I am in the North West and currently giving them a wide berth.
Towns here are being sent into lockdown faster than you can submit and the Ads are unceremoniously deleted with an accompanying patronising little email (and no fee returned)
Managing OK with repeat Clients and AW.
Most of my long term repeat Clients found me on Vivastreet in the first place, so it's a shame they are being such condescending little Hitlers.
That's terrible!
I decided to bite the bullet and place an ad, but only because this time of the month can be quite busy and I didn't have an ad up last week. After searching for my town and seeing all other adverts as they normally would be, I decided to risk it. I'll be keeping an eye on it though every day.
It seems like Vivastreet follow the same policy as AW - penalising some people but not others for the same thing.
Having said that, touch wood, they've always been okay with me and customer service is always very good