For me, several reasons:
A) Laziness
B) The TER scoring scale would not enable an adequate reflection of the quality of the session (mainly because of the appearance score)
C) I saw the provider 2-3 times in rapid succession and figure I'll review after the next session, but then get caught up in other things and never have a next session with her

Because

1)  then I would be givingreviews instead of gettingreviews.

2)  it would be awful if I wrote "and she had three big orgasms in the first 11 minutes and 36 seconds" and it turned out one of the people I was writing about was macdaddy!  Well, then I would know for sure she had been faking it and I'm not sure I could handle that.

3)   you can use an alias to write a review?

4)  Does anyone really remember ALL that detail that shows up in reviews?  Are they taking notes during the action?  Mish, then CG, then RCG.  Oh wait, no it was doggy, then CG, then, no, wait, let me check my notes to get the order straight.


5)  It still seems, well, i dunno, crass to write about it.

6)   yeah, maybe if I liked 85-90% of it do I put in the other aspects or condition it like "I can see that some might not like "x""?  

7)  I have only seen providers with lots of reviews, does one more add anything

8)  I still haven't written one for the first lady I saw and it was a wonderful experience so I've told myself I won't write one until I write that one, and well, I just have not gotten around to that one.

Several reasons:

I do write reviews when I have enjoyed the experience, but do not when the review might come off as a whine or a YMMV situation. Have been some times we haven't clicked at all (i.e. didn't even get aroused) but not her fault, so why be snippy.  Especially when one of the hardest things about getting the review done is getting the website address correct!

Horrendously time consuming to write reviews and then there is less than 50% chance of the review getting published.

Not a good value for the time spent.

There are a few reasons for me not reviewing someone. It is also important to note that I DO review. I always review directly after seeing someone that I had a marvelous time with.I feel it a good idea to allow my emotions(in this instance)to guide my review.

Other times I don't review;

There are certain meetings that were so bad that I don't feel compelled to say anything.The old 'if you can't say anything nice' addage.I feel there will be others to take care of this for me.I'm too incensed to even think about it.

I also don't review right away if the meeting was nothing special.I will typically wait a week+ to allow my disappointment to subside. With that out of the way I feel that I can accentuate the possitive while also being able to spell out the negative without kicking someone's ass three ways from sunday.

I wont review if my visit was close enough to my last(same ladie obviously)one. I may wait a short period to see if any forthcomming reviews continue to show the ladie in a 'possitive light'.If not, I would share my experience immediately.

Most importantly, I have always seen reviewing to be a double edged sword. If I give the fellows what they require(maybe not all),to help them make their decisions in choosing someone, I need to speak in terms that excite the male libido. I don't really like to speak in such terms.While the 'terms' will create(I don't know,do they?)more business for the ladies,I feel I'm disrespecting the ladies referring to them in such a manner. Am I over-engineering?

I have not written a review in about six months even though I have remained fairly active.  

The last three or four reviews I did write were all on girls very new to the business or on a girl who had been UTR for about a year and had just returned to the business.

Since March, all the ladies I have seen have multiple pages of reviews.  My experiences with them pretty much was what I had anticipated by reading her other reviews so I didn't feel my writing a review would add anything.

All of the guys here who have responded that they only write positive reviews are screwing the rest

of us.  It is also hypocritical.  You have used the reviews to make your selections, and I'll bet dollars to donuts that you bypassed providers with poor reviews.  Yet you don't want to return the favor.  Obviously it's your choice, but thanks for nothing.  The reviews are NOT intended to be marketing tools for the ladies - that's just a fortunate benefit for the ones who actually deliver as promised.

IMHO, the negative reviews are more important than the positive ones for reasons too obvious to list.  My reviews (and those of a lot of others) are generally positive because of the prior research, not because I don't submit bad reviews.  This is the Consumer Reports of the Hobby, so if the research is done correctly, the session should be good.  If the session isn't, the rest of us should know about it.

