It seems it's new-topic-day for me I never started a new topic and here it is, the second one in a day! I'm getting better
The thing is that I did escorting with my husband together but I got curious and...well, I started my solo career too
And I'm feeling so bad now I'm not having moral problems, noooo, my problem is with the number of wankers and TWs, it gets me so frustrated I put my website on the major directories a few days/a week ago and I have an AW profile as well. I get no genuine enquiries, only things like: will you give me a student discount?; will you see me for ?40 for one hour? ; can I be your driver/photographer/webcamming partner... And no-shows! Many of them! And people who want overnights and want me to tell them what I'll do with them ; "couples" with suddenly disappearing females, etc. I'm frustrated....
So experienced UK-ladies and gents, is this normal here? Will I get REAL clients too or should I just give up? Maybe I'm cursed with being a magnet to TWs?

I know when I joined Adultwork, I had a lot of those problems - it's because you're marked as new, and people think you're a target for their timewasting attempts. It does die down, and I very rarely get them now! (this is where I get a load of idiotic emails! lol) How long have you been up on there? x

It's true - they have a New Member Alert system where everyone who has subscribed gets an email when new profiles go up in their area; I've never liked the idea that inexperienced ladies can be targetted so easily. It does pass,  just block them as they contact you and it should calm down within a month or so - I hardly get them now either *waits for AW notifier to start pinging*.

In the meantime you can always stick the good ones on the How Not To... thread  .

I'm getting really frustrated and bitter and angry!

Oi, that's my look  .

A question to anyone and everyone: do you find that you had more clients when you started or it builds up slowly? In Hungary there was no slow build-up just clients clients and more clients but I know that every country is different...

I'm lucky and have always had plenty of clients - a good core of regulars does take time to build up and even they come and go, but these plus the ones who visit once and don't come back for whatever reason ('passing' visitors who are working in the area or those who just decide it's not for them) are constantly replaced by the newbies. I think it's easy to panic if the phone doesn't ring  and I used to even take mine to the toilet with me when things were quiet as I was so scared of missing a call, but it just takes time and patience.

There are some good not-so-major directories as well as the big ones, as well as local boards and so on which might help get your website seen a bit more?  I can't think of much else now as all I've got in my head is Hungarian food  .

I've read your posts... But this behavior of some men (perhaps is correct to say A Lot Of Them), is it a part of fetish or what? 

Hey Claudia, it does get better i promise! When i went indie at the end of last year i got tons of offers for overnight bookings none of which ever happened, i got guys wanting pics of my face and topless and to talk dirty for free, all sorts of TWs, just give it a month or two and they will move on to bugging the next poor newbie.

TW Tw*ts will always be around and in the first few weeks when I started  that is all I got too, things gradually changed.
I have some lovely regulars now and genuine calls, but go through phases of TW, sometimes by phone then by text and sometimes email.

They come and go, as does my tolerance with them.

Chin up and hang in there. 

I think this is one reason I ended up in jail LOL. People in this job (and city) get me so pissed off, and all the anger just sits in my system and anyone who messes with me is just teasing the pitbull LOL.

The thing that irritated me is the guy who offered $40 and said "you should be grateful Im giving you anything". As much as I try to ignore it, it still gets to me. I know Im worth alot more and can get it, but when things are slow...or even a slow day or a cancellation can really wear you down when someone says that.

Like the others have said, eventually it does stop. Not permanently, but it does. I've also gotten to the point where wankers are down. When you are new, they come in hoards. One of the disadvantages of touring also. But after awhile, I PROMISE you will laugh at their B.S.

Remember too, if you're ever bored...dont be afraid to turn the table on them! I have no qualms telling off people who I sense are messing me about. And guess what? If they are serious, they will understand your getting upset and book you forreal!

Or you become more adept at weeding them out.

This is very true!

With Adultwork I wont even entertain the idea now of seeing anyone who wont book me through the system. If they are genuine, why on earth would they have a problem with doing so?

I have to argue against that, I have been on AW for 2 years and haven?t had a single booking through AW, but had lots of lovely clients, who found my site through AW, but have all contacted me direct.

I used to get slightly upset about it as it means I don?t get feedback on AW, but hey-ho and to be honest I prefer to use them with as little cost to me as possible, because their customer care is shite.
 

Same goes with text pests and witheld numbers. I have a template that I send, if they ignore that then I return the favour!

I sometime do that with texts, I didn?t think you could send a text to a withheld number?

I have a one strike rule too. If somebody books and doesnt show I will never take a call from that person again.

I too have the one strike rule for no shows and a two strike rule for last minute cancellations - sh*t happens sometimes.