RM Shrinkage?

[+ keroscenefire]

Just curious to see if you've noticed a significant decrease in the number of escort ads in your city. In Denver, I'd say it's about a third fewer ads than before the COVID-19 pandemic on Rent.Men at least. Still some of the regulars are sticking it out, which is interesting.

 

How is it in your city/town?

[+ Topseed]

Yes. Chicago is down 2-3 pages of ads from usual

[AshburyGuy]

San Francisco had 13 pages on RM before the virus. Now we're at 8. So, down almost 100.

[kaboom35]

Out of curiosity I looked up Los Angeles. Usually there’s 20 to 21 pages and currently there are 14.

[Guest]

Columbus is about the same but a lot of the providers haven't been on in a week or so.

[+ Gar1eth]

Dallas had it's usual 6 pages when I looked yesterday.

 

Gman

[Openmeup]

In Los Angeles several are doing cam2cam

[kyleham]

In many cities they are cut back. If they are not doing it because of the virus, and they have no income it would make sense to suspend their account to save some money.

[+ keroscenefire]

In many cities they are cut back. If they are not doing it because of the virus, and they have no income it would make sense to suspend their account to save some money.

 

Yeah it doesn't make sense to pay for an ad if you're not going to get many clients. I kinda expect a huge increase in ads as the health situation improves and the economy remains depressed. A lot of guys who lose their jobs might consider escorting to make ends meet.

[+ keroscenefire]

A lot of them came back this week. Denver is back up to its usual 3 pages of ads, though the last page is a bit shorter than usual. Several people who paused or deleted their ads, put them back on and we have a few travelers coming through optimistically in May. Denver usually has about a third of its ads as traveling escorts, so the drop off was definitely due in part from less traveling guys.

 

What is it looking like in your cities? Staying the same? More ads?

[former lurker]

Yeah it doesn't make sense to pay for an ad if you're not going to get many clients. I kinda expect a huge increase in ads as the health situation improves and the economy remains depressed. A lot of guys who lose their jobs might consider escorting to make ends meet.

 

Rentmen is giving escorts the option of "freezing" their ads and suspending payment to RM. There's also some mechanism for changing the ad to allow contacting the escort about future meetings after the covid situation abates.

[+ Steve yabsley]

I’m guessing this is not going be to a short event, or a fast return to the way it was. While economists are starting to talk about a U shaped recovery, I’m worried about how broad the U will be and what changes will be ‘permanent’.

All of 2020 is going to feel a lot like April......?

[LivingnLA]

I’m guessing this is not going be to a short event, or a fast return to the way it was. While economists are starting to talk about a U shaped recovery, I’m worried about how broad the U will be and what changes will be ‘permanent’.

All of 2020 is going to feel a lot like April......?

 

Data from the 1918 flu pandemic shows the more delayed or incomplete a response the worse the economic damage.

 

https://news.mit.edu/2020/pandemic-health-response-economic-recovery-0401

 

Because of all the delays and the early reopening, a long U-shaped recovery will probably be what we hope for a year from now especially if global weather and locust swarms in Africa get as bad as some projections suggest. Hundreds of millions around the world will face starvation, including millions of Americans who aren't rich.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/04/09/the-economic-hit-from-coronavirus-will-be-worst-since-the-great-depression-imf-warns/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/13/second-wave-of-locusts-in-east-africa-said-to-be-20-times-worse

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/weather/2020-atlantic-hurricane-season/index.html

Edited April 25, 2020 by LivingnLA

[Marlfox]

New York is down to 23 pages, so RM has lost at least a third of it’s advertisers there. Also some of those still advertising have the hour glass symbol at the top of their ad which means that they will take future bookings, but aren’t seeing anyone in person at present.

[+ keroscenefire]

New York is down to 23 pages, so RM has lost at least a third of it’s advertisers there. Also some of those still advertising have the hour glass symbol at the top of their ad which means that they will take future bookings, but aren’t seeing anyone in person at present.

 

Denver has a few hour glasses as well. Though interestingly two guys who had them previously took them off. In some ways I am kinda surprised, while cases have "plateaued" here, they haven't really gone down and have only started to build our testing capacity. Denver and its suburbs just expanded shelter-at-home orders until May 8th, which I think is a great idea (they were originally going to expire at the end of the month).

[Enronnja]

Seattle is pretty much dead, same 3 pages of dead ads from escorts who haven’t signed in for months. I had plans to visit NY in the future, but that definitely won’t be happening anytime soon.