Been wondering this for a while now and live some feedback  
Always intrigues me how when a girl gets a super bad review / like a 1 ( total rip off) there is always a review right after that gives her an 8 or higher / just wondering if they are fake reviews or a 1 time deal / because we all know YMM

YMMV.  Sometimes its a fake review and sometimes is a real review.  You should always check the reviewer who does the rehab review and see if he has other reviews and seems credible.  Many times, its the only review of a new reviewer which is probably just a shill.

can make things a bit clearer.  Kind of like figure skating or gymnastics, you know, where the judges throw out the high and low scores?

Regarding the discussion of reviews!

Robbin you are an exception to the rule. With your board presence and the amount of information available about you I doubt  client would have any second thoughts about seeing you or having a wonderful time.
  I agree that a couple bad scores may be just a case of YMMV. I look at the reviewers history to get a better idea and sometimes pm them.
  As with clients that don't write reviews, I have seen providers that have asked me not to write a review.

Someone I follow got a terrible review that was followed up by a 10 10. That reviewer only one review. She had pages and pages of reviews over years. Most were probably legit but the rehab reviews were usually from a novice reviewer. It just looks strange.

if you perform like you write, you're a 12. While I include reviews  
in my decision making process, l also factor in you're website in
the process. I'd give you an 11 for yours.  

At the risk of being captain obvious, this is not a beauty contest we're running here.  It's a business first and foremost to a provider, and a personal services business at that.  A bad review plants a seed.  A second bad review starts to water that seed.  If they keep 10+ clients away each year, that's a lot of money that goes to someone else.  Businesses protect their turf and I'm sure our wonderful ladies do too... buyer beware was not invented at TER but if the shoe fits...

The reviewer might be cranky and have unrealistic expectations, though this is far from the likeliest.
Most likely if you see a really rotten review among a group of good ones, the lady had a bad day or it was just a bad mix.  
I saw a lady a few years ago who is beautiful sexy lovely to be with, just great.  She was less active for a while and then, when getting back in the swing, she got a devastating review.  
She had had a really bad night, was feeling terrible, and admitted she should not have seen that person. She is a lady and even offered to refund his money, but the review was already out.  
As I knew she would, she started getting the reviews her usual performance deserved and her career has continued.  
None of us is a machine (though some of the ladies I have seen recently keep getting the great reviews they deserve and none of them seem to have had a really bad day.) and we all can have a bad day professionally or personally.

I feel it's time to stand up for hobbyists who write bad reviews.  

I find the amount of over-analysis of reviews on the boards simply amazing. You question the good review after the bad, yet ignore the bad before the good. Either is equally questionable, and the reasons for either are innumerable.  

The only real red flag a woman without a review since 2008 would raise for me is that unless she was 18 at the time, she would now almost undoubtedly be too old for me. As far as her performance, assuming she has a relatively open minded menu, I don't put a bunch of stock in the reviews in the first place and sort of agree with Robbin on this point, although I have no idea what Robbins' tangent had to do with the topic at hand.

Everything should be taken in context.  Ideally, anyone you're considering seeing will have at least something like 5 or 6 reviews, and a dozen or more would be even better.  With that number of reviews, you should be able to get a clear idea as to what the provider is really like.  If you get one review that's a 5/5 (or something like that) and the others are all 8/8 or better, then you can probably disregard the one bad review.  And, of course, the opposite is probably true too, if you have one good review amidst a bunch of bad reviews, you should probably disregard the one good review.  Just my two cents!

Made me wish I had paid more attention to the few bad reviews buried in with all the glorious ones and I understand a girl can have a bad day just wished she did not have it with me.

It seems like some of you will twist yourselves into pretzels trying to defend hookers from well deserved bad reviews while others will do the same trying to debunk positive reviews that just happen to come after a bad review.

And several hobbyists also replied, under the OP, with their opinions too.  My post is a combination of my feelings, after reading ALL the posts in this thread.

I often won't write a review because I like the provider and don't want her to become inundated with traffic and thus unavailable.

I usually read between the lines, so to speak.  We're all looking for different things, sometimes my preference (read, needs!) will be for a "wham, bam, thank you ma'am".  Some reviews will complain that the provider was all business, not GFE at all and in a rush to get him out the door.  Well, if I'm just looking for a little quick headache relief, I couldn't care less about those things and wouldn't worry about that sort of thing in a negative review.  That time anyway!

Very insightful reply.

Absolutely nothing, time for some free marketing.  Most of us hobbyists can tell the difference between relevant input and a chance for self promotion, no matter how misplaced.

OK GaG setting a terrible precedent here but totally agree.  Why do we have reviews anyway?  Reviews, after all are the entire premise of TER.

I always look at all the reviews, even the bad ones but after reading them check out the review history on the person placing the bad review.  

Posted By: hammerhead896

Made me wish I had paid more attention to the few bad reviews buried in with all the glorious ones and I understand a girl can have a bad day just wished she did not have it with me.  
   
  On the other hand I have seen girls who i thought were way better than their general reviews scores were so there you go

Although reviews are subjective, they still serve as the concomitant of road and track magazine to determine whom we will spend our hard earned currency with.  However, they tend to be vital to those whose livelihood in the business is centered around procuring and cultivating clients.  With this said I would wonder if the good women on the board would be interested in forming an oversight committee to check the voracity of content that is disseminated in reviews. This is critical because if a credible and influential review has disparaging remarks about a woman it could cause serious economic repercussions.  In a time when, income is flat for Americans in most walks of life every dollar is precious to the women that we admire and desire even if the motives are purely licentious.  Thus I would like to propose a body that would compose a cross section of men and women who are active participants in the hobby to check the accuracy and fairness of the reviews and perhaps when necessary have and retain the power to eradicate the situation depending on the consistency of services and the deportment of the provider in question.

Reviews are a major part of it.  Wide swings...  especially more than one per page of reviews...  makes me have second thoughts.  And it's not just in the numbers but the text as well.  Wide swings to me means she doesn't click with some (and with my luck wouldn't with me).  

A provider with all 10/10 reviews actually raises a red flag for me.  Nobody is perfect all the time or can be 10/10 for every single person.  All 10/10 reviews imply to me the reviewers are not being honest or are shills.  I'd rather see a provider who has a variety of scores & even a bad review here and there or lower score doesn't bother me and hasn't been a problem with providers I've seen.

You are out of your mind.

And somehow I bet you don't either. lol

That you were once allegedly a "Bond Girl." You're slipping.

...someone to type a post with one hand on a thesaurus and the other on his joystick.  That might account for "voracity" instead of "veracity" and "perjorative" instead of "pejorative."

I can definitely relate to a lot of your post. A lot of my regular clients are strictly "NO reviews". I would assume it's for privacy reasons and I respect that.