And we wonder why there are new HOs who don’t understand the exchange model and think THS is just free labor.
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Great. 
Also that “find sitters”. Maybe that is why so many HOs send invitations.
They were not told to try to attract sitters to their neck of the woods with a good offer.
The look-and-feel of this ad is not that different from “Find Slavic beauties” etc …
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What would a realistic ad look like?
"Join our competitive network of home owners trying to intice sitters to take on full responsibility of pet and home in their absence for total peace of mind when you travel.
Will your home and pet make the grade to attract sitters for this mutully beneficial exchange?
Join now to find out!"
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‘Choose from our extensive pool of non-criminal-record individuals, all willing to poo-pick in exchange for a kilo of cheese per month!’ 
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Or poo pick indoors constantly because of dog anxiety
@HelloOutThere @Nagy26 @Becca You guys are naughty! LOL
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Ok @Oztravels: I’m nominating yours for the “technical skill category.”
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I’ve sat for some first-time HOs. Fortunately, they’ve all had reasonable expectations. But ads like this help me understand some of the sits that are listed that I don’t apply for.
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Well really seniors and cats make up a huge part of Sitters and need fair representation.
It’s not all about dogs and the young
Can’t imagine why we’re excluded
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“We don’t need cheese…do we…
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Like Uber, AirBnB and others before it pet sitting is steadily moving from an exchange model to a business model. At least one other petsitting network I’m familiar with does not charge homeowners membership fees, just those looking to housesit, and another asks homeowners to “list your job here”.
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I grow more disappointed with TH by the week. It used to be a fun business, now it feels like it’s all about the money, that sitters are a resource to be exploited for profit, and I’m kinda sad about that.
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Have you a link for “Finding Slavic beauties?”. Asking for a friend
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I noticed that some of my very postive comments on the Facebook ad have been deleted. When folk ask how it works, I’ve explained. No idea why postive comments are deleted. I try my best to outweigh the many negative comments which are typed.
They seem to have auto manage on the page so a lot of keywords are blocked so maybe your posts didn’t actually get posted.
Exactly as @Oztravels says
@Oztravels @ziggy
They were posted as I was like chatting to the lady in live time. Went back to look a few hours later and all my comments had gone, hers too apart from her first comment asking about how it worked.