Observations on Search Site Planet Romeo

[Despardo]

To many this will not be news, but Planet Romeo seems to be the best site for finding escorts outside of the United States. I am little by little discovering that the site has many useful features and much to offer, BUT it is one of the least user friendly, least intuitive sites to navigate I have ever encountered. There is a huge amount of information there if one can only find it. It has taken me weeks to figure out how to do a detailed search with filters, how to upload and send a picture, where to find my saved escorts, etc. The site has all these features once you finally figure out where they are and how to use them. I am not computer illiterate, but this site is a bear. That said, it has the most escorts, the most detail about them, explicit pictures and even reviews. There is a wealth of information there if you have the patience and perseverance to find it.

[coriolis888]

To many this will not be news, but Planet Romeo seems to be the best site for finding escorts outside of the United States. I am little by little discovering that the site has many useful features and much to offer, BUT it is one of the least user friendly, least intuitive sites to navigate I have ever encountered. There is a huge amount of information there if one can only find it. It has taken me weeks to figure out how to do a detailed search with filters, how to upload and send a picture, where to find my saved escorts, etc. The site has all these features once you finally figure out where they are and how to use them. I am not computer illiterate, but this site is a bear. That said, it has the most escorts, the most detail about them, explicit pictures and even reviews. There is a wealth of information there if you have the patience and perseverance to find it.

 

I agree the site takes time to learn. Once learned, the site is a goldmine.

 

What bothers me about using the site is that most (not all) escorts do not include their price in their ad.

 

I know there are many pros and cons about this issue of an escort ad that says to ask the escort.

 

I personally think that the escorts lose a lot of clients if a client must contact an escort to find the price.

 

Very few escorts respond in a timely manner which causes some clients to go to the next interesting escort advertising.

 

I see little point for a client to wait several days for an answer to a question about the escort's rate charged. It would be so simple to include the rate in the ad.

[Despardo]

I agree the site takes time to learn. Once learned, the site is a goldmine.

 

What bothers me about using the site is that most (not all) escorts do not include their price in their ad.

 

I know there are many pros and cons about this issue of an escort ad that says to ask the escort.

 

I personally think that the escorts lose a lot of clients if a client must contact an escort to find the price.

 

Very few escorts respond in a timely manner which causes some clients to go to the next interesting escort advertising.

 

I see little point for a client to wait several days for an answer to a question about the escort's rate charged. It would be so simple to include the rate in the ad.

Goldmine is a good word for it. I didn't realize that until I began figuring out how to use the site.

 

Lack of pricing in the ads hasn't been much of a problem for me. When I have asked, the prices I have been quoted have been well within the going rate for that part of the world.

 

Yes it is frustrating when days go by before a guy responds to an email inquiry. I sent out a slew of emails this week and I gave points to the guys who actually responded--most did not. In a city I do not know, I would rather hook up with a professional who understands what constitutes good business practice. Of several guys I emailed in Berlin, I immediately became most interested in the one who got back to me within minutes requesting that I call him so we could chat (It was 2 am in Berlin.) I did and we chatted for about 45 minutes at the end of which conversation I was sold and I think so was he, not to mention I was now really excited (read turned on) about meeting him. That he was being careful and selective by screening his potential clients gave him more credibility in my book (the fact that he looks like a Greek god and is hung like a horse didn't hurt either--but he wasn't the only one who fit that description.)

 

Same with Prague. Four great looking guys out of about a dozen great looking guys (lots of competition in Prague) got back to me. So, guess which ones I plan to pursue? One even emailed me more pictures. It is great when there is an effort to make a prospective client feel valued and important--it works! Why bother advertising if you are not going to follow up your leads.

 

On a side note, I am constantly amazed by the unique ability of Czechs to mangle the English language. My suspicion is that English may be poorly taught in the Czech Republic and that Czech and English are structured very differently. Nonetheless, I have seen really fundamental mistakes in print on websites and ads for clubs and other venues. For example, the very common word "man" as we know in English has an irregular plural--this is English 101. It is not "mans" or "mens" both of which I have seen in advertising headlines just recently. For heaven's sake, use an on line translator. The Germans, Italians and French make mistakes, but not like that. Of course, I don't speak a single word of Czech, so maybe I have no room to talk.

[liubit]

Well, Despardo, I agree on your comments about Romeo, as well as on your remark about the poor use of English by Czech boys. Please don't be too hard on them and cut them some slack. Most of them are monolingual and, when they say they understand and/or speak English, they are making the overstatement of the millennium! Czech, like most Slavic languages, is very, very, very complex, full of pitfalls such as declensions (seven cases for each word, including proper nouns), difficult grammar, syntax and the likes. Not similar to English at all. Google translator helps, but they sometimes laugh at the Czech that application spits out, much as you are laughing at their English, which is still not widely taught at a young age (remember it was "the enemy's language" for the previous generation). It can be frustrating when dealing with those beautiful boys, especially in the "communication pre-stage" of the encounter...Some of them have an agent/pimp who takes care of their Romeo account, sends the messages and sets up the appointments, but it is an even bigger surprise when, after you have received messages in proficient English, you actually meet a kid who doesn't understand what you are saying! Of course, once you get to the real stuff, it doesn't really matter anymore: "cock and sign language" gets you where you want to be :) I now speak rudimentary Czech, which helps....

