Rants Raves and Stupid Shit in Seattle.

[QUOTE=RichHead;7365340]Seriously you can't pay ME to be even near her. Let alone pay her. What happened to Seattle scene? 🤷8205;9794;65039;128553;.[/QUOTE]I haven't a clue, but this ad is highly indicative. If they look any better they want a thousand dollars, only to wrap and restrict us from realizing any value. It's fucking sad. I have great difficulty in finding the motivation to view and / or book any of them these days. But if I'm ever able to locate a legitimate prostitute, I'll let you know. I remember and miss them around here.

[QUOTE=RichHead;7365340]Seriously you can't pay ME to be even near her. Let alone pay her. What happened to Seattle scene? 🤷8205;9794;65039;128553;.[/QUOTE]Oh hell no! 😷.

[QUOTE=RichHead;7365340]Seriously you can't pay ME to be even near her. Let alone pay her. What happened to Seattle scene? 🤷8205;9794;65039;128553;.[/QUOTE]She looks like she has Down syndrome.

[QUOTE=RichHead;7365340]Seriously you can't pay ME to be even near her. Let alone pay her. What happened to Seattle scene? 🤷8205;9794;65039;128553;.[/QUOTE]Some dudes will fuck goats so within the species is a step up for them, although this one is a very small step.

Looking over the number of views on some of the provider ads on the other board. Some are getting as little as 50 views on them which is little to nothing.

Although I do tend to see a correlation with someone mentioned here and number of views too.

Let's say that 1% of views translates to a person booking an appointment (seems fair). I can't imagine many are doing well at all for what they're paying in ads, hotels, etc. Guys just aren't as interested anymore.

So what you are saying is that if you inflated prices, shit service, piss poor attitudes, silly drama, and a corrupt review and recommendation process customers go elsewhere? I'm shocked.

More of a pet peeve really. I always crack up when some basic ***** white girl tries to make herself seem exotic. Norwegian? ***** you were born and raised in from Lakewood most likely.

[QUOTE=MarkoRamius;7367745]So what you are saying is that if you inflated prices, shit service, piss poor attitudes, silly drama, and a corrupt review and recommendation process customers go elsewhere? I'm shocked.[/QUOTE]Couldn't have said it better myself.

That ruin the mood and hobby. The fact the girl and myself got sick. Don't go out of your way to these GFE if you have the flu or even Covid. Don't need your gems everywhere!

Finally adopted another monger's advice: never rawdog the internet. At least don't rawdog it when pursuing [I]this[/I] hobby.

I use Proton's free VPN, a satisfactory experience except when visiting STG. Their site says they're worried about DDOS attacks, and I should try again later. Any suggestions on workarounds? I can access STG fine if I disable my VPN. But, again, not my preference.

[QUOTE=Original703;7370623]Finally adopted another monger's advice: never rawdog the internet. At least don't rawdog it when pursuing [I]this[/I] hobby.

I use Proton's free VPN, a satisfactory experience except when visiting STG. Their site says they're worried about DDOS attacks, and I should try again later. Any suggestions on workarounds? I can access STG fine if I disable my VPN. But, again, not my preference.[/QUOTE]Don't use STG? If a site like that can't properly prevent DDoS without black listing IP addresses, they aren't competent enough. Even paid VPNs will run into that issue.

[QUOTE=BBPornoGeek;7370775]Don't use STG? If a site like that can't properly prevent DDoS without black listing IP addresses, they aren't competent enough. Even paid VPNs will run into that issue.[/QUOTE]You can sometimes get on depending on what country you want to hop to. I have had some luck I believe using ireland as a vpn node. But most of the time it's more of a crap shoot. And this was trying both mullvad and proton vpn and on proton I even created my own satellite type hop. It's just fucking annoying so anytime I want to look at stg I just use my burner phone's data plan.

I don't believe they are blacklisting it is probably using cloudflare and that shit blocks plenty of non malicious data.

