Booking SPs with a no review policy

[urquell]

Not to debate the no review policy. That has been covered and is site policy so that's that and no need to discuss further. I am just curious as to the impact financially. I personally, in this environment, would not book someone anonymous when others with information and feedback are available. I simply prefer more information to less and go with that. Does that impact you guys at all?

 

[LC18]

You could find a provider with good reviews and still have a bad experience.

I understand that many do not want to take the risks. I encourage people to do their research before booking, sometimes a quick look at their Twitter profile goes a long way. You can really see what the provider might be like even if there are no reviews written about her.


I personally don’t like reviews because I don’t want everyone to assume they’ll get the same experience. A lot of things happen because of how the other person is. Obviously a more respectful man will get perks and privileged that a man with less manners won’t have.

 

[Anna Bijou]

Another way to see a no reviews policy that is from a less suspicious perspective, is that the provider may be very good and not feel reviews add benefit.

Depending on how reviews are written or how busy a provider already is, positive reviews can have a negative effect in who they attract.

I remember in the very beginning of working as a sw I got a positive review that was uncomfortably graphic. I found it really challenging to read, first of all. And yes, it did result in an increase of requests but it was not at all the types of clients I was looking for or enjoyed meeting. Reviews can also result in people's imagination creating expectations that a provider isn't interested in fulfilling or hasn't promised.

I know there are some who will laugh as usual but a super graphic, detailed review of yourself, even if positive, can actually be almost traumatizing to read. And some providers get review after review after review.. Imagine a negative one from a person you just didn't connect with or who was a jerk but obviously doesn't say so in his review?

Tasteful, discreet reviews are not so bad but maybe some providers would rather not take the risk of their business is doing just fine already. If you consider it from that perspective, there's nothing suspicious about not allowing reviews. I can totally understand why someone would choose that and I appreciate the fact that Merb respects that.

It's your call to avoid someone who doesn't allow reviews but this is something she's already considered, accepted as a possibility, yet still chose not to allow.

 

[gaby]

Il m'est arrivé occasionnellement que des escortes me demandent de ne pas faire de reviews....et bien sûr j'ai toujours respecté leur demande.....faut bien comprendre que ce moment privilégié en est un d'intimité unique et oui un peu normal que certaines ne veulent pas l'étaler.....d'autres acceptaient une review d'ensemble..look/endroit/ambiance mais pas de review détaillé.......évidemment il s'agissait d'indies...et non de filles d'agence qui oeuvrent dans un autre univers .....

 

[rando555]

If an SP has a NRP w/ a known agency + the booker knows you, you can also ask the booker (during non busy seasons lol)

If you want to be a bit more conservative you can also try for an hour booking

 

[rando555]

yea you can check the NRP thread.

Also I don't know how true this is but I feel like sometimes reviews put unnecessary pressure on some girls.

Like if the first reviewer has really good chemistry and gets services XYZ --> people read the review and expect the same services and may not get them if they have 0 chemistry --> people complain --> SP gets upset

 

[gaby]

Certain qu'il ne peut y avoir deux services complètement identiques d'une même fille.....tout dépend des ATTENTES des clients, de leur comportement/hygiène et du mood /chimie du moment qui est essentiel pour toute belle aventure.....et tout cela se joue dès les 2-3 premières minutes...déjà chacun des partenaires sait bien si ils sont en route pour un délicieux moment voire inoubliable....et c'est pour ces raisons que les rencontres sont bien différentes d'un client à l'autre....et ainsi il en va des reviews et des demandes de non reviews....et ça se comprend très bien.

 

[LC18]

If reviews were more general like “the place was clean, the provider was sweet and sex was good” I think more providers would be ok with them.

Some men just like to go into very explicit details like they’re writing a remake of 50 shades of Grey

 

[Biggie Smalls]

Befriend the booker. She/he will often tell you who is hot and who is not, and give inside details.

 

[Biggie Smalls]

If reviews were more general like “the place was clean, the provider was sweet and sex was good” I think more providers would be ok with them.

Some men just like to go into very explicit details like they’re writing a remake of 50 shades of Grey

Which 50 Shades? Aren't there 3-4 of them by now?

 

[urquell]

I see from the replies by the SPs that they believe there are valid reasons not to allow reviews from their point of view. Having said that, from the client standpoint, which is where the OP came from, I haven't seen any reasons presented that would be a benefit to the gentleman rather than the lady. As lovely as you ladies may be as a customer I am looking for things that are a help to me in choosing, rather than limiting transparency.

 

[gaby]

...je dois quand même dire que dans le temps/in the past/il y a déjà quelques années/ si j'avais aimé une rencontre qui demandait de ne pas être trop publicisée je le faisais savoir par MESSAGE PRIVÉ à des membres avec qui j'étais plus connecté et en confiance....et eux faisaient de même avec moi...connaissant bien nos attirances mutuelles......et la plupart du temps c'était a win/win situation ....et la perle y trouvait ainsi aussi son profit......lollllllll.

