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Lucymay

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platinumselect.com - Any good?
« on: 08 March 2008, 06:14:58 pm »
Anyone use the above website to be listed on prices start at ?4.99 for a week - Just don't know if it is worth it as a lot of the escorts are charging ?50 an hour!!
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Re: platinumselect.com - Any good?
« Reply #1 on: 08 March 2008, 06:35:39 pm »
Adding the weekly option means they're a bit cheaper to try than when I was last rude about them, but unless things have changed incredibly drastically, I'd still categorise it as a scam site. There was an hilarious thread on another board a couple of years ago when someone from them tried to say that they weren't a scam and just got bombarded by people pointing out that they were.

It doesn't help their case that they're not, by any reasonable definition, the 'agency' that they pretend to be. Real agencies don't charge their staff anything up front.

Instead, they're an ad site, and a bad one at that: potential clients have to pay before they can see any of the profiles that escorts have paid to advertise on the website! Curiously, this isn't mentioned in the pitch to join the site as an escort.

Interestingly, that pitch seems to be aimed mostly at men looking to be escorts for women, while the pitch for joining as a 'member' able to see the profiles seems to be aimed mostly... at men looking for female escorts. Once they had joined, at one point the profiles they could see were reportedly fake or out of date.
'The Ian formerly known as SW5'. What they said: "Indispensable", "You are our best resource", and (hours later!) "I'm afraid that you're being made redundant..."

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Re: platinumselect.com - Any good?
« Reply #2 on: 08 March 2008, 06:38:37 pm »
No. No no no. It's a complete scam.

Punternet is ?12/month. Punterlink, PuntingZone and UKBelles are all free. These are some of the top national directories, people who ask for significantly more are just trying their luck.

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Re: platinumselect.com - Any good?
« Reply #3 on: 08 March 2008, 07:57:59 pm »
Thanks for that

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Re: platinumselect.com - Any good?
« Reply #4 on: 24 March 2008, 10:17:16 pm »
the ?50 an hour the escorts are charging is for their time only.     You will find they charge another ?100 -?150 on top of this for services.   

Hope this helps.

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Re: platinumselect.com - Any good?
« Reply #5 on: 24 March 2008, 10:29:27 pm »
You would also find they get hardly any work, I suspect.

The other problem people have had is in getting their details off the site.
'The Ian formerly known as SW5'. What they said: "Indispensable", "You are our best resource", and (hours later!) "I'm afraid that you're being made redundant..."