My experience with the above mentioned site as follows:

EFT the membership fee on 26 Sept. After mailing numerous times i finally received access to the site on 5th October. 10 days later!

The site consists of 3 areas. Reviews of newspaper girls, reviews of web girls, and venue reviews. I did not receive access to the venue reviews as the page was still 'under construction'. After repeadedly requesting the link to the venues (each of the three areas has its own link) i still have not received it!

If i had an 8 year old child they could have done a better job coding the website. It only works correctly in Internet Explorer, and it has not had any significant updates since i joined.

The reviews are fairly well done, with enough information to assist you in making a decision about whether to visit the lady or not.

The blatant self promotion of 'EDGE massage' or now called 'First Class Executive Massage' (a venue planned by the owner of the website) by listing it at number 1 on the venues page is somewhat irritating.

All in all, i cannot recommend this website to anyone. If ESA actually had a decent Cape Town section then i would suggest upgrading to a gold membership here. At this time however your money would be best spent recharging your mongering 'pay as you go' sim card so that you can make some bookings.

Rgds,
SLB

good stuff boet

Very well done sir, thanks for the information.

Ek dink nie ek kon dit myself beter stel nie.

'PLS NOTE!! We are working hard to get the Top Newspaper Girls & Venue Review pages finished - will be
soon. - URL for these sections will be sent shortly'

This email was send in more then 4 months ago. Still waiting on the venue section .I think if you take making money out of web-site you should put some more time and effort into it. It would be nice if the site would work with firefox.

It would be nice if he told on his web-site that it is under construction before you pay the money.

I know myescortview could be a very good website if Mike just update it more.

Very good stuff boet. We need a free site on the lines of punternet.

Cheers

Garry

In the interest of information, i have decided to continue posting the emails i have received from Mike since my review.

my comments are between the --- lines.

SLB.

1st reply from Mike (myescortreview.co.za)
Nov 28 2006 @ 9:37 AM

Hello Johan,

Thank you for the review and recommendations on ESA about our site.

The only reason you or any of the other members have not received the URL to the venue section is we are giving the venues an opportunity to advertise on this section and we are busy finalizing this. Most of the girls reviewed on the site invariably come from these venues and we do give comments regarding the venue with each girl's review - so why is the venue review so important to you - surely the women is why you joined the site. (oh, and apparently this you find most useful right?)

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So, in essence, your paying members must wait for venues to pay you more so that you will do what was promised in the first place?
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Last time I checked the website belonged to me - what I choose to put as the number one venue is my choice surely?? I didn't realize I needed your personal approval. Even at the risk of it apparently causing you so much personal irritation.

Just for interest sake, all the Edge Massage's belong to franchisees and not 'a venue planned by the owner of the website'. Together with the 'blatant self promotion'.

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And who exactly should people contact in connection with this franchise opportunity? Why I do believe it is you!

This whole issue leads to credibility. If the information on your site is biased and guided by self interest then I can not trust that the information is correct. All of it is therefore suspect and irrelevant.

How am I to know that you do not receive kickbacks from the ladies you rate highly, or that your rating is based on how well they grease your palm. I trust that this is not the case, but when I see activity on the website which directly affects my confidence in the accuracy of your website, then I must make an issue of it.
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Surely you had a good look at the 'coding' of the site before you joined - why are you knocking it now? Or was that just to take another stab at us?

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I realise you are very proud of the effort you have put in to create this website. Well done. If you do not outsource the development to someone who knows what they are doing, your website will become impossible to maintain. Eventually you will get fed up with the amount of effort involved and the website will die.
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Take a moment to actually read your posting again - and quickly tell me how your R 195.00 membership fee gives you the right to tell me how to run my website and what I can and cannot promote on it. Because I can't figure it out?

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I am not telling you how to run your website, I am merely pointing out flaws in its design. At the time when I joined I imagined that the members' area would be a central page which one would access with a username and password. Not three URLs which are incomprehensible, and which I must search for in my email every time I would like to see whether the site has been updated.
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We really don't need people like you as a member of our website.

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And this is just brilliant. Instead of contacting me and asking why I was unhappy with the service you provide, you attack me. The correct response here would have been to accept criticism, and then evaluate it impartially to see if you can improve your service to your members.

Please look back at the 'new ESA launch' threads where I also made some very uncomplimentary comments and see how well they dealt with it.
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Thank you,

Mike @ My Escort Review

Ps. Why not start your own site - if you can do so much better?

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Simply put, time is money. My time is far too valuable for me to waste researching and documenting the sex industry in South Africa. That's why I pay you to do the grunt work for me.
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2nd reply from Mike (myescortreview.co.za)
Nov 28 2006 @ 11:05 AM

For further info dear member,

For more than 4 months now we have been rated as the No. 1 escort-related website in SA by a country mile on >www.escortlist.co.za>

All the thousands of people that have voted for us over this period must be complete idiots and you the only bright-spark around?

Or is that the other way around?

Keep cool,

Mike @ My Escort Review

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At the top of the escortlist.co.za website is a set of dropdown menus.

The different options and the top sites in each category are:
In - visitors going from your site to escortlist. (ESA)
Out - visitors going from escortlist to your site. (myescortreview)
Pageviews - number of people who viewed your website this month. (PYMT).You have a zero rating here because you did not implement the escortlist banner/button correctly on your website.

I would suspect that the only reason you are the top in the out page is because you have the most attractive banner. PYMT has the most visitors to their website, and ESA sends the most people through to escortlist.

Your 5 star rating is based on 1 review and is therefore irrelevant.
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3rd reply from Mike (myescortreview.co.za)
Nov 29 2006 @ 8:29 AM

Gave me the URL for the Venues section.

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Thanks.
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Hey Stronglikebulll

If Mike treats all his subscribers with concerns like this, he soon won't have any subscribers. The customer surely is not king where Mike is concerned.

I myself do not use Internet Explorer as a browser. If you do not get good value for your money, in my opion you have all the right in the world to complain. Your concerns seems very valid to me.

What's more Mike takes your money and then states that he do not need people like you as a member, instead of thinking of improving his service.

Maybe Myescortreview do not need any people, as members of their website...

Cheers
Garry