m4same

Please mark your calendars for the Weekend – April 14 and 15, 2018. Specifics will not be posted here, in order to preserve confidentiality. Therefore, if you are serious about attending this year’s events, please send me an e-mail (if you know it) or “private message” with your return e-mail address so that I may send you the pertinent information as it unfolds. Your confidential information will be respected, as I expect mine to be.

The first order of business will be dinner reservations, followed by RSVP’s for the pool gathering at my temporary residence. If you will be bringing a “guest”, please tell me who. That information will also be kept confidential, unless you say otherwise. Attendance by escorts (by themselves or as someone's guest) is greatly encouraged.

If you will be coming from out-of-town and need accommodations, you should arrange for those ASAP, if you have not already. There have been several suggestions put forth in the previous thread concerning possible accommodations.
 
Again, the dinner will be early Saturday evening, April 14, and the pool gathering will be in the afternoon of Sunday, April 15.
 
If you have any questions, please ask in your e-mail or message. I look forward to renewing acquaintances and meeting new ones! Come and enjoy!

It's up to the forum moderators to decide what's allowed. I suppose that as a member you can report posts that you think violate the stated policies, but my guess is that you'd have a lot of posts to report.
 
I am always very careful to not post explicit information about masseurs I have hired because my experience leads me to believe that just because I enjoyed a certain level of interaction with a masseur doesn't mean that that's always part of that masseur's repertoire. I understand people wanting to know whether a guy charging a significantly-higher-than-normal price for a therapeutic massage is offering anything beyond a therapeutic massage, but when inquiries are basically asking if the guy provides "full service" even though it's a massage and not escort ad I get uncomfortable. I think people should be browsing on Rentmen or another escort website if they are looking for that kind of encounter, and then asking questions in the escort forum, not the spa, about services provided.

I’m one who has been vocal about not saying too much in the forums.
And I even extend that into PMs. Unless you’ve met the person you’re
exchanging PMs with...I don’t see much difference. Do people really
think Vice can’t figure out how to PM people on here?.
 
Anyways, I try to stick to “he looks like his pics”, “he’s fun”, “the massage
was excellent” etc. I only go into details on the negative side “it was strictly
legitimate”, “don’t expect a HE”, “he didn’t get naked or allow touching” etc.
 
So much of it is chemistry based in the first place, that I don’t see the value
of into going into greater detail that may put the masseur at risk or make
him an easy target.
 
If forum members I trust say positive things about a masseur that I'm interested
in hiring, then I hire him and see how it goes. If it’s great...then I repeat.
 
Simple enough and so far it’s served me well.

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I head to BA today. Really excited. Thanks for the update, Tristan

FWIW...I use ATM's almost exclusively, but I am still a bit old school and routinely will take in excess of $5k for insurance. It gives me comfort, and yes...I am taking chances with carrying that much cash, but I've never had a problem, whereas on several occasions I found that the cash came in handy and helped solve problems. I carry the cash in a money belt and I've never been stopped or questioned regarding the money...ever.

This is true for the USA. If you’re traveling into or out of another country you should
check their laws. It’s extremely variable....especially if you’re visiting the 3rd world.
 
Most of Europe is around 10k Euro I believe.
 
Also, don’t forget that they count things that can easily be converted into cash.
Gold coins, travelers checks, personal checks....are all counted. I don’t know
if precious gems count...but I wouldn’t be suprised, especially unmounted ones.
 
Don’t forget, it’s the aggregate value....so $5,000 USD + 4,500 € is more than
$10,000 USD and must be reported.
 
You can bring in more....just make sure you delcare it, and be prepared to be
pulled aside for questioning. They don’t take kindly if you don’t report it and
you get caught. Feigning ignorance is a waste of time. The low level government
employee who catches you will think it’s insane that someone who has the means
to carry that much cash....would be ignorant of the law.....and won’t care regardless.
You signed a form on entry declaring you weren’t. You are. End of discussion.

Your second quote is not mine directly. It must have been a quote I responded to or he responded to mine. In any case, nothing in that quote disagrees with anything I said. TSA has no jurisdiction over one's cash carry out of the country. They are tasked with looking for explosives or something that could cause an incident on the flight.
 
One is free to carry under US$10,000 in or out of the country without the need to declare it.

See if one of your credit cards has no foreign transaction fees. I think most airline credit cards have this feature.
 
I know I have a United Milage plus credit card and a British Airways and they both don't charge foreign exchange fees. Again Credit Cards have the best possible exchange rates.

Quite the contrary. To avoid “practicing law” on line I’ll avoid any specifics, but some can be seen on a number if reference sites like Wikipedia. It is against the law to take certain amounts of cash out of the country without declaration. There is an “exit tax” on certain amounts exported for certain purposes, such as expatriating and/or moving citizenship, for example. When money laundering became a a federal offense (after Warergate), enhanced surveillance was enacted, which quadrupled with the rise of narcotrafficking and then exponentially after after 9-11.
 
