I believe in Bay Area it's $3.00 for Backpage. Personally, I liked how as soon as I posted my first RB ad, BP "spoofed" it and put it on their site for like 3 months free! I realized they had done this only after I'd received several BP calls. When it was up, I'd say I was receiving about 3 BP calls to every 7 RB call. I was in Santa Rosa at the time. The BP calls were as viable as the RB calls. I did a paid ad on BP and received about 4 new clients from one $3.00 ad, which posted on their site for a month!We've got to be able to set aside a certain amount of our gross towards advertising costs. Very important. I can't remember the figure, but if memory serves me right from my retail store ownership days, I think it's something like 10% of gross sales should go towards advertising. It may be way off, please correct me if I'm wrong.
I have a gazillion ideas for an escort site, one that would be geared more towards the escorts wants, needs, survival, and the big one - SAFETY, rather than the clients' wants, needs, and anonymity.
I know it was a tough call for Craigslist to make, one they've been fighting for a long time. I'm surprised they took Adult Services off though, since it grossed them $36 million so far this year! That's no small change, and represents about 1/3 of their annual revenue. I don't understand the total legal aspects, but it appeared they wouldn't have been able to be convicted for any criminal offense nor civil liability. But lawyers fighting against the onslaught of criminal and civil complaints is extraordinary, highly damaging to their reputation, and maybe they just came down to the opinion that it just wasn't worth it. But we don't know what the future will hold. Interesting that for right now, they've ended it with the word "censored." That denotes all kinds of possible future aggressive action by Craigslist. I for one am excited to see what's up their sleeves.
I know too well fighting to keep a business endeavor going only based upon principle, that I had a legal right to do so, and with the erroneous belief that a city government couldn't resort to illegal tactics to stop me from doing what I was doing. Well, they did and I lost my business from their illegal actions. It can take years for lawsuits against the government to finish. So in that light of my own personal regret, good for you Craigslist. If they can reorganize things to be able to accept a $30 million or so annual loss, and not have to fight a battle they'll probably not win, more power to them. They owe us, the consumers, nothing for the future. Free enterprise, remember? One of the main reasons for monopoly laws.
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