There's a provider for every budget
Yep, prices for independents are rising faster than the housing market, so you have to adjust. Either take more risk with the low-end sites, spend more money with the higher end sites, or play less often. You didn't mention if you tried Humaniplex. That might be a good middle ground for you to find reasonably priced indies, and once you build a network, screening with agencies can be easier.
[QUOTE=MrBater;5890066]I just don't get the independents and want to know if any of you see the same thing or something different. First, it takes an incredible amount of time sifting through the various sites just to find a decent provider (I tend to be quite picky, so some of that is on me). Still, it takes far more time than I care to spend on such ventures considering the results.
Then there is the break-down: you have the "OMG!" expensive GPS types (PD, Tryst, etc). There's the decent-looking babes at a reasonable price that inevitably turn out to be pay-first (deposit, cash-app, gift card) scams or the opposite: they never, ever answer the phone, message or text or the voicemail is OOC. Then there's the vast multitudes of desperate, strung-out meth chicks that no amount of sanitizing would make them a passable experience (any List Crawler site. Even the site itself is scummy). After so many pages of that it gets depressing.
Back when BackPage was going it was so much easier and I found several providers, so I know it can be done. However, in this era of post-BP, post COVID, things are most different. The independent nature of my business tends to make screening an issue, so I haven't tried the agencies (what doesn't ABC ask for? Then there's all the security precautions / devices and these pages call out. AMPs are so much simpler but I would like to get off the table.
I get the feeling most independents are really there to screw me, just not in the way I'd prefer.[/QUOTE]
Not necessarily an addiction
[QUOTE=SdfitLife;5891197]Watching this young lady's face change through her ads over the years has been fascinating. Clear plastic surgery addiction. She used to be such a pretty girl when she was working with cinder in NC. Her latest pic gives me sex android vibes.[/QUOTE]Just trying to outrace time. Definitely not a "young" lady. Unless you're 80. She does get good reviews though!