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Here's one of my favorite customer service stories from over 40 years ago now. I'll cut out as many extraneous details as possible while still having the story make sense. I worked in a call center and one of the most frequent problems called in was that a power supply had burned out. In order to trouble shoot the issue before a service tech was dispatched, we'd ask the customer to feel the power supply to see if it was warm. A cold supply meant it had burned out, and the customer had the option of driving to the office to exchange it or wait for a service call (which was frequently a few days away). Well, I set up a service call for one woman but she called me back after about an hour to tell me that her problem might not be her power supply because she had put it in her oven on low for the past hour and even though it warmed up, her cable box still didn't work!

Whatever works for you. I have very few actual contacts (meaning people and businesses I want to be identified when they contact me or whom I contact frequently), so it's faster for me to swipe down to the correct entry than it would be to search.

I try to cut people on game shows some slack because they are usually playing a game under time pressure and they aren't used to being on TV, but it is amazing sometimes how stupid people's answers can be. Perhaps the most embarrassing one I saw was the second person not being able to come up with good answers for any of the questions, losing the family the money, when the first person's answers had earned them over 180 points. Surely that family assumed they were going to win the money with so few points left to earn, so I can only imagine the disappointment they felt by the second person failing to come up with one decent answer.

Isn't the main reason for deleting old contacts to simply have fewer contacts to scroll through?

I don't find him particularly attractive, either, but I'd say the same about a lot of the previous choices as well. To each his own.

Poor guy. I do wonder what the full story is, though, since in another post he wrote that he has been diagnosed with ALS which actually makes his symptoms make more sense. Unless one hits one's head during a seizure, loss of motor functions and muscle control is typically very short term. If he does have ALS, hopefully he'll outlive the norm for people with that illness, which typically causes death within 5 years of diagnosis.

I don't keep phone numbers of providers I've hired and know I won't hire again, with one exception: If someone was basically a scam artist or time waster, I will keep that number just in case he changes photos but keeps using the same phone number. I DO keep photos of everyone I hire for two reasons: One is to be able to reminisce about particularly good encounters, the other is to remind myself of less successful hires in case I notice an appealing photo in a new ad and don't remember hiring the guy. I have photos of almost everyone I've hired except for the early days of hiring out of newspaper ads, or guys I've met in person and hired, which has happened exclusively when traveling.

I'm pretty sure I hired a guy at least once whose appointments were being managed by someone else. I think it's important that we make a distinction between pimp (which, to me, indicates someone who is exploiting a sex worker who might not even be voluntarily doing the work, taking most of the money and giving just enough to the sex worker to survive) and someone who a sex worker might employ to make his life easier due to a variety of reasons (language issues, lacks organizational skills, simply doesn't want to put the time into fielding inquiries). In my case, I figured out a third party had been communicating with me after I arrived because the guy told me so and had such limited English language skills that I don't think he could have been the one texting with me. I went ahead with the appointment because nothing else seemed awry -- he certainly was a horny hunk who got down to business fast, and I didn't detect any discomfort from him except when I complimented him at the end of the session and he seemed a bit surprised that I found him so desirable.

I haven't met him, but I know I've been seeing the same photos for a long time. (The Rentmen ad indicates he's been advertising since 2009, so I'm guessing that many of these photos are at least 15 years old.)

One can not only text on an older flip phone, but you can create a Google account on a computer and then send texts using Chat at mail.google.com

My advice is that if you hire again, then get naked with the guy early on and enjoy yourself. Maybe your anxiety would have been diminished once you were embracing each other? I do think that some of the provider's behavior (as described by you) was problematic, but as the previous two posters wrote you certainly contributed -- in a significant way -- to this meeting going wrong.

I like his porn a lot, too. To me he has just the right amount of arrogance/cockiness/dominance where I imagine how much fun it would be to bottom for him, plus I think he's just overall very sexy physically.

With respect to the tattoo and piercing, he has a large tattoo on his back between his shoulder blades and at least one of his ears is pierced.

If someone wants to summarize the highlights, I'll read it because I did like watching their videos. I'm not inclined to watch 90 minute long interview video, though, particularly when at least one of the comments indicates that Elijah is just playing games by revealing very little information.

I'm not sure why you all believe this guy cannot be 46. Lots of guys in their mid 40s look great. If his age on Rentmen is a typo, he made the same typo on X.

Ad is already gone.

I think this guy is very sexy. Also goes by Steve Q/Steve Quin. I'm kind of surprised he would place a Rentmen ad since I assume he makes a good living creating porn. I notice his list of "intos" includes muscle but not daddy or bear, so maybe he's just looking for jock types who might agree to film with him?

I know tans aren't healthy and I couldn't get a decent tan if I tried, but I do like seeing men's asses when they have that classic Speedo tan line.

I'm not sure, but it might be Oliver Marks.

Here's my take on it from a client's perspective: You don't live and work in places where sex work is legal, so I'd be circumspect with some answers. Hell, I wouldn't volunteer specific information with respect to the economics of being a sex worker regardless of legality. I've watched some YouTube videos where the interviewee was doing sex work but obviously not doing so well. I assume your success in this business will prevent you from coming across that way, but I always feel bad when watching someone's video where their misery is palpable and I imagine the only reason they are baring their soul is they are being paid to do so.

Some people definitely have thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are in conflict without seeming to suffer too much cognitive dissonance. I wouldn't assume that someone having a strong connection to an organized religion to be free of behaviors that that religion might rail against, which still includes being gay (not just working as an escort) for many religions.

Odd with respect to the date. My post was based on an eBay listing for this magazine, so clearly that seller got it wrong.

Correction -- I think it's October 2024.

Sad. It wasn't clear from the article (unless I missed it) whether he was the one murdered or the one who shot himself.

I don't frequently see retirement mention in ads, but I do remember that two escorts I never met but who had excellent reputations on this forum retired within the past year or so and both of them announced their retirement in their ads on Rentmen for several months prior to their ads disappearing. (One was Nicolas Mixx and the other -- whose name I don't remember -- might have been his partner.)