A topic was brought up and I though the about this and decided to write on it. Feel free to post publicly how you feel and etc, I have tough skin and won't get into an argument with anyone.
After my first month of being here in Austin, I commented on how terrible these co-ed boards are in comparison to the rest of the state having started in West Texas, toured on Dallas, Houston, and East Texas. Having observed co-ed, the makeup of most threads and some of the communication, I feel that Austin providers have arguably the worst customer service of the state.
Now my sample size has been very small. I've only seen one provider here and heck she is on my favorite 10 and will gladly vouch for her because she is awesome. Besides her, I've seen traveling providers heck I've even went to see a provider in Dallas and drove 3.5 hours in a rainstorm just because her customer service is above and beyond amazing.
I'm going to use a provider here and out of respect, civility and goodwill, keep her name out of it. A provider placed me on her DNS simply because I responded to her politely saying, "Ma'am, I don't want to wait 90 minutes to see you because biologically speaking, I'm going to lose interest." Her response was, "Well it looks like we are not going to be good a match." Instantly blocked me off of her twitter. I wasn't rude nor cussed at her. I don't believe in being ugly to people because I come from a martial arts background.
Now I can certainly understand some of it from the providers point of view:
1. Being jerked around.
2. Some of the mongers here in Austin needed to be banned a long time ago for the hostility and miserableness in their own life in which they have to be nasty to others.
3.Being robbed, screwed over, etc
I have some bias because much of the eccie providers I saw in the West Texas area were very accommodating because of my job, broke things down of why they need to see me at x time and went above and beyond on their customer service and in return, I happily wrote them great reviews and did extra for them. In addition, in the field I work in, timely matters are often the difference between quotas being made and being fired.
Maybe as more time will pass, I may have a different view. Again feel free to comment.