Question for everybody.  I'd like to spend time with a lady and I have a certain time frame that I can do it.  I've asked one provider and it seems she may be trying to work something out but no answer yet so I started to get into contact with another provider.  Now say ultimately I hear back from the second provider and decide to spend time with her.  I don't want to burn bridges because some time down the line I'm sure I would like to have seen both of them, how would you recommend to handle it?

I'd say that 48 hours would be more than enough for the first provider to come back to you with a solid plan.  If more than that time has passed, them go to provider number two and see if she can accommodate you.  If so, then contact the first provider and tell her that you've made other arrangements.  You can also mention that you are still interested in seeing her some time, and will contact her again when the time is right

Once you get your session confirmed, just reach out the the provider who hasnt confirmed yet and let her know the situation. Apologize but explain your time consrraint dilema and express interest in booking at a future date.

Must have been a fun week!

And....If you have a specific time certain that this has to take place-make that known on the front end.

Good point!

...and I have always gone back immediately to the first provider and explained that time was of the essence and I have already booked with provider #2. All have been gracious about it and in my correspondence I promised to try and book with the first providers when there was more time available and our schedules lined up.

...after not hearing from the first within 48 hours, I will NOT let the first provider know I moved on.  If she didn't have the courtesy to respond in a timely manner, why should I?  If the first provider does eventually contact me, I will respond and tell her I made other arrangements because she was too slow in responding.  Maybe the loss of business will help her improve her business practices.  I won't leave the door open to seeing the first provider in the future so that she could do the same thing.

Its too early to contact a second provider if you still have the same boner from contacting the first provider.  A lot of guy get impatient because the blood has left their brain and gone south.

...and I agree with you, except I'll only give the gal 24 hours before I move on. Most ladies respond within a couple of hours, and I've learned that those that don't reply promptly don't really want to meet me. C'est la vive.

..how hot does provider #1 have to be to get you to at least be civil and keep open the option of seeing her sometime in the future. Burn your bridges. Cut your nose to spite your face. There is something to be said for that policy. But not much.

it should be proposed in your first message.  If there's no response, within a reasonable time, the plan won't work.  
I don't know that I'd say I made other plans, but I would say:  "I didn't hear back & now it's too late to make arrangements.  Sorry.  Maybe next time.

I usually book same day, so by the time 24 hours has elapsed, I have already seen another lady and am looking again for the next day.  

...providers to choose from, and many visiting providers as well.  I don't care how hot provider #1 is, there'll be new hotter ones tomorrow.  You hobby in New York - there are even more providers there.  Why would you want to give her another chance when there are so many others available who will respond promptly?

After 48 hours if no arrangement has been made with the lady of choice, I will contact another lady.  I feel that if I have not heard back after 48, my time is not that important to her.  I have set dates with another lady in the past, and maybe 72-96 hours later, the 1st lady I had contacted finally answered.  I have told them that I have to politely decline, that I have made other arrangements.  To me it is not fair to break a date with 2nd lady, even if the 1st one appears more appealing.  I have never blown off my 2nd choice to be with my 1st choice.  Even in Hobbyland I try to conduct myself with integrity and propriety.

I would say get together with each girl on different days. I am sure the first provider is not going to be upset and call you out on it. She may have gotten busy and eventually you both can make arrangements in the future. I would say meet the second one as she has reached out to you and is available to your needs. Hope this helps.

Unless there is an offer an acceptance nothing has been done. Maybe say I'm under a time window.  Can you let me know by a certain time or my friends want me to see them...

36-48 hours is just time for her to make arrangements. Beyond that you may find yourself sitting with blue balls. I saw after 36-48 hours you make other arrangements....but, if she does get back to you and have the time frame you desire you can always reschedule with the other lady, but I would do it while she is in town. If you can't than lady #2 is on the clock.

No, I don't mean Craigslist providers, either.

that courtesy and respect do not happen naturally? That long discussions about "business" and hell, even "business law" are seen as substitutes for common social grace between two people, a man and a woman?

It's a business relationship/transaction not a domestic one.

Personally, if a hooker doesn't respond to me, I simply forget all about her. If she ever does decide to reply a day or a week later, I may or may not schedule with her depending on the tone of her response. Quite frankly if a week has gone by, I have more than likely forgotten who the hell she even is as I have probably already seen several different women in the interim.

...people - FatVern and Fancy (below) gave the right answers.  But you go right ahead, Sir Walter Raleigh.  I sure wouldn't want your dry cleaning bill.

Expensive too

A plumber can't do that to you.  But if you're cheating on your wife and have given the woman in question your personal info, you could be screwed. In a bad way. It's hard to grow a pair when she's got you by the balls.

The OP was about how long to wait to hear back from a hooker that you are looking to book with before moving on to another woman. If a guy is really so fucking scared about moving on to another woman without even having spoken to the first, he really should take up a less stressful hobby. Or grow a pair, either or.

But the way threads work, Wu, is that they go off on tangents and you don't have to slavishly refer to the OP when responding to a different point made by someone else.  Like the one you made about plumbers.
Get it?

The rest of the people on this branch had stayed on topic, if you would ever learn to follow a thread you might have figured that out after all these years.

Sure sounds like it.

Go talk with Fatvern if you want to debate inanities all night. Quite frankly, I am not interested.

I don't think many ladies want clients to act like boyfriends.

You just get dumber by the minute.

On my post it somehow changed from AM to PM, but I did in fact post in the morning. Then I waited for you to post your inevitable pedantic and tendentious response and half a day went by.  So simply by observation I know it was, in fact, 12 hours between the two posts.
You really should be more careful before you go embarrassing yourself like this. Or perhaps you just don't care.

I guess the business is different here in Canada.