PhileasFogg

I can’t imagine how hard it is for providers to tailor specifically to every need that comes up. So much is spontaneous and in the moment. While it wasn’t exactly what you wanted, it doesn’t sound like a terrible experience to me

How many stings have we heard about through RM? Whether 1 or 100, it doesn’t matter. If it bothers you, learn the keys “thousand shalt nots” to insulate yourself.

I’m in Austin at 4AM and he’s laying next to me. Visiting his home town, he’s curated the weekend. After a few visits, he knows me and has tailored it to what he knows I enjoy. This is a quality young man at every dimension. He’s is smart, witty, and refined. And unlike most his age, he stays present and off his phone. We already have three trips on schedule in coming months and we are starting to sketch out #4

If he’s making what he wants and has recurring business, that’s how the math works…

Oh! There’s wall paper!

I’m not!!

I'm so glad that I've gotten on his schedule. With only a couple of exceptions, New Orleans has been very disappointing and to have quality talent visiting for such a long time is awesome. So I've scheduled time with him in a couple of weeks! To have someone attractive, smart, articulate, and addiction free is a special thing there! It sounds like anyone visiting for Mardi Gras should start with him in their planning! I'm glad that he's staying close to my place in the FQ so our time together should be easy despite the Mardi Gras activities!

and I suspect he will raise the bar wherever he settles

We will gladly host you there and we'll all have a marvelous time - I'll invite @SamRockdale as well. He's a prince in a world of frogs. There's a certain Australian (another prince) who prefers to keep a low profile that we can invite as well...I think he loved his visit there staying at my house in late 2024....I think ya'll speak the same language, right? And "ya'll" sounds so charming in Australian

Well, Nashville is the home of Vanderbilt (Harvard is the Vanderbilt of the North), the center of healthcare for the US (80% of all healthcare $ touch Nashville at either the provider, processor, or insurer level), the buckle of the Bible Belt with multiple denominations headquartered there, birthplace of many of America’s favorite restaurant brands, #1 destination for bridal parties (we call them the “woohoo” girls, was the birthplace of Maxwell House Coffee and of Iroquois - the stud still influencing thoroughbred lineage to this day, and more importantly, a place unpretentious enough where a guy like me could share a street address with billionaires who’d still say hi to you when they’re out and about having their fun. You really should get out and about more when you’re in the states…right @Pensant?? Ironically, the concert that @SamRockdaleand I will attend will be in The Ryman which is the undisputed birthplace of country and bluegrass as we know it today. I accidentally bought four tickets if you need one Sam is also musically inclined BTW

Ha! I forgot - before we even met, we booked yet another trip at the end of April to Nashville. It will give @SamRockdale a chance to see what a real Music City is like! 😇 I thought there was a third one in there someplace.. That will make 5 in a six month period of time.

You’ve got to find another horse and get on. The elixir to infatuation is multiple regular providers. If all your focus is on one, it will turn into more than infatuation.

I’m confident he (and any of the providers here) have seen much worse. I suspect that people don’t see us as often through the negative attributes we self identify as we think they do. Please stop focusing on those things. As @FrankRsuggests, self care and consistent exercise will create sexy confidence regardless of the amount of hair on your head and it even helps with the ED.

Please don’t arugula this into something it doesn’t need to be 🤣🤣🤣😉

My skin is sensitive...I wind up getting chaffed.

You can always ask. It’s how you ask that will matter. Asking someone to shave a beard seems wrong, but a few days scruff isn’t that unreasonable. like you, I prefer clean shaven

One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. Also, it takes two to tango…and to do it well

Sounds like a histrionic fit coupled with emotional black mail. I’d move on. He crossed a line.

I am sooooo glad I don’t have pets

Funny, my first wife was a CPA in tax...and she never did the taxes. She said she'd charge her normal hourly rate and I said she wasn't worth it. The marriage still lasted another 20 yrs - presumably because I'm Italian.

I would offer this counter point - your time is most valuable when it it fully booked. if you’re fully booked to the capacity you want to make available, then the math validates what you’ve said…you’re at maximum capacity and you should even consider raising your prices but, if your time is not fully booked, then the question is a) do you want to make $x/hr or b) do you want to make more money? If you have available time, you make MORE money by discounting unbooked time and making something rather than nothing. It doesn’t cheapen the value of your time, it maximizes your income as long as it doesn’t take you away from something else. Social time is not exhausting like physical activities and can be fun too. I have one provider who charges social time at half the normal rate and it works great for both of us.

As a client, it’s when you are so much of their income that they build their schedule around yours. That’s not healthy for either

Interesting. I have blocked client profiles that repeatedly pinged my own CLIENT profile. But I can’t even fathom how these guys could have found themselves to you unless someone has hacked your profile and contacted them posed as you

When I come across new guys entering the market, I often hear that a friend was making easy money and talked them into it. What’s really happening if they’re flooding supply when - it seems to me - that demand is down. I’m repeating myself - it’s simple economics

The market sets the price - it’s the demands of the buyer and the availability of alternatives that contribute to market equilibrium and not the needs/demands of the seller. All the seller can offer is premium services to achieve premium pricing IF that market is deep enough (no pun intended)