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What's the purpose / economics of the fake ads on RM or elsewhere? Collect phone numbers? Test escort business waters? Boost self image based on calls received? Law enforcement sting ops? I don't understand why someone would pay the monthly RM ad fee and never respond to any calls/texts. Any ideas fellas?

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What's the purpose / economics of the fake ads on RM or elsewhere? Collect phone numbers? Test escort business waters? Boost self image based on calls received? Law enforcement sting ops? I don't understand why someone would pay the monthly RM ad fee and never respond to any calls/texts. Any ideas fellas?

 

Can you point a current fake ad on display on RM?

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What's the purpose / economics of the fake ads on RM or elsewhere? Collect phone numbers? Test escort business waters? Boost self image based on calls received? Law enforcement sting ops? I don't understand why someone would pay the monthly RM ad fee and never respond to any calls/texts. Any ideas fellas?

 

Here's an example of a totally fake ad that has been proven fake. Thankfully I didn't fall for it and hire him back in May before he had any reviews and before there was talk on this board about him.

 

https://rent.men/Calebjenner/reviews/

 

The guy in the pic is TOTALLY hot but the pics are a straight instagram fitness models in Texas. The real dude would be posting at a gym in TX the same time fake-ass CalebJenner would be on Rentmen in Socal.

I actually reached out to the real IG model to tell him but he didn't respond.

 

There was at least one guy on this board that met "CalebJenner" and said it wasn't the guy in the pic. Check out the RM reviews too.

 

There are plenty of guys that use fake pics and just will milk it for as long as they can get away with it.

 

Best thing to do is to check daddy's and this board before meeting when possible. The only time RM reviews are helpful in making a decision are if there are resoundingly bad; good RM reviews can only be trusted half the time or less.

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This thread got sidetracked.

 

The original post by @jessmapex was asking WHY would someone pay money to post a fake ad?

For an escort with a fake ad that is actually hoping for a meeting, what they’re hoping for is an unsophisticated, closeted, paranoid client. Someone who will show up, and go through with the appointment regardless of the fact that it’s not the same person. A client who doesn’t do research.

 

I’d say that a *massive* amount of clients do no more due diligence then seeing a Rentmen ad, calling or texting the escort, and setting up the meet.

 

I mean what infinitesimal percentage of the client base that’s hiring reads this board?

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I think there are two types of fake ads:

  1. Ads you do get responses from the advertisers, but the pix are fake. These are bait and switch traps as mentioned above. Those are dime a dozen.
  2. Ads where none has ever got any response from the advertiser (e.g. https://www.mintboys.com/male-escorts/san-francisco/5b46d0619b69742e8d4ebb60)

My question was about #2.

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I think there are two types of fake ads:

  1. Ads you do get responses from the advertisers, but the pix are fake. These are bait and switch traps as mentioned above. Those are dime a dozen.
  2. Ads where none has ever got any response from the advertiser (e.g. https://www.mintboys.com/male-escorts/san-francisco/5b46d0619b69742e8d4ebb60)

My question was about #2.

 

see: https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/would-you-like-to-have-an-agent.140490/page-2#post-1587708

 

Many escorts have terrible clerical skills.

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What's the purpose / economics of the fake ads on RM or elsewhere? Collect phone numbers? Test escort business waters? Boost self image based on calls received? Law enforcement sting ops? I don't understand why someone would pay the monthly RM ad fee and never respond to any calls/texts. Any ideas fellas?

 

It is well known that some dating sites faked profiles to attract customers. Perhaps some fake escort ads are made up by the hosting website to drive traffic.

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I think there are two types of fake ads:

  1. Ads you do get responses from the advertisers, but the pix are fake. These are bait and switch traps as mentioned above. Those are dime a dozen.
  2. Ads where none has ever got any response from the advertiser (e.g. https://www.mintboys.com/male-escorts/san-francisco/5b46d0619b69742e8d4ebb60)

My question was about #2.

You have good taste. He's stunning. Your 2 is a good question. If you are sure he's not real, then maybe he moved on and the ad hasn't expired yet. Might also be that a scammer is looking for a certain type of gullible client and you don't seem like easy pickings. Are you sure he's fake? In general, some real escorts just aren't responsive at times, either because they are sketchy or for their own reasons.

