most people aren't phased about treating hookers like any other professional service and are okay with paying a deposit to secure their time.
Perhaps you are too busy with gloating about "winning" (not sure what you won but OK. I remember Charlie Sheen was also "winning" at some point, just sayin') to note that most professional services have either guarantees, insurance, investor backing, or third party proxy mediators to ensure the seller doesn't just grab deposit and run.
You perhaps have seen the buzz phrase "rug pull" related to crypto scams. This happens because crypto is not well regulated yet.
Same thing happens in p4p industries. Scammers run rampant and they prey on gullible mongers. Mongers don't have any insurance if their deposit besides the word of the seller, and that word is seldom worth more than a deuce I just took, especially in context of scammers.
I'm sure most are happy if you "win" by being a legit provider. But I'll be damned if I'll ever be happy as long as scammers *ever* "win". Deposits contribute immensely to total amount of scams pulled on my monger bros. In fact, most scams are of this kind. They pose the least risk for scammers. They don't involve crlminal charges such as r0bbery.
Instead of saying (I'm paraphrasing here) "people hate provides who have deposits and win" you should switch your narrative to "people hate the possibility of being scammed and scammers who win via deception".
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