[QUOTE=HelloThar;7367727]Looking over the number of views on some of the provider ads on the other board. Some are getting as little as 50 views on them which is little to nothing.

Although I do tend to see a correlation with someone mentioned here and number of views too.

Let's say that 1% of views translates to a person booking an appointment (seems fair). I can't imagine many are doing well at all for what they're paying in ads, hotels, etc. Guys just aren't as interested anymore.[/QUOTE]Guys are interested but the problem is three-fold:

1) General inflation is making disposable income a lot less. Even if in theory people are earning more.

2) The quality of the women on the board is incredibly poor compared to the glory days of like 2015.

3) The pricing is just incredibly overpriced. Especially considering the quality of the women posting. Sorta like the stare of KFC with worse food but higher pricing haha.

Eventually you would assume the girls will lower their prices to match demand but if they don't I suppose a lot of them will suffer. You can sheer a sheep many times but you can skin him only once. Too bad they don't see it that way.

Actually even the guys paying the 500/ hr prices are to blame too. If guys kinda banded together and just refused to see the higher priced girls rates would drop all down the line mark my words.

[QUOTE=Polarisrising1;7372167]Guys are interested but the problem is three-fold:

1) General inflation is making disposable income a lot less. Even if in theory people are earning more.

2) The quality of the women on the board is incredibly poor compared to the glory days of like 2015.

3) The pricing is just incredibly overpriced. Especially considering the quality of the women posting. Sorta like the stare of KFC with worse food but higher pricing haha.

Eventually you would assume the girls will lower their prices to match demand but if they don't I suppose a lot of them will suffer. You can sheer a sheep many times but you can skin him only once. Too bad they don't see it that way.

Actually even the guys paying the 500/ hr prices are to blame too. If guys kinda banded together and just refused to see the higher priced girls rates would drop all down the line mark my words.[/QUOTE]This is a general problem with markets today. Demand is down in many industries, yet sellers maintain prices and in some cases keep jacking it up. The reason is whales. We have more wealthy people today than any time in history, and in the last decade the number of them has risen exponentially. Most producers would rather just market to whales than lower their prices. In fact, raising prices and marketing luxury earns them a better payoff from whales. There is no way to stop these guys. They are ruined gaming, are ruining home ownership and it's no surprise they are ruining pootang too.

[QUOTE=Basch12;7373032]This is a general problem with markets today. Demand is down in many industries, yet sellers maintain prices and in some cases keep jacking it up. The reason is whales. We have more wealthy people today than any time in history, and in the last decade the number of them has risen exponentially. Most producers would rather just market to whales than lower their prices. In fact, raising prices and marketing luxury earns them a better payoff from whales. There is no way to stop these guys. They are ruined gaming, are ruining home ownership and it's no surprise they are ruining pootang too.[/QUOTE]Basically the enshittification of all services whatsoever. Almost everything has gotten worse with time unfortunately.

[QUOTE=Polarisrising1;7372167]Guys are interested but the problem is three-fold:

1) General inflation is making disposable income a lot less. Even if in theory people are earning more.

2) The quality of the women on the board is incredibly poor compared to the glory days of like 2015.

3) The pricing is just incredibly overpriced. Especially considering the quality of the women posting. Sorta like the stare of KFC with worse food but higher pricing haha.

Eventually you would assume the girls will lower their prices to match demand but if they don't I suppose a lot of them will suffer. You can sheer a sheep many times but you can skin him only once. Too bad they don't see it that way.

Actually even the guys paying the 500/ hr prices are to blame too. If guys kinda banded together and just refused to see the higher priced girls rates would drop all down the line mark my words.[/QUOTE]Honestly, I'd anticipate them suffering or quitting before many of them lower rates.

Hell, I have disposable income, like many others here I assume, but there's just no incentive to spend it most of the time here. Even the agencies are suffering with their huge upcharge menus.