The title of the thread is: What is
your definition of "Indy"?
So
MY definition of an Indy in this hobby is not simply "An indy is an indy"... It needs a little development.
Merbwise, An Agency advertise in the Escort Agency section, An Indy advertise in the Independant Escorts Section.
A booker from an agency that was booking couple of girls advertised in the agency section now books the same girls advertised in the independant section.
Yes these girls now have their OWN individual ad threads, they are certainly making decisions and ask for more $$ so we can say their "status" changed indeed.
But for ME, this is not a significant change in this particular case (Booker still involved).
And that is because of this thin line that people, like in the 411 thread mentionnened by Phil, get confused.
This is all a matter of perception.
I srongly believe that BY definifition of "Independant", people (Johns) believe that a girl that makes a jump from Agency to Indy has no booker by default.
Otherwise there is not much difference on our end...
Ok, you can call her Independant if you want and you are probably right because they have truly a new status on merb.
For me this is just a little change of section of merb.
But I agree that for the girls this might mean a lot more.
That is why if we have to call the SP an Independant, there are level of Independancies...
And in my OWN book, I call a True Independant (Sorry I use that term in my book) a SP that have no booker and does it all and offers a personalised and intimate moment from SMS/EMail to the actual session.
The other Indy SPs that have a booker, well, they are certainly not False independant, nor are they Agency...
But in my book, I will flag them with the Independant Status without the check in the "True" box