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Heeeeeeeee’s back!!! https://rent.men/Ian_Twink

I tend to carry it to the extreme and focus on only one provider unless and until something happens that causes that one provider no longer be available. When what used to be my “home market” of New Orleans had great selection 20 years ago, I would often meet with several providers, but since New Orleans became (and remains) a T-Total disaster for what I’m looking for, I started looking for the closest option. Recently, that led me to finding the best provider I’ve ever encountered in my 22 years of hiring, albeit an eight (8) hour bus ride each way. Right now, he’s on a brief hiatus that I hope doesn’t last too much longer 😄.

Fair question (though the matter became moot with @BuffaloKyle’s revelation). I just don’t want a second credit card that I never use. I do have a debit card I never use (except for getting ATM withdrawals) just to tide me over if my card ever has to be replaced, but I find it highly inefficient to hold a second credit card to use twice a year.

You are a wealth of knowledge!! Heck, with that revelation, I’m glad they couldn’t renew me! To a VERY large extent, I am now just seeing one provider (but seeing him quite a bit), and I have never liked the “stacking” RM reviews (I know one provider who has 110 5-star reviews, and 34 of them are from one client), and I can just tout him or any other provider on this forum (which I think has more credibility anyway), so I agree and don’t want a premium membership with this revelation! Your knowledge on this matter has now benefited me twice 😄😄!! Thanks, Kyle!!

Since you renewed his membership, you don’t want to provide his RM profile so nobody else (or very, very few guys) waste their time responding to him?

I think you got lucky. Their system has now completely removed my card and, when you try to add it back, it immediately notices it as VISA and posts a blaring notice that RM accepts Master Card and crypto only and says a discount is offered for crypto.

Okay. I’ll try that and report back.

I have only one credit card: VISA. In late 2023 when my card had to be replaced, I uncovered RentMen was no longer accepting Visa. I know plenty of other members uncovered that fact too. I went a year or so without a premium membership. Then @BuffaloKyle posted a solution which was to not go with the recurring monthly payment option and instead pay a one-time payment to renew for six months. I did that and even renewed for two more six-month periods the same way. Unfortunately, my membership expires tomorrow, and BuffaloKyle’s little trick no longer works, and they inform you that you must either use MasterCard or crypto. It’s very frustrating, but I’ll just have to revert back to being a regular member. It was nice being able to leave a 5-star review when I meet a great provider, but I’m not getting a Mastercard or using crypto.

I think the vast (and I do mean vast) majority of the members of this forum would. Deposit is bad enough, but providing “substances,” too as that old saying goes, is “a little too much sugar for a dime!”

This is just a suggestion. I created my own RM client profile that outlines just about every question a prospective provider may have. I make it a point to send that link in my introductory text. I’ll just say this. I’m 62 years old, not as tall as you (5’9”), and weigh far more than you (240), and I’ve found that I never have any trouble getting positive responses and positive experiences. It probably helps my case that I like to place the provider up on a pedestal, with me taking on the mental attitude that I’m very fortunate the provider is willing to even be in the same room with me, and my profile makes it very, very clear that I seek ONLY to worship his feet, have my face sat upon by him, and be spanked by him. I make it clear that I will “take care of things later.” My problem is the opposite of yours in that I seek highly specific attributes of a provider in order for me to cultivate and maintain that mental attitude that motivates me to be subservient. It doesn’t take much to TOTALLY screw that mentality up by my knowledge that the provider is a smoker (I never have in my entire life), uses drugs (I never have), or has an abundance of tattoos. Any one of those (especially drugs or heavy presence of tattoos) causes me to perceive the provider as not even being worthy of being in the same room as me (that’s how important that mentality is for me), thus making it impossible for me to gear myself up mentally to willingly and eagerly accept a high level of pain (spanking) from the provider. If someone as unique as me with my non-standard criteria has been able to meet with dozens and dozens of providers over the last 23 years, trust me, you aren’t going to have any trouble at all!

Well, what was your impression, @wayout? Did the face pic sway you one way or the other on meeting with him?

Exactly!! In December of last year, a provider with whom I met three times in 2024 was back in New Orleans visiting with friends just as he had done then. We were going to meet up again with me hosting in my home town 80 miles Northwest on a Saturday before he departed on Monday. When he had to back out of those plans, he wanted to meet up at a $49/night (I’m not joking!) motel Sunday afternoon on the Westbank in New Orleans, I politely told him I’d made other plans for Sunday. When a good friend and relatively new client based in New Orleans asked why I backed out (I had not told him about the proposed venue), I replied, “Because I value my life!”

