Not being difficult, or trying to confuse, but just a small disclaimer to throw in there. I have been fortunate enough to find that the cases where...
- anyone who says they are looking for a new regular
- anyone who says they want an overnight or 4+ hour appointment for a first booking
- be careful of guys who say they want social bookings to 'get to know you' etc. beforehand
have actually been real life genuine clients.
However, I still handle each and everyone of the above with a huge handful of salt. Until phone calls have been made, safety and security checks have been carried out, and I actually have the correct amount of money stashed away in my bag, I treat them like they are going to be a timewaster.
Like others have said, spotting timewasters is something you pick up over time. There are some obvious things that will set the alarm bells off, but you'll come up gradually with your own things that set your spidey-senses tingling. For me, I just make as many hoops as I can possibly think of for guys to jump through, if they don't jump high enough they don't get to see me. Simples. I actually had one guy though say to me "considering what you do, you're making it very hard for me to see you". Funnily enough he didn't make it through the 'polite & respectful hoop'.
The genuine clients will jump through the hoops. The timewasters will drop out pretty quickly, the fantasists will disappear once the specially reserved 'pay me a deposit hoop' gets brought out and the not-so-nice people will cause a fuss about the hoops and you don't really want to see them anyways so it's a good thing too!
(sorry for getting carried away about hoops
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