So I have a Newbie question for you all. I have an appointment with a Provider who was highly rated and reviewed on TER, and is on P411 but 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?
Thanks to you all in advance!
This has been happening for a while now as some ladies just don't want to be reviewed on TER anymore. Some do not like the new rules for review scoring.
Steph XO
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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!
Okay, good answer, now I have a question. How exactly would you know if she's given out OK's recently? I've actually written in to p411 and asked them if that information was available to us and they said no way. Which is what I expected.
I really don't see me needing that information, but you mentioning it so casually makes me feel like I'm missing something.
Impposter got that part of his post wrong. The other info is good.
Impposter got that part of his post wrong. The other info is good.
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Oh ... and some Providers voluntarily delist because they permanently retire. They, obviously, would not be available to the OP or anyone else. Some Providers voluntarily delist because they want to go completely UTR (under the radar). They, also, would not be available to the OP via ads and P411, just their regulars and word-of-mouth intros.
may be that our legal counsel (re: attorney) made it clear that based off of precedent, TER reviews can and have been used in a court of law. I adore being a provider but I also would adore to keep climbing the career ladder that I went & am going to school for.
At some point, even I will have to bid adieu to TER.
LJ, xx
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I have to say I would be skeptical of a TER review being admitted as evidence. They are anonymous and many are fake or exaggerations. They'd have the evidentiary weight of gossip.
You also have to separate out what the police will report to the press (which includes their opinions and speculations) in regards to a bust compared to what they can introduce as evidence at trial. Most people would be surprised to learn that police reports are generally not accepted as evidence in a trial. Instead the police will only be allowed to testify to things they have personally witnessed, etc.
Nonetheless, I would be curious to hear of any actual case where a TER review was submitted as evidence in a trial (and not just in a police report.)
in a country where sex work is legal. Therefore they can not be subpoenaed as evidence, and for a DA to introduce TER reviews or whatever as evidence, a person from TER would have to testify as to the legitimacy of the site, and that is just not going to happen.
(still not a lawyer)
I did this very thing myself for about a year. Can't get into my own personal reasons but it's just another form of finding a companion. Some may say a little less mainstream because you have to pay to be a member there. But TER is certainly not the end all of this world, it's just one avenue.