I found out today that the review I posted was not approved because the link to the ad on backpages that the provider posted does not exist anymore.

I tried the link again, and to my surprise the link was gone. I tried searching by phone number and name, nothing showed up. Obviously, she took it out. I posted a bad review of the provider  because she did not deliver at all as promised.

It is so easy for a provider to edit or delete a link on backpages so that she cannot be found. She can change her name or phone number and pretend to be a different person.

From time to time, when I click the link on the many reviews that are posted here, the ad cannot be found.
I have seen ad on backpages that dates back to 2009, so it must have been deleted by the poster.

My suggestion was to be able to upload a picture of the provider when posting a review , or at least take a picture snapshot of the ad and post it along the review. That way, when the provider deletes the ad, we still have some information to go with.

I am sure it can be done and automated very easily, there are many scripts out there that will take a .jpeg or .gif  snapshot of a link.

(Google Chrome browser does it very well, everytime you visit a page, it takes a snapshot of the entire page and saves it, next time you open a new tab, all the web sites are listed there as snapshots links. )