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everybody will have an opinion on this.....instead of even mentioning budgets and typical price ranges, etc., a client can just say, "thanks for the reply, but I'll pass for now....appreciate your time"

The RM message system still works for expired profiles.

This is an in person happy hour for sex workers, off duty, not a group chat.   No active sex work happening to bust.  
Though you are correct.   Nothing is without risk.  That in mind, each month we have a designated provider chosen to skip the event.  That way - in the unlikely event  the meetup should turn cataclysmic - one single provider will survive to bear the responsibilities of servicing the men of New York City. 

I have never haggled in price, I pay what is advertised or requested during our set up communications.
 
Result is - I get what I ask for, the appointment is never rushed,  quite often they go way overtime, and that time may be just be lying in bed cuddling and talking, after the action.
If you show respect to a provider he will show respect back to you.
 
Most of my hires are repeats, and I always say this is the reason why they are repeats and the enjoyment and comfort level just increases.
I have had exceptionally good providers, haggle with me, I had one who turned a 3 hour session into an overnight, and his rational made total sense.  Even after I paid a substantial amount for overnight, and rented a pool vila in Bali for the night, the night remains as one of my best hiring memories, standing naked on the terrace watching a full moon, smoking cigars and drinking single malt, under that full moon , and some amazing sex - at the end of the day, and this would be 10 years ago. I do not remember the $200 for the villa, the cigars and single malt, nor the $1400 for the night, but I remember his body, how it felt, what he made my body feel like, and the bf experience before during and after the fun, the few hours we slept and the fun in the morning.
If you can find the $$ for a exceptional experience - do it - you are a long time too old or too poor to indulge or even after you stop breathing 

In the acting world, audition announcements often mention "playable age" as a requirement. Meaning, what age can the actor pass for, regardless of their actual chronological age.
Decades ago I used to work on the weekends in a grocery store. A colleague there was a 23 year old girl who didn't look a day over 16.
So for me the answer to the thread's question is that the provider can rightfully put the age on his profile that he can (realistically!!) pass for, not his actual age. We are paying for a fantasy, after all.

There has been a long prevalent bias in the gay community that 30 marks the end of youthful beauty and freedom.  If you don't believe this, do a search on RM and see how many ads have 29 as the listed age.  You're no longer young and care-free.  Not yet an OLD farts like those over 50, but no longer the spring chicken either.  Providers age shave because clients actively select in part on their age.  Anyone claiming they have never done this is living in a glass house.  We may shop with our eyes first, but I'm sure a good share glance at the age as one of the first things they review.  We're all human.  Denial doesn't make the reality of this go away.  

I never talk with providers about their other clients because (1) i'm not that interested and (2) I don't want to pressure the provider or encourage him to say things about other clients that he may regret or feel guilty about.  There is one provider that I am quite friendly with and once with him I broke my own rule by asking him if he had any difficult clients.  My respect for him was already high, but it went into the stratosphere when he answered.  He answered "of course some clients are difficult, but I always remind myself that everybody is different."   He didn't blow me off or make me feel awkward and he didn't say a single bad thing about any of his other clients.  Afterwards, I felt bad for giving into the impulse and I really admired the grace with which he delivered his non-answer.

That is super wild. I can only counter with a report that one of my regular has turned 29 after several years advertising as 30yr old.

There was a traveling guy passing through my mid-sized city last week. I contacted him and he quoted $400 as hir hourly rate. I politely declined. He then offered $300. I told him I didn’t like haggling and he came back with $250. So I had to block him in the end.

I think you stole this phrase from my Sniffies/Grindr profile!

If you have to ask for a review then you don’t deserve a good one! Reviews should be voluntarily given if they are to have any value. If my client says he loved the session immediately afterwards I sometimes say ‘feel free to leave a review if you want to’ because of course I love to see the feedback. If they didn’t like the session I’d rather they told me personally but it’s their call. 
What would I do if I was in your position? I’d probably ignore his request. If pressed I’d tell him he was great but not 5 star so I wouldn’t want to spoil his rating by giving him a 4, and I’d tell him why he wasn’t a 5. I’d stress that I still enjoyed it etc. Because he asked there’s no good outcome however. He simply shouldn’t have asked you. 
 

Without knowing WHY it was only 'meh' and not GREAT - I can only speak from a providers point of view - and that would be: 
To leave a less than 5 star review would immediately drop his rating to 4.5 and it would never be 5 star ever again. It would result in less work for him in perpetuity and impact his career forever. Unless he has done something that warrants that: please don't. 
If you still feel feedback is warranted without such severe consequences, option 4 is to send it to him keeping in mind the principles of (is it kind, is it necessary, is it helpful and is it true) I think in this case: it would be if you are explaining to him how it would go from 'meh' to 'great'.
So if you can't ignore him (I can almost guarantee that is what he would prefer) - let him know why you felt it wasn't 5 star and secondly, what he can do to improve for the next person in text.
If it's just that the chemistry wasn't there, and there is no advice to how to improve the experience, just leave it be.  
 
p.s - to be clear I personally have never asked for a review, and I think do think there are places for poor reviews. 'meh' is not one of them. 

You dodged a bullet. His ‘urgent need’ would have resulted in you paying him full rate upon booking and then him disappearing. That’s what I think would have happened had you sought to book him. Don’t hire guys off Sniffies. They are either scammers or are downright unprofessional. You’ll get conned or you’ll end up disappointed. 

