Ok, I’ve lurked on this site for a while and joined a few months ago. Never posted until now, but haven’t been much of a hobbyist. I would usually go to AMP’s if I had the urge, but decided to start moving up the food chain, so to speak. My understanding from reading was that I would need to find providers that are newbie friendly or would go with employment verification to get started, get some references and work my way up from there . . . right?
This is the direction I took and saw three different providers within the past 4 months. All visits were good with no issues. Two of the providers event told me that I could use them as a reference. I figured it was time to try and move up a notch to a provider that required references. I saw an ad on here with good reviews and sent an email. She responded and asked for references, and I provided names and numbers of the previous three, along with my name, number and a brief physical description of myself. Three days later, no answer. I sent another email to ask if there were any problems with the info I provided . . . silence.
So, I thought she was just a flake, saw another ad I liked, but this one had a phone number. I called, she seemed nice, but had some uncertainty in her schedule to see me on short notice. I wouldn’t need short notice if I hadn’t been brushed aside with the first one. Said she would call back, also asked that I send her a PM. I sent the PM and after a few hours with no call back, I called again and went to voicemail. Went back to the web site and her ad was no longer there. PM is still marked as unread.
Seriously, WTF and I doing wrong here. Do the providers have a secret board where I have been wrongly outed as a member of LE, pimps anonymous, or Al Qaeda? If there was a problem with my references, should I expect an email telling me that. Should I expect a call back when she says she will, even if either of these responses are to tell me GTFO? I have nothing to hide and provided work info to my first provider several months ago, and don’t mind providing this info again. I’m thinking my references, since I was new, didn’t remember me, so this could be the problem, but I guess I’m never going to find out.
All right Co-Ed board, let me have it. Tell me I should just stick with the AMP’s and leave this part of hobbying to the big boys. Tell me I suck at life or that I should just spend my money on fried chicken, I can take all that, but it is killing me to not know what I am doing wrong here. I do appreciate all of the posters here. The reviews and info provided by all of you made me feel safe enough to give this a try in the first place. TIA.