You can add to that not scheduling appointments through pm, going to functions using your Terb handle and subsequently seeing an sp/mpa based on meeting them there and then posting a review when they knew who you were going in, using your Terb handle to schedule appointments over the phone. I have posted about 90 - 100 reviews and never once have I revealed my Terb handle or discussed Terb prior to or during the encounter, nor have I used my handle to schedule an appointment. It can be done very easily if you have the desire to do so.
The subject of Terb has actually come up very rarely during my sessions, perhaps I appear too normal to be considered a Terbite.
I have a very plausible and believable response that ends any Terb inquiries quickly.
Leaving aside for a moment the motive for posting "reviews" like this, when one repeatedly makes superlative laden posts, the superlatives become meaningless. If every sp is described as amazing, the best, great etc., then NONE of them are. Based on the writer's words, how could a critical thinking reader determine which sps differentiated themselves and their services from other sps when they have all been labeled great. A critical thinking reader would have no use for such a writer, or put any value in his words, as the reader would determine that either the writer could not distinguish between mediocre, good, very good and great, or did not understand the value of only using superlatives when they are really deserved.
You are spot on there. Reviewers like the "frat pack" who are well known to agency owners and sps
And it makes a reader wonder what the motives are or incentives may be involved with the posting of their reviews especially when you read something like this:
Another reason to question the frat pack's reviews is the sense of entitlement that they have. They seem to think that their posts should be taken as the gospel truth, as if they have been pre-approved, and are shocked when someone questions them. It is funny to see how distraught they become when someone offers a dissenting opinion of one of their posts, and like the repetitive nature of their reviews, their two standard juvenile responses are: you are jealous of me and all the money I spend and all the sps I see and my studliness and the way sps respond to my studliness by attacking me the moment I enter the room till the end of my double digit sog session and I have to shake them off my leg as they cling to me as I try to leave and they beg me for more; or you didn't lavish me with praise for my amazing review like the way my frat brothers did so I'm leaving mean old terb and I'm never coming back.
I guess it has never occurred to the frat pack that when you post in an open forum with thousands of members, some of those members who have read those posts and given them a critical analysis, may have questions about, or opinions of said posts that may not coincide with the original poster.