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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #525 on: 05 January 2016, 03:57:52 pm »
I checked and only have the option for 7 days...and the price will now mean paying ?13 a month more and it still doesn't include allowing weblinks (an extra ?3.99 for 7 days), or more detailed adverts.

I also don't think I'll bother renewing. My advert expires today.

Hi Everybody,

We are currently testing shorter duration plans in 2 regions in the UK, these were the regions that this feature was most requested in our survey. To confirm our plans have gone from 30 days to 10 and 7, however we certainly have not kept the prices the same as for 30 days. Yes we have increased prices slightly as most companies do in the new year, I will however speak with the relevent team ab
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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #526 on: 05 January 2016, 03:59:57 pm »
Hi Everybody,

We are currently testing shorter duration plans in 2 regions in the UK, these were the regions that this feature was most requested in our survey. To confirm our plans have gone from 30 days to 10 and 7, however we certainly have not kept the prices the same as for 30 days. Yes we have increased prices slightly as most companies do in the new year, I will however speak with the relevant team about the cost of your weblink as I agree that looks high in comparison.

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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #527 on: 05 January 2016, 04:21:10 pm »
Yes we have increased prices slightly as most companies do in the new year, 

It works out at more than a 50% increase as I was paying ?19.99 before. I don't call that a slight increase!
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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #528 on: 05 January 2016, 05:29:13 pm »
Yes we have increased prices slightly as most companies do in the new year, 

It works out at more than a 50% increase as I was paying ?19.99 before. I don't call that a slight increase!

Hi Red KB,

Feel free to email me direct and I can check your account and location, but if you were on the ?19.99 plan that changed to ?8.99 for 10 days. This would mean you are paying an extra ?6.97 per 30 days or ?2.32 per 10 days.

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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #529 on: 05 January 2016, 05:43:32 pm »
I will do that as I was paying ?19.99 for 30 days and now there's only a 7 day option available for ?7.99. Definitely no 10 day option there.
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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #530 on: 05 January 2016, 09:25:24 pm »
Im certainly not happy that the changing location is now ?59 for 10 days I mean Im all for increasing the price increase but personally that's a blatant  rip off that's a extra ?120 a month if you want to move location. I would rather spend that ?120 on other targeted advertising

Yet another company who thinks that because we are escorts we are stupid enough to pay this amount in advertising

As someone who has used viva St for years I certainly won't be using it once my next add runs out if this is the price increase for moving location

Also I have 3 adds one current. 2 not current

The cambridge add seems to be in one of those so called trial / rip of areas with ?59 per 10 days for moving location

My Heathrow & Bristol adds  are still on the old rate of ?59 per month

Ok AW put up there prices but certainly not by  100 percent and none  of the other places that I advertise on punterlink / punternet have put up there prices up either . I guess they value our business

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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #531 on: 05 January 2016, 10:33:39 pm »
I think it may be better to buy a seperate Vivastreet ad for each area ie if you know you will be in four places for the month buy four adverts but don't bother with change of location. Will be a pain though with Glasgow guys ringing while you are in London but you can then tell them when you're returning.

I remember the good old days when Vivastreet was free.
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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #532 on: 06 January 2016, 05:19:16 am »
I would rather pay more for the base add and be able to move it for free. Obviously, girls who don't tour wouldn't like it that way. But I may only tour a little bit or I may tour a lot.

And I would still like greater flexibility in the number of days you can purchase. I would also pay more if I was only buying days and my ad was disabled when I wasn't working - something like "Available Today."

VS customer service is very good, especially compared to AW. And it has a high profile due to high Google ranking. But the pay off in terms of genuine callers vs time wasters isn't great. That's one reason I haven't advertised with them in a while. I'd happily pay their prices for a week's tour of London if the calls were quality.

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« Reply #533 on: 06 January 2016, 09:06:26 am »
I think it may be better to buy a seperate Vivastreet ad for each area ie if you know you will be in four places for the month buy four adverts but don't bother with change of location. Will be a pain though with Glasgow guys ringing while you are in London but you can then tell them when you're returning.

