I have decided that the best way to curtail last minute cancellations from clients who have pre-booked is to go ahead and charge clients more for booking me at the last minute when I'm touring from home. But on the flipside, giving lower rates (but not cheap) to those who book in advance AND pay a deposit of say, 25%.

I had a client do a very silly thing today. My flight landed in his city, but I had a choice of either renting a vehicle to my final destination or staying here for 1 day to make extra money. I notified him of this 3 days prior. We met once before in my home city. I even check to confirm with him this morning and told him if he doesn't feel he can make it, please let me know else I can continue on to my destination rather than get a room. He says yes, let's meet at 8 pm. I actually had him and 1 other client who inquired, so felt I had some fallback. This guy texts me the minute after I send him my hotel info and gives some bozo excuse about his mother calling saying his grandmother is being rushed to the hospital. Mind you, this is some 9 hours PRIOR to our appointment. As if he's so concerned about his ailing grandmother's current condition that he has to cancel the appointment. The madam is probably already deceased for all I know. Lying sack of shit...

So just wondering ladies, for the rest of my career I feel I need to charge all out of town clients exorbitant amount higher for last minute appointments to FORCE them to book ahead and pay a deposit. Because I cannot afford to be flaked on when I'm spending my money to go on these trips. It happens on every single trip and I'm just so tired of it. I can't take it anymore, we have to start getting clients to start pre-paying for cheaper rates just like the rental car companies are doing.

An example is, if I normally charge $200/hr for a pre-booked appt, I'll also ask for 25% deposit which is $50 included. But a Last minute appointment will be $250/hr. How does that sound? I'm actually mentioned this today to 2 clients already and will not be continuing on to my next destination without putting this plan into play. This year alone, I've requested and received more deposits than previous years. But now I feel I have to ask for them regardless and everytime or have them risk paying $50-100 more for the appointment. Or perhaps I could just not see ANY clients out of town unless they pay a deposit. The ones who pay will see me, the ones who don't probably won't see me anyway.

Yep, particularly on the gay scene, where 'want sex now!!!' is the driving force behind the majority of appointments.

how do clients actualy pay a deposit if they havnt even arrived ? I cant see how it works, am in the uk, i only see clients who turn up, ive no way of charging someone a deposit ahead of their booking.

A variety of means exist: putting money onto a payment card, Amazon vouchers, topping up a mobile phone balance etc.

Just don't do it via PayPal or similar - if they discover the money is related to prostitution, you'll lose it (and possibly a chunk of any balance when they close your account).

Yes, and I use paypal and and the payment card...I'm not concerned with paypal TOO much, because I usually immediately withdraw that money out and have it sent to my bank. I do not leave any money lying around in paypal.

So far, the deposit thing was welcomed with open arms by a client who has been trying to meet me off a message board. I was sent it the day prior to visiting him in Las Vegas. I also discussed a little about it as well. Now, whether this will be something permanent or not...may be some tweaks in it here or there. 

Thinking back though to the last trip and what separated the showers from the no-goers is most of the no-goers would generally request an incall and/or sound FAR too accomodating to my schedule or over-enthused about booking. Also, the number one thing they failed to do was talk about MONEY e.g. my rate for incall versus outcall. I don't have my rates advertised, and it actually helps give me a clue about some guys because they can even name a specific time and talk all good game but if they haven't talked about money, they not about it.

Quote from: Daisy Harford on 14 November 2012, 12:21:06 pm

I ask for small deposits for incalls and outcall bookings as a way to reduce timewasters and/or to cover my costs should the client fail to show up/cancel an outcall after I have bought travel tickets. I know it really isn't popular and will put a few genuine clients off but it saves me so much stress and I get the amount of work I want (I'm very part time that's why) even with a bit of an unpopular system.

That's the key. Reducing stress. It's a very unique kind of anguish to feel when one has traveled across time to see a client, and the client knows the escort traveled a long ways and knows the escort was expecting payment and knows the escort already got the hotel...and at the last minute he either has some wild excuse (my great grandma Bertha just died 3 seconds ago, I'm too devastasted to get my dick hard) or doesn't show.

These deposits will show who's real and who isn't. And by placing it on my ad, I'm hoping it auto-weeds the ones who aren't...and I don't have to worry about telling people this because it's already on my ad. On both instances, I had a nagging feeling to ask for a deposit, but felt reluctant to ask thinking it'd upset them. In the end, it was me whom was upsetted.

I dont blame you, if your getting a lot of wasters whom are costing you time and money, the best way is to make them pay some kind of deposit which will come off his full fee. I'd do it but dont get this extent of wasters as of yet. I must ask, as my dad lives in the US owns several properties and wants me to move over there, I'm not sure yet (and would be a while off and ?1000s off too if it happened as my 4 animals would be coming with me) but I'm wondering how safe it is to escort etc and how it differs to the way the uk works?

apologies if theres a thread about this just wanted to ask a girl who works there xx

Ive seen some programmes on prostitution in Thailand and some of the girls are lucky to get $30 an hour     Some struggle to get one a night 

I bet they would love to get $100 an hour too.