This group needed to step outside...

[jimboivyo]

For starters:

 

1) It's an invitation to entrapment getting some unsuspecting client into a discussion about rates and services.

 

2) It's a colossal waste of time for a prospective client. If a client is looking for a Ford Fusion, why make him waste his time shopping in a Ferrari dealership. Why make him feel bad that he can't afford a Ferrari. He shouldn't have to walk into a generic store just to find out that he shouldn't be shopping there in the first place. Also there is nothing like having to email someone and wait for a week or two to get a reply on rates just so you can email back and wait another week or two for the answer to your next question.

 

3) It's an invitation to negotiate and many clients have expressed a preference not to negotiate.

 

4) I wouldn't shop in any place without posted prices. We are generally hard wired to make decisions on price and many of us comparison shop. That several websites are designed to compare prices, sort by prices, and even notify us when the item we are looking for is available at our targeted price should give you some general idea of how important this piece of the puzzle is. Would you really want to go into a restaurant and have to ask how much every single item is on the menu?

 

5) Nothing like some of the response I have gotten to the "ask me" which include general stuff like "you can't afford it if you have to ask" and the VERY COMMON "I am sick and tired of people like you emailing and asking my rates when you have no intention of hiring me" only to get back some ridiculous rate that you would not have even bothered to ask for in the first place. This is usually followed by 2-3 more emails from the escort chewing you out for bothering them and wasting their time or follow-ups trying to negotiate like "was that quote too much, how about this rate".

 

6) It is a way to shame you and make you pay more than someone else is paying.

 

That's what the big deal is. It's a colossal waste of precious time, adversarial, inefficient, deceitful, confrontational, uncomfortable and dangerous.

 

 

well tell us how you really feel. golly, you sound like a joy to deal with

 

some of my best experiences have been from folks who have ask me as a public rate. if they have existing reviews you can judge their rate based on that information. in the end, you're smart to ask each and every time

[BaronArtz]

well tell us how you really feel. golly, you sound like a joy to deal with

 

 

LOL that was exactly my reaction as well, but I decided to let it slide. What a true joy he must be, Mr. down_to_business. If I were an escort, I'd charge him double the usual rate Just because he is such a joy. It is precisely for people like him that the 'ask me' makes sense. Some of us are just ... more work.

[down_to_business]

well tell us how you really feel. golly, you sound like a joy to deal with

 

...What a true joy he must be, Mr. down_to_business. If I were an escort, I'd charge him double the usual rate Just because he is such a joy. It is precisely for people like him that the 'ask me' makes sense. Some of us are just ... more work.

 

 

Thanks for the personal attack just for expressing my opinion. I sometimes forget how you all want to hear the same bullshit regurgitated back and forth instead of sharing original ideas and different points of view.

 

If you mean someone not wanting to waste my time or the escorts time, expecting both escorts and clients to live up to the agreements they make, and truth in advertising as difficult then I guess I am a nightmare client.

[BaronArtz]

 

they might just not be as obvious to you.

 

 

Must you always be so condescending? I can think of many things that are not obvious to you