1. My initial contact was not with the expectation that he was a scammer. It was after the “I am available” and “I am in your city” statements he made that alarm bells went off (too easy) and I strongly intensified my research. 2. I don’t. That’s why I ceased all communication with him when he said, “I’m already in your city.” It’s also why I had no reservations referring to the pictures as “stolen” which, ironically, seems to be a huge problem for the real person depicted in the pictures given the warnings he issues about any such photo theft. Had he not made the mistake of listing my city as one he would be visiting (today), I have no doubt we would not have uncovered any of this fraudulent activity.

I bet you it will. I think this fraudster is more than willing to spend the nominal money an app like Sideline charges for you to get an alternate phone number ($15 or so for a month), so that it can look more authentic like he actually resides in the city he chooses to reside at for purposes of pulling off these thefts. He would not keep doing this if it were not working, so God only knows how many deposits he has collected, and he likely won’t hesitate to show screenshots of those receipts to falsely demonstrate authenticity. The best thing everyone can do is commit those photos to memory (which are almost assuredly stolen) because, if he is smart (and that’s debatable), he will create a new client profile to replace “Nicholas.” Doing so (committing the photos to memory) will at least force him to steal someone else’s photos to try to keep this scam going.

Well, I privately told @PhileasFogg yesterday that, “I predict that Eric’s ad will vanish within 24 hours,” and I also sarcastically asked a few entries above just how long Eric may hang around given that “Nicholas” reviewed him on Thursday. Drum roll please …………………..

Well, that’s only a very short commute to New Orleans and back, huh? 😃

It also doesn’t help that, when “Nicholas” brought back his reviews, notice how the attached reviews have two different screen names, yet the lead photos for each are identical!

“Nicholas” just may be having trouble corresponding with “Eric” to try to figure out just how best to respond 😃. He (Nicholas) may be receptive to a collective collection of cash from all of us as an incentive to cease meeting with providers. After all, at the rate “he’s” going with “them” all leaving the profession within days of “him” meeting with “them,” we soon won’t have any providers left on RM 😃.

The collective power of this forum is astounding!! Great find @Ghadd!!

Yep. That's because "they" all left the profession. "Nicholas" must scare off a bunch of providers!! That HAS to be a record.....Have a RM Premium account for a month, meet with four (4) providers, and they ALL decide to leave the profession after meeting with him! Wonder just how long "Eric" will hang around since he reviewed him only yesterday!

UPDATE: Those four previous reviews of https://rent.men/Nicholaschangas/reviews have suddenly resurfaced. Here are the links: https://rent.men/Kevinnthomas https://rent.men/Anthonysmithh https://rent.men/AntonioJennings https://rent.men/Jonahzakim I can only assume that "Nicholas" thought it looked even more incriminating for the reviews to vanish!! That's a bunch of providers to suddenly leave the business after "Nicholas" reviewed them :).

Thanks, @PhileasFogg!! I’m glad to know my intuition was correct and even verified by your excellent investigative skills!

Facts: 1. This gentleman, https://rent.men/Ericwilliamss, showed up on RM late yesterday evening as being "in" New Orleans and ostensibly being in my home city tomorrow (Friday). 2. His ad is only eight (8) days old. 3. He has only one review; moreover, that one reviewer, https://rent.men/Nicholaschangas, has had a RM Premium account for just over one (1) month. 4. That one reviewer, as of yesterday, showed a total of five (5) reviews during that one month (of providers all over the U. S.), the most recent of which was (is) Eric Williamss. 5. Of those five reviews, four (4) were links for providers which evidenced the fact that the provider was no longer available on Rent Men (but the screen indicating he was previously). I wish I had screen saved those four, but trust me, there were five reviews, the first four of which all indicated providers who had left the profession during that one month period after Nicholaschangas reviewed them. 6. As of this morning, Nicholaschangas has removed all of the four (4) other reviews he submitted, leaving only EricWillaimss' review. 7. I reached out to Eric last night, provided a link to my own RM profile, and inquired if he may wish to meet when he's in my city (ostensibly, tomorrow, Friday). 8. Eric responded saying, "I'm available sir." 9. I responded (being highly, highly suspicious given all I've relayed above), "Okay. Text me once you have arrived in my city." 10. Eric responded within seconds indicating that he was "already in" my city. 11. I am ceasing all communication as I've "been around the block" long enough to know that the potential for scammer and/or fraud is sky high AND it's all too easy (i.e. suddenly already in my city). I welcome any other members' thoughts and contributions.

I hope everyone enjoyed a Happy Easter Sunday! Mine was utterly fantastic just as is the case for any day I get to meet with Ian as I just did! Now it’s back to the bus for a return trip back home!!

Well, NOW someone can give feedback, and that someone is ME, and he was absolutely fantastic!! He just left my hotel room, and we had a great time!! He was very prompt and professional in all communication, and he noted right off the bat that we had “common interests.” That makes a meeting all the more fun when you know the provider is enjoying the activity you’re engaging in! I highly recommend and definitely will be repeating because Amtrak is very convenient for me being able to get to Birmingham!!