I am not ashamed to admit I did not even know what EROS was when I came out from UTR. I advertised on BP for a few weeks and on a local Phoenix board. I simply did not know better. I have not used Backpage this year at all best that I can remember. But keep in mind that I an an ultra low volume companion.

In some areas of the country BP is the only medium for advertising. Small rural towns being the majority.

I know many providers who use Backpage as their primary means of advertising. There is no denying that advertising is the key to sales. And Volume is the basic fundamental behind by which sales are driven. Backpage is HUGE. Say what you want but nothing can drive the volume of webpage hits I get like Backpage. I use Google Analytics to track my advertising fundamentals and sources. It is not uncommon for me to see 700-1000 hits a day from a Backpage advertisement. Obviously these are unqualified and un-vetted visits, but even if 1% are real thats 10 qualified hits a day. Thats a pretty large number in the real world.

As HH says, do your homework. Trust me there are many needles in that hay stack of Backpage.

Chill out hiddenhills. No one here is saying we are just going in blind without doing homework nor is anyone making the claim that all bp adds are fakes nor is anyone complaining here...not need to get all worked up especially with the hostility. Tinyeye opposed to tineye are just typos and Google images' reverse search capability is now really good. Give it a try. It might surprise you My goal of starting this discussion is not to ask about how to identify fake ad, like you said it's been talked about lots before. I'm just curious on if people actually still use bp as a resource considering it is flooded with lots of fakes when there are more reliable and safer resources out there available.