Since I really don't like men very much myself, and dislike retail businesses even more, I just don't see how you ladies do it, but I'm sure glad that you do.  

For you ladies at the top of your game, highly in demand, rolling in the dough, don't you secretly feel some relief when some new customer doesn't show up?  WHeeeee, the afternoon off!  Shopping, cooking, hiking -- just plain laying around, without some guy laying on top of you!  No?  c'mon, nobody likes what they do that much...

When you only see one client a day there's plenty of time for a separate life.

You would feel differently if YOU earned $500 an hour in unreported taxable income.

or even if it is taxable income.  I hate when a new client schedules an appt--you block out the hour, maybe  get your partner to cover something for you and then the new client no shows.  Too bad I can't send him/her a bill

I am low volume as it is,  if you can't make the appt please give me some sort of notice so I am not wasting my time waiting or wasting my gas (if its an outcall).

I dont need a lengthy explination but letting me know you need to cancel is way better than just not calling and not showing up.

If I block out time to meet with a prospect and they don't show you better believe they're getting a bill from me.

Now whether they'll pay it is another story

however, I beg to differ.  If you're doing REALLY well in life, it can be a relief not to pile on with something new.  i like my work, but sometimes i hate work and see beauty in it being blown off.  just wondering if anyone else feels that way.

have you all set for a morning session and you wake up in the morning to find a message sent at 1 AM saying she has to cancel. That is like 2 hours notice. It's happened to me several times.

Would you rather go to work only to discover you could have had the day off?  Or would you rather have known that ahead of time so you could have slept in or done something else with your time besides getting ready, driving in rush hour traffic etc, only to discover you could have the day off but no one told you.

NCNS, on either side, is totally inconsiderate.  The provider has blocked off the time for him, gotten herself all ready for him, declined other appts so she could see him, and you think she's relieved he didn't show or call?????  You gotta be kidding.  If she is very low volume, she may have only had him to see that day, so she's lost money, even worse, if she's using a hotel room for incall.  She still has to pay for the room.  If this is her sole source of income, she's lost a day's pay.  For many of them, it is their only income.

On the other hand, I have driven close to an hour for a date and when I called for the exact location, got nothing in response.  Waited a bit, called again, and still nothing.  Needless to say I was pissed.  There I was, an hour from home, all ready for a nice time, and nothing......  Did I see her again?  No.  Found out from a friend who recommended her, she had told him her excuse, but not me!!!!  Would I try to see her again, hell no!  After that, I was in no mood to even think about a plan B, it would not have been fun.

Your last statement is also not entirely true.  There are many providers out there who love what they do, and have no desire to do anything else.  Sorry, but you're dreaming pal.

Swim

My own new work is moving so fast, i haven't gotten a handle on getting it organized.  kind of like a little kid with a lot of ice cream, I'm overbooking, so that's more where my comments are coming from.  I would think, only a young, popular, disorganized provider would relate.  I often relate your field to other fields when I read the board.  Of course NCNS isn't preferable.

seen 2 guys in a day, and that's only wnen I am touring. Most of the times I can't wait to get laid, as I have no bf or someone I am having sex with in real life. So, at times you boys make my day too. Crap, that sounded too nice.

I don't take any appt. before 10 a.m. for this very reason. A night drinking can ruin my morning and I am not morning person to begin with. To be ready at 10, I have to wake up at 7...ugh!

I have to say you have a 50/50 chance of cancellation on a morning appointment.

I'll never do one, and won't.

Thank you Swim couldn't have put it more eloquently than you did.

..not to mention the behind the scene logistics of procuring and offering an excellent space to host, time taking to screen/check refs, doing hair, makeup, waxing, tweezing etc and keeping in contact to remain on the same page.
I'm a Gemini so multitasking is a forte, however just as most of the ladies here, i would not prefer my time and efforts to be wasted on those seeking to waste it.
 
Now, I can totally understand an extreme emergency or happenstance, but it is highly suspect for someone to make an excuse or seek to reschedule an hr or 30 minutes before our set meeting. By then, everything is set into place, I'm all dolled up, and I'm ready to play lol

Long story short: if there is an agreement to meet, I expect the same level of reliability and respect of time that a gent would expect of service from me.

Exactly. And if it's an incall, then I'm out $100+ for the room I just got for nothing, as most of my appointments are scheduled days or weeks in advance, so the chance of scheduling someone else last minute to try to make up for the lost $ is almost nil.

Also, those who do not truly enjoy what they do, will either not last that long, or be haunted by bad review after bad review, as it will show in their attitude. Contrary to popular belief, MANY of us actually do enjoy what we do & have plenty of free time to do as we wish.. we don't need someone to NCNS us to live our lives how we see fit, lol.

are just too much to keep up with or you have days when you would rather not get out of bed. Though a ncns is a pain in the azz, if you secretly wanted to rest that day it can be a good thing. Them not showing takes the pressure off us having to call and cancel since we would rather not deal with it. I felt that way a few times in 2008 when I first started. Though the number of people I saw in a day was low, I was working 3 or 4 days a week, EVERY week. There were weeks I wanted to work one day and that was it. So yes, in those times it was a relief they were the ones who could not make it.

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I was dealing with a newb (*of which there seem to be an unusually higher amount of lately).  He verified, we went back and forth on his anticipated time/preferences/session type etc.  

That day I met a new guest for lunch and it was off the hook...just amazing.  We went way over time out and about and when we returned to my incall we definitely went into overtime- I didn't want it to end.  

I kind of had a sense the newb would NC/NS (I can count on one hand how many have occurred in six year so its a rare occurrence)- I felt like despite the fact that he gave me all of his personal information he was just kind of nervous about it.
He flaked, I got to spend the rest of my afternoon with the client I wanted to lol.
Worked out well...though in the day after I was annoyed thinking about it- its rude, but just a part of doing business and something that all professionals who work by appointment endure so I got over it fast.

So yeah, sometimes when an appointment doesn't come to fruition it works out.