As for the difficulty - if it was easy, the reviews would be devalued.  It should be hard.  It is one of the building blocks of review integrity.  

Besides, How hard is it?  So you put about half an hour into writing the review and then wait for the posting.  If you have to fix it, then you fix it.  If it doesn't go up, what have you lost that is more valuable than trying to help out your brothers?  A little time is not hard to give.

I don't review every restaurant or hotel I visit though I reply upon consumer reviews nearly daily.

The process of writing them is time consuming on virtually every notable website so I pick and choose; I write reviews based upon establishments that I find to be exceptionally good or exceptionally bad.

I suspect that for most clients (80-90% of people who participate in this business) reviews are the same: time consuming and unnecessary unless there is something essential that must be said.

Even though I write reviews, some of the issues that you postulate are things that I consider each time.

Fear:
Unless I am writing a glowing review, there is an element of fear involved.  Fear that I might hurt her business.  Fear that she might take umbrage at my review and retaliate (this has happened to me).  Fear that by being honest in my evaluations, future providers will shy away from meeting with me (this has almost happened to me).

Time and Trouble:
It takes about a half an hour to an hour to write a review.  I feel that that is not excessive and is worth the effort.  I have not encountered the myriad of troubles that other guys enumerate when it comes to getting a review approved.  Once or twice I have had one rejected.  A simple rewrite, or ad link change was all it took to correct the issue.

Kiss-and-Tell:
Part of me (the tiny speck of gentleman buried deep somewhere) finds it mildly offensive to recount a blow-by-blow description of my time with a lady.  All it takes is a little bit of care with word usage and a reasonable perspective on what I might want to know if I were reading my own review with the idea of possibly seeing the provider.  I don't include everything that takes place, only the pertinent items that will give a sense of what our encounter was like.

Feelings:
I always consider how the provider might feel if she were to read my review of her.  I realize that many ladies could care less about what is written, as long as the scores are good.  I also know that many providers don't read their reviews at all.  Then there are the ladies, especially the ones just starting out, that read their reviews closely.  I hate the thought that a lady might read what I wrote and consider it crude or worse.  I try to avoid that.

Now, coming at it from the other direction, why DO I choose to write reviews?

I know that I never would have had the courage to leap into this 'hobby' without the aid of reading reviews so that I could find out the reality versus the media-driven fiction.  Mind you, I am not saying I believe everything I read in every review (hardly), but after reading many reviews, I got a handle on the general tenor of an appointment.

By writing reviews, I feel that I help out other TER members by adding to the database of information.  I also feel that I help out the providers I have seen by relating my own true perspective of what she is like in her business.  Even though my scores aren't as high as many others, I try to relate the positive aspects of each encounter so that a future client could say to himself, "she sounds like just what I am looking for."

Finally, I simply enjoy writing.  Each of my reviews is like a little permanent memory of my time with a lady.  The process of writing helps me to focus my perceptions and will sometimes sharpen my appreciation of the beauty and or humor of a situation.

I fondly picture a time in the future when I, as an old codger on my rocking chair, can tell my grandkids, "You young'uns want to know what I did in my youth?  Go read it on the TER web site.  I can't remember anymore."

{just kidding on that last one}

As others have said, I feel an obligation to write reviews because I use the reviews. I have had almost uniformly great experiences because I do the research and read reviews.

I also agree with those who have chided guys for not writing bad reviews when they have had bad experiences. A truthful negative review can mean a whole lot. One on its own can certainly be a YMMV situation, depending on the level of "bad" that is described, but a sprinkling of even mediocre reviews amongst a ladies other ones can show either inconsistency or flakiness. That can be important.

I don't always write reviews right away. In some case, I don't have time. Others, the session was okay, but I could sense that there was a potential for a much better one, due to my having an off day or something. If I plan to see the lady again, I'll wait until the next time, in order to give a fair shot. I have one lady whose review is in that sort of limbo now. I'm waiting for her to tour back to my town.

