That is definitely weird!

I just logged on now to start a thread on the same topic! But you beat me to it 

I'm really tired of people asking for my address, not just today but constantly being asked 'Whereabouts are you' and 'What's your address'. My location information is at the top of all my adverts, seriously you can't miss it, and I give a specific and very well-known landmark, yet still 'Whereabouts are you based...'

And the address, I'm sure noticing more callers straight away asking for my full address, or full postcode. I don't want to give my address to people making a general enquiry, I give them my street name and postcode when they make an appointment.

I don't understand it, it doesn't seem to be newbies who aren't sure how the procedure works. All I can suggest is the usual not bothering to read profiles..? If you have similar types of callers may be people handing the phone number out to friends? Or like Strawberry suggested ads we don't know about.

I was going to post about this because I just had these texts:

Him: Hi babe are you free
Me: Available from... until...
Him: What's your address sweet
Me: Do you want appointment?
Him: If I can see how far away you are
Me: Near (specific landmark)
Him: What's your full address as I am about 5 miles out of (town) on business
Me: I don't give out my address
Him: Ok I will find someone that does so I can get there lol
Me:Ok. Well there would be no point in you getting here without having an appointment time, and if (landmark) isn't specific enough for you to judge how far away I am so you can decide if you want one, or you haven't noticed my location details prominently listed on my advert, which you apparently haven't taken any time to read, I agree you should look elsewhere.

I usually hold my tongue and don't send negative responses, (no point stoking the fire?) but this issue is really winding me up so hence last reply.

(I was so tempted to put... 'and maybe she will give you GPS co-ordinates')

Yes - they like to check the neighbourhood first. I've definitely heard that.

I go ahead and give the postcode, encouraging them to Google it.

I think some guys don't think about all the potential weirdo's we have to put up with in this business and that we have to be careful, and don't think through why we never give our full address out straight away.  Sometimes I have days when I have lots of odd enquiries like this then it all goes quiet and back to normal. When I explain why I don't give the full address out, the vast majority of people are fine with it.

A lot of guys don't realise how long it will take to get to the area I am in, so I usually ask them where they are travelling from. If they want something for their sat nav, then I tell them to head for a certain area which is within a few minutes. I've had guys try and work out their own routes, or work out where I am. Sometimes they are correct, many times very much incorrect or spent ages trying to work out some clever way of approaching it, parking miles away, around the town making themselves late. So I just give good route advice and ask them to follow my directions. This is all made clear upfront so there are no surprises and when followed my directions and procedure is bob on, it's only been times when someone has interpreted, second guessed or tried to do their own thing that they've gotten lost so I am precise and also strict on not giving out anything more than necessary.

I don't like the cold callers just phoning up asking where I am specifically either. I mean I am city centre and no matter where they are in the city centre, I cant be any more than a 5 minute car/taxi journey and there are taxi's everywhere. I always give a landmark on the phone which is seconds from my flat and they don't seem satisfied with that either then they take the huff with you when you wont give them your actual address.

I always remind them that they don't need my address when they don't have an appointment with me. Address is sent when they have actually booked and confirmed their appointment with me.

Is that too much to ask? To be honest, I think its just complete lack of thought with some of these guys. Lack of thought can be very annoying though, I tend not to meet those guys.

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I've said it many time Internet advertising has become sadly just like the newspapers

When I had my first website back in 2005 callers were polite , well mannered and had 99 percent of the time taken time to read my details / website ect   They knew what you did what you looked like

At that time I still used to advertise in the papers so the difference in clients on the phone and how they spoke what questions that they asked was very very noticeable



However in the past 3 years it seem that as more and more girl no longer advertise in the papers and on  websites those paper clients have  moved over to websites to find escorts

Now when I do viva st or trade it i have them both on different numbers to my main website number because you do get very different client sometimes from them.

My website if I get 10 calls then  8 out 10 of them turn up ( not saying that I do 10 a day )

Viva st / trade It advertising 50calls might get me 3 bookings a day etc
 

When guys call I give them all the details and the postcode for the lit up like a Xmas tree at any time of the year car park Cabot circus I'm literally 30 seconds walk from there
I send them a text with postcode of car park and st name and in the text I tell them to get to the round floor by the vending machine and lifts so that I can direct them to me easily

98 percent of them are fine with this