In my opinion, jack hammer fucks are not the best. Slowly spliting a man open while he grunts and shifts underneath you but you can still feel his desire...feeling the lips of his hole sliiiiiide up your shaft millimeter by millimeter as he becomes more and more hungry...listening to him gasp as I flex my cock playfully in his hole knowing that he has never felt more full in his life....slooooooowly pushing in and out so he gets used to being open.......and of course the cherry on top.....finally reaching the bottom out phase where his hole is firmly grasping the base of my cock and I am reshaping his insides to be ME shaped.....getting a man to relax enough to get to this point is a skill. Any chud with a cock can ram it into a hole.

https://rent.men/femogu

https://rentmen.eu/Elbori
I texted this new NY hottie, saying I want to host, bottom, etc - he wrote me back, saying, $600. 
I wrote him back, saying, "I only have $599.99!"  
True story.

Excuse the drunk history, but I thought that medieval regimes regulated prostitution. Same moral handwringing; appetite for punitive consequences developing later. 

Actually, he was inside me for 45 minutes but not fucking all the time....one interesting position was we were spooning and he was inside me but being still and not thrusting, however, every now and often, his hard cock would twitch and send waves of pleasure through me....think of a stone thrown onto a pond and the ripples spreading throughout 

This is funny!   And the old man smell is real!!
But actually …
As an escort, I have a number of clients who I’d classify as … with all due respect … surprisingly old.  
And I have yet to encounter old man smell in a client situation.  Scouts’ honor.
Maybe staying sexually active keeps that part of aging at bay?  Which is to say…
Don’t stop hiring!

The conversation is about Brandin Hawk, and his inability to serve when a client stinks. Not about whether the use of cologne and deodorant are a plus or a minus for clients. So lets not wander too far off the subject. 
I tend to agree, that I dont enjoy a man who wears perfume and I hate when I get a mouthful of deodorant. But the primary focus here is how Brandin expects THE CUSTOMER to arrive. His own words were about soap and water and being thorough in your personal hygiene. 
The pushback as @SecretProvider has mentioned is a bit bizarre to me. "Man-scent" is a well known sexual fetish but to my knowledge, the conversation started about a sensual massage hire, not a full blown session of sweaty man2man fuck-n-suck.  So its perfectly reasonable without a specific request for sniffing some ripe ball-sack, that everyone arrive fresh and free of stank.

I don't think the dispute here is between men who like/dislike deodorant/cologne.  Though I shouldn't speak for @SecretProvider, I doubt he would have objected if the client had showered and cleaned what needed to be cleaned, then came out smelling shower-fresh.  He objected because the client smelled like shit and BO. 

(Though I also believe the norm in America is to smell neutral or pleasant, not of BO.  If you prefer BO, that's outside the norm, and you should flag.  If you dislike deodorant, maybe suggest to provider/client, "let's take a shower together first, no deodorant needed afterward."  If partner declines, you're on different pages.) 

But bathing?  Come on.  If your mama would find skidmarks, you haven't bathed (or wiped) properly.  Maybe invest in a bidet?

I always offer my guests a chance to wash off in the shower and have the mouthwash ready by the sink. I also only buy fragrance free body soap so the men who have partners need not worry about having a different scent when they return home. 
@viewing ownly   It might be helpful to simply ask your provider "hey do you have an mouthwash i can use?" 

One of the reasons I stay here. To share my experience:  There’s no correlation between being physically attractive and being sexy in bed. None whatsoever. Being sexy is about having self confidence, empathy and intuition. Plus some humour, intelligence and communication skills. 

The other misconception is that it’s mostly closeted ‘unattractive’ guys that hire. My experience is all sorts of guys hire. 

Well, I’m not going anywhere. So everyone is going to have to put up with my opinions and subtle put downs 😂. One has to fight for civility, decency and the ability to refer to one’s self in the first person…
This forum is just a slice of the whole population. There will always be some shallow, un-self-aware, or even malevolent people in any group. They stand out because of their behaviour. They spoil the view of course but they do serve to highlight the contrast of the good stuff that exists if you can keep them in check.
I see ignorant comments where guys resort to ad hominem attacks when they can’t argue the point. (That usually gets stopped by the moderators).  I also see some quite astonishing ignorance and prejudice about working in the business which sometimes I try to address but then I get told I’m wrong by guys who aren’t providers (strange word btw). Then there’s those who are purely superficial who comment on providers looks as if that’s all the guy has to offer. It’s all here. 
I have to go back to my point about this place being a microcosm of society. The trouble is society is pretty bad right now where we have leaders who display all of those characteristics: shallow, bombastic, disregarding of experience and expertise, and even sometimes malevolent. Is it any wonder those of a similar nature feel emboldened when they see supposed leaders behaving like this? 
I know politics isn’t allowed…(moderators please don’t take this down!) but I’m not taking a political side: leaders of right and left are like it. I’m pointing out that when we ignore or hide from these bad actors we allow them to grow and become emboldened. Eventually you run out of hiding places and have to tackle them, so you should never let them get away with it. Ridicule them, hold the mirror up, argue, undermine and challenge them.

 

Yes agree. I’d add however that if I genuinely wasn’t what someone thought they were hiring or my service wasn’t professional enough then I’d expect that they raised it with me privately first to give me a chance to explain or rectify it. I don’t mind fair criticism (call it feedback: which is a gift) but I’d rather it given to me first before it’s shared everywhere. The kind of review on here that says ‘x was good but for these things y and a which I raised with him and this was his reply’ is much more informative than ‘I didn’t like x’.