It seems to me, you wouldn't be hiring "someone off the streets", maybe a former provider?
Originally Posted by H.Hardhat
Due to the fact that we are a Canadian owned and operated company, we are restricted to hiring only Canadians. The bulk of what we do is in the USA, so I really just don't know any Canadian providers looking for another line of work that I would consider having work with us. There are only a tiny handful of USA providers I would even consider for the position, IF I could hire them.
Screening is what you do after all. And they would not necessarily have to have access to accounts, but only screen ads and pass violations on to another one of your more trusted staff.
Originally Posted by H.Hardhat
The worst part was arguing with providers about whether a term or phrase was in violation or not, so this would only eliminate a small part of the problem. I'm really happy that we won't have to do that any more, the last 5 months has been hellish.
Having just joined, I liked the ads, I know that providers pay a hefty fee for the ads as many have commented so.
Originally Posted by H.Hardhat
Ad Board posts in Home and Visiting Cities were FREE up until this past Monday, which is when we started charging a small fee for the Ads. The Ad Board is now gone and so is that fee that was in place for 5 days.
The providers' P411 account and Home Listing remains FREE, as it always has been. There are additional upgrades they can purchase if they wish, but 95% do not. Upgrades are completely optional and not necessary to take full advantage of the site as a provider.
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Originally Posted by gtoman 
So your friend, are they planning to charge a membership fee for people to read or respond to the ads? Will their site be a pay site as well?
You would have to talk to him about that, I really don't know. However if he's going to want help from P411 in promoting it, he'll need to be treating P411 members very well.
Will the cost of P411 be going down since there are less benefits of having access now and you have less work to manage the site?
No, the cost will not be going down.
We are a verification service first and foremost, and we will continue to be. That we've had to remove sexual terminology from the site is due to a change in Canadian law, not because we wanted to.
Personally, I would have loved to have been able to keep the Activities List and the blown HTML Ad Board without having to monitor it, which is what we did up until December. Unfortunately, the law changed and we had to make changes to keep the site legal.
For five months we made an effort to keep the Ad Board going without increasing any cost. It was for too much work and arguing with providers was wearing on me, so we increased the price as a way to decrease the number of ads being posted, and hopefully the number of ads that were in violation (since they would lose the points if in violation). The increase in price was not well taken, and I decided to be done with it altogether, and I'm glad to have made that decision (although I wish things could have remained as they were, before the law changed).
I do wish there were a way to filter by girls currently online, that would be helpful.
The providers currently Online are always the ones at the top of the list, directly under any Top10 Listings.
I will ask our developer to make a filter in the Advanced Search area though.
If any one has any questions or concerns, I'm also available via email.
Always,
Gina
