My Dear RentMen “invitation” letter:

[Jarrod_Uncut]

I’ve discussed this before, but I think it can be rehearsed once again…simply because I haven’t seen any changes being made since.

This is once again, as it applies to Private pictures. Tonight, I browsed my “email notifications”. Now, back in the days of Men4Rentnow, an email was often a good sign of an interested client: you’d get it directly to your email and it would often include the client’s name, and I think age and City. Usually always a message attached if the person was serious. 
 

Bringing it back to RentMen: all the “email notifications” I received over the past week have all been user profiles (many blank with no pic or info of the person) requesting private pics. Not even asking me personally, but just a random “this user has requested to see your private pics”. Guess how many times I’ve unlocked my private pics in the past month? 0. Non. And it’s even more obvious because I’m not displaying XXX pics publicly right now. 
 

What incentive do I have to unlock my pics for these people? I’ve already had several clients meet me without me unlocking my pics. What’s the reward that I get for unlocking my pics for someone 500 miles away, with no pic, who hasn’t even bothered to acknowledge or utter an existence of interest? It makes no sense. Quite frankly it’s maddening and I have lost motivation or desire to use the platform for communication. I don’t communicate hardly with anyone on RentMen. I simply have an auto reply on the messenger app, and the ones who text can arrange a visit. 

I’ve suggested before: what would REALLY make RentMen (and RentMasseur) better sites would be for them to allow us to earn some kind of credits, whether it’s monetary or in the form of “credits earned” towards our monthly ad fees. Even if clients are paying for the premium membership, if a provider (like me) makes his private pics “fully private”, they aren’t going to be able to access that anyway. 
 

Just like we pay for our ads each month, I think it would be great if clients can pay us for viewing our private pics, similar to the fan’s sites that payout to us after a minimum amount is met. Even if it’s $2-5 per private gallery viewing: considering I have DOZENS of private photo requests, that could easily amount to an extra $100-$500 a month earning. 

Right now, there’s no earning potential for opening private pics or even our video clips, on RentMen. And doing so with the “speculation” that the person will actually become an in person client is fantasy at best, hours of wasted time and free content delivery at worst. I’ve already experimented with asking for donations to view my private gallery, but because RentMen doesn’t normalize and feature it across the site, people often don’t respond or fail to do so. So I just stopped bothering to read or respond to private gallery requests.

Here’s the thing: I’m not trying to be “working” profiles round the clock. I’m busy. I travel, I am with clients, trying to have my hands on multiple things at once. If I stopped and entertained every client who asked me for private pics, that’s minutes turned to hours of trying to squeeze money out of a turnip. Who has time for that? 
 

A paid provider site should not function like Grindr. Those ads should be working FOR us. It’s not. I’m working for the ads, and doing far too much of it. At $80-$100 a month, I shouldn’t have to deal with flakes and BSers who look at my private pics and I get paid nothing. I should be earning every step of the way: when they ask for private gallery: $10. Want to message me on instant messenger? Free once you contribute to unlock the pics.

So RentMen: HELP US OUT. You’ve done great, but we need you to do MORE. Change! Step the game up. Y’all are #1 in the league already right now. There’s no reason we can’t get more from the site. Drop the premium client memberships, make them buy credits that can directly transfer to us. Otherwise, I’m just going to either keep all my XXX pics private, or I’m not going to even bother with using the private gallery. 

Edited October 31, 2021 by Jarrod_Uncut

[Shawn Monroe]

This is precisely why I just moved all my pics out of the private gallery on rentmen. Got so tired of random people asking me to unlock my gallery. They still ask on rentmasseur but most people there know you need a membership to look at galleries. 
 

other than that I also agree that the sites don’t do enough. I’ve been contemplating writing out my complaint on another post from a few months ago. 

[tenderloin]

"What incentive do I have to unlock my pics for these people?"  
If you have enough business already, the answer is: none.  No incentive.  
But if you are looking to win business (the purpose of most ads) the answer is: lots

Speaking as a potential customer (and with all due respect), I find the idea of paying to see private pictures in an advertisement to be completely unacceptable. It is an AD.  You are putting it there to try to get business. I am looking at it because I am contemplating paying hundreds of dollars to get intimate with you.  Before I commit to a meeting, I want to see as much as possible so I know we are a match.  I think it is better for both the provider and the customer if I am better educated about you before we meet. 

And yes, a customer may be 500 miles away when we make the request.  Guess what? Customers travel. I always try to line things up before arriving, and that includes looking at the pics of potential hires.  A guy won't show me more pics?  Simple. I don't hire him. Next. 

Finally, the option to click “this user has requested to see your private pics” was added by the site to make things easier. I used to write lovely messages of interest, but they NEVER got any reply or acknowledgement, so now I just click the button.

I am in a client service business, too.  My customers are often demanding, unreasonable, and occasionally I fire them.  But at the end of the day, they are my customers, and I do what I can to accommodate them.   That's business

Edited November 1, 2021 by tenderloin

[Alex93108]

On 11/1/2021 at 10:16 AM, tenderloin said:

And yes, a customer may be 500 miles away when we make the request.  Guess what? Customers travel. I always try to line things up before arriving, and that includes looking at the pics of potential hires.  A guy won't show me more pics?  Simple. I don't hire him. Next. 
 

The vast majority of my hires are when I travel. Providers should not discount this . I typically start contacting potential hires 1-2 weeks prