Deposit for booking..

[JoshATX]

First of all I wanna say I love this forum with the abundance of help and insight it provides!

I have a question regarding deposits for bookings? How many escorts do this and how many clients would get offended/turned off by this? Had a few people waste my time past month so leaning towards going this route..

[+ Gar1eth]

First of all I wanna say I love this forum with the abundance of help and insight it provides!

I have a question regarding deposits for bookings? How many escorts do this and how many clients would get offended/turned off by this? Had a few people waste my time past month so leaning towards going this route..

 

I'm not hiring anymore. So maybe you won't care about my opinion But I don't like it. I realize having your time wasted impacts you. But it impacts clients too when escorts don't show up. I once paid for plane tickets for an escort who didn't show up. Now he did tell me a few days before about a food poisoning event that was landing him in the hospital. Someone afterwards told me it might have been something drug-related and not food poisoning. But I really don't know.

 

You will get guys who will pay the deposit. But you will also turn a lot of potential clients off.

 

Gman

[KennF]

Except for certain situations, I don't bother with someone who requires a booking deposit. Most transactions are cash, and it is a very difficult to arrange a cash deposit.

 

I make limited exceptions for flying someone in or arranging an extended appointment. I've already made the deposit in the form of the transportation or hotel, so I have more at risk than they do.

 

I also will make an exception if the person comes from a referral I thoroughly trust.

 

But in general, unless there is some major reason, I find the risk-shift more than I'm willing to take. I've had guys flake out on me, shared stories of guys that aren't who and what they say they are, as well as those that are tweaked out and can't perform at all. We clients already have a bit of risk involved.

 

A deposit adds more risk into the transaction, so I would need equal or better value to take that risk.

 

Just my tuppence.

[+ Keith30309]

I am unable to make a deposit because I am 100% a cash client and therefore that is a deal breaker.

 

If, in the future, there is a means by which I can deposit cash into my cryptocurrency wallet with no trace I would not have an issue making a BTC deposit with someone who is established with a sterling reputation.

[+ bashful]

I'm not opposed to a deposit per se, I'm just extremely uncomfortable with any form of payment other than cash.

[JoshATX]

I hate asking for a deposit trust me, nothing outrageous usually $50 PayPal. Incall not a issue so much but the only way I feel good going on a outcall if it's a regular or hotel. Mixed feelings for sure because of a few bad apples.

[KennF]

Yeah, for me, if you asked for a $50 PayPal deposit for an outcall, I'd say thanks but no thanks. I feel very awkward about paying through PayPal to begin with, and I would have no assurance that you even were in town, so I could be throwing money out.

 

For an outcall, I'm not sure what you are weeding out.

 

Sorry. Just how I would see it.

[+ freecahill1965]

First of all I wanna say I love this forum with the abundance of help and insight it provides!

I have a question regarding deposits for bookings? How many escorts do this and how many clients would get offended/turned off by this? Had a few people waste my time past month so leaning towards going this route..

I will skip over anyone requiring a deposit. You should try it for a while and see how it goes. It just may work for you. Most people who need to be discrete about their activities will by pass the offer. In additional, clients may think it is a scam as well. You need to find some better method of weeding out the loser clients.

[+ goosh69]

never

[MisterMike]

Definitely understand where you're coming from, but asking for a deposit is a one-sided strategy that only protects your interests and offers nothing to the client. In addition it requires the client to create a traceable transaction. You may get less no-shows, but you will likely end up losing a percentage of viable clients. It may balance in your favor, and then again, it may not. You'll have less wasted time, but may end up with less clients overall, earning less money. The occasional no-show is part of the cost of doing business.

[MartyB]

That will never happen. This is a cash business and also one that requires discretion. It's also a business transaction that doesn't make sense.

[Guest]

New hire? Never. And that's a huge red flag. Why? I tried to hire two escorts to dance at a bachelor party and more for the lucky bachelor. Met with them, made a cash deposit with both of them as a sign of good faith. One messaged the other escort the night of and said he wasn't comfortable anymore. Never messaged me, never heard from him again. The second one messaged me, told me what was up and canceled because he didn't feel comfortable working solo. He did offer to make it up to me or the bachelor, but he dropped off the face of existence shortly afterward as he had quit escorting.

 

Regular? Yeah, I'm fine doing a deposit/upfront because I know I'll see them.

 

I actually prefer PayPal sometimes. I have it set up as a business account and with a dummy email, so it's impossible to trace it back to my real identity anyway.

[Guy Fawkes]

I move on to the next gentleman.

