Pretend for a minute you're a provider who has a location she uses for incall. It works great most of the time, as long as it's convenient for your client.
Then say a client comes around who you have met twice at his location, but this time his place isn't available. He needs incall. Being a little over an hour away from your incall, he can't sneak away enough to allow for roughly two hours in drive time alone. He asks you to meet half way, which you agree to, and you look up hotels between the two of you. You find one, it's a little closer to him and it works out perfect for the both of you!!!! You book it through an online site one week in advance. The online site which you booked the room through does not offer refunds.
24 hours before your date you follow up with him confirming everything is still good to go, only to find out he meant Thursday and not Tuesday. He realizes the mistake was his fault, he apologizes to no end, is sincerely sorry and offers to reimburse fully for the room.
Here comes the question.
Have him reimburse you for the room, or see if anyone else would be interested in meeting/using the location? After all, it's been paid for, no refunds, and will be sitting there empty. Yes, the client is willing to pay for it. But if it's possible to work something out with someone else, it would save him the full amount of the room, which is $140.
If you were the provider in this scenario, what would you do?
And if seeing if anyone else would be interested in meeting/using the location, how to go about that? Contact someone out of the blue?
Note: This did not happen to me, was something that just came to mind. Thoughts?