...after a exceptionally active two week period with a couple of my old college buddies I've developed a new rule for CL shopping. If the chick is exceptionally Hot, and her ad says "outcalls only" there's a nearly 100% chance that the ad was placed by an agency, and the girl who shows up isn't the one in the picture, and there is going to be a driver out in front of your house !

 Well that's been my frustrating experience with 6 of the CL ads we replied to in any case.

 Anyone else ?

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wow you repeated 6 times?

after 2 i would have said FUCK IT!

Did you send them away? And if you did, what happened? Did the pimp or driver come pounding the door?

Please, do tell.  what happened all 6 times?

Is to repeat the same behavior over and over expecting a different result.

Six times spinning the Craig's List wheel qualifies.

I still do. In the last 5 years, I  have been robbed about 5 times. Well, literally robbed 3 times, other 2 times was lady totally different from picture who provided practically no service.

been there and also seen that in regards to your "pimp" rob signs:

i.e.
-hot picture probably taken from an expensive model shoot from some media somewhere.
- outcalls only. (have taken that in note for a few years now also like you)
- gibberish ASCII symbols in the header like @@@@&&&&& H O T girl *****@@@@####, with all those symbols it's 99% gauranteed a rob agency. Almost like an automated header created from the same source.
Sometimes the characters are extended character set. Sometime they mean asian characters but, depends, most browsers for english speakers are not set to see foreign or special characters unless you add the appropriate plug-ins to the OS or the browser.

- the same ad repeated with the same phone number but different pics posted month after month regularly. Like some schill is paid to keep posting and obviously too lazy or not motivated monetarily to change the automated look title of the header and characters.


if one can get through all that you find the very few legits. However the legits are mostly oldtimers and ladies who are 10 to 20years older than their posted pictures.


The real reason here it that CL is "perceived" to be lower rates than Cityvibe and proven more legit ads. And maybe it is.

Pricing has gone so much in LA and Socal, for true quality one most pay at least 4 to 5 hundred roses and even more.

(however i have been robbed on city source before for that rate by a wannabe temporary tv actress before who did nothing but talk for 45 minutes then stopped servicing after only 10 minutes)

cityvibe and citysource, backpage, local postings isn't much better than CL

I bought a very nice chopsaw on craigslist and sold my mountain bike in two days!   Ohh never mind.

I've herd that statement before, and I find it almost as ridiculous as, "keep your friends close, and your enamies closer". The actual definition of "insanity" as from Wrbster is;


1
: a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia)
2
: such unsoundness of mind or lack of understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or as removes one from criminal or civil