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The video's credits name Barry as the pianist, and it's well known that they performed together at the Continental Baths. According to a Wikipedia article about the baths, Barry was actually the house pianist and sometimes performed just wearing a towel like the patrons. That I didn't previously know.

From the small amount of his video I could suffer through (was that three or four product placements within the first minute?), I don't get the appeal beyond his being young. I agree that he doesn't seem to have enough followers at this time to afford the life he's showing on YouTube, so he must have some other source(s) of income.

That "guy on piano" was Barry Manilow, the guy who later had great commercial success as a singer-songwriter and who was one of the producers of Bette's Divine Miss M album.

I'm sure there are time wasters out there who love contact escorts that they know they aren't going to hire, but I doubt there are that many game players. In other words, I think most men who contact escorts want to hire them, but just because they made contact doesn't mean that seals the deal. I would suggest that if an escort is being contacted by a lot of people who end up not booking that that escort should reflect on various aspects of his business practice to determine why prospective clients end up taking their business elsewhere. If an initial contact doesn't enhance the excitement about the prospective meeting or, worse yet, makes the prospective client leery about hiring the escort, then the escort isn't doing a good job of marketing himself.

I noticed his profile a while ago, but his name put me off considering hiring him. Why choose "bandit" as part of your name when that basically means thief? Given he has some positive reviews, I assume that he isn't just a con artist. Still seems like a strange name to me.

The main reason to reply is a desire to continue to be given notice that he's traveling to your area again. If you just ignore his text, he may assume you aren't interested in a repeat and will drop your number from his list of prospects. Apart from that, I do what you do -- I simply don't reply to guys I've hired once and don't want to hire again, at least not in the moment. I suppose if I really didn't like a guy, I'd reply and ask to be removed from his list of contacts. But if I enjoyed myself I don't mind an occasional text, particularly if they include a some new photos, and then maybe I'll hire him again at some point (or maybe not).

Yes, the devil may be in the details. For example, there's a world of difference between: "I am glad you liked me enough to reach out to me again, but I won't be hiring you." and "I really enjoyed our time together, but I'm not in a position to hire you during this visit." Unless we're dealing with an extremely thin skinned escort, I don't see why the latter response would cause them to refuse a future booking. The former comes across as a hard dismissal, so if the response is similar to that I'm not surprised that an escort would put the client in the "don't waste my time" category.

This topic has come up many times. The real answer is that there is no "agreed upon" or standard definition. If you want to know more about what a specific masseur offers, you need to ask him and/or check what his clients have had to say about him.

Previously advertised as TantraColt, and there are a couple of threads here where he's discussed a bit. For some reason, I think he advertised under a different name before that.

I don't think a reply is necessary. Don't forget that he's a businessman and is sending out texts to attract customers. It isn't personal. I would give different advice if you had some particularly intimate exchange, but after one appointment that was just "okay" I don't think the relationship has risen to the level that you have any sort of obligation to respond. Can you imagine replying to every other business that sends you a notification or email to try to get your money? If you do want to reply, I think a polite "no, thanks" is the way to go. There's no reason to string the guy along into thinking that you are a good prospect for the future if you really have no interest in hiring them again.

Even though I remain unconvinced that the listings differ (though maybe they do for other areas), I'm glad this topic got posted. It prompted me to take another look at rent.men. I had kept using rentmen.eu because I didn't like the design of rent.men when I looked at it years ago. I see that they improved rent.men and now prefer it to rentmen.eu

I just did this test to compare rent.men and rentmen.eu listings in San Francisco: Filtering for "anything goes" under Safe Sex, both have 119 results. (Rent.men provides a count and I manually counted the last page displayed on rentmen.eu and added 96 (24 listings per page multiplied by 4 full pages). Filtering for "ask me," both have 120 results. Filtering for "safe only," both have 47 results. Note that if you list all profiles, you will see the number is 295 for each site. So the number of profiles when applying that filter results in lists that match in terms of number, but of course I didn't compare the names in each list to see that they matched. I'd be very surprised, however, if the numbers matched but the actual profiles didn't.

I have never noticed this before. How are you determining that this is the case? There are nearly 300 ads in San Francisco; I certainly don't have the patience to start a list based on one site and compare it to the other site to make sure they match exactly. The only thing I can say is that I have noticed that sometimes the same person appears more than once in the list, giving the appearance that there are more distinct listings than there are.

I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt in only one respect: maybe he's not familiar with the area and has no idea how long it takes to walk 7 blocks. According to Google maps it takes 13 minutes, and I suppose you could have just told him that you'd be there in 15 minutes instead of expecting that he would be intelligent enough to figure out how long it would take you to get there. That being said, you clearly told him you were walking and then he asked if you were taking a ride share, so he apparently isn't an attentive fellow. I probably wouldn't have asked him if he was high, but I understand the impetus to cancel.

