SPs without reviews

[Skym]

If the SP is a good/great/amazing and wants to go NRP as she sees this as sacred that is fine.

Now if the SP is bad/terrible at all or majority of the time and using NRP to hide the fact that is not okay.

For me, several thoughts & questions go thru my mind when i see a "no review policy"

Questions like,
1. Are you simply using the no review policy just to hide substandard mediocre service? And avoid responsibility & criticism?

2. Is it a ploy to scam clients? And hide accountability?

Then I have a thought that pops in my mind, like in those CSI cop shows where they say, if you think you're not guilty, then you have nothing to hide.

I feel like going ahead with someone with a no review policy is giving that person the benefit of a doubt which is something I'm not willing to do. I've been scammed before.

 

[Halloween Mike]

Ah this old thread... Feel like Soul Calibur. History told and retold...

I was there 15 years ago

Reviews were useful.

Sure there was the ocasional erotic novel wich made me roll my eyes (clients saying they gave 3 orgasms in one hour yada yada) and a few bad apples that made reviews to be dicks to providers but overall things were good.

Now? A third of clients are afraid of white knights attacking them to score points with SPs, a third are afraid of blacklisting cause indies screen heavily including stuff like real names wich back then would had been ludacris to think about exept if seeing a famous pornstar or an UTR semi celebrity(playboy or victoria secrets models etc) and agencies have a lot of powers almost having a monopoly running incall "farms".

To be honest i don't recognize the business anymore these days. While i am for security (for both providers and clients) i think it changed too much to cather to a luxury clientel in general.

Of course a rich person won't mind losing 600$ if its a mediocre service. For me? Its more than a week pay. It hurt. Then again i been there in the good days. Im sure for a "new guy" what i consider a subpar meeting could be great for him... I dunno.

Since my misadventures late last year and early this year i been thinking heavily on the business. Maybe im a dinosaur and the asteroid hit me...

Oviously there is providers active right now i seen and trust and there is some i did not see but trust they are genuine. Luna is one of them. She is very open on what she offer, post often here, and she has post so many pics you know how she look. There is a few mores like her that come to mind.

But my point is the business changed.

And i feel its harder than ever to "trust" if you understand what i mean.

Why an SP charging 600 to 800h who has been around for 5/7 years barely have reviews? Is it because she's too great and clients don't want her to become harder to book (yes its a real thing as weird as it sound) or is it because the service was just fine enough to be considered "not a scam/robbery" but not great either.

Correct me if im wrong but i think Merb only allow NRP to SPs that leave the business or NOT advertise here.

 

[EastWind]

For me, several thoughts & questions go thru my mind when i see a "no review policy"

Questions like,
1. Are you simply using the no review policy just to hide substandard mediocre service? And avoid responsibility & criticism?

2. Is it a ploy to scam clients? And hide accountability?

Then I have a thought that pops in my mind, like in those CSI cop shows where they say, if you think you're not guilty, then you have nothing to hide.

I feel like going ahead with someone with a no review policy is giving that person the benefit of a doubt which is something I'm not willing to do. I've been scammed before.

Ditto. Agree on all points.

That was what happened. See my post #3 in this thread.

Broke my own rules of booking a girl only if she has reviews good or bad.

 

[urquell]

There is a big difference between an SP that doesn't have any reviews on the board and one who doesn't allow reviews. Also, contrary to some beliefs not having reviews on the board does not stop discussion about SPs in back channels. It does, however, stop those who don't have back channel contacts from getting info, which means newbies generally. Most of the most personal, intimate info or info that would not be tolerated on the public forums appears in back channels. So, it's important to make the distinction between those who have no reviews and those who don't allow reviews. With the former it's a crapshoot and TOFTT. With the latter the people who've been around can still get info and make informed decisions whether public reviews are allowed or not. There's a built in handicap for people who are new to the scene.

Personally, when I was still seeing the generally available SPs I would decline to see those that didn't allow reviews. Not seeing them wasn't an aspersion on their personalities or abilities but rather with such a large selection of people to choose from and with so much info available why would I choose to see someone who refuses to allow info about them to be made public? It may or may not mean anything, but it may also be a flag, and I'd probably rather take a chance on someone who has no available info rather than someone who refuses it, just because it seems like the odds of someone having a reason to hide their info is less with an unknown quantity than with a known hider of said info. Again it could turn out either way in either case, but it amounts to playing the odds somewhat. With prices being what they are these days it makes sense to choose based on available info and reviews rather than choosing an unknown quantity. You could make the case that it's like online shopping and that the trend line over a larger quantity of available positive info/reviews is something to look for when filtering potential dates. Yes, I understand that there are fundamental differences and a human aspect to SPs completely absent from buying on Amazon but some of the same principles apply regardless. You just need to apply the right filters.

Not my circus, not my monkeys, since I don't have that problem, and everyone can determine what their own individual risk factor is, but minimizing risk (whether monetary or experience risk) would seem to me to be a good thing. Informed choices are always better IMHO.