I think I may just let it lapse and maybe revisit it again down the road. Ever since it’s came back all it’s been for me is an expensive discussion board. Nothing of value is coming out of this site. The reviews are nonsense and subjects are irrelevant most of the time. The vaccine one killed me. I’m not the busting’ balls type of guy but all I’m finding on here are reasons to bust balls. So I guess this is a “goodbye” peeps of TER. I hope it’s temporary but I’m feeling is more permanent.  

But I would hardly call it expensive.

Let's not forget that TER was only back for a couple months before pandemic hell broke loose.  Any momentum that TER had out of the gate once it returned has been slowed considerably.  Hopefully, as pandemic fear eases, the range of topics here will broaden, and we'll again have a vibrant community.  As to the tone of conversation on some of the boards.  It's your choice to ignore that which you disagree with, are disgusted with, or just don't want to hear. There will always be value in reviews, although I've seen some real garbage ones for sure.  IMO, it's high time to end free days for reviews, putting an immediate stop to the fake reviews, which could slow down or end the exodus of providers from this site, and probably attract some new providers too.  Moreover, ditch the ridiculous restrictions on what is an 8, or 9, or 10 performance.  Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so too is the degree of date satisfaction.  Happy campers here as opposed to pissed off campers here should be the goal.  TER's yearly renewal gives one an extra 90 days.  Less than $17 dollars a month weighed against ones monthly playtime budget for steerage assistance in choosing whom to see is a bargain to me.

This place is another tool in painting the big picture to what you might get. This is a very ymmv sport. In my home area it’s useless. Since I travel a lot it’s useful.

only one review to prevent me from seeing a horribly bad session, the membership paid off itself. I don't TOFTT often so I do rely on reviews to stay away from the blue-ball session.

I still think reviews are useful, including older reviews, but of course, especially newer reviews.  That's why I renewed TER just the other day.
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What is the cost of a bad session?  Generally more than a year renewal of TER.  Same reason I keep my P411 current.  Hell, one bad LE experience can cost an unimaginable amount.  It's cheap insurance looked at that way.

I get a good amount of value out of TER. I haven't paid for VIP because my review volume generally keeps pace with my need for full review access. The discussion boards aren't as active as they used to be, but I still check in a couple times a week and get some entertainment value and sometimes good info.  

Still alive Goomba? I thought you froze to death down there.

And I will let you in on a little secret. The whole thing was just a scam to keep the Californians from invading Texas until we can get that wall built on our Western border.

State of Texas to stop offering tax incentives for companies who move their offices to Texas.  

Made it in!!!  

Is Silicon Valley going to pay for the wall?

Just remember to bring plenty of K-Girls with you, and PLEASE leave your liberal friends back in CA like I did when I left CA for good well over 30 years ago.

I'm having too much fun right here in So Cal enjoying my Arnold Palmer's, avocado toast, sushi, wine tasting, liberal politics (as long as I stay out of Orange County and Fresno), clean beaches, fires, earthquakes, floods and smoking bans in public (except for weed), to ever want to move to a state with zero state income taxes, arguably the best BBQ in the US, big hats on tiny heads, Austin-Weird, and a football team that used to win.  :p  

I can not post the link because of a paywall but the SF Chronicle posted the change of address numbers. There were only 238 SF households that moved to Austin last year. Less than 200 moved to DFW.

Unfortunately with demographic trends in Texas, the state could turn permanently blue in the next eight to twelve years.  This could end having any Republican presidents, though the House and Senate could still have chances for Republican majorities.  
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There are other states that are more likely to remain Republican into the future, like Florida and many midwestern states.

Nah, it'll be RED for awhile cause they really don't know better.

executing immigrants from California and Mexico, it might solve the problem permanently and it could remain red for another 100 years.

But Florida is already "purple" and if the exodus from NY, NJ et al continues, Florida may turn blue in a few short years.  

A policy of executing immigrants? Did I read that right?

..some of the Moderators do an inadequate job.  Frankly I might leave at some point when the Moderators tick me off by denying posts "they" feel don't fit whatever standard they are applying that day.  I complained about a really bad VIP review that was nothing but the same sentence repeated several times.  It was crap and anyone should have been able to figure that out, but they rejected my report.  On this thread they rejected my previous comment.  It was sarcastic, and as my old friend used to say, "most people don't  appreciate good sarcasm".  One day they will hit my limit and then I will quit being a VIP.

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I'm with you, Gambler. I'd be more than happy to be a presence here again, but they have their own ideas.  

Hey you told me to say it. lol

I think a big mistake is to allow providers to delist their reviews.  

That said, I believe there are some VERY legitimate reasons for a provider to want to delist, I have known many providers who have retired and who wanted to put this chapter of their lives COMPLETELY behind them without any "hanging chads" remaining on the internet to tie them to their past lives as a hooker.

Personally, I never understood the whole resistance to "review culture".

I rarely click on the website URLs for most of the reviewed providers. Bargain hunters dominate the reviewer crowd. No Thanks. I use a $50 gift card for access, once in a while. It's so easy for politicians to pour gas on various fires. I don't see any enlightenment coming.