I took up the offer and have been pleasantly surprised by how it has worked for me.

I have noticed a distinct increase in calls and business (I live in quite a remote spot so don't get the quantity of work that city dwellers do)

The only irritant is that I can't change my location that they have given me and it's rather a large city that is over half an hour away from my work.  SOME clients actually read the profile, where I say where I am based, but most don't so I have to keep explaining which is getting pretty boring.  I have emailed them directly but not heard anything.

Would I recommend? YES but I took a lot of care in writing my profile.

Hope this helps any of you who can't make a decision.  It's free to start with so give it a go!

I only just realised that even though you input your phone number, VS impose their 070 number over the top. I'd recently received an email from them offering a free 1 month advert and thought I'd make use of it, got into my account did what they instructed which was to send an email with the ad number, no response. I eventually paid for the ad and it's only just last night whilst making some changes I realised the little box that was ticked  (something like Vivaprotect) which had covered my own number with one starting with 070.

Ok my fault for not remembering they do this, but worth knowing incase it slips by anyone else. It appears to be an automatic thing that you have to actively find and untick.

Quote from: Strawberry on 07 March 2014, 08:58:43 am

I only just realised that even though you input your phone number, VS impose their 070 number over the top. I'd recently received an email from them offering a free 1 month advert and thought I'd make use of it, got into my account did what they instructed which was to send an email with the ad number, no response. I eventually paid for the ad and it's only just last night whilst making some changes I realised the little box that was ticked  (something like Vivaprotect) which had covered my own number with one starting with 070.

Ok my fault for not remembering they do this, but worth knowing incase it slips by anyone else. It appears to be an automatic thing that you have to actively find and untick.

Hi Strawberry,

Thank you for your feedback, yes we do have 070's on the site but you can opt out (we are just in the process of updating the tick box to opt in rather than out). I am sorry that you dont seem to have had a reply with regards to the free ad, I look after the es@vivastreet inbox and havent seen this. Please do resend to me and we can upgrade your current ad or offer you a free one for next time - whatever works best for you.

Thanks,

The Vivastreet Team - Finny

Having abstained from advertising on Vivastreet for a while, but reassured by this thread that things have changed, I went ahead and advertised with all the bells and whistles.  Advert approved, no photos removed. 

I change location, nothing else, no text change, no photos added, and it goes into moderation for a few hours and I get a message now that photos have been removed.  What I don't get is, doesn't the person moderating the photos the second time around feel foolish to be over-riding what a colleague had previously approved?   One of the ones removed is me fully dressed as an office secretary!!!  In fact, another one is me in lingerie, no "money-shots" showing.

Pru

Quote from: Lady_Lust_XXX on 07 March 2014, 01:16:56 pm

Strawberry, as far as I'm aware their system will not allow a direct link on the ads.  I asked about it a while back and that is what I was told   

Hi Stawberry and Lady Lust,

Good news we are currently testing the clickable link solution in some of the smaller categories to ensure it is bug free and wont cause any issues. It will be show towards the top of an ad next to the phone number and email. I will try and get a test ad set up so I can show what it will look like next week and post in the forum and get your feedback. we are hoping to have the final version if all goes well with testing in the next month or so.

Thanks,

The Vivastreet Team - Finny

Having abstained from advertising on Vivastreet for a while, but reassured by this thread that things have changed, I went ahead and advertised with all the bells and whistles.  Advert approved, no photos removed. 

I change location, nothing else, no text change, no photos added, and it goes into moderation for a few hours and I get a message now that photos have been removed.  What I don't get is, doesn't the person moderating the photos the second time around feel foolish to be over-riding what a colleague had previously approved?   One of the ones removed is me fully dressed as an office secretary!!!  In fact, another one is me in lingerie, no "money-shots" showing.

Pru

Quote from: Ebonypru on 07 March 2014, 01:01:12 pm

Having abstained from advertising on Vivastreet for a while, but reassured by this thread that things have changed, I went ahead and advertised with all the bells and whistles.  Advert approved, no photos removed. 

I change location, nothing else, no text change, no photos added, and it goes into moderation for a few hours and I get a message now that photos have been removed.  What I don't get is, doesn't the person moderating the photos the second time around feel foolish to be over-riding what a colleague had previously approved?   One of the ones removed is me fully dressed as an office secretary!!!  In fact, another one is me in lingerie, no "money-shots" showing.

Pru

This happened to me many times. What one mod allowed the other didn't. Because all have different beliefs is my conclusion of what is and isn't allowed. Talking from experience many times with this problem. Until had enough and put a smart elegant plain jane photo up all covered.