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[QUOTE=Glockman;2081277]Greetings from Memphis. This Southern Belle is Mimi, my favorite long-legged redhead. I have not seen her for a while so we got together yesterday. She more than made up for lost time. As you can see, she has no problem with my "tasteful explicit" style of photography.[/QUOTE]She is a sexy Doll. Once again my cup of tea 4 sure! Thanks my friend.
[QUOTE=Cheech1;2080281]I'm getting a bad feeling about this classified business. I think if you do it you have to make sure in some way that the advertisers and the respondents are real and not setups. There comes a point when certain activity gets so obvious and blatant that the gestapo gets the feeling that they have to make an example of the participants. I'm sure everyone knows what I mean. Other than that, I love the idea.
Cheech.
Even though I'm in Cleveland.[/QUOTE]Verification is something we are thinking about. I read a lot of posts from you guys about BP so we know it's an issue. As far as the forum is concerned, I use chrome when I work so I'm already right clicking on new pics on new ads. If they come back as some internet model I delete the ad. We have some other ideas for our new site that we want to implement as well. I don't think anybody can ever make this bulletproof but our intention is to try. Since they don't at all right now I think it will make a superior product. Time will tell if the market likes it. We aren't looking to get a million ads, we are looking to get good ads and combine that with a great review site.
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I'm going to look into Square.[/QUOTE]Square's great for card-present transactions, but not really good for anything else.
If I happened to be in your shoes, I would take a good look at either Stripe or Braintree Payments.
I believe that Braintree handles the payments for village voice (backpage).
Just FYI, they are payment providers that are specific to the 'adult' industry, however, they suck, they charge an insane amount of money, and there are complains after complains on some of the adult webmaster communities about them. The one thing that you'll have to be on the lookout for are chargebacks -- I've heard that backpage has a chargeback rate of somewhere around 13-17% each month...and at $25-75 per pop from the processor, that tends to make margins very, very thin.
MM.
Well here I am again alone smoking cigar with glass of fine chard. BC gone to bed. Would like to hear what Cincinnati mongers and gals are doing after their Skylight are up to.
[QUOTE=MisforMaster;2081596]Square's great for card-present transactions, but not really good for anything else.
If I happened to be in your shoes, I would take a good look at either Stripe or Braintree Payments.
I believe that Braintree handles the payments for village voice (backpage).
Just FYI, they are payment providers that are specific to the 'adult' industry, however, they suck, they charge an insane amount of money, and there are complains after complains on some of the adult webmaster communities about them. The one thing that you'll have to be on the lookout for are chargebacks -- I've heard that backpage has a chargeback rate of somewhere around 13-17% each month...and at $25-75 per pop from the processor, that tends to make margins very, very thin.
MM.[/QUOTE]We aren't going into this business to make a fortune for card processors.
[QUOTE=Admin2;2081703]We aren't going into this business to make a fortune for card processors.[/QUOTE]I don't think that anyone does, but this type of 'business' is considered high risk, and high risk == more money sucked out of your account if you go at this in a legitimate fashion.
Back when I worked at $ADULT_COMPANY, we started off at $.75 per authorization and then they processors took 10.9% of every transaction, but by the time I left, I believe we had that moved down to $.35 per auth and 5.9% of every transaction, keeping 10% of our sales in a rolling reserve for chargebacks. Then again, this was the early 2000's, so a lot has changed since then, but adult processing is still a fustercluck.
MM.
I think your best bet would be to just set up a front business there in BA to handle the credit card payments. You could set up a sightseeing recommendation company, and create a nice little 10 page brochure that you could e-mail to customers. They get the classified listing for free. - grin. Then, you of course have to actually e-mail the brochure, and of course it can have monthly updates and so on. Which of course you charge a fee for. A legitimate charge for a legitimate product. You shouldn't have any more than normal cc charges and exchange fees, you could even set up the account someplace where the US dollar, such as it is, can be deposited without exchange to local currency. Check it out.
Cheech.
[QUOTE=Cheech1;2082072]I think your best bet would be to just set up a front business there in BA to handle the credit card payments. You could set up a sightseeing recommendation company, and create a nice little 10 page brochure that you could e-mail to customers. They get the classified listing for free. - grin. Then, you of course have to actually e-mail the brochure, and of course it can have monthly updates and so on. Which of course you charge a fee for. A legitimate charge for a legitimate product. You shouldn't have any more than normal cc charges and exchange fees, you could even set up the account someplace where the US dollar, such as it is, can be deposited without exchange to local currency. Check it out.
Cheech.[/QUOTE]But like Vince Vaughn said in Mr and Mrs Smith "I like where your head's at, man.".
Sooooooo.
The Viking that usually stays at the Monger Mansion every other month for a month is only going to be here for 9 days this month. He has informed me that I will be going out with him tonight. I am right to be frightened. I suspect serious debauchery will be roaming the misty streets of Buenos Aires tonight. I would give more details but you guys have far too many reasons to hate me already.
Pray for me.
A2.
[QUOTE=Admin2;2082404]Sooooooo.
The Viking that usually stays at the Monger Mansion every other month for a month is only going to be here for 9 days this month. He has informed me that I will be going out with him tonight. I am right to be frightened. I suspect serious debauchery will be roaming the misty streets of Buenos Aires tonight. I would give more details but you guys have far too many reasons to hate me already.
Pray for me.
A2.[/QUOTE]We'll pray your dick can stay hard enough for all the debauchery that is forthcoming but we WILL want some details!!
Luv.
[QUOTE=LuvdaLadys14;2082437]We'll pray your dick can stay hard enough for all the debauchery that is forthcoming but we WILL want some details!!
Luv.[/QUOTE]I didn't realize that Floyd was fighting an Argentino (that kid was pretty fucking good) it was like a hooker holiday here tonight. Saturdays are never good but this was terrible.
A2, I'm just a nice old Sicilian guy trying to get by. A sailor on the seas of fate.
Cheech.
The change of weatrher changes a lot. The harley is ready to ride, I won't be paying for pussy for quite awhile, not hard to do, better quality also I'm only in this hobby temporarily, cane here out of a relqationship, filled the gaps, but it's not for me on a full time basis too much free stuff out here have fun, play safe I;m out of here.
So I get this post reported by some chick. It was in the rip off section. The guy said "She took my money and left." The girl sent me this report saying "he only put that there because I refused his offer of sex for money, which is illegal in my state.".
I answered her back with "Then it seems like he's trying to clarify the confusing message in your BackPage ad where you promised a 'night of unbelievable passion with a money-back guarantee.' Seems to me he's helping you because no other guys who are confused on the issue and might think you would stoop so low as to offer a service which is illegal in your state will bother you anymore. As a matter of fact, he wanted to help you so much that he also took the time to post the pictures from your ad. We at USASG are also glad to give you in a hand in your desire to weed out any potential respondents who might be confused by your ad. No thanks are needed.".
Seems that wasn't what she was looking for.