My post got deleted. I felt it wasn't particularly argumentative, just responding "in kind" to what is apparently a "Senior Member" (maybe I missed titles).
I post information here based on personal experience. I hope folks do a search and see what I mean. Heck, I even posted something about one of my ATF UTR's, leaving town, who wanted some dates. I got no PM's. WTF am I supposed to do when I offer some Prime Rib to a group and no one wants it?
I posted my nearly sure-fire method for scoring off-work dancers at the clubs (but even IT requires some game).
I'm not here to become part of some pecking order, nor am I here to flame. I'm here to learn and give another perspective.
The subject here is CL. A poster claimed that MOST of the girls are street hookers with a computer. I disagree. MOST are not. Perhaps some POSTERS are, but I RARELY respond to an ad; I don't want to be lost in the fog of a bazillion other guys who do. I do things differently, because success in any worthy endeavor requires originality. From being curious, I once posted an ad as a girl with a pic from my personal stock; I wanted to understand, from the female perspective, what the responses are like. I got over 80 responses, MANY complete with names, business names and phone numbers, pictures (with wife and kids? Unbelievable...), some begging, many explicit, etc. I wanted to see what stood out. I got a handle on that; increased my success.
My single most successful CL coup was posting as a working girl leaving town, who wanted to give my "safe, upscale client list" to another girl; I got 8 responses from girls, 5 who were top shelf (FWIW-Cassidy and her type are NOT top shelf). Well, guess who the only guy who got referred was? Yup. Me. GREAT success, I tell you.
I, personally, wouldn't touch a SW, but I'm not married, so I don't have to go cruising to get my jollies, I can entertain. To each his own. I fear LE busts on the street, massage places, and high profile incalls, so I don't do them.
I've "done" CL for a long time. I met Barbie there almost 1.5 years ago (she is NOT recent there). I met Stacy before the accident, when she had all her teeth. I met "Hott Diana" when she was somebody else, before she bought that Gandy thing from the old Hott Diana. Before CL, I knew Phoenixxx Blacque (sp?) at ATS (two hours of Sunday morning bliss for $250). I knew Hot Terri and her sister. Heck, I was one of Kelly of Orlando's first dates, maybe date #4 or something. And those don't even make up 5% of the girls I've "known" in my hobby life.
I go way back, Chase, probably farther than you do. I posted on Decadent City. Did you? I remember the first day of TBD for Tampa. Do you?
I have found traditional p4p to be almost boring. Yes, you meet hot gilrs, but it gets repetitive. I want something different, the hunt is as enjoyable to me as the BBQ. So I now go places where, yes, it's a LOT more difficult, and YES, does require game, and not just a couple of C-notes and a cell phone. I guess I enjoy the seduction process. I've hunted AFF (150 guys for every fat chick, no more...), a wide variety of singles sites (yes, it costs maybe $30 for a couple of months, but big deal), Creative Loafing, tbo.com, the St. Pete Times personals, etc. I've had my successes and failures, but I enjoy the hunt.
So I've done CL since it first created a Tampa area, not just "erotic services", but W4M, M4W, and "casual encounters", too, using a variety of differing ads, MO's, and persona's. My monger friends in NYC gave me a heads' up a very long time ago. I have seen it morph over time. I can see how someone who has only been checking it out the last 6 mos. or so could clearly say it's SW's with computers; actually it seems more pimps than then actual girls, based on the wording of some of the responses I've gotten (I REFUSE to see a girl with a driver and a cell # that is not 813, 727 or 941; just some of my criteria to avoid pitfalls).
So, please, spare me the Senior Member stuff. Take each poster, old or new, and see what they can contribute. It's a big assed world out there. Often when folks take the time to listen, things can be learned.
Fair enough?
