The last time I was scammed - in my own house! - I did a video chat about 3 hours before our meeting time. I was ok without a M&G with the assumption that a video chat would suffice. The chat by FaceTime from her car actually seemed to go well. She was personable, engaged, didn't throw off any red flags and we had a good discussion about expectations (BBFS) and boundaries.
When she arrived I didn't see her park in front of my house, but there were other (neighbor's) cars already there so I figured she had parked up the block a bit and walked to my front door.
She ended up pulling the "pay me now" scam on me. I lowered my guard after she pulled her top up in my living room to show me her tits and I had fondled them for a bit. We were ready to head to the bedroom and I gave her the cash ($300) from the hallway. As soon as she had it she turned to my front door, made a comment about getting her "toys" from her car, and bailed. I was able to see her get into her car - on the passenger side - and it sped away.
After reviewing my mental video replay, I realized where I missed the red flag: When she facetimed me from her car, she was on the passenger side of the car. That meant her BF/pimp/co-conspirator was driving. I sent her a clip from my Ring Video showing her entering and leaving my house, with a promise to send it all to LE. No reply.
Then I finished off the bottle of wine I had opened for her (thankfully not an expensive one) and wrote off the $300 loss as a cost of being an SD and went about my day.
Pretty nice tits though....
Life is good
The Cat
I've never understood using a range as a negotiating tool. How to you respond if she says $400 to $500 PPM? Automatically go with the low number? The SD is likely to go low and the SB is insulted. Opposite is true if I would give a range, I expect her to take the high number. When I was a green rookie in this game some 10 years ago, a prospective SB gave me her range and I reflexively offered the low number and she immediately called me cheap and moved on.