POLL: Another Endurance Research Project — How Much Is Your Time Worth?

POLL: Another Endurance Research Project — How Much Is Your Time Worth?
The first Endurance research project looked at how much we're spending.

That poll is still open for a few more days, so if you haven't voted yet, you can find it here:


Now I'm curious about another currency in this hobby:

Our time.

What Got Me Thinking About This?
I mentioned in the spending poll that a DM conversation with another TERBite got me thinking about all this.

His hobby budget was around $2K for the entire year, and this guy was doing some serious homework before making his selections.

He contacted me looking for some intel on an SP I'd reviewed. What started as a DM exchange became pretty detailed.

At one point he was even sending me example pictures of women's body and ass shapes to show me exactly what he liked, then asking whether the SP I'd reviewed compared to those examples.

I'll admit it.

I was starting to get a little annoyed.

I'm thinking:

How much time are we going to spend researching one booking?

But here's the twist.

In return for my intel, he gave me a few recommendations of his own—and one of those turned into an incredible find for me.

So maybe there was something to his method after all.

Which brings me to Endurance Research Project #2:

THE POLL
Before booking an SP you've never seen before, approximately how much time do you typically spend researching your selection?

• Almost none — see her, like her, book her
• 1–2 hours
• 2–4 hours
• 4+ hours
• It can stretch over several days

The Endurance Research Questions
What's your research method when considering someone new?

And the bigger question that got me thinking about all this:

How much is your time worth, and how much of it are you willing to invest before making that booking?

These days I've found myself doing more repeat visits with familiar SPs.

No research required. I already know what I'm getting.

Curious to hear how everyone else approaches it.

LTO_3 said:

Researching has been easier because of the internet. You look for reviews on TERB (or elsewhere) and if there are any, then it's a personal decision her reviews are postive. Ask any members their experiences, if it applies otherwise it's TOFTT time and hope for the best, especially if it's LL or Listcrawler.
With agencies especially if you're a regular, you can ask them if the SP you ask about is someone you should see. If they say yes then you book (or don't) or take the agencies recommendation(s) of any other of their ladies that they'd recommend.
My general research time is maybe 30 minutes, maybe 45 minutes if I get sidetracked. I usually stay with SPs I've seen for a while.

LTO_3

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Oh man, I remember the LL days.

As a newbie I'd see a profile, trust the "verified," and pull the trigger. My first experience actually turned out pretty good.

But after getting scammed a few times, I went completely the other direction and started spending way too much time studying ads before making a selection.

Previous ad in Calgary yesterday and NWT the day before? Pass.

Same girl, different hair colour, advertising the same night under a different phone number? Pass. I actually got scammed once and later noticed her doing exactly that.

Once I discovered agencies, things got much easier. See a profile I liked, make the booking.

Interestingly, I already had a TERB account halfway through my LL days but never really figured out how to use it effectively, so it sat dormant. Even after moving to agencies I wasn't using TERB much.

What finally brought me back was an agency SP asking whether I'd read any of her reviews. Camryn impressed me enough that I started paying more attention to TERB, and not long after that I posted my first review.

But here's the conundrum I've found with using reviews to research agency girls:

I've booked someone after reading a glowing review and ended up with a dud.

I've also booked someone without reading the reviews first, had a great time, then went to write my review and discovered someone else had posted a not-so-flattering one.

My reaction was basically:

Thank God I didn't read that first. I might never have booked her.

So today I'll still read reviews, but I don't necessarily let them make the decision for me. Sometimes you just have to go see for yourself.

And I've now got about seven favourites, so repeats have created the easiest research method of all:

No research required.

Ponderling said:

I will take this in antoher direction.
I tend to wake up early just like a work day, 5am ish even on Wed, Thurs, Fri, when I do typically do not go to the office.
Instead I go out on a scrounging run in my car.
No traffic delays.
On those mornings in the fall/winter it is rec league hockey season.
So I swing past the dumpster of a 4 pad arena not too far from home and hustle up empty beer cans.

Typically 3x1 hour gathers and 20 minutes to turn the squashed cans in.

Last week was $140 cash from the beer store.
That seems to me to be worth it as a way to use that not working time.

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Pretty resourceful way to get free cash to pay for a cash hobby like this. Although I can't see myself getting into a dumpster I have crushed $60 worth of cans in the garage for a bear empty run. Found that took quite a bit of time and effort.