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Phil_musc Mentor

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Cash only please. No paper trail. How did Eliot Spritzer run amuck? Not to be the voice of negativity here, but have you guys not noticed how the entire country moved to the right during Bush's administration? What may slide under the wire during more accepting times might not slide so easily during more conservative "let's clean-up the country" times. Do you really want to leave yourself open for possible repercussions? Bring your cash, leave the cards at home (or in the car.)

 

Then too, if you can't afford the cash, can you really afford to play on credit? Some have enough trouble staying out of debt already. This should not be encouraged.

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It is simply dangerous.... The minute an escort accepts a credit card runs a variety of risks right there.

Privacy: The client will immediately know where his money went and to whom. Do you really want to reveal your full name and as such your address or perhaps your company?

Chargeback: If the client decides to initiate a chargeback, how are you going to claim that money back? How do you prove to your payment processor that the service DID indeed take place?

 

Stick with cash and there will be no surprises! ;)

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I use credit cards for everything I can including a $1.50 cup of coffee because I love getting a 2 to 10 percent return on my purchases but an escort is one place I wouldn't use a credit card. For people like me who do expense reports it would raise suspension in my office since I normally don't black out personal charges and would in this case. Also for privacy reasons, a lot of clients don't want their real names known and depending on the method the escort could easily find that out. I've seen a couple escort ads where you can prepay the escort with paypal or venom and there is no way I'd ever do that.

 

For the escort, they risk a charge back or a client paying with a stolen/lost card. I don't think a person paying with a legit card would try doing a charge back if the card is swiped and they sign on the app (I could just see someone calling Am Ex and saying they prepaid the escort and he didn't perform LOL) but if it's a stolen card and the signatures don't match the escort could be screwed.

 

I think you can get a square account without a business license. I know an Uber driver that got tired having customers use the excuse they didn't have cash for a tip and got a card reading app to accept tips in those cases:) I'm pretty sure he uses square. He has to pay a processing fee of around 2.25% but it has gotten him a couple tips

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Escorts who accept credit cards would really be destructive to those clients that are "obssesive about hiring but really cant afford it. At least cash business forces them to have money in hand, regardless of how they get it. Credit cards would be like giving drugs to a drug addict....

 

Maybe and maybe not. But I agree that it could lead to self destructive behavior.

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BigRic Community Regular

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reason I need something like this. I get clients sometimes that want to add more services or more time and can't because they only stopped off at the atm for the original agreed amount.

 

Forgive my cynicism, but this can be read as a passive-aggressive attempt to get an escort to go ahead and provide the additional requested services for no charge. As a client, I'd prefer to be perceived as more savvy/experienced/sophisticated than that. And as an escort, I'd prefer clients not (even albeit unintentionally) create that impression.

 

If it were me hiring an escort new to me, I'd bring "extra" cash. As an escort, if I get the sense from a first-time client that they're not sure of what they want, I'd proactively encourage them to bring that "extra" dinero. It sure is a buzzkill, wrecking the mood I try to create as an escort, when I have to circle back to a transactional place towards the end of the session to negotiate more money when I've worked hard to create a less commercial vibe. Bring that extra money, guys.

 

And I would parse the PayPal issue more finely: I'm okay with it as an escort with a client I've seen in the past. But it's a red flag to me as an escort if a first-time client asks me to accept it. If you use it, I suggest "Gift To Friends/Family" instead of "Payment For Goods/Services." My understanding is that chargebacks are not accepted for the former. At his request, I recently paid additional monies via PayPal to a popular escort when our time exceeded even the extra cash I'd brought with. I say that only to point up that PayPal is not something that is somehow universally frowned upon by top pros: I think who uses it, how and when are important factors.

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TruHart1 Grand Master

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It is simply dangerous.... The minute an escort accepts a credit card runs a variety of risks right there.

Privacy: The client will immediately know where his money went and to whom. Do you really want to reveal your full name and as such your address or perhaps your company?

Chargeback: If the client decides to initiate a chargeback, how are you going to claim that money back? How do you prove to your payment processor that the service DID indeed take place?

 

Stick with cash and there will be no surprises! ;)

@peterhung85 is absolutely correct! If you need to charge an appointment with an escort on a credit card, discretion can never be guaranteed for either the client or the escort since a paper trail would be created. Neither the escort's privacy nor the client's privacy is completely possible and, as Peter states, if an unscrupulous client decides to chargeback the fee, how could the escort ever prove he had "delivered the goods?" By the same token, an unscrupulous escort could find out so much about the client who uses a credit card that he might be tempted to blackmail or extort the client. Certainly one would hope that these are the worst case scenarios and unlikely but if only cash changes hands, privacy is much more likely assured.

 

TruHart1 :cool:

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That's weird, for mine you slide it between his cheeks unless its got a chip in which case you insert it in the slot in the middle of his cheeks. you then use the joystick to enter your pin, and watch with fascination when he says: "Sorry the printer out's of paper, just a minute while I insert a new roll."

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awesome to watch

 

I used to see this escort once who accepted credit cards. you would slide the card between his butt cheeks and the receipt would be sent directly to your email. it was awesome to watch.

 

Gcursor

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It is simply dangerous.... The minute an escort accepts a credit card runs a variety of risks right there.

Privacy: The client will immediately know where his money went and to whom. Do you really want to reveal your full name and as such your address or perhaps your company?

Chargeback: If the client decides to initiate a chargeback, how are you going to claim that money back? How do you prove to your payment processor that the service DID indeed take place?

 

Stick with cash and there will be no surprises! ;)

 

Yes - But one of the nice things with the Agencies was being able to use a Credit Card and a

2hr apt could turn into an overnight because of the plastic and it did many a time. Whereas cash only is like that is when the fun runs out . . .

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Yes - But one of the nice things with the Agencies was being able to use a Credit Card and a

2hr apt could turn into an overnight because of the plastic and it did many a time. Whereas cash only is like that is when the fun runs out . . .

Oh absolutely. An escort agency is vastly different... the escort's identity is not revealed to his client.

But especially here in Las Vegas, even if you have a credit card, you can get cash instantly.... Casinos make it happen for you without any issues ;)

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VictorPowers Mentor

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I have pay pal but haven't used it in awhile I can say from 1998 to 2009 I processed over 35 grand through pay pal and never had a problem or any charge backs

PayPal has been a great alternative or Venmo. I have had only 1 chargeback. His spouse found it and disputed it at their financial institution. This was 1 week prior to the appointment, so I didn't lose anything on my end.

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TruHart1 Grand Master

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PayPal has been a great alternative or Venmo. I have had only 1 chargeback. His spouse found it and disputed it at their financial institution. This was 1 week prior to the appointment, so I didn't lose anything on my end.

Of course, that's why cash is king in paying escorts - no paper trail for spouses to stumble across!

 

I must say, though, @VictorPowers, looking at your pictures on RentMen, your "end" is definitely a winner! What a gorgeous man you are!!! ;)

 

TruHart1 :cool:

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