If you were a long time customer of an agency, and they found out that you had a side deal arranged with one of their ladies to see them outside the agency, would the agency blacklist you, or would they allow you to keep booking appointments with them anyway in the hopes of keeping at least some of your business??
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- Thread starter drlove
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A guy with 3700 posts over 6 years needs to ask questions like this?
Regardless, how would the general membership know? We don't set policies for the agencies. Or are you specifically asking members who have been caught doing such?
C'mon guys. Fess up and tell us what happened.
Regardless, how would the general membership know? We don't set policies for the agencies. Or are you specifically asking members who have been caught doing such?
C'mon guys. Fess up and tell us what happened.
its a free world. not allowing mature people to decide how they want to live / work amounts to slavery (or government)
shack said:A guy with 3700 posts over 6 years needs to ask questions like this?
Regardless, how would the general membership know? We don't set policies for the agencies. Or are you specifically asking members who have been caught doing such?
C'mon guys. Fess up and tell us what happened.
Well, that's our Dr. Love....he asks a LOT of questions here.....
To answer the good Doc: Being in a situation where I (and the lady) were wrongly accused of this, no, I wasn't blacklisted from the agency but she was.
(to explain further I saw an sp that worked at an agency, the lady left that agency, I saw her when she worked as an indy, then she started with another agency and during a post here on terb, the agency owner read that I had seen her indy therefore blacklisted her thinking she had made a side deal with me, cutting out the agency. After explaining the situation to the agency owner, she was reinstated with an apology).
Put it this way, as a tradesperson, if I was working for someone and while working on one of his jobs I got to know the homeowner and ended up doing his future work, cutting out my boss, he would be pissed off.......my answer is yes they may fire or reprimand her or blacklist you, the agency is the one that brought the two of you together, paid for the advertising, provided the initial venue, etc.
drlove said:If you were a long time customer of an agency, and they found out that you had a side deal arranged with one of their ladies to see them outside the agency, would the agency blacklist you, or would they allow you to keep booking appointments with them anyway in the hopes of keeping at least some of your business??
I imagine it would depend on the particular agency as to what route they would go.
Moraff said:I imagine it would depend on the particular agency as to what route they would go.
Thats true...and the ones who go threatening to blacklist guys who ask or firer girls who give out their #, I don't book with anymore. Not like I could do that-being that I am in town only every few months-but those company's can go threaten somebody else.
guy27 said:Put it this way, as a tradesperson, if I was working for someone and while working on one of his jobs I got to know the homeowner and ended up doing his future work, cutting out my boss, he would be pissed off.......my answer is yes they may fire or reprimand her or blacklist you, the agency is the one that brought the two of you together, paid for the advertising, provided the initial venue, etc.
But the other part of the Doc's question was: would they blacklist him too. So, in your scenario, would your boss stop doing work for the customer as well as getting rid of you?
guy27 said:Put it this way, as a tradesperson, if I was working for someone and while working on one of his jobs I got to know the homeowner and ended up doing his future work, cutting out my boss, he would be pissed off.......my answer is yes they may fire or reprimand her or blacklist you, the agency is the one that brought the two of you together, paid for the advertising, provided the initial venue, etc.
Say what?
That's like saying if the first time you bought Colgate toothpaste was at Zellers because you saw it in their flyer, you can never ever buy Colgate anywhere else!
Like that commercial says: yesterday is nothing! Yesterday I bought from you, today I'm buying from somebody else.
So an agency paid for an ad and assumed some theoretical legal risk for the initial communication. Fine, that is built into the price of each booking of which they collect a handsome share.
Besides, agencies NEED a percentage of SP to move on, or at least shift part of their customers to private arrangements. This helps the agency to make room for new talent.
It would not be practical - nor would it be tolerated - for any agency to hold 600 condos & rental units to acommodate every SP they brought into the business and every single one of her customers for ever and ever.