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There is an ad on the Toronto Rentmen site. The contact number ran through Google was said to be unsafe and linked with a police sting in the city where the number was listed. I had seen that escort's ad in that other city and discovered the photos were fake as well. In the ads for both Toronto and that other city, the hourly rates were well below the ordinary going rates. I thought of reporting the ad to Rentmen but that company requires proof. All I have is suspicion.

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I mean what infinitesimal percentage of the client base that’s hiring reads this board?

 

I seem to recall some informed commentary to the effect that visitors to the forum were only a fraction of vistors to the review site, before they were unlinked, probably even fewer now.

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What's the purpose / economics of the fake ads on RM or elsewhere? Collect phone numbers? Test escort business waters? Boost self image based on calls received? Law enforcement sting ops? I don't understand why someone would pay the monthly RM ad fee and never respond to any calls/texts. Any ideas fellas?

I want to nominate this as an eternal question cause the answer must have a lot of intrinsically mysterious layers. Right up there with "How many angels can you fit on the head of a pin?" and "If god is all powerful and all good, why is there Trump...oops that slipped, meant to say evil...in the world?"

 

Where do I go to to do this? The Vatican? Hogwarts? Is there a Ministry of Eternal Questions?

 

:p

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I've had a couple encounters with escorts who used "borrowed" pictures on their ad. The first time, the guy who came to my hotel room looked kind-of, sort-of like the guy in the ad, but I wasn't 100% sure. So I gave him the benefit of the doubt and went through with the date. It wasn't until after the date that I double checked the ad and realized that it was absolutely a different person. I could see that the guy pictured on the ad was a LOT more appealing than the escort himself. The second time the guy who showed up at my hotel door was very clearly not the guy in the ad. He was someone I would not have been interested in under any circumstances. The guy stated that the escort I had requested had a last minute scheduling conflict and sent him in his place. I told the guy at the door, no thank-you, and sent him away.

 

I would say that in both of these cases, it was a bait-and-switch.

 

PS. I've since gotten much better and screening potential escorts, thanks to his forum.

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when you say that, what do you mean? what does someone gain? Again, not from the bait and switch, but the zombie ads?

Well I’ve posted this before... but there’s a huge number of clients out there that aren’t as sophisticated as most of us who post on these Forum. Maybe married, closeted, just not experienced, they aren’t going to send the fake away from their door when he arrives.

 

Just bcs of the above, or the little head takes control of the big head...

 

For an escort with a fake ad that is actually hoping for a meeting, what they’re hoping for is an unsophisticated, closeted, paranoid client. Someone who will show up, and go through with the appointment regardless of the fact that it’s not the same person. A client who doesn’t do research.

 

I’d say that a *massive* amount of clients do no more due diligence then seeing a Rentmen ad, calling or texting the escort, and setting up the meet.

 

I mean what infinitesimal percentage of the client base that’s hiring reads this board?

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Well I’ve posted this before... but there’s a huge number of clients out there that aren’t as sophisticated as most of us who post on these Forum. Maybe married, closeted, just not experienced, they aren’t going to send the fake away from their door when he arrives.

 

Just bcs of the above, or the little head takes control of the big head...

Those are the bait and switch. Got that - it has happened to me. I am asking about the others - the dead ads that just sit there and look pretty. I was just visiting another city, and in the lead-up to the trip tried to reach some hot guys on RM. I emailed, texted, and called. From several of them, absolutely nothing. No response or acknowledgement. I just don't get it.

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Those are the bait and switch. Got that - it has happened to me. I am asking about the others - the dead ads that just sit there and look pretty. I was just visiting another city, and in the lead-up to the trip tried to reach some hot guys on RM. I emailed, texted, and called. From several of them, absolutely nothing. No response or acknowledgement. I just don't get it.

One thing I’ve experienced....on Seeking Arrangements but also RM. guys just change their minds about putting themselves out there. They “ghost” their ads and potential clients and just fade away.

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