Posted By: MP67
If provider A decides provider B's white listing is enough to go on, that's kinda fucked up, in my opinion.
Who knows why provider B posted a white list?
Maybe just maybe provider "A" takes provider "B's" whitelisting as "good enough" because they actually know each other, and trust each other? Nah, that could never be...
Your fears of the whitelist being misused, can't references be just as misused?
Can't reviews be as misused?
Can't a client out of fear of being blacklisted, getting a bad reference, getting talked about on a Ladies' Board, etc. write a good review, or reply favorably to her ad, or say good things to guys that PM him?
Do you trust all reviews just because they are there?
Are there reviews by some guys you trust more than others?
Are there guys you consider a "friend" and if he gives a lady a good review, or posts something complimentary in reply to her ad you believe him without interrogating him on why he did so, and if he were coerced into doing so?
I like to think maybe, just maybe, the ladies know it is their money, well being and Hell even their lives on the line and don't just look at a fuckin' list and see a guy, unless they know and trust implicitly the lady that put that name on the list...
but maybe you are right...
maybe the ladies are stupid
and just look at a name on a list with no other feedback and just run with it...
but I find your absolute belief that that is the case sad as well.
Are some client manipulative?
Hell yes.
The day the whitelist became available there was one guy that had (if memory serves) over 20 whitelist listings because he called every lady he could think of and asked her to put him on the list...
but I would hope that isn't the norm, and that ladies do contact the ladies that put a guy on the whitelist and get more info than a name.
Of course, I also know of ladies that ask clients to reply to their ads, write new reviews etc, putting those clients on the spot as much as a guy asking for whitelisting does.
Nothing on this site is a guarantee...
not a review,
not a whitelisting,
not a reference,
not backchannel questions,
NOTHING!!!
It can all be manipulated, and should all be taken with a fuckin' shaker of salt,
and the only people whose word you should trust are those you literally trust in the 3D world.