I figure that I'm generating enough bad karma on the homefront by hobbying, that if I can help some folks out somehow, I might as well earn a few points back that way. Not that I'll ever break even, of course...

I do write reviews of every lady I've been with.  The thing is that first dates can be a very different experience from a subsequent one.  In fact dates always vary with the interaction of 2 unique individuals.  

I always have mixed feelings...  some bravado but then reluctance, that it somehow cheapens the experience.  Eventually I get over the reluctance & post the review.  

I always draft a review soon after a session & save it as a draft in my secure e-mail.  Run spell check.  Proof read it.  Then post.
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a local stripper... alas, she could not make it due to a family emergency.  to make a long story short I perused the Eros ads and finally found a lady would would see me on a holiday evening.  She came to the hotel room I had rented, and I went to the lobby to get her.  She was like her pictures but 'off in a very hard to define manner.'  

She was very much accommodating, and provide her services as requested.  However, our conversation was strange and depressing.... and there was an odd odor or two emanating from her body...

Again, as she left, I could not help but think that she was on the verge of suicide.  I decided to NOT write the review, I could not think of any way to describe the encounter... no words at all.. hummm???

A few months later - another dude DID write a review on the lass.  and in that review, he put it into the proper perspective (something which I could not do).  He wrote:
"It was kind of like a date with Wendy Adams, and very dark and strangely mysterious"

yea, it was like that.

I don't write reviews because the standards in use here require me to give a play-by-play of sexual activities that I feel demeans the woman, myself, and the experience.

In most cases, as well, I use a relatively small menu and don't even ask about what else might be offered. As a result, I would be stuck giving a woman who deserved a 10 an 8. Ain't happening.

Further down, in response to an ATF post, I wrote what I think could be considered a review except that it left out the physical parts and the woman's name/handle. I would have *no problem* writing reviews like that for ladies. But such a review, lacking the physical, would only rate a "7" on the TER scale even though the experience was clearly a "10+".

So I don't write reviews because I can't write them the way I'd prefer to write them; and would instead be constrained to put in all the obligatory boilerplate about acts and positions and other stuff in order to avoid ladies being ranked way lower than they should be.

Now, if a woman I've seen explicitly asked me to write a review in the TER style, I WOULD do it, and I'd do it honestly; in spite of my reservations. So far, none have asked.

Two reasons. One is that the lady has already been reviewed and I really have nothing new to say.

The other is - if I want to see her again, it's hard to give an honest review that won't offend her. No lady is happy to see criticism of her appearance or performance that is negative.

I'm very afraid of making her angry.

Two things here

One:
SexyflirtAmber I don’t see where it says (seem you TER reviews) Next to you SN.
Post what regional board are you on.
Two: A lot of my reviews have been Decline TER so I stop posting and I don’t bother using MS word first if it not going post any way.
Lately most of my messages post on this board so I going to use MS word.
Also a slow computer and no the fact I don’t really have Internet unless I catch a good wi-fe single makes it hard to post.

Thinking about it, there's another reason. I have written three reviews but only one got published. Two closed their websites/ads before my review was checked.

Writing one is work for me and having only one of three published is NOT encouraging me to write more.  

I DO think it's importaant to get the reviews out there though. I will write a review on the next threee ladies and see how I fare.

1.  Too much damn work.

First you got to basically replicate or create the profile.  This seems like a quick thing, but it's a HUGE pain in the ass.


2.  Approval process is painful.

When things are not "approved," there's barely any indication on why or how to "fix the problem."  This alone keeps me from doing a lot of reviews.


3.  See #1

However, I don't review every visit, because I see most of my ladies more than once.  I also see a couple of UTR girls that I can't review here.  Yes, writing it is a pain in the ass doing all those profile boxes, but I do like reliving the experience.

If you have read any of my reviews, you know that I don't use real graphic language, maybe I did in the early ones, but not in the more recent ones.  So I don't feel the review demeans the provider.  I just don't feel comfortable using the graphicly  descriptive words.

