HX vs PD. What are your tips for HX?
I have been trying to figure out HX. Is there a way to search for premium talent on HX, either by review score (as on TER), or price range? Custom searches? Yes, the prices are much lower on HX, but my searches on HX seem to yield some mid tier and a lot of low-tier ladies, very little top tier talent. PD seems to have middle to upper tier ladies.
[QUOTE=KentClarke;6667655]I second what Bikinifan and MrGordon16 have said based on my personal experience using both. I initially signed up for each around the same time, but used PD exclusively for 1 1/2 yrs because it was completely free, and significantly easier. Nevertheless I soon became determined to figure HX out after consistently reading here about HX providers whom were: Better looking, Gave way better service, with significantly less GPS. Especially when a Provider was using both and charging 35% - 50% more on PD. There are a few good providers on PD that don't post on HX all of which require higher donations but there are twice as much providers on HX that don't use PD. Because of the price difference, it's completely understandable that there's a lot of animosity to PD here, but PD isn't free for Providers if they want more than a single ad that they can only update once a day. A 30 day unlimited posting account is $395 so it's fair that that expense would be passed along to the consumer. Having used PD first I see it a little differently than most.
IMHO, the best decision depends on You and how you're feeling at any particular time. Bottom line is HX is safer for talent and PD is easier but more expensive overall for Mongers. Here's an example of what I'm talking about: Let's say you're hungry and want to eat a good hamburger. Your two options are Go to a restaurant and buy one or, go to the Supermarket and buy all the stuff and make one yourself at home. The restaurant is convenient, fast and tastes just Okay with little to no effort except for the price. On the other hand, you have to go to the store, and choose all the different stuff, then take the time to put it all together but it ends up Tasting WAY better at 1/3 the price. If you are willing to pay a lot more because you're too busy, don't want to put in any effort and are okay with just so, so service then PD will do just fine. But, if you'd prefer to pay 35%-50% less and you are willing to do a little leg work to get much better service that is Healthy and Delicious (Maybe not so Healthy) then HX is what to use. After using both now for the past two years I find myself rarely if ever checking out PD. When I do use PD it's to see if there's any new talent that isn't on HX or to check which HX providers are using both and whether or not there's a difference in donation. On a couple of occasions, I found a provider that for whatever reason was currently posting on PD but not HX and asked them to rate me on HX instead of PD since ratings on HX carry more weight with Providers than they do on PD.[/QUOTE]
