If there’s one thing I’d never expect from Eros, it’s any form of verification. I gave up on that a long time ago, to the point that when I go through the site I generally expect to get scammed. I could avoid the site, like so many of us do, but sadly many providers still use the directory to this day. Even though there are God knows how many better options out there to promote yourself, for some unknown reason Eros still captures the attention of providers both PS and EC and by extension, it captures us as well. Eros has been trying to deal with the massive scamming problem in very small ways, one of them being the addition of this new form of verification.
At first glance, I really didn’t see any difference from the verification Eros had before. There was a time when seeing “Verified” on a provider’s profile picture before clicking it was all we needed. Then we realized it was something that could be bought, which scammers caught onto and decided to verify themselves accordingly—for obvious reasons. Now we have this new form of verification that seems simple, yet I’m still suspicious of it.
The verification looks familiar, with a nice blue check next to the provider’s name. You see it both before you click on the profile and after. There are two different checks. You have the blue one, as I mentioned, which seems to be the most common (picture below). Then there’s the gold check (picture above), which only a very small number of providers seem to have. Other than the price which I can say for certain is the difference between the two I can’t tell you much else about what actually separates them. Now let’s talk about who has these checks so far. From what I can tell, I’ve seen blue checks on actual providers I know are real. Some are PSs I can swear on the Bible are legit, and some are ECs I’ve seen on the site alongside others since day one. So it does seem like this system is reaching the right people. That said, I haven’t only seen these checks on providers I know are real I’ve also seen them on ones I’m skeptical about.
There are providers with this check that I’m having a hard time believing actually provide. They give off the same vibe as so many other profiles: nothing more than pictures and a phone number. I usually stay away from those profiles because they tend to be nothing but bullshit. However, now that they carry the Eros blue check, I find myself leaning toward the possibility that they might be real.
Even though there’s nothing to support what these checks actually mean, I don’t think the average client will notice that. I think the “verified” feeling that X gives with its blue check could transfer over to Eros, potentially misleading clients into scams. I don’t know what these checks mean, whether gold or blue. For all we know, this could just be another way for the directory to get money out of these women without doing any real due diligence for the client’s benefit. I can’t really make heads or tails of it until I dig a little further.
What I can say is this: the infamous Juelz Ventura ad is gone. I don’t know for how long, but it’s no longer on the directory. That could be a step in the right direction.
