Backpage seemed to have scraped my advert from either AW, Viva or FridayAd, but I've never created an account or advertised with them. Has anyone actually had any decent leads from them? I've had a few people have said "I've seen you on backpage" but they've been the furtive phone wanker type.

Wanted to use Backpage this week as I'm touring the midlands. Got stuck with the Bitcoin thing last night. Investigated a few ways of buying Bitcoin but they are all ridiculous. In order to pay by debit card you need to take a photograph of you with your card, plus with your driving license/passport, and send it to the vendor. YEAH OKAY SON.

Then I remembered that Backpage bought Cracker, which is still accepting cards. So I've taken a sponsored ad on Cracker for the matching region in Backpage and I *think* they will mirror the ad across both sites. Worth a try right? I'll update later to say if it's appeared.

Right, my ad has been published and it is indeed showing as a sponsored listing on both Cracker and Backpage. I've paid about ?17 for the ad (they charge in Australian dollars - I suspect since sex work is legal in Australia they've moved operations there.) You don't have all the functionality of Backpage and you can only post quite short wording, but rather do that and pay by card than send my personal details to some 22 year old hacker in Ukraine