I've only worked with 4 providers in the 8 years I've been a provider....and after working with a Pittsburgh-based provider earlier this year....I an VERY hesitant to work with another provider again. The woman had issues with men and would accuse me of trying to sabotage her business and stealing money from her (which was NOT true). One time, she had wanted to view some pictures on her flash drive and she didn't have a computer (she used her phone to post her BP and Eros ads).
With my laptop, if a flash drive is in a certain USB port, the photos won't come up. When I told her her photos didn't come up, she went into a f*cking tirade, accusing me of deleting her photos behind her back and that I couldn't be trusted. Eventually the photos came up...but I cut my ties with her soon after that incident. She continues to call me, text me and DM me on Twitter, asking me to work with her again. I refused. After that I would rather work alone.
I had one provider set me up to get arrested in Durham, NC in May 2008. I found out a day later that she set me up because I was prettier and making more money than her. Another provider I worked with had a pimp and I was forced to move out of the apartment we shared after I refused to give my money to her pimp (who was paying her rent, and was giving my rent money to her pimp...which I didn't know she was doing until the day I moved out).
I worked with one in Durham, NC for a few months from April 2009 to July 2009 and she was insanely jealous because I was getting more business than she was. She had a huge stomach and was advertising herself as a small BBW and her clients would come to me complaining about how she was misrepresenting herself. She eventually stopped talking to me because she was trying to break up my former friend's relationship and I told them what was going on. She started calling my hotel room and threatening to call the cops on me. I left town that day and haven't been to North Carolina in 5 years.
Jealousy is no joke. People have gone to jail because of it. If I ever work with another provider again, I hope that she doesn't rely solely on BP for business. I post on BP...but I also advertise on other websites. My former friend (who works in the Raleigh/Durham area) is always pawning off her laptop because she didn't make enough money to cover her hotel room. When that happens, something is seriously wrong with the way she's conducting and managing her business...and I can't work with providers who don't have their act together. In her case, this has been going on for 5 years...come on, that don't make sense to me.