is why peoples ip addresses and mac addresses are blocked.. so they can no longer post there. CL staff would HAVE TO hack to some degree to block ip addresses and mac addresses.

And someone from CL made a mirror of my hard drive. They sent me pictures I NEVER sent to anyone or published anywhere trying to black mail me ... and I can prove what I am saying.

Keep in mind, I am NOT trying to start any kind of fight.

I am just stating what I know, and what I can prove.

c.l. don't allow me to post again,they seen have limit.