So how many providers out there adhere to the conventional wisdom of not making unsolicited contact?  Planning a trip to LA, which has an amazing talent pool.  Minding my own business researching potential new talent.  

but I don't mention it on an open board.  They  seldom affect my decision on whom to see.

Hence using an alias.  Remember I had seen this person before.  

but then again, I would let them know to contact me before they placed a local ad. A few didn't even run ads at all, just sent emails to "old friends."

Bills are due. Back to your question, how often do I receive unsolicited emails. I'd say roughly half dozen a year. Just got one a couple of weeks ago from a retired provider who wants to make a comeback.  

...... that their text or email, most of the time  has a positive result for them.  
I don't do what or who I don't  want to do. So what's the harm.  

If so, don't sweat it, if not, chalk it up as a learning experience.

I recently wrote a book on the sex biz. (I know I can't plug it here), so I've been trying to reach every hooker or person who wants to learn what it's really like (Mostly psychological).  So I get about 40 requests a day!  But I'm too old (80) and too married to take advantage of it.  

You should not try to divide yourself between more than two ladies to which you have conceded an ownership interest, or things could get messy.  

How could you have known?!    

The email or texted "I miss you's" or "I want you's" for the marketing clap trap that they are, but when you get a spread-eagle-girl-parts or full length nude photo, it's pretty hard (no pun intended) to resist.

...many of the hookers there (or chicas, in local parlance) are very aggressive and often in a very physical and tactile way, i.e. grabbing your dick. Most of the pickups there happen in person, not by the phone or Internet. The ratio of mongers to hookers is often quite unfavorable to them, e.g. there may be 5-10 girls for every guy, so the competition is often intense. Sometimes you almost have to fight them off with a stick. You have to be very firm or even rude to them in order to get them to go away, as they are cock-blocking you with their unwanted presence, i.e. another girl will not engage you while the aggressive one is working on you.  

Wouldn't that be pussy-blocking?

They all tell me to come back often.  If they really want me, they'd be offering it for free.  

LOL, good point.

walks through the door, you ask him if he's horny.  If he says no, you make him a sandwich.  Its not complicated.  

She puts the man, I mean the meat, in the middle between Bentley on one side and her on the other.

...and you availed yourself of an opportunity that you were not aware of before the outreach. In sales, we call that a "win-win" for both you and the provider (assuming that you were happy with the encounter).

....that's the way it's supposed to be.

Is the condom.  I've never had a provider try to upsell me on the condom.  If it happens someday, I will just say, "That's okay, I won't use one."  I bet I still get it for free.  Lol

.lay them right and walk on them for years.

Where is Little Papa?  If he is unavailable then I am game at $400/hr and if you grandfather me at that rate then you will most likely be in my rotation.