100% agree. By the time I call a provider, I am pretty set on seeing that particular person. Whatever the reason is at the time, there is a reason that I am calling them and not one of the other girls that I am wanting to see.
Regardless, of whether there are others you want to see some day, the person you call is the person that you are most likely going to have the best time with. Just an opinion.

Yes I am. If I like a providers pictures and if she got back to me to explain the situation. I would wait cus I already made the conscious effort that she is or was my first choice per say.

I'm not very good at waiting, I'm one of those "grant me patience & I want it now" people.

My schedule is such that I don't often get much notice when I'll have an opportunity to play. If I know a provider's schedule then I will not try to contact her during off hours as I would consider that rude. I have no objection to dealing with a limited schedule.

When I initiate contact and don't get any response at all I tend to move on. If I get a phone call, email, or even a text letting me know she is interested in a future meeting then I will try again. Otherwise I generally assume she's adverse to meeting me personally, retired, or a flake, and that my time is better spent in other pursuits. I understand that there may be other reasons for a non-response, but with no information coming my way I have no way to know. A message even days later will provide usefull information and keep the lines of communication open and will insure that I will continue in my attempts at scheduling a get together.

There are a few ladies that I am still trying to meet with where I have had some contact but not a consistent response to my inquiries. This makes me hesitant to try and contact them again. Where is the line between persistence and harrasment?

state your hours, days and when to expect a reply if it can't be with in a few hours.

If you are not calling people back, then you are in fact ignoring your prospective clients, and you will get labeled as someone who doesn't return calls, because it is a factual statement.

My time is valuable too, and it is a waste of my time if I have to call or email the same provider multiple times in order to get some kind of reply.  Aside from that, it leaves me with a bad first impression.  Accordingly, I leave one message or email, if I get no reply, I don't contact the provider a second time.  It is just faster and easier to contact someone else at that point.  

If you are busy, all you have to do is text/email a reply at a later time to say you got the message, and you will get back to me later, or something like that.  Or call/email back the next day.  If you don't even do that, then I will never be your client, and my money is just going to be spent with your competitors instead.

LMFAO!!! Yeah right sadly 6 out of 10 completely ignore that information

mr p..i completely agree...i am constantly amazed at the amount of money that these providers spend and yet cant do something as simple as return a call!! tell me youre busy, your not interested, i creeped you out, whatever...

simple customer service

Whoa back that pony up boys, unless you've spent a day or week in the life of a provider don't assume it's an easy business to keep up with.
I don't advertise, I'm like a ghost and only email correspondance and I still spend a good three hours a day answering emails, so now calculate in girls who do advertise have websites, emails, phone numbers ,constant reviews etc. Plus the time it takes to see a client, drive time session time, time time time!!

Also remember we have lives outside this business we have to keep up with, it's never ending 24/7 Shocking news flash we don't sit around pining and waiting on your call with our panties around our ankles like some of you think

I agree with Baily. My biggest frustation in this business is last minute requests. It seems to be getting worse.  Almost all my calls are people wanting right that second. Seriously you cant go to the DR last second. We are not emergycare!  First off if it is as new client, for sure they need time to get verified...which sometimes can take days. Number 2 if it is regular client, while that process is out of the way, I have to first accomodate what is already "scheuduled" and then if not scheduled, be able to stop what I am doing and get ready and get to my incall. This process at best is an hour, and at worst not even doable. My illusion is that these men think we are laying around in a stirrups dr chair with lingerie on waiting for someone to show up and do thier business! My other difficutly is the all night phone calls and/or texts and endless other texts with stupid questions. These are all extreme time wasters for us to respond to. This just slows us down. Me, personally will not do calls in the middle of the night and book all evening stuff during a respectable hour, set up and go the apt in the evening. The last thing that is tough is the guys who an hour before a scheduled apt start calling or texting to make it sooner. This just slows down my process. For me any call or text of this nature makes me like 10 min. later than I was going to be. So for me my comment is if you want to see a quality provider, book ahead , be organized and have verifying info ready, dont sent meaningless texts ects and stick with the time that you reserved. Thank you!~

panties are a little knotted up. LOL

Us men want that sex, when we want it, NOW, That dont work in the escort world.
 If you as a gentleman can't figure that out, go down to Van Buren st and have it when you want it, much like McDonalds, in your car.
Some ladies have jobs, kids, husbands or in other words a life. Get use to it, we're not kids anymore, grow up or go home.
                                                          Me

actually a knot in the panty at the right spot is a good thing

If the lady post and states that she has availability only during X times, then that is when you should expect to get an appt with her. If she says she only answers the phone during X hours, again, only call during that time. On the other hand, if I do call, leave a message, and don't hear back, then she is too busy to make my appt and accept my donation. Its a two way street, but really not leaving a message is rude, and not returning it is also rude.

I don't assume it's any easy business, I have a fair idea of how much work it can be. I'm giving my perspective as Lacey requested. There may be lots of valid reasons why my call/text/email is not returned, but if I don't hear back then I have no way of knowing that is the case. I know that statistically many of these communications are a waste of your time and it is a valid business model to ignore some or all of them and rely on the communications that do get through, especially if you have a comfortable amount of business and/or prefer to weed out the less aggressive.

