I have yet to understand why a lady will have a higher rate on P411 than on other sites. Seems to me that having a pre-screened and verified client wanting to give you his money would be infinitely more preferable than a random "member" of some site who just happens to read your ad or review. Then you have to go through all the screening work, makes no logical sense to me. If anything the P411 guy should get a discount, if you are offering one. The guy will usually want a P411 OK from you afterwards so its already set up by that time.
I know that you earn some sort of rewards points for offering a P411 discount, just make sure the rate - discount equals out to what your "special" is. You get the points, we get the price and everyone is happy!
Please, go ahead and poke holes in my theory! I want to hear this.
Originally Posted by Chica Chaser
Perhaps a lady asking for a higher rate on P411 than her other advertising sites believes that P411 clients are more professional and/or more intentional in their soliciting for having gone through the screening and thus are likely more willing to pay a higher premium. Who knows?
When I see that, it looks to me that she does very little or no screening. I think that everyone would agree that P411 is a great tool in the screening process. A small P411 discount suggests to me that she does some serious screening (which I prefer if it is unobtrusive) and offering the discount is a way of saying thanks for making her screening easier.
Difference in rates between various advertising venues might be explained by changes over time and failure to make updates. A lady might not have updated her web site since she (or someone else) created it. Then she changed her rate when she created her Showcase. Finally, she has been doing something different in her recent BP ads. Some clients take the position of bringing the lowest rate advertised. I would contact her and simply ask which ad is most current.
This difference in advertised rates could also be a little version of what some ladies do in having different personas with different rates. This lady might be counting on the fact that most guys will see the first ad of her and contact her from it, that they will not be bothered to search around and find her multiple ads with different rates.
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I, too, had a lady tell me that her BP rate was cheaper than her ECCIE ad because it was the non-GFE rate. I recently noticed an even higher advertised rate by her on P411.