 

First of all I wanna say I love this forum with the abundance of help and insight it provides!

I have a question regarding deposits for bookings? How many escorts do this and how many clients would get offended/turned off by this? Had a few people waste my time past month so leaning towards going this route..

[mike carey]

@JoshATX, not to play games, I'll just chat with you!

[Pulgasari1991]

First of all I wanna say I love this forum with the abundance of help and insight it provides!

I have a question regarding deposits for bookings? How many escorts do this and how many clients would get offended/turned off by this? Had a few people waste my time past month so leaning towards going this route..

You might ask for mobile credit recharge as a deposit. It can be easily done by cash, hence supposedly taking care of privacy issues.

[hunterlee]

I require a 20% deposit for bookings over 4 hours. Thankfully i've never had a problem.

 

Recently for incalls to my personal home in Washington DC, I require them to send me a photo of their ID. I've never had problems and cancelations are very rare.

 

I don't know what happened in your situation so I can't give any good advice without further details.

 

PM if any more detailed questions.

[MisterMike]

I have it set up as a business account and with a dummy email, so it's impossible to trace it back to my real identity anyway.

So- how did you fund it? Where's the money coming from? There's where you're traceable. And unless you're really covering your tracks (TOR, virtual browser, VPN) - every email you send has your IP address. Also traceable.

[+ Keith30309]

You might ask for mobile credit recharge as a deposit. It can be easily done by cash, hence supposedly taking care of privacy issues.

Excellent idea - I use cash-purchased gift cards for certain things but I didn't know there are cards that could be recharged via cash....Do you do that at a retail location?

 

So, you, in another city, are holding a card.

You give me the number, onto which I deposit $x using cash by some means ?

[Guest]

So- how did you fund it? Where's the money coming from? There's where you're traceable. And unless you're really covering your tracks (TOR, virtual browser, VPN) - every email you send has your IP address. Also traceable.

Correct me if I'm wrong, because you seem very knowledgeable, but I did a couple test payments from my Paypal to my "other" PayPal and all that came through was an email that said "XXX is sending you money (or whatnot)" and no other identifying information other than my "business" name.

 

Email didn't come from either of my email accounts. Came from PayPal. So I wouldn't trace to me. It would trace to PayPal's, right?

[MisterMike]

Even if it didn't come through in the email that transaction is 100% traceable from PayPal back to the email you used to create the paypal and whatever account(s) you are using to fund the PayPal. I'm not saying a casual inquiry, or even intense search by a regular person would turn it up, I mean more from the point of if there was ever a sting or some type of legal activity you may be more exposed than you think you are. I'm not a conspiracy wacko or anything, for the record.

[Pulgasari1991]

Excellent idea - I use cash-purchased gift cards for certain things but I didn't know there are cards that could be recharged via cash....Do you do that at a retail location?

 

So, you, in another city, are holding a card.

You give me the number, onto which I deposit $x using cash by some means ?

Sorry, I just meant that one can easily recharge someone else's mobile phone credit: the one used for calls, sms, and so on.

It's not the same as having fresh cash, but it still has value.

[Guest]

Even if it didn't come through in the email that transaction is 100% traceable from PayPal back to the email you used to create the paypal and whatever account(s) you are using to fund the PayPal. I'm not saying a casual inquiry, or even intense search by a regular person would turn it up, I mean more from the point of if there was ever a sting or some type of legal activity you may be more exposed than you think you are. I'm not a conspiracy wacko or anything, for the record.

Good point. I rarely get the opportunity to use PayPal because most escorts won't accept it anyway.

[+ WilliamM]

It would have to be someone whom I always wanted to hire, The one person who fit that was Tristan Waters. And he did not ask for a deposit. In fact, he told me the tip was too high because he had another appointment closeby.

[+ nycman]

I'd move on.

 

Too many fish in the sea to risk it.

[+ oldNbusted]

I'd suggest a one size fits all policy likely won't be successful. At this point, with a bunch of public reviews on RM, I would be surprised if a guy I contacted asked me for a deposit and unless perhaps they were famous and well known as being reliable, would be a red flag that would kill it. I would assume this was a roundabout way of him telling me he doesn't want to meet me.

 

I also would be surprised if a guy I've seen multiple times with no missed appointments asked me to put down a deposit. Now, if I was arranging for a long trip together, and he needed to make sure that flights, rooms, whatever, were paid for, that's a slightly different scenario, I could see them wanting to make sure I've got everything covered, but hopefully that's just a practical consideration, Clearly I wouldn't consider such a thing with someone I didn't know and trust to show up.