Don't assume all clients have 40 hour set schedules. I don't like making last minute calls any better than you like getting them, but sometimes I don't even know what city I'll be in next week. I try to give at least 4-6 hours notice but especially when I'm swamped and most in need of a pleasant restorative that window may be smaller. I make the effort to get per-approved and  to communicate my time constraints. I don't ever expect my favorites to be waiting around for me particularly since I've likely written a review telling others to get in line, too. If anything I am surprised and grateful when a quality companion can see me on short notice. I would like to be able to confidently schedule a week in advance, but the majority of times I've tried it have been disappointing. I would rather wait until I know I have the time available than to book and have to cancel, or be cancelled on. I am all too aware that this is preventing me from seeing some magnificent ladies. In the mean time I will continue trying to meet with the ones that respond positively to my inquiries and sigh when I read the ads & posts of those who don't.

uhm if I have to grow up does this mean I can't wear my superhero underwear anymore?

You sure you want a knot there or a good! ? Oh forget I'm going home.

Only if You be Wonder woman and I'll be Batman

Your point is well taken about not being able to drop everything that minute to take care of a client.  That is the case with anybody who is in sales, it is certainly the case in my career as well, and I am also on call 24 hours.  But my point was not that, I was saying that providers (or any kind of sales person) who don't bother to return calls at all should not expect that prospective customer to contact them repeatedly to try to book anything.

This is bad customer service, and if the client is ignored, the client will just go elsewhere with their money.  It doesn't matter what industry you are in.  Anyone who has a boss, who blatantly turns away prospective clients like that would probably get fired from their job.  Unless of course you work at the DMV or the Post Office, in which case bad customer service is always rewarded with a promotion.

All you really have to do is hit reply with a 1 sentence acknowledgement that you are booked up today but will be free again on Thursday or something like that.   You don't even have to answer on the same day if you are really busy.  I have had providers answer my email 4 days later, apologizing for taking so long to get back to me, which is fine, then I booked with them after that.  But I don't contact providers a second time if I haven't heard back from them.  In fact, I don't buy anything from anybody who does this.

Yes.  If she's someone I really want to see, I will work the schedule to get scheduled.
This is real reallity.  People, both we hobbiests and our lovely lady providers, have real lives.  

Bailey..... You wear panties?????? I thought you were a "commando" provider!!!! gotcha I think. I know for my every 1 you have 100 one liners!!!!

this innocent discussion has ignited the provider vs hobbyist again. No matter what you say or do, everyone has their own opinion on how long, is long enough time for a return notification. Simple, everyone stop calling, texting or emailing. problem solved!!!!
     Here is some advice from Zona.  When your looking through the "want ads", if you see some item that looks good, do alittle research and find out its reliability service record. Once your convinced that you want to see that item in person, well give a call or email or text. If your really smitten with that particular item, you will probably wait for a few days for a return acknowledgement. That is perfectly fine.
     Now for the impulse shopper like most of us are, we will probably start searching for substitute, alternate or secondary items to meet. Give them a call text or email too. It doesnt hurt to inspect a new item or two in this modern age. The problem with the impulse shopper though is they disregard the sometimes tedious regimen of looking at the service reliability record and then get the impulse shopper blues.
    Everyone can not, nor will not ever see eye to eye on this discussion. I once said at my job to a coworker " for a work group of 20 people, I could pay for everyone to go on a weeks vacation in Las Vegas, pay for everone's hotel room at the Bellagio and give a 1k bonus per day to gamble away to every worker and people would still find something to bitch about".  It's human nature to argue, give your opinion and impose your will on someone else!

I don't know why a few of you think it's becoming a grudge match, no one is calling each other names we're all stating our opinions in an adult manner it's a discussion board I'm pretty sure it's allowed........sheesh a few of you are paranoid, do you hear voices lol

Besides somehow our pea little brains got diverted to knots and superhero underwear and commando. To answer the questions, knots are fabulous for long as boring car rides for a hidden pleasure, I have an assortment of different superhero underwear all DC of course and I don't go commando I think it's hotter to push aside the panties or thong to get to the center of the lollipop

Here I was enjoying the conversational aspect of each side sharing their differing points of view on a frustrating subject.

If they want to see you, they will have to respect your schedule and communication preferences. The important thing is to make sure that it is clear.

I only set appointments via text or email (email for prebooking and text for same day appointments). I solved this same problem by creating a voicemail greeting that says exactly that. If they listened to the voicemail greeting and they leave a message anyway (which still seems to happen), they shouldn't expect a return phone call. I don't call back if they do leave a message. I think it's rude that they ignored my communication guidelines which are pretty clear. If it is just a missed call, I often text the number and ask them to text or email.

But it is important to give some kind of response as soon as possible, whether they email or text even if you don't have time for a full response. Nobody likes to feel ignored. I will send a short response from my cell for an email or text I see when I'm out and about and wait until I get home to check their references or give a more detailed response. Even just saying, "I'll email you more in a few hours when I'm home" is better than just not responding at all.

No matter how you post your hours, you will still get them asking if you're available at all hours of the day. Just let them know when you are available. They will wait if you show them respect and they know you are worth the wait.

If you are worried about having texts on your cell phone, use a Google Voice number. That's what I use, so my "texts" are really like emails anyway sent from my laptop or actually through my email. No client numbers ever show up on my cell phone that way.

Hope that helps!

Angelique