One of the form questions you are asked by customs upon re-entry IIRC is the amount of US cash one took out, spent and are returning with. The wealthy father of an acquaintance was a 16-month guest at Club Fed for taking 8 digits in cash and jewels out of the country on numerous trips with his wife prior to a banking related real estate bankruptcy in the late 80s. (It was easier for the US Atty to prove perjury on the form than the actual amounts of the offense.). Socially and “federally” he always maintained that his Phoenix-like financial resurrection in the mid 90s was due to consulting fees paid to him by his kids and their trust funds. He didn’t enjoy it very long, however, since he dropped dead at the country club from a massive heart attack.

$100 bills are best if you plan to change bills, because of the exchange rate. Check your credit card to see if it has an exchange fee--many do not.

In some countries, you have to declare a large sum like this (e.g. Brazil). But you are still allowed to bring it, just you have to tell them you have it and they can ask questions about what you are going to do with it.
Given that prostitution is completely legal in Brazil, you could actually and truthfully say to the customs officer: "I will hire many Garotos di Programma" and he has to let you through.

Rely on your ATM card for most of your cash needs. Make sure you advise your card's issuing bank that you will be traveling....and where to. Also review your ATM settings to be sure you are comfortable with daily maximum withdrawal amount. I've lived (off and on) and traveled throughout South America for over 30 years. You need nothing more than an active ATM card. Safe travels!

I personally carry at least $5,000 in USD when I travel.
 
It is for emergencies. You’d be suprised how much trouble
$1,000 in cold hard cash....can get you out of!
 
I’ve never had a problem, but it goes in the bank safe immediately
upon my arrival and I don’t touch it until I’m headed to the
airport to come home.
 
It only raises eyebrows of young TSA agents. They almost always
call over a more senior agent....who usually just nods and off I go.

Real low to me but then again I've been robbed in New Orleans a number of time with too much money. But this doesn't sound like enough

Curious as to why TSA agents would raise any issues about the amount of cash you carry? They have no jurisdiction over one's transportation of cash out of the country.
 
The only exception I make on traveling with more US$ is when I go to Montreal. I usually go with about US$5k in cash. Never been questioned about it. TSA is never looking for cash if going through my bag. I go to Montreal anywhere from 5-15 times a year and my cash carry has never drawn attention.

You mean the hotel safe?
You don’t rent a bank safe for every vacation, right?

LMAO. That's a funny typo.
 
You are correct. I mean the hotel safe.

I think it's just generally a young kid who freaks out when he see's $5,000 in cash.
I think he assumes he's about to make a major drug bust...lmao. But as you said it's not really their jurisdiction.
Also, I incorrectly lumped all TSA, customs & security personnel from around the world into the category of "TSA".

Ask your bank that issues your ATM card the name of their corresponding bank in each country and try to use your ATM cards there to avoid surprise fees. If there are corresponding banks in each country you will need less emergency cash because there's no downside to withdrawing money as you need it. It's usually the best exchange rate you can get.
 
I still wouldn't go with any less than $1,000.00 emergency cash. As some have said here sometimes the US $ gets you a better deal.
 
btw, there are some great exchange rate app's available.

Hi @m4same,
 
I bring some emergency cash in USD but don’t use it (it is only for emergencies, which so far has never happened).
 
My bank does not charge me to withdraw abroad and the exchange rate is good, so that us by far the best deal for me: I withdraw on arrival at the airport and then use exclusively the local currency.
 
But be careful in Argentina, after 3 pm access to ATMs is limited, since many ATMs are inside the bank, and most bank close at 3pm.
Also many Argentinian ATMs only give 100 ARS banknotes. They are worth $5.7 each.
If you want to withdraw a lot, that will be a huge pile of small banknotes.
Also the ATMs often charges a lot per withdrawal in Argentina.
 
Another tip in Argentina: pay as much as possible with a Visa card or a MasterCard (credit or debit, doesn’t matter). For many services, you get the happy surprise to have the 20% VAT not applied, because you have a foreign Visa or MasterCard (foreigners are not supposed to pay VAT for these services)
 
It used to be that you had to claim the VAT back upon leaving at the airport (you had to keep your receipts), but now the government has an agreement with both these card issuers and they simply remove the VAT at payment. 20% can be significant on a hotel bill for example.

Been over 10 years since I went to Santiago Chile, but found ATMs useful for obtaining local currency. Have no clue if I was taken on the exchange rate, but it was convenient.

I hate to say this, but I think you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Many masseurs get really nervous if you try to negotiate anything sensual upfront, they are not escorts and they don't know who is texting them, there is always the possibility of a setup. Add to that asking for a discount, and they might even blacklist you as an undesirable client. And if they don't, they are likely to go into the appointment determined not to provide an ounce more than what you negotiated.
 
I know, it sucks! Most of the time, you pay a lot of money for a meh experience and not nearly what you hoped for. Given your questions, you might be better off hiring from an escort site?

I think this is a discussion that would make more sense as private messages.

I think this is a discussion that would make more sense as private messages.