[Despardo]

Well, Despardo, I agree on your comments about Romeo, as well as on your remark about the poor use of English by Czech boys. Please don't be too hard on them and cut them some slack. Most of them are monolingual and, when they say they understand and/or speak English, they are making the overstatement of the millennium! Czech, like most Slavic languages, is very, very, very complex, full of pitfalls such as declensions (seven cases for each word, including proper nouns), difficult grammar, syntax and the likes. Not similar to English at all. Google translator helps, but they sometimes laugh at the Czech that application spits out, much as you are laughing at their English, which is still not widely taught at a young age (remember it was "the enemy's language" for the previous generation). It can be frustrating when dealing with those beautiful boys, especially in the "communication pre-stage" of the encounter...Some of them have an agent/pimp who takes care of their Romeo account, sends the messages and sets up the appointments, but it is an even bigger surprise when, after you have received messages in proficient English, you actually meet a kid who doesn't understand what you are saying! Of course, once you get to the real stuff, it doesn't really matter anymore: "cock and sign language" gets you where you want to be :) I now speak rudimentary Czech, which helps....

What you say makes sense to me. The idea of seven declensions for nouns is frightening. I believe the older the language, the more inflected it tends to be--I hear Polish is very difficult (some words are so irregular they change beyond recognition according to their usage,) and Lithuanian is famous for its antiquity and its complexity. It is interesting that Czech would wind up using the Roman alphabet, where as a Slavic language the sounds would have been more suited to the Cyrillic. Instead they have to add all those confusing (to me) diacritical marks to compensate. Come to think if it, when I fed Czech into the translator, the results were pretty sketchy. I have been using perceived English skills as a rough guideline for how much time to book with a Czech guy. Dinner plus two hours of staring blankly at each other sounds like a strain--an hour in bed, not so bad. Had a similar experience in Thailand where English can be minimal or nonexistent among club boys. One piece of advice was, don't try to learn their real name--you won't be able to pronounce it. Worse yet, in Thailand it is considered rude to gesture or point which doesn't exactly help matters--unlike with the Italians who are world champions at sign language. English skills can be surprisingly good in places where you wouldn't expect them to be, Cambodia for example. I had expected the dominant European language there to be French, but no (thanks I think to the Khmer Rouge which pretty much eradicated it.) English in Cambodia is routinely taught as a second language in elementary schools today.

[liubit]

I get your point about extended hires. Even though I have been tempted to book overnights, I haven't spent more than an hour with "my" Czech kids, precisely because I woudn't know what to do with them besides sex. Too bad...I'll just have to improve my Czech

 

A further comment on the language. I agree that all those diacritical marks make Czech look very confusing, but they are actually very helpful. Unlike English or French, Czech is spelled exactly as it is pronounced so, once you understand the use of diacriticals (not difficult at all), it is very easy to read and you almost cannot make mistakes in pronunciation and spelling. At least, finally something that is not hard in that impossible language!

[Despardo]

I get your point about extended hires. Even though I have been tempted to book overnights, I haven't spent more than an hour with "my" Czech kids, precisely because I woudn't know what to do with them besides sex. Too bad...I'll just have to improve my Czech

 

A further comment on the language. I agree that all those diacritical marks make Czech look very confusing, but they are actually very helpful. Unlike English or French, Czech is spelled exactly as it is pronounced so, once you understand the use of diacriticals (not difficult at all), it is very easy to read and you almost cannot make mistakes in pronunciation and spelling. At least, finally something that is not hard in that impossible language!

Any familiarity with Czech I have comes from Janacek operas which I love. Every language has its easy bits. For example, Cambodian has no tenses, so you don't need to learn any. Instead, you just qualify the verb as in: I go to work today. I go to work tomorrow, I go to work yesterday. Very sensible really. Also it is not a tonal language like those of its neighbors. In Myanmar I had a 20 minute lesson in Burmese. The teacher explained that Burmese has 3 tones, whereas Thai has 5 tones, and Vietnamese has 7 tones. Everyone was appropriately impressed until a Chinese lady from San Francisco piped up, "In Cantonese, we have 9!" The mind reels. Worse yet, every on of those SE Asian countries not only has its own language, but its own alphabet. Burmese is all based on little circles--doesn't look too hard. I love stuff like this. I know a little bit about a lot of languages, but can still speak only one with any degree of fluency, although, my Italian is serviceable, if just. Thanks for the advice about time--limit to one hour. And really, after an hour with one of those cuties, what else can you do with him anyway--just being practical. If you can communicate with a guy and you like him, you can take him out for a drink afterwards. otherwise, big hug, big kiss and off he goes.

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

Any familiarity with Czech I have comes from Janacek operas which I love.

Jenůfa!