OK...so I just erased a scathing reply and am just going to say...Being a pleaser and a lover of open minded men who actually understand our business needs, SHAME on you and the other lazy researchers for articulating that if it were left up to you, you would like to limit all the women's livelihoods who are causing you to do research and also for statements about wanting to see their board reputations tainted or destroyed for it.
pft
Originally Posted by M A X
Max,
I do believe you are ignoring the golden rule for
any business - the customer is king. As a business you seek our patronage, which means you need to offer goods and services that the customer wants and/or needs. Business is business. Now in this case the business is interpersonal relationships. Ladies exchange their time for our money. As a consumer I want to be able to quickly and effeciently find a potentially compatible companion and then engage in conversations to determine if a business transaction should or will occur between us. Besides, since I'm the customer and it's my money, I'm entitled to be lazy or however I choose to be because I'm the one who is paying (within obvious reasons).
The whole point of having different cities is to seperate geographically dispersed businesses into easily searchable areas. If we want a clusterfuck, we can alway go to backpage. It is nice to be able to keep the noise to a miniumum. Plus, as another lady pointed out, if you are advertising in cities you aren't in, then you are indeed potentially interferring with other ladies business.
As far as things being a ladies living and a gentleman's hobby, well, I hate to rain on your parade but so what? You chose to enter into this particular business field, and you want to take advantage of this board to get customers. Say you open a McDonalds and you want to put up a 100ft tall sign so everyone can see where you are from a mile away. But the city says your signs can only be 6ft tall. Is it unfair to you as a business? No, because all your competitors are required to follow the same rules. You can choose to abide by the rules or you can choose to not open a business inside the city limits where people can tell you how you can advertise.
It's nothing personal. It's just business.