TL;DR: What do I do to put a SP at ease about me being a real person if I don't have references, don't have a P411 account and I'm coming to Toronto from another country where I'm basically self-employed so I can't readily provide employment info and won't have access to my regular phone? (Also I contacted one agency about authenticating before I leave for Toronto and they said not to worry about it all I had to do was call when I wanted to make the booking and everything would be fine. Is it really that simple?)
I got interested in this hobby after I found a subreddit about it a few years ago. The standard way of authenticating yourself as described there was a P411 account or a reference from an SP you had visited.
But now that P411 is not accepting new members due to new laws that option is is out for me.
Plus I'll be coming to Toronto having never visited an SP of any kind, anywhere, so that option is out for references. (I don't want to go to local SPs for a lot of reasons I won't go into here.)
What's a noob to do?
Also could someone outline how the authenticating usually works in Toronto? I'm intereted in agency as well as indie SPs.
I got interested in this hobby after I found a subreddit about it a few years ago. The standard way of authenticating yourself as described there was a P411 account or a reference from an SP you had visited.
But now that P411 is not accepting new members due to new laws that option is is out for me.
Plus I'll be coming to Toronto having never visited an SP of any kind, anywhere, so that option is out for references. (I don't want to go to local SPs for a lot of reasons I won't go into here.)
What's a noob to do?
Also could someone outline how the authenticating usually works in Toronto? I'm intereted in agency as well as indie SPs.