I have not had to write any bad reviews because I do use the reviews to check out the lady ahead of time.  Lucky for me, my research has been able to keep me from being disappointed and having to write a negative review.  If you do your research properly, you should not have to worry about writing a bad review.  One thing I don't understand is seeing a girl with a few reviews and they are all bad.  What are those guys thinking?  Didn't they read the other reviews before visiting her?

So, you guys who are using the system like I do, but are not contributing to it, you are doing the rest of us a disservice.  I understand your reasons for not writing reviews, even if I may not agree with them.  

Swim

Some of us (and apparently some of the providers as well based on my discussions with them) don't wish to discuss the details in terms required by TER for a review to be posted.  Also, if a review isn't written very soon after a meeting, recollections of the details can begin to mix with other encounters.

While this is all fiction designed for entertainment purposes, some of us like to write "accurate" fiction or are not the best "fiction" writers.

No Reviews Please--A Provider's Point of View

Since SexyflirtAmber also wanted a provider’s point of view, I thought I would put in my $.25 cents of an opinion.  Yeah, yeah, I know it’s long, but I don’t post much on the board of late, so I will put everything I have to say this week in this once a week post.

Like SexyflirtAmber, I was on the fence for a while as to whether I wanted reviews or not.  Since my participation on the Board, albeit very little, reading reviews, reading the problems others (providers and hobbyists) are having with the process, I am standing by my decision not to be reviewed for the following reasons:

Legal—I’m very, very concerned about the system of reviewing from a legal point of view.  If (and I hope it never happens to me or anyone else on this board) is ever brought before a court of law, I want to be able to ride my defense of “innocent until proven guilty” as far as I can take it.  I do not want to give anyone who is trying to prove me guilty any ammunition that is going to erode any defenses I present before a court of my innocence.  In my mind, it would be extremely difficult for me to say “I’m innocent” when all LE has to do is pull up my website, connect it to pages and pages of reviews with clear descriptions (true or not) of what happened with my many visits with men, and then leave me to have to prove “That isn’t me, Yo- Honor.”  To further bolster their cases, here are all of these “handles” of men who have reviewed me, where it only takes a subpoena to request IP addresses of all of the reviewers to gain their identities and possibly testify against me.  Now, certainly this is a lot of work, but I am sure many providers see many hobbyists whose careers would be ruined if it were known that they hobby, some of whom are very high profile.  And when the scandal starts rolling, everybody goes down with them.  We read about it nearly every day.

Discretion—I keep my mouth shut and use extreme caution with regard to the men I see.   There is just an unspoken, unwritten confidentiality agreement I have with the men I see.  The idea that I’m doing my part of keeping his confidences, while he is blabbing on the internet about all the positions he did with me and how many cups he spilled would bother me to no end.  I am old fashioned, and what I do behind closed doors with my “man of the moment” is our business.  

Time—Many of the men I see are busy businessmen who barely have time to get their business correspondence done and answer their telephone calls done at the end of their day.  I would not expect them to have the time to say “Oops!  I have to type XXXX’s review before the end of the day.”  Also, some of the reviews I’ve read, they are so darn long, it had to take the reviewer more time to write the review than it did for him to “pop” during his visit.  They come to see us to get relief and some release from their daily lives, then we want them to labor over a computer writing a review, that from what I read can possibly get bounced back as unacceptable and cause more unnecessary stress.   Unless a reviewer has the time and enjoys the practice of writing reviews, I question if this is the best use of one’s hobby time.

Provider Validation—I will have to admit that it bothers me that many providers get so upset either for not getting a review, or if they get a bad review, worry how it is going to affect their future business.   Understand that this is the reviewer’s opinion; he is entitled to that opinion, and for the most part is very subjective.   It also bothers me to read that some guys are using the review as a threat over the provider.   I do not believe that when this board was formed, it was their goal to hurt one’s business or to help one’s business.   If a provider is out here scamming, she should be called out for everyone to know.   But it seems to me the review process has grown beyond the scope of the board’s original intent.  Some of it is good and some of it is unintentionally bad.

