Hi!
Sorry for the long post ahead!
First of all I want to express my utmost gratitude for every woman who took the time to post advice on this forum, it has been an enormous help for me over the past week. I am a beginning escort, I don't actually plan to do escorting too long for a number of personal reasons, but that's neither here nor there, right now I really need the money and am escorting.
It is mostly thanks to you that I have had a good start on my job. I'm not British and there is a similar forum in my country, but its full of punters and pimps and nowhere as helpful as this one.
I have also found confirmation for things I have instinctively decided I'd like better on here: I am independent and I didn't want to go with an agency because I was very skeptical as to what sort of men the agency would send me, at what times(I'm not that flexible) and whether they would give a damn if a well paying psycho murderer would take me out to dinner.
I have also decided against parlors, having met with the owner of pretty much the best (directly in the city centre and the most expensive according to a punting forum) parlor in my city and she said commission is 50% and from what she described it would be a conveyor band type of work with 4-6 clients a day at least.
I decided that I would rather manage my schedule myself and also would not take more than 1 client per day and your forum was immensely helpful with advice on safety and dealing with clients. I've been lurking here for 2 weeks now.
I must have hit beginner's luck with my first client because he was absolutely great, met at a hotel, early forties, not ugly or fat or smelly, took a long shower, little shy, not pushy, tipped me 50% of my rate (I don't charge too much, in fact I decided to charge exactly the average rate for my city) and left a comment on my profile saying it was one of the best paid sex experiences of his life (i told him i was a beginner but didn't say he was my first).
So good so far. Yesterday made an appointment for the evening, guy didn't turn up and left me a message saying he was disappointed I decided to bail?? But I am pretty sure there was no way in hell he could have missed me in the place where we arranged to meet, also texted him while waiting but now think might had the wrong number hmm..
anyhow, I am currently battling with requests filtering, I have educated myself on your website about the timewasters and good thing I did, because quite a few met the description 100%. But seriously, this is really frustrating and tiring, I feel like this is the actual job rather than meeting for sex.
Just now got off the phone with potential client and am annoyed as hell. It went like this, guy emailed me yesterday saying he wanted to meet before leaving for home (he leaves in a city 2 hrs away from mine), didn't catch him in time, he left ( I now think it might have been luck again), called an hour ago, wants me to do an outcall to his city (which is a pretty swell place so I was stupid enough to get interested), will pay for train ticket+will pay 30% more than my local outcall. Wants to do 2 hrs. Ok, we talk. We videochat (which I now think was a mistake), guy seems normal, in his 30s, not creepy or too ugly, asks me about my schedule and so on, asks me where I'm from as I have a dialect. Ok.
then it goes like this
-what are the exact services you provide?
-erm, it pretty much sums it up on my ad
-would you do kissing
-yeah, kissing's fine
-do you kiss well?
i hang up and write to him in chat - sry, no webcam action.
he's all like, oh ok, wanted to break the ice yadda yadda, sry, sry
me - ok, well, i don't want to fall prey to timewasters
he - oh no, i would do anything it takes to meet someone as pretty as you

me ok
him - ok, lets clarify the details.
we do this and then he goes off again, can i see you for 1 more min, just the front of your body

me- no, what would you want to see? there are pics of my body in my ad
him- ok. do you wear x/y/z
me- yeah/no, i'm not a professional sexworker, just a student part timing
he-of course, i would never actually book a professional prostitute

he is taking really long at this point, chewing over my every word
me - you don't really book girls that often do you?
him - no, i don't need to do that

turn on video and i can show you my awesome self and my great appartment yadda yadda
me- it's ok, all men do that
him- no i just got divorced never cheated on my wife, would never book anyone unless she were much younger and very beautiful
me aha ok *whatever*
him- please can i see the front of your body again?
me- r u serious? no! you know what, i think i am not the girl for you. you would be better off with a local girl who you'd bee able to meet upfront without any prepayments and complications
he, babbling on about how awesome he actually is and how he just needs a princess in his life whom he could lavish all his life and generosity upon
me- well, i'm not the girl for you, sorry and good luck!
he- no, i don't want you as my girlfriend only for sex
me-great, but sorry cannot come
he- what?? you cannot come? i thought we arranged it for good?
me-sorry, i understand that you don't want any bad surprises, but you also have to understand that i have plenty of offers in my area that are nowhere as complicated
him- well, ok, next time i'm in your town, i'd like to see you for 1 hour please!
me- ok, great, let me know when you happen to pass by (hopefully never)
him- coming back from the states on the 10th and will be there
me (at this point just trying to get rid of him)- yeah great shoot me an email.
So, I understand that i handled this whole thing kinda badly, but at the end i just wanted to get him off my back! should I have been more firm and just told him to get lost? Should I just blacklist him?
What do you think, is he a classical camera sex timewaster or a creeper or just a really picky guy? In any case my gut feeling screams that I never want to cross paths with him again! Am I right about it or just paranoid?
Please help, if you made it so far!
thank you all so much again