I called P411 once. They tried to get personal information, my name and work place. Drivers licence even if I recall. They were insistant.
Before any one of you give in to their pressure ponder this:
How many politicians fell and how many athletes and celebrities were exposed and embarassed because they gave personal information to hookers?
How many were blackmailed?
You know which head to think with. Right?
Doh!
Originally Posted by The One and Only
It's called screening, pal. It's something 9 out of every 10
reliable providers will do. Now, here's the rub: you can either give this information to all 9 out of every 10... OR you can give it to P411 and let your membership there accomplish the same thing. If you don't have provider references, this is one of the fastest and easiest ways to get your foot in the door.
As an earlier poster pointed out, you can do the same thing with provider references, but there is an inherent contradiction in this method. If she won't see you unless you have provider references, this means you've got to go out and see (usually) two providers
who will vouch for you. How exactly do you do that when most of the reliable providers require screening?!?! There are a few newbie friendly providers out there, but by and large this usually means that you wind up trolling BP/CL for months hooking up with skanks and hoping against hope that they'll actually give a reference. Most of them won't bother.
P411 helped me get my hobbying feet underneath me and have been very discrete and professional in every aspect of my relationship with them. This is something I can't say about a certain co-op manager who has (hopefully) left the building. I've never partaken of the aforementioned manager's services because something never quite seemed right with her. Having observed (and taunted) her for the past year or so, I think I made the right call.
I think Diabolo is right on the mark. She has hurt the girls who work with her much more than she's ever helped them. Her board persona has been a huge red flag to me and I don't think I'm alone in that.
And Raphael, I don't think this is a lynching. Its more like a witch-hunt that she organized and led herself. She built the fire and handed us the kerosene and matches and then started wailing about how unfair it all is. Good riddance to unwanted drama, I say.