This thread in Alerts..... http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=151630 as well as a recent personal experience and some other conversations is behind this post......
Ladies - I don't care how you run your business. I'm not suggesting you run your business in any particular manner. Post your policies so prospective clients know it up front and go from there.
My advice to guys...... Guys - In my Opinion. Money on the table before any activities is the riskiest aspect of meeting with a provider unless you have extensive experience with her and even then, if you do, it shouldn't be an issue. I think it presets the highest risk to your getting ripped off or worse, busted.
Outside of getting ripped off or busted it also leaves you little to no recourse should services agreed upon not get delivered.
Example - I set something up with a dancer that had some pressing needs. She knew I saw one of her friends and approached me... We talked about hooking up at the hotel... then dinner and maybe a show... then back to the hotel for a few hours and agreed upon her asking price of $400 for the 6-8 hour evening. She gets to the hotel and is understandably nervous.... asks if we can go eat and have a few drinks first.... Off we go and at dinner she barely sips a few swallows of her wine and her phone is going nonstop. I offer to cancel and do this another night since it seems she is preoccupied to which she replies... Oh No... I'm OK...
Back at the Hotel Round 1 is fine... Not great... Not bad... Nothing I haven't experienced a time or two with a lady the first time.... She pops into the bathroom and I'm laying there when she comes out fully dressed....
OK.. What's up... I just got a call and need to pick up my son... OK... I get dressed and grab my things and tell her I will walk her to her car... She's refusing any attempt at eye contact.... She probably forgot she told me the situation about her son being in another's care due to a CPS issue.... As we are walking out the door I ask her what she thinks is fair and she looks at me kind of strange... I let her know we had agreed on a romp, followed by dinner, drinks and another romp or two with her hanging out with me for 6-8 hours... she knew up front and we had thoroughly discussed up front what was expected.... quality of course would have depended on chemistry.... a risk I was taking.... The tears come... The I need the money... I let her know that I don't pay $400 for dinner and a quickie and she knew that before she saw me......
I put her in her car with $200..... She called 15 minutes later offering to come back and make it up to me... Mood was already lost and Plan B had just answered her phone so I passed.... If she wants... I will see her again though....
Yes I ended up getting taken care of for the evening but had to shell out additional money for the gal that ended up delivering.
So the above thread in the Alert section has all this sympathy pouring in for the OP... I agree it's a bitch to get ripped off.....
But as some tend to complain about.... There are one hell of a set of Double Standards at play on the board.......
Had I paid her the full $400 or any other guy done the same and reported it... It would involve the OP getting piled on by guys saying.. ohh.. maybe she was having a bad day... give the gal the benefit of the doubt....maybe the chemistry wasn't there..... why didn't you bathe.... maybe it's because your fat... maybe you were too ugly..... why aren't you circumcised.....
In other words..... Ladies get ripped off and there is an outpouring of ass kissing as well as sympathy.....
Guys get ripped off and it it gets twisted to be his fault.....
Question 1 - Why is a provider getting shortchanged in an envelope "Alert Worthy" . It doesn't seem to be a "safety" issue as required for an alert.
Question 2 - Why can't Alert's be limited to posters with First Hand Knowledge of the specific event so they don't turn into ass kissing fests? Why not make it a warning/pointable infraction to post to an alert thread if you have not the OP or accused or you have no first hand information concerning the event to contribute.... Then we get the facts as reported minus the crap...
Question 3 - What suggestions do others have to "level the playing field" in this environment of "Ohh Poor baby" vs "suck it up and take your losses like a man" that seems to exist?
Once again ladies.... Your business is exactly that..... Your business... I am not trying to tell you what to do in a situation like this......
I run a business as well and have been ripped off and it sucks...
But I can't treat every potential customer as a potential thief up front and expect any repeat business.....
I do not have the solution for your problem and my post is from MY point of view as a client/consumer and is more about the inequality of the situations that seems to exist when we prepay for expectations unrealized.....