Are you just waking up to the fact that some people in the USA want to eliminate almost all social changes made over the past several decades?

I agree with the others about having a regular or two. Over the course of 10+ years I hired over 50 different guys. One guy I hired nearly monthly for a decade, another whenever he was in town for the few years he was in this line of work. A few others were hired multiple times, but not enough over a long enough period to be considered a regular. I am confused by part of your post, though, and wonder if everyone is just taking in your last three paragraphs and not the last two sentences of your first paragraph. Am I reading your post correctly: You've hired several guys and enjoyed yourself, but have one guy you've interacted with but never met because he seems too perfect? Are you asking whether that's common for clients -- to hire many guys but not the one that is most appealing? That really only makes sense to me in one of two scenarios: a) You think the guy isn't actually what he claims to be or b) You fear that your strong interest in this guy will make things awkward (e.g., your insecurities will make it difficult to enjoy being with him, you'll have stronger feelings towards him than you are comfortable with, etc). Otherwise, why wouldn't you hire the guy who attracts you the most intensely?

Pardon my ignorance, but what does that second screen capture mean? For example, does it simply mean that 13.5 million Roku Channel viewers have been served an ad for his site? If so, then I have to say I wouldn't be impressed if I were a prospective advertiser on the site. There doesn't seem to be any targeting at all towards either the right community (gay men) or geographic area. I agree with Occasional's post above: Far more meaningful would be to give prospective advertisers a free trial period of, say, three months. Require that the ad include the phrase "when reaching out to X, tell him you found him on www.whatever.com ." The site owner could, of course, suggest that advertisers ask where the client saw their ads in case the clients neglect to include this information. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.

A couple of decades ago, there was a site dedicated to m4m masseurs in the San Francisco area. I no longer remember the URL, but I did use that site a lot to find masseurs. If I'm not mistaken, there was no Rentmasseur at the time so my three main sites for finding masseurs were that one, Masseurfinder and Craigslist. If a new site dedicated to my area appeared and I heard about it, I would certainly use it. The key issue is how clients are going to discover the new site. Unless the site owner has figured out how to drive traffic and can demonstrate that to you, as an advertiser I fear you'd just be throwing your money down the drain (or, rather, just helping to support someone financially who really isn't doing anything for you).

You joined earlier today and this is your first post? I suggest searching the forum for previous threads on this topic as this question has been discussed so much that I'm not sure what else there is to say. You'll find some who think it's entirely reasonable to pay in advance (or pay a deposit in advance), and others who don't. As to what to do when you pay in advance and then the escort fails to deliver as promised, unless the guy offers a full or partial refund you are out your money.

Messaged via Rentmen's platform, or by text directly to them? I'm less likely to think the lack of response is about you being blacklisted than something else such as: a) they haven't seen your message yet; b) they are simply busy; c) your initial message didn't interest them for whatever reason; d) they are actually advertising to promote their porn and not trying to get clients.

Are you a time traveler?

Interesting model, but does he actually keep his word? I've subscribed to a number of well known porn performers and a lot of them fail to deliver what they promise. Only a few actually seemed to understand the notion that to get people to want to subscribe for more than a month you actually have to post some worthwhile content during the preceding month. Posting a still photo with an erection with a tease along the lines of, "Good morning. What would you do with this?" isn't interesting after the first time. 30 second clips with offers to pay $20 to see the full video aren't interesting. Of the guys I've subscribed to, only Manuel Skye, Rhyheim Shabazz and Rafael Alencar managed their pages in a way that kept me around for at least a while. Maybe it's just me -- maybe there are a lot of men who don't mind paying $10/month (or more) to see some still photos and extremely short clips. To me, that should be what's on someone's alternative free page to entice people to pay for a subscription.

Yes, I remember his earliest videos didn't show his face. He's quite the looker and seems to enjoy bottoming a lot with his scene partners.

I know this might get the ire of some, but I frequently use a fork and knife for the first few bites of pizza because it's too hot to pick up and frequently is kind of droopy until the tip is eaten. I agree that the remainder should be eaten by hand.

Who cares when someone chooses to eat cereal, if they like it? The real issue is that Kellogg's cereals are significantly overpriced, a trend that started a long time ago. If one wants cereal for dinner (or breakfast), one should look for alternative brands that don't cost so much. Or, even better, learn to appreciate hot oats. One can get high quality oats for 10-15 cents per ounce, which is much less expensive than any brand of boxed, dry cereal. Quite frankly, a lot of food choices are less expensive than boxed cereal and more nutritious as well given that most boxed cereal is just some form of grain and sugar (with vitamins added so they can claim to be a healthful choice).