Cancellations...

Hello again all! Just coming to rant a little bit but would also like some feedback...(particularly from the ladies but any is welcome).

It seems that in the last two months or so, I've been getting a ridiculous amount of cancellations (some last minute - others at least 8 hours in advance or so).
To give you an idea, I would say that of the last 15 apointments I've made, 13 of the guys have cancelled. It seems strange to me considering that I used to rarely have cancellations at all...The excuses seem to be similar - "I got called into work suddenly", "I have to go out of town unexpectedly", "My trip to Toronto got cancelled/postponed." You get the drift... I am sure that some of these men are indeed telling the truth but statistically speaking, they can't all be...

I have three possible explanations:

1. It is one guy playing a cruel joke on me.
2. They are all telling the truth and I've just been incredibly unlucky.
3. Many of them are lying. (I don't want to believe numbers 1 and 3).

Sometimes it's not a big deal as someone else will contact me last minute for a date and my evening is salvaged. Often I have already told other potential clients that I'm not available and by the time the first guy cancels it is too late to move on to plan B. This is particularly frustrating...I'm a pretty busy person and therefore only able to work, at most, a few days a week and rarely see more than two clients a day tops (unless I'm doing an incall which is not that often - that may have to change, lol). I find that many gentlemen on review boards complain about girls wasting their time (and don't doubt that it happens) but it does work both ways...please don't make a date if you know you might not be able to keep it. Thanks for letting me rant!

CC

Unfortunately, this is why many SPs double-book. I hope I don't get to that point...

Another popular reason for cancelling is that they unexpectedly have to go out for dinner with colleagues last minute or that dinner is going to last longer than expected. I've had the client call me from what sounds like a bar saying that 'dinner' is going to go later than expected and can we move our 9 pm date to midnight. (This scenario has happened a few times). They even seem pissed off at me when I can't accomodate them! I really don't want to sound like I'm bitching and complaining but it's been getting to me...

CC

I think a lot of guys don't see it as a big deal - they just assume that the SP will have backups, etc. The biggest problem with cancelling is not so much that I lose out on the appointment. It usually works like this:

Client 1 - books in advance for a two hour appointment and confirms (yes, these cancellations are often pre-booked multi-hour dates).

Client 2 - e-mails me to ask for a three hour appointment at the same time as client 1. I decline saying that I already have plans...

Client 1 - cancels. I then try to get in touch with client 2 to say that I am after all available. Usually this is thru e-mail and I get a response the next day saying they didn't get the message in time/they made other plans, etc.

So, after two potential multi-hour dates, I end up sitting at home watching movies, waiting for the phone to ring, sniff, sniff Not to mention feeling like an idiot for just turning down a three hour call that another SP has gladly taken...

I agree that regulars are great - I love my regulars!

CC