Anyone know what's up with Meet Local Men?

[+ stevenkesslar]

Does anyone know anything about why Meet Local Men, the escort website, seems to have inaccurate information and why they are so nonresponsive? At this point I am totally frustrated and would welcome any advice or help anyone can offer in getting the site to provide a little customer service and simply remove an ad I have asked them for months to remove and am no longer paying for.

 

I have been trying to get them to remove an ad of mine since April of this year. I have sent dozens of emails, starting April 17, 2006, and left dozens of messages, and spoken twice with the person who apparently is staff on the site, Chrissy. She has assured me twice, on the telephone, that she will remove my ad. She has not. The phone number is inaccurate and it is creating confusion with potential clients, but after three months of trying to get the ad removed, the site seems incapable of actually providing customer service.

 

This is consistent with my past experience with the site. When I set up my ads for $150 a month there several years ago, I spoke with a guy named Matt, who seemed quite competent. However, a few years later, I changed my email address, and I spoke with some other guy, whose name I don't recall, who apparently no longer works there. He said he would change my ad in a few days, and it took a few weeks. When the changes occurred, my email address was spelled wrong, meaning that clients responding to the site would not be able to contact me. I asked him to correct the error immediately, and a week later he still was not able to do so, although he started scolding me for being "impatient." As a result, I decided to cut back my advertising from $150 a month to $25 a month and simply have a minimal presence on the site. Eventually this guy did get my email address correct.

 

The only reason I advertise on the site at all - it is my only paid advertising - is to support Hooboy's site since the two seem linked and I think HooBoy is far and away the best escort website out there.

 

In April, I contacted both Matt and Chrissy via phone and email for weeks to change my phone number, since the number on my MLM ad is now inaccurate. The MLM site has at least four different ways to send email, and several phone numbers. One voicemail is for Matt, who tells you to call another number. The other number is for Chrissy. After spending weeks sending emails and leaving voicemails at each of these six outlets, nothing happened. Finally, several weeks after I initiated contact, and after probably 100 different contacts to various phone numbers and email addresses, Chrissy called me in response to "a message" I had left. She claimed that she had not received any of the emails I sent or phone messages I left, which seemed implausible, especially since she obviously had received at least one message, or she would not have called me back at my private number I left.

 

She agreed to remove my ad immediately and stop payment of $25 a month from my bank account for that ad. However, nothing happened. I waited about a month, and my ad was still up, and another $25 was taken from my bank account. I again called Chrissy, this time at a private number she gave me, and she again promised to remove the ad. At this point, I asked her to refund the additional money that had been removed from my bank account since I requested the ad be taken down. She agreed to do this.

 

Again, nothing happened. The ad is still up, with the wrong information. The only reason that money is still not being taken from my account is that I called my bank and had them stop payment on that particular account, which fortunately they could do. There is a post titled "411 on Steven Kesslar" placed on the Deli today asking, in part, why the information in this ad is wrong. The answer is, because after 3 months, I have miserably failed in every attempt to get the ad removed. Sorry!

 

I don't look at the site much, but it seems to have other inaccurate information. For example, there is still an ad listed for Devon in San Francisco, even though as many readers of this site know he left town several years ago. My sense is that the site is never updated and customer service there just doesn't work.

 

It is not my style to air dirty laundry in public, or to try to embarrass anyone. My style is, I hope, the opposite. At this point I am totally frustrated and would welcome any advice or help anyone can offer in getting the site to provide a little customer service and simply remove the ad I am no longer paying for.

 

If you have any suggestions, please post them here or email me. Feel free to email or call Chrissy at Meet Local Men at the email addresses and phone numbers given on the site and ask her to remove the ad for Steven Kesslar in San Francisco on my behalf. I'd love to see if you can get a response, because I can't.

 

Thanks, and sorry. :-)

[+ deej]

There is a reason MLM is no longer an advertiser here.

 

If anyone reading this is inclined to help Steven, go ahead and write to MLM. I doubt it will do any good, but it can't hurt.

 

(Sudden bombardments can produce change when change is possible, but I suspect MLM has lost the people who actually make the changes, leaving only the people who make promises. The rest is lip service.)

[+ cougar]

It has been at least a year since I have even looked at that site. Their models and such is so out of date it is sad. Until you mentioned it I had completely forgotten about that sorry site. You have saved me time and effort in confirming that the site is still totally useless.