nerdnerd said:
These are my reasons.
a) A number of SPs on EC, if they list email, simply never reply.
I can't speak for other advertisers, but myself, I often don't reply if the person is indiscreet or if it's obvious they haven't bothered to read the info on my site about when I'm available, etc.
Unfortunately, there are too many tire kickers out there and I prefer to spend my time and energy on legitimate, qualified, intelligent customers.
nerdnerd said:
You have to phone them. Often the time/place where one can go online is totally inappropriate for making phone calls. Think 11:30pm at night in home office. The option is then to write the numbers down and call them the next day, and risk a piece of paper in trousers. Instead, I risk an encrypted file on my computer. (And... writing those programs is my profession, so i trust them)
I'm a married woman myself and I know that both my husband and I have, at any given time, numerous scraps of paper with phone numbers on them -- so I'm not sure what to make of this explanation. Why would anyone be so worried about a piece of paper with a phone number on it? I suspect that the only person who would truly have to worry about something like that would be someone with a psycho wife or someone who was already in deep poop over something else anyway. In most marriages, this wouldn't even register.
nerdnerd said:
b) So, of the 30 some ads in EC, I know that 10 are for SPs that were visiting, but either have been and gone, or aren't coming for another month. I'm looking for *today* or *tomorrow morning*.
Of the remaining 20, 10 of them are "usual suspects" in the "avoid" category.
Well, I can see that. But in general, visiting escorts are good for Ottawa. In times past, when I ran Lyla's List, I recall trying to lure escorts to tour in Ottawa -- I even offered to put up my own money to ensure that they made a quota (not that I was worried that I'd ever have to pay out -- I knew the business was here for them). Ottawa is very lucky to have so many touring escorts interested in visiting here just now. Perhaps not convenient for you, but I think overall it gives us more diversity.
nerdnerd said:
The remaining 10 (including you C) tend to be difficult to schedule for the next day, between that meeting at the bank at 9am, and that lunch meeting. Note that there may well be 2 hours available there...
Oh, and many of those on EC are outcall only.
I'm sorry about that. I know that things have been difficult lately with regards to scheduling -- this is a case where our good fortune is your pain in the butt.
My recommendation is to establish contact by e-mail well in advance, get to know someone, and then hopefully an appointment can be more forthcoming at your convenience. Alternatively, if you can make your first appointment at the lady's convenience, then she might be more amenable to your schedule in the future -- especially if the two of you got along well.
nerdnerd said:
c) there are some gems. And there are those that advertise both places, so you can get the phone number out of the Sun, ignoring the nonsense/avoid ones. There are also a number who have their web site
address in the Sun, but do not seem to pay for EC ads.
That makes no sense at all to me. Sun ads cost WAAAAYYY more than EC ads, and we get so much more coverage for them -- more text, photos, links to our site free, etc. The EC ads cost for a month a fraction of what a Sun ad costs for a week. And the Sun ads bring in a ton of grief in the form of wankers, under-aged callers, etc. that the EC ads don't.
I wish I could get by purely on my EC ad -- it brings in the very best new business I get each month. But since 9/11 and the problems in recent years, I'm finding that I have to advertise in The Sun to get over the last little bit, in spite of the fact that I have a healthy number of regular customers.
Trust me, if it wasn't necessary, I wouldn't advertise there.
..c..