There also seems to be a belief of some new providers that getting a review is the “Right of Passage,” and that once you get your first one, the heavens are going to open up, drop all these men between your legs and life financially is going to be all good.  Please do not use this as the only way to validate yourself, first, as an individual, and second, as a good provider.    If you are good at what you do, men will find out by word of mouth about you.  And if you suck at it (well, you should suck, but you know what I mean), you should either improve your skills, play your "A" game for "every" customer, or stop providing.  Repeat business is one of the best signs of success.  As with any business, building it requires an awful lot of patience, but once you have the right elements in motion, everything seems to, and will, fall into place.  

Reviews should just be one form of your advertising model and should not hold the majority of the weight in your success at becoming a good provider.  I have visited with more TER lurkers who do not review and will not review, and the fact that I have no reviews has not hurt my business.   My phone rings daily, I get emails daily, and since I am low volume, I always exceed my weekly minimum goal.  TER participants are just a percentage of hobbyists who are out here playing the game.  Many of the men I’ve seen either do not know of this board; and if they do, admit to having visited it, but said it was not for them.  All I’m saying is that reviews can be quite beneficial for some, but you can do quite well in this business without reviews.  As many hobbyists can attest, they have been enjoying themselves for years before reviews.

Okay, that’s my one post for the week. I've given you all enough to read. Until next week,

Love,
Alex

I haven't written one for every lady I've seen. Some ladies don't like them, and don't want them. I will respect that. If they ask that I don't write a review, so be it. I've been quite fortunate in that most of my reviews have been good ones. I will put only enough detail in to get past the requirements, and I try not to be too graphic. The only two "bad" reviews I've written, have been an honest account of what happened, and why I was displeased. I didn't feel it necessary to insult the two ladies.

that I should write some reviews.

Especially since I'm not planning -- except for one special exception -- to see any providers I haven't already seen; and I've only seen 2 in the past 90 days, it shouldn't hurt much.

"As I entered she was snapping her gum and smoking a lucky strike ... I could still smell the scent of the baby wipes she had used to clean up after her last appointment ..." (*grin*)

It's a major pain in the ass. A review I once wrote of a doubles session got turned down at least a dozen times. It takes too damn long to fill in all the boxes of height/breast size/etc. I seriously doubt I will ever try to write another review because it is such a difficult process. Hell, my first review had to be rewritten 3 times.

b-

You and Dixie Chicken convinced me that I should submit reviews -- so I've submitted two pending approval.

Now ... where is that link to your reviews and website?

Re: Reviews... why guys don't write them....

To me, it's just too complicated to create the review and a lot of the information needed to complete is unknown to me.  I think if there was a more simple process to submit reviews, then more hobbyist would provide.
For example, reviewers shouldn't have to fill out the following:
1. Provider Contact Info
2. Service information
3. Services Provided.
All this info should be supplied by the provider. I'm not going to know whether certain services are offered and not going to take a survey during my date. Same thing goes for contact info. If the provider is a member of TER, then this info should be current and accurate. When submitting a review, one should be able to provide the TER ID and all the above info would tied to the review.

Regarding the review of the date itself, I think if a rating system was offered that allowed a reviewer to use a number rating system would simplify things greatly. For example, one could score from 1 to 10:
Appearance
Attitude
Sensuality
Punctuality
Sexual Creativity
Ect...that's just a few, but I'm sure a comprehensive list could be developed that would give members a good feel for the provider. Of course, you could still leave space for optional play by play description of the date if a reviewer so desired to share.
Anyway, sorry for the long note, but if there was something like this that was easy to use, I would definitely use it. As someone mentioned, it benefits us all to give reviews. Suppose I will have to bite the bullet and start doing so with the current system.