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So awesome. If you need beta testers -- *raises hand*

Agreed. This is truly interesting because someone with the proper resources could come in and build a better iteration of what they have.

I actually keep in touch with him, and we have texted briefly in the past and earlier this year. He's been through rough personal times that started with the pandemic and have lingered through to the present. He's not really in a great space personally or professionally. He knows his looks and this industry could be a money maker for him, but he doesn't have the "spirit" these days and he is just kind of lost. He's really struggling with some personal demons. Just wish him the best that's all we can do at this point. He's a good guy.

How on earth you were in the same room with him without doing anything sexual is beyond my personal comprehension, but I hear you @Enchanted and understand that we all need different things at different times. I'm so happy you had such a great time with him and he could provide what you needed. He's is and always be my #1 and the bar by which every other escort is judged. The sad part is he sets the bar so high that I almost wish I had never met him on some small level. LOL

Do you mind giving some more details? I'm genuinely curious. The few guys who are my regulars are all cool, that's why they are regulars. We've done many overnights. I then hired one of them for a trip overseas and it was just as good as the overnights -- because we had established we had a connection in the multiple overnights. I'm curious what would make you so compatible during the regular sessions and then not even speak anymore. You don't have to give a name at all, but if you could write about it more it would be helpful to everyone here. Thank you!

Last time this happened, I drove out to Carbondale, IL with a bunch of friends, which was the exact best point to watch it if you were in Chicago at the time. It was pretty surreal. There is something pretty rad and very, very unexpected that happens in the areas where you have 100% coverage during it, but I don't want to spoil the fun for those who haven't experienced it before. You'll know when it does. Get to a totality zone, and especially dead center inside of it if you can, and see for yourself.

You're right. There is definitely a risk, and we all want to protect our investments in anything. But try not to let your prior bad experience rule here. It can be hard not to have those flashbacks about the prior experience where you were burned. We would all feel the same way in your situation because we've all had them on some level. Look at it this way: Not only have you seen them before, but they are comfortable enough with you to give you their real full name. That means there is a level of trust on their side that is being shown. Keep that in mind, please. You'll have a great time. ENJOY!

The site is amazing. I joined exactly one year ago and have learned so much here. Not only about escorts and that industry but in some of the other forums as well. For me, it has been an awesome 'normalization' of something I had considered taboo for so much of my life. It's also a really clean design, very responsive, and a great resource all around. Might I ask if there are any plans to fully monetize the site? As a Founder and business owner, I can't help but ask. I know some of those plans are always kept private, and cards are held close so as not to ruin plans, but I am interested in anything you can offer. And before others go off the deep end, there are 1,000 ways to monetize a site like this without charging us a monthly fee for access. So calm down and don't let my innocent question take this thread completely off the rails.

Aww man, you can't do that. Find it. lol

Yea man. I know you and I have the same type we have talked about it before. It's that dark feature, shadow/stubble/beard, square fucking jaw 🤤 look that blows me away. Shit, in one of the videos it looks like Trev (TopRatedCanada guy for everyone else reading) is the one doing the fucking. lol The no review since Dec 2021 thing was the only hesitation I had as well that you mentioned. In any case, I am reaching out today and have to be in LA soon for work regularly for a short while, so will make it happen and report back for sure.

Desantis looks like he takes dick like a champ in that picture. For real.

