I finally met Mr McCoy a short while ago. He actually added my details and a short write up about me some years ago, and this does include a 5 star rating even though he's never met me in person. He did want me to put a link on my reviews page to his description of me, but I said since it wasn't an actual review this wouldn't be accurate or fair. At the time (this was before meeting him in person) I asked him why he'd given me 5 stars, when he's never actually been a client or used my services. He explained it was an amalgamation of all the reviews and reports he had read on the internet.

When I did meet him I made sure was somewhere neutral ie not at my place, and also at a time convenient for me during which I wasn't missing out on actual bookings and he was absolutely fine. We chatted over coffee and a soft drink, and got on very well. Prior to this I'd been a bit wary of him, and on my guard as he always came across as a little arrogant on the phone or by email. He seems to be taking up his own little crusade re improving the laws on sex work in this country, and does appear passionate about it however of course he does have his own vested interests with his paid for guide.

He did admit if freebies are offered, well who is he to refuse - which made me chuckle a little.

But who's McCoy anyway, and why give him perks over, say, any other directory webmaster? What's the point in meeting with him? What is there to say? I don't get requested to meet up for coffee of whatever by the Punternet or Adultwork webmaster, and it would be a tad ridiculous if they did, not to mention the hundreds of webmasters of the new wannabe directories springing up all the time.. Why should we be making exceptions for McCoy? In what way is he not a timewaster?

This man is the most awful man ever !!! He did a review of me in his published book which insinuated I gave my services to him for free!!!! I had met with him at the request of my boss at an agency I was working for , I would like to add I did not give him any services paid for or for free but he still published them in a book that is available nation and world wide !!! I sent him several emails and tried calling but never a reply !! And as it is already in print there is not much else I could do I no longer work for the agency the review is against and I also reinvented myself due to clients asking for free service they said well you gave him free ........ So why can't I !!!! Awful man !!!

No-one has to meet him, and I didn't for several years during which time he contacted me whenever he passed my area. I just did it out of curiosity, and because I had some free time.

I certainly don't suggest everyone else should do so. Yes I have met with others in the business, some who are directory or website/forum owners, others who are service providers themselves. Sometimes it's useful to put a name to a face, sometimes it's built up a better understanding of that person and how they do things. It's not however something I do all the time.
That is all.

Very, very wrong.

It's all very exploitative.

The thing is loads of people do the same.  The amount of directories I find myself on, sometimes with the right details and sometimes not is unbelievable.  I like to know exactly where my pictures are so if I decide to quit I can remove them but every month I search myself and find loads of sites I know I have not put myself on.
It is one of the problems with having a profile on the internet.  Unscrupulous people will always try to either make money from you or pad out their awful sites with your profile

Yup I recently found a new 'profile' of me on a site I'd never been near, using a phone number I hadn't used in 5 months! They did take it down when I complained however.

However McCoy is doing rather more than simply sticking up a profile and photos as some of the above posts indicate.