Hello Everyone,
I am writing today because a few days ago I scheduled a meeting with a Provider and she agreed to a session on November 2. Unfortunately when November 2 came, she failed to show up at the Outcall location. I waited for her for thirty minutes before I decided to leave.
While I understand in life things happen or Providers may opt to not see certain clients for whatever reason(s), if that were the case, all the Provider had to do was either E-mail or text me and call off the appointment; I would have been okay with her decision. However, that's not what she did. She chose to ghost me despite me trying to contact her multiple times before the time of our appointment. As a result, she wasted my time unnecessarily by having me drive one hour to the Outcall location without so much as the common decency to inform me she wasn't going to be there.
Secondly, I am a Trader by profession and on average I make about $1,500-$3,300 per day in the Market. In order to meet with the Provider, I had to modify my schedule for the day just so she and I could meet. Had she canceled the appointment accordingly, I could have continued my daily trading activities in the Market. But because I had to go and meet with her, and without knowing she wouldn't be there, on that day she cost me $1,500 to $3,300 in revenue and opportunity cost in the Market.
Within this industry when a Client fails to cancel in a timely manner or fails to show up for an appointment, a Provider would either impose a penalty fee in the form of donation forfeiture or simply blacklist the patron in question. I like to pose the question if the reverse were true: what course of action(s) should be imposed on a Provider if she were to not show up for an appointment with a patron?
I wish for everyone who is reading this post to understand that while a Provider's time is valuable, a patron's time is equally as valuable and should be respected as such.