I've been running into an issue that's annoying the hell out of me.
When I cruise BP I try to see if the provider has any information posted here on ECCIE. If I find them on here and stumble upon a BP link in one of their reviews I tend to check it out. I've been noticing that a lot of the girls attach a premium if you contact them through ECCIE, or identify yourself as an ECCIE member.
Take a provider that I was just talking to. I saw her ad on Backpage and checked her for reviews here. There were only a few but they all seemed positive. So when I contacted her I mentioned that I'd seen her on ECCIE and wanted to verify her rates.
They were, I kid you not, 60% higher than any of the three ads she'd posted on Backpage today, including the one she'd just posted.
It seems to be happening more and more. I've run across 3 or 4 different providers doing this in the past few weeks.
Is there some kind of stigma attached to ECCIE that makes providers want to tack on a surcharge or something?