I freaking love these threads because this is my wheelhouse. lol As far as CK, there is an element of "Customer Lifetime Value" (CLV) they use that can vary drastically. My CEO has kept CK status for the past four years flying less than 20,000 EQMs (LPs now) per year, including a renewal now for 2023. This was because he flew JFK-China and back, in paid J (business), twice a month, for almost a decade. AA keeps people like that close to the heart because they know their future spending potential is through the roof, and it is simply good business to retain them even when they're not actively flying. That said, your second point is right on. I control the "airline of choice" for my company and in the beginning, I was a loyal US Airways (Chairmans Preferred) and subsequently AA. So I picked AA for our corporate travel and now that we've grown exponentially, so does our employee contracted travel. AA hands out a small handful of CK memberships to us each year to give to execs or those who travel all the time but wouldn't otherwise qualify for CK. I can write about this for hours, but that's the general gist here. As far as the phone even for EPs, just disregard that message and keep holding. They'll pickup in less than five minutes generally -- they just do that to get the non-urgent people off the phone and into a later position in the call queue. IROPS is one of the most valuable things about higher-level status. There are times I have landed and turned my phone on to a notification AA has already rebooked me on a new flight or even double/triple booked me on multiple options so in case that goes tits up, I have a seat on a few other flights all within the next hour or three. You can't put a price on that. From what I can see in the AA EXP/CK group on Facebook, even people who had 500,000, 750,000, or even 1M LPs in 2022 failed to quality for CK. I'd give almost anything to see their algorithm or decision process in these scenarios. With the new program where you can spend your way to LPs, I actually believe that matters less and less for high-level status. As a business, people can easily put six figures of spend monthly on a credit card, but part of me thinks that AA is looking at the value you give the airline on flying their metal butt-in-seat. Not sure on that though but go back to my CLV post above. Again, I would love for someone to leak the private rules here. Also for the upgrades, it is very dependent on your home base. You're generally ex-DFW, right? There are thousands of CKs in that market all taking the upgrades from EPs and lower status. I'm BOS based and we have a huge market here but a very distributed airport that is not a hub for anyone. Equally Delta, United, American, JetBlue. It's really nice actually. I am upgraded almost 95% of the time and it rare I don't get an upgrade, even when I was an EP from like 2012-2019. I can also land a confirmed SWU time of booking on the BOS-LHR flight every single time. Hasn't been a time I was waitlisted. We (BOS) are not competing with as many status flyers as DFW, ORD, CLT/PHX, etc. Exact same. If you know how to play the game, you can get five-figure value redemptions (still) doing it the right way. There was a friend of mine who bragged recently about using something like 50,000 miles (each way!) on BOS-MCO or BOS-ORD (can't remember) and I died a little inside. Back in the day with US Airways Dividend Miles, I did BOS-MUC/CDG-BKK-SYD-BKK-LHR-BOS for 90,000 miles in FIRST (not even Business) and like $50 in cash. That was a total fucking steal. Those days are mostly gone but you can still find good uses for partner redemptions with AA and UA miles. Although Delta has gone off the rails with their flexible redemption criteria where a J seat anywhere out of North America is like 700,000 skypesos these days. Like WTF, seriously? I think with CX coming back "online" finally since the start of the pandemic, that will take some of the OneWorld load off QF (and others) for redemptions, plus HKG is just an amazing airport and a great place to transit. But we'll see how that plays out in the next 12-18 months. People in the industry aren't confident that Cathay Pacific will stage a complete comeback which is sad.

Anyone with recent experience (past 12 months) with this guy? This is the only thread I can find, and there are more than a couple warnings above -- but he has 54 reviews on a profile that is 8 years old on RM -- and that has to say something good.

Sure it does, but his profile is a year and a half old, and he has a dozen reviews all five stars. That mean at least double that amount (probably triple) have met him and just haven't reviewed. That's good enough of a reference to meet if he and I were in the same city or whatnot. Definitely hot as hell.

Very, very interesting post. I'm in this industry (web3, crypto, NFTs; not as a provider) and was just off to sleep here but wanted to comment as a bookmark and process your post tomorrow. At the very least I want to know more about what you're working on for sure.

I think you’re right. Because deep down that’s why I got mine too. A friend of mine got it and posted a picture on social media and it looked horrible. I hauled my ass to get a vaccine so fast after that. Yep.

That's the crux of the problem. They tied up assets in really long, illiquid bets (which were completely safe, by the way) and people came running for their money. There is a social media aspect here that could be listed as a contributing factor in all of this. Something banks never had to deal with in centuries and decades past.

