A lot of the ads from un-reviewed providers are intriguing. What are the odds of them being legit? Is there ever a good reason to go with an un-reviewed provider?

that you can't miss with Ms. So-and-so, stick to reviews.

That may be overstating things a bit, and perhaps you have a hobby buddy that met a dynamite newbie gal (It's called taking one for the team, or TOFTT.) so you give it a go.

But do not just go by the way an ad sounds, that's the last thing I'd hold out hope for.

By the way, Craig's List used to be the place to find bottom of the barrel gals in the hobby before the government got on their ass to shut down their adult ads, at which time Backpage picked up the slack.  It's interesting to see that things on CL are creeping back

i've met a couple good ones and a couple not so good.  

need to be careful and possibly rethink the whole bp idea

see lin