I remember the good old days when Vivastreet was free.
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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #534 on: 06 January 2016, 09:37:48 am »
Personally I thought viva street was expensive even without a price increase.

I just had a look to renew my advert
And 29,99 for 30 days standard listing and because all I do is tour is 59.99

I didn't see a 7 day option.

With all the added extras to make your advert stand out it ends up being a lot of money.

I would like to post a link to my personal site but I'm not going to pay another 7.99 on top of what the advert costs.
I don't understand really why they charge for a location change. Obviously I do (money maker)
but it's very expensive, over 1k a year isn't it.

It's not the best platform as they limit what you can write,
And without being able to add specifics it means that we get loads of wankers calling asking stupid questions.

At least with Adultwork, we have the tool to make money.
I have never had to add money to my account as my private gallery pays for it.

I am going to buy a cheap pay as you go phone specifically for Vivastreet and see how many calls I get when I renew it, because I don't believe I get enough work from it to justify its cost.
The only good thing about Vivastreet is that it has a high Google presence.

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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #535 on: 06 January 2016, 10:11:27 am »
Other directories have not increased their prices over the New Year.

VS was already fairly expensive, and as Fabs says not a great converstion rate. They also have errors in their geographical database which have constantly made it difficult for me to advertise - and with the cost for displaying website link (which helps clarify my location for those who do click through), or if I do do a day in a different area, just isn't worth it. I don't find the customer service very good, because I don't think there should be a need for so many advertisers to have to call or email to rectify mistakes, it should be right first time.

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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #536 on: 06 January 2016, 12:28:09 pm »
I checked and only have the option for 7 days...and the price will now mean paying ?13 a month more and it still doesn't include allowing weblinks (an extra ?3.99 for 7 days), or more detailed adverts.

I also don't think I'll bother renewing. My advert expires today.

Hi Red KB,

Thank you for sending over your details. I have investigated this and you are correct in that the price for you adverts were displaying incorrectly and higher than they should be. We have amended the packages on site and these should be updated shortly.

This was my mistake so apologies for this.

Thank you,

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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #537 on: 06 January 2016, 12:54:13 pm »
Other directories have not increased their prices over the New Year.

VS was already fairly expensive, and as Fabs says not a great converstion rate. They also have errors in their geographical database which have constantly made it difficult for me to advertise - and with the cost for displaying website link (which helps clarify my location for those who do click through), or if I do do a day in a different area, just isn't worth it. I don't find the customer service very good, because I don't think there should be a need for so many advertisers to have to call or email to rectify mistakes, it should be right first time.

Hi Mirror,

We completely understand that nobody ever likes price increases and we actually havent increased prices since mid 2014. Whilst we cannot speak for how other sites have evolved over the last few years, we have invested heavily in marketing our site, traffic is up over 400% to over 13 million sessions a month and almost 4 million contacts (we understand some are time-wasters).
This is on top of the new features we have launched, site changes and increased hires in moderation and customer service teams to support the growing site.

You are right that we do have our fair share (maybe a little more) of problems and we do work to fix or resolve these in the most expedite way we can. We are in the process of exploring a solution to fix our geo issues this year, one of many fixes and new features we plan to launch based on your feedback.

If we hadn't done anything to our site or moved the needle in any meaningful way, we couldn't justify to our users a price increase. But we believe where the site is now that the price increase is justified and a large proportion of this will be reinvested into future development and growth of the site.

Thank you,

The Vivastreet Team - Finny


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Re: New Vivastreet posting rules (UK) and online focus group
« Reply #538 on: 06 January 2016, 01:53:19 pm »
Are painters and decorators charged the same rates as us?
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« Reply #539 on: 06 January 2016, 02:20:32 pm »
Are painters and decorators charged the same rates as us?

Hi LOTM,

No that category is not charged the same, but also we spend very little money marketing that category, building bespoke features for painters or having to moderate pictures including potential fake ones. We like any business charge based on results and costs, we send a huge amount of traffic and contacts to ad posters in our adult categories and invest heavily in marketing and development.

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