Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
Big Sigh........ Okay, I have taken a break due to family issues, and Backpage has entirely changed during the few short months that I have been gone. I googled the going rate for bitcoins and I'm not ready to throw 230 bucks towards one coin....so I am going to send in A money order for the one dollar reposts. Geeeeesh!!! But snail mail is slow!! Is there anyway to get Bp to stop ghosting my free ads?? I am getting almost no calls- like 2 per ad. Wtf????? This is unheard of! What do I do? Also, can my clients see the number that I post with? It's my personal number and not the google number that runs into it from my personal phone. I am very sad about these changes on BP, and its really screwing up my business. What do I do differently? :(
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
What do you mean by ghosting? Are they disappearing? Cause I'm wondering if that's what's going on with mine, I'm barely getting any calls myself. Also they have a pay by check option, have you tried that?
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
Hello?? I have not been on here in forever because my business was going fine. But, I need some help. What do I do?? I need income!!!!!
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
With the free ads, they do not stay up more than the day you post them. It's nothing like before when you posted an ad on a Friday (for instance) and then when Saturday rolled around, you could still see your ad if you scrolled down to the Friday ads. And a week later you could still scroll back and see that ad you posted on Friday.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
yep - there are so many posting in my city that the ad's get buried quickly - make several ads so that you have a bunch to move to the top through out the day
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
They remove the free ads within 10 minutes. Post 4 times an hour and after every client, only want to keep it up.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
they dont disappear in my city they just get bumped back due to the number of post - maybe it is different in each city
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
Is anyone having this problem with the BP free ads? I'll post an ad but it only shows up under the "Date" tab (not the "top", "gallery" or "video" tab)...ie. Most likely no potential clients will even see my ad! I post in multiple cities in Colorado. I've emailed my local BP and no surprise, didn't receive a response. Has anyone else had this problem?
Also, I did an auto post package for the first time while on tour in rural PA a few months ago and they never posted my ads at all. This ruined my tour completely and I lost thousands of dollars :( This was just before the whole CC issues.
I've been using BP on and off for a few years and never had any problems before.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
They don't remove them. Check under "additional ads". It's annoying as hell.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
Okay, so I'm also going to switch to cityvibe and bestGFE. Are there any other sites that I could advertise on? I am also really holding onto my regulars right now, and I'm getting a photographer for a website this week. I'm very pissed that BP is doing this shit. I think the free ads should be removed. Just make us pay by check or money order. Wait...... My bank has a WAY that if I scan a regular paycheck- that they immediately deposit money into my account, even if they Do NOT have the physical check. So....... I am thinking BP could Do the same thing? This having to mail in a money order or check stuff IS BULLSHIT!!! THERE HAS TO BE a way to electronically pay them and immediately start posting. I think we should all bombard them with emails about our ideas and let them know how bad this has been for our businesses. One Question- is anybody using bitcoins ? And has anybody NOT had a drop in business that uses Bp primarily for ads?
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
I advertise on P411, Eros, TER, Date-Check, Indys, MyProviderGuide, Slixa, BP & Twitter. When I tour in rural parts of the country, Indys and BP are often the only source of advertising for me. Eros and Slixa are hit and miss - really depends where you're advertising.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
Bp does allow one free ad a day....which yes the ad will stay up for 10-15 min then they pull it off or something. You usually get an email confirmation saying add is up and click here to manage/edit add. What you THEN do is....sign into your account (usually is the email u register with them when u put ur email down while posting add) and you will have to wait maybe 20-30 min for the EMAIL from the add you just posted up, where you can edit/move up... If it doesn't say MOVE ADD UP in your email yet, you will have to wait bit longer until that shows in ur email. when you do see it saying MOVE ADD UP, click on that and it'll then say move up for $1.... Click onto that..and move it up to STAY up for $1.
Don't know how to move it up for $1? You have to have CREDITS on your acct in order to move add up for $1... Forget bit coin and money order. Bp DOES NOT take visa/mc...only American Express. Go get a AE gift card or prepaid card....go to POSTFASTR.COM and sign I to that acct (SAME username n pass as your bp) and click add credits and type in your AE info. For some reason this postfastr website is somehow linked to your bp. It will automatically bring the credits to your bp acct. don't ask me how I know, I read it on one of the other different forum boards and has been working fine for me for past 2-3 months now.
Super easy.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
I'm just posting in the cam/phone section and I'm having issues as well. Posted 2 ads and absolutely NO traffic to my skype whatsoever. I was getting at least freeloaders when I actually paid but nada? Nah, seems pretty ghost to me.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
Thank You do much Honey!!!! I will go get a card tomorrow. AND thanks to everyone else for letting me vent and for telling me how to post!!! Muahh!!
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
No problem! I was frustrated as heck when bp made their changes..glad I figured it out quick. best of luck to you ladies and as always, stay safe.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
I thought AMX was not allowing BP ads a long time ago ??? i did hear the gift cards were working --- IDK
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
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Nikki_Fox
I thought AMX was not allowing BP ads a long time ago ??? i did hear the gift cards were working --- IDK
Yeah, I'm pretty sure AMX left a good 6 months before Visa and MC did. I heard Visa vanilla gift cards work. The best way to find out is through trial and error.
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
American Express Gift card does not work! Do not waste your time or money!!!!
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
American Express Gift card does not work on POSTFASTR.COM! Do not waste your time or money!!!!
Re: Backpage is Ghosting my free ads...... Help!!! Advice?
When you send in a check or money order to backpage, they actually process it pretty quickly