requesting deposit b4 quoting rate

[MiamiLooker]

No, he didn't say the 25$ was to disclose rate. The 25$ prepayment was to set an appointment. The text I sent just prior to that was me asking his rate and location which I felt he chose not answer and sent the request for prepayment instead. Regardless, I felt a payment would have to be made for more information.

 

I guess I could've pushed further about his rate before making the prepayment but I've never heard of such a thing and just decided I was no longer interested and said no thank you.

The title of this thread, "requesting deposit b4 quoting rate", and your original post (below) are misleading.

 

"So I'm trying to set up an appointment and I get a reply requesting a 25$ deposit before he'll quote a rate. Is this something that's being done now? I politely said no thank you."

[novaman]

Call it what you want I don't really care at this point. I asked for his rate and the response I got was a request for prepayment. If any of you see it otherwise then so be it.

 

I put it on this board to see if this is something new that I should expect when setting up an appointment. From what I gather it is not.

[MartyB]

That’s my new favorite phrase!

 

I couldn’t imagine asking for a deposit personally.

Mine too babe!

[MartyB]

Call it what you want I don't really care at this point. I asked for his rate and the response I got was a request for prepayment. If any of you see it otherwise then so be it.

 

I put it on this board to see if this is something new that I should expect when setting up an appointment. From what I gather it is not.

Your post was important and illuminating. Don't sell it short. The escort in question was selling bullshit. Good to know.

[Cruiser7]

I’m sorry, I’m anal and reading this thread over the past couple of days, this is driving me nuts:

 

@novaman it’s written $25.

 

NOT 25$.

 

Have you ever seen a sign that says “Tonight’s Lotto is 1,500,000$”?

 

Or Pork Loin 1.99$ per lb.?

[mike carey]

I’m sorry, I’m anal and reading this thread over the past couple of days, this is driving me nuts:

 

@novaman it’s written $25.

 

NOT 25$.

 

Have you ever seen a sign that says “Tonight’s Lotto is 1,500,000$”?

 

Or Pork Loin 1.99$ per lb.?

Meh, it's a convention, and although possibly a rule in some contexts, certainly not a rule in social media. And it sort of makes sense to write 25$ as we say 25 dollars. Putting the currency symbol after the number is common in many countries. Call me conventional, but I wouldn't write it myself (well, maybe rarely) but I have been tempted to write 25 bux at times.

[BabyBoomer]

Putting the currency symbol after the number is common in many countries.

 

Not in the U$A.

 

~Boomer~

[mike carey]

Not in the U$A.

Nor in Australia. I guess writing 25$95 (instead of $25.95) would blow some people's minds. It's done in France for euros.

[Golem]

Well, we do put the cents symbol after the number in the U$A, and technically mike just wrote "the currency symbol"

[+ Tarte Gogo]

Well, we do put the cents symbol after the number in the U$A, and technically mike just wrote "the currency symbol"

The Brits started it with their “£2.50” price writing mechanism. The American Independence didn’t weed out enough of their bad imperial habits, too many were kept.

[mike carey]

The Brits started it with their “£2.50” price writing mechanism. The American Independence didn’t weed out enough of their bad imperial habits, too many were kept.

To be pedantic, they would have written £2/10/0 at the time, and they wrote 10/0 or 10s, and 5d (pence) [now 5p since decimal currency was introduced there] in the same fashion that Americans, as @Golem noted, write 10c.

[+ Tarte Gogo]

To be pedantic, they would have written £2/10/0 at the time,

Thanks! I did not know that was the convention for writing pounds + shillings. I arrived in England for the first time in 1988 and shillings still existed in a few old coins, but I only spent a week, and did not notice the prices. Mind you I don’t think we went to the market, actually.

[mike carey]

Thanks! I did not know that was the convention for writing pounds + shillings. I arrived in England for the first time in 1988 and shillings still existed in a few old coins, but I only spent a week, and did not notice the prices. Mind you I don’t think we went to the market, actually.

The UK went decimal in 1969 so in 1988 anything you saw would have reflected the £2.50 or 95p mode of citing prices rather than the LSD (or £SD) version. In Australia before decimal currency (i.e. pre 1966) household items would often be priced in guineas (21s) rather than pounds.

[Mike Monkevicz]

$25 is not a lot but it’s also stupid ... I would not do this to talk to someone .... but I’m sure people do