 

[LC18]

...je dois quand même dire que dans le temps/in the past/il y a déjà quelques années/ si j'avais aimé une rencontre qui demandait de ne pas être trop publicisée je le faisais savoir par MESSAGE PRIVÉ à des membres avec qui j'étais plus connecté et en confiance....et eux faisaient de même avec moi...connaissant bien nos attirances mutuelles......et la plupart du temps c'était a win/win situation ....et la perle y trouvait ainsi aussi son profit......lollllllll.

Au moins c’est plus discret

 

[Halloween Mike]

I see reviews as a general idea. I don't expect my meeting to go exactly as another guy, but if i see multiple positive reviews and then one of them is "meh" my brain automatically put 2 and 2 together and realize it may had been the guy that was the issue. Ill admit i do like when specific services are mentioned in reviews because again if 9 guys out of 10 got something, chances are i should be able to as well. Maybe the 10th guy was just not clean or whatever.

I don't like erotic novels either, too long to read and its a waste of time. Just go to the point but be precise.

When im being asked to not review, if the meeting was good, i won't. Ill respect it. But if a meeting was very bad and i got asked to not review, i would know why and i feel its my duty to let the other members know. Unless of course Merb itself has a NRP on her, then i won't review here (but will somewhere else that allows it). I do consider myself very fair tough in my reviews.

Speaking of NRP on Merb. I think the names that are relevant should all be put in the first message. I mean is there anybody that gonna read pages of messages to see if a particular SPs has a NRP? Post from 2005 are not much relevant anymore either...

 

[Anna Bijou]

I am just curious as to the impact financially. I personally, in this environment, would not book someone anonymous when others with information and feedback are available. I simply prefer more information to less and go with that. Does that impact you guys at all?

You're kind of asking a group that's already going to be heavily biased considering this is a review board. I would say that you would get very different answers if you were polling visitors of an advertising only (not reviews) website.

So I suppose it would have a greater financial impact for a provider who advertises only on Merb or who's clients are mostly Merb members or reviewers. However I think that most clients are not necessarily part of the review culture, so I would assume there would not be any or only minimal financial impact IMO. Depends on individual providers, I guess.

 

[Alisha Cantaloupe]

Thanks for providing your point of view!

Personally, website/photoshoots/Twitter are all marketing tools in my opinion and don’t say much on level of service. I do understand YMMV - however, when a SP has a few pages of reviews you get a good idea of the spectrum where your experience will probably fall.

I don’t have much experience with Indys, but I loved my experience with Katrina. I checked a few since I booked her, but didn’t go through because of either 1) lack of reviews 2) no review policy 3) several bad reviews.

That’s just my opinion though, and I might change my mind after I have seen all the SPs well reviewed I have on my list!

To get reviews the lady must be booked by a member whiling to write a review. So if members are all waiting for someone else to post enough reviews on the girl before actually booking her well I think that’s sad. I personally see the difference from when I had zero reviews to now having reviews on any Canadian board. But it’s still not enough. I even have clients that met me before but are not whiling to write a review because all they do is to read the threads about the girls (wants their privacy) . If you like what you see and do some research and feel like you can be compatible with the girl book her and write your own review about her. That’s how she is going to get those multiple pages of reviews. Especially us black/exotic providers (If that’s your preference ) we tend to not have enough reviews; not because we don’t meet a lot of people but simply because people are gatekeeper and statistically we aren’t attractive to the majority of the potential clients. And also keep in mind all experiences varies even with the same person. Even if we take the reviews as a way to have an idea of the service we still have some expectations because our mind makes up things for us based on what we read.

 

[urquell]

You're kind of asking a group that's already going to be heavily biased considering this is a review board. I would say that you would get very different answers if you were polling visitors of an advertising only (not reviews) website.

So I suppose it would have a greater financial impact for a provider who advertises only on Merb or who's clients are mostly Merb members or reviewers. However I think that most clients are not necessarily part of the review culture, so I would assume there would not be any or only minimal financial impact IMO. Depends on individual providers, I guess.

This board is a review culture though, and the members here are more likely to be more experienced and to see SPs more often. For the SPs that advertise here the board members form at least a portion, small or large, of the customer base. I would presume then that the insight they could share would have value. Everyone here uses advertising sites with no reviews. The fact that those sites don't have reviews are why people come to sites like this one, in order to get info. I would venture that many people who don't come here would come here if they knew that this site existed, and I would further venture that if they were offered the ability to have reviews or not reviews on any given site that they would almost universally select "reviews". Now, having said that I perfectly understand that there are a number of reason, positive and negative, why ladies might not wish to be reviewed. It also seems obvious to me that in large part this works at cross purposes with the client base. I just thought it would be interesting to understand how big a friction point that is between the the two parties as a whole, again understanding that each person on the side of each transaction is different.