Posted By: Wineandbeer
[she] has recently decided to no longer be on TER in a reviewable way and I can't find her profile on TER anymore. When I look it up it says something like "this provider's profile is no longer available". Should I be very concerned? Or does this happen from time to time? And lastly, why would a Provider choose to do this, especially if they were so highly rated and reviewed?
The devil is in the details.
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There are different reasons for delisting. Some are voluntary and some are involuntary. You are right to be concerned. But, you'd have to know more to establish the appropriate level of concern.
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I'll start with a scary one, going back to my very beginnings on TER. I made an inquiry about a delisted Provider and my post was pulled by Admin. NOTE: You can't mention the name of a delisted Provider on the boards. Anyway, some helpful TER folks alerted me via PM that the Provider in question was a TS but refused to disclose so in her ads, Profile and so on. That is against TER policy. After repeated warnings, TER delisted said Provider INVOLUNTARILY. (Her Eros pics were STUNNING, but I dodged that bullet!)
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I think that there are other reasons for INVOLUNTARY delisting, but I don't know them.
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Some Providers are trying to evade stalkers or have other personal issues and prefer to delist from TER for a while so their business is less public or publicized. That is a VOLUNTARY delisting and some come back after a while and request that their Profile goes back up. (Some Providers have retired and delisted for years and then made a comeback and resurrected their Profiles.)
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Some Providers don't like the basic idea of reviews and, now that they are established, choose to delist from TER ("bite the hand that fed them") and go it alone.
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I will guess that if someone is INVOLUNTARILY delisted that she might protest and claim that she VOLUNTARILY delisted. "You can't fire me! I quit!" "You can't quit! You're already fired!"
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I suppose that you can ask TER ("contact us") how the Provider in Question came to be delisted: by choice or by force-de-TER. I don't know if they will tell you. You can backchannel on your local board and see if anybody knows what's up.
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If all of the other factors line up OK (given out recent P411 OKs to other clients, no name or phone change, same ads and website as before, etc.) that your concern should be on the low side. But I'd make inquiries anyway.
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Good luck!