I don’t remember the name of the app (Call Busters or something) but people were able to leave comments associated with a phone number. The Maryland provider was fairly highly regarded here (but I didn’t think to see who left good reviews with their single review history vs all the reviewers with established histories who scored her a bit lower), but she wasn’t my jam. Much older and heavier than I had been led to believe, an absolute slob of a human as could be seen by the state of her apartment especially the bathroom, she smoked like a chimney in said apartment and, along with having dentures, had a lot of body and health issues. I cut the visit short, paid the full fee, was more polite than I should’ve been, but she still took issue with that. I have to assume it was out of paranoia thinking that I noticed some of those issues.
So she tried to blacklist me via this phone app. Thankfully, another Maryland provider helped me look into it when I found out months later, and she was able to determine who it was. The helpful provider was one of several the blacklister had been bad-mouthing and she had caught wind of that from other hobbyists too as the blacklister is quite the talker. The blacklister openly spoke poorly about many clients too along with some names which was one of many red flags. I know she changed her number shortly after some other providers started hitting back.
Seems that some of the less mentally stable providers, as they get older, turn to blaming everything and everyone on their lack of success and will do anything to protect what image they think hobbyists have of them. Maybe it’s their ego that prevents them from admitting the truth to themselves, I don’t know. But I do know that this blacklister was obviously extremely lazy and needed to handle some of those health issues (humongous hemorrhoids, horrible dental hygiene, fungal toes, obesity, etc.) rather than talk about saving money for some more body work and more tattoos.
Long short: In the end, the blacklisting didn’t affect me at all, but it did shed a brighter light on her for other providers (maybe also hobbyists) in her area to notice.