You're good. It died out mostly because "the gays" (read: me! lol) all fucking mobilized because we know how to handle a freaking virus. It's pretty cool on paper to see how it was actually dealt with. Don't let my comment diminish your post, please. Definitely find a vaccine, and sorry I can't help there. But I also meant to reassure you that if you can't find one right away, don't let that distract you from your mission. You're probably more likely to get into a car accident and get hurt on the way to meet up with someone than you are from MP.

It's definitely down -- I have two completely separate internet connections available at the moment and they both can't access the site.

Is it truly a problem (challenge) are we just witnessing unbridled capitalism? 👀

I'd love to debate the entire notion of fractional reserve banking though. Let's look at it from the other side of the room: Casinos are required to hold 1:1 dollars for every chip on the floor at all times, with absolutely no exceptions, ever. So why do we let banks take in $100 and only keep $1 of that in their vaults? (<-- rhetorical, I know the answer)

I argue that they're all mostly aware, but it is simply not feasible to spread funds out across 50, 100, or 500 bank accounts. It's an operational nightmare and simply not possible for anyone except the smallest coffee shops or local restaurants. $250k might sound like a good amount of money to most people, but in the normal course of business, it is peanuts when you're running SG&A (payroll, payables, receivables, etc.) on a regular basis for any company that has over say 10-15 employees. It's also unrealistic to hold the view that every 10-15+ person company should do a stress test on their bank’s balance sheet every three months just to hold a deposit account.

I have a tech startup. Not only do we have (had?) and account at SVB, but a couple of our VC partners did as well. It's a complete cluster fuck at the moment. Word on the street is that there should be an announcement by tomorrow morning that either a) the FDIC will back all the accounts regardless of the limit or b) they are being absorbed into JP Morgan Chase or one of the 'too big to fail' banks. This is what happened to WaMu (Washington Mutual) in 2008. All I know is we have four vendors who have all stopped operating at the moment, and we are in crisis mode here. For example, we use Airbase.com for payments, and their operations were with SVB. Any payments "in transit" as of late-Thursday are up in the air with no date they will be delivered. Luckily we had three* banking partners and our money spread out so SVB won't bring us down. But I also know at least half a dozen startups whos payroll couldn't run on Friday and they're shit out of luck unless something happens tomorrow morning. Everyone is watching. *We had four banking partners but Silvergate Bank was one of them and they folded two weeks ago, but that's a whole other story. Between them and SVB, we're down to two banks. While airplanes can fly on two engines, I prefer four since we're in a moderate/high risk industry.

Not really. I hate to say this and come off this way, but as a provider you're the commodity. You aren't able to review clients any more than Amazon can review its customers. Walmart isn't going to not do a business with a customer based on Amazon's experience -- they will form their own opinions based on their experiences. The closest thing we have to this is the government "no fly list" for airlines, but unfortunately there isn't a central organization dictating the actions each provider must take as a rule of engagement. Sure, as a provider you can ban them or talk about them occasionally here and there, but there are 1,000s of clients for every provider and clients can easily change numbers and names. Conceptually your question isn't a bad idea but there's no way to execute. Each provider is free to do business based on their own experiences with each client. Based on your profile, you've been in the game for ~8 years. I'm sure you have your own method of vetting by now and I hope it works for you. It sucks because the shitty clients give us (the good ones) a bad name. Good luck. https://app.rent.men/SportBud

I’ve never had a provider asked me for deposit, ever. Why? My approach to them is also very serious, straightforward, and has a lot of substance behind it. I have a client profile with description and pictures. Reviews I have written are all on that profile. They’re visible to other providers. I give them my name and information about me and I ask meaningful questions of them. All of the above carries weight when the provider is doing the mental math on the ROI for engaging with me. Apparently they’ve all decided, for a pure business perspective, than I’m a client that is serious and don’t require a deposit and it’s worked out very well all around. YMMV. I’m sure there are providers out there with a very strict rule that they require a deposit from everyone. I just haven’t run into them.