The majority of private messages received through Faithwriters are not specifically targeted to you - they are general "call for submissions" to various markets and everyone receives them.

Again, if you keep up with the Writer's Markets books and are on a few writer's mailing list you'll probably get the same info.

Deciding whether you want to pay on the chance that one of those messages are actually from someone interested in hiring you or buying one of your pieces is up to you [Smile]

Some people have found a lot of work through the site - I think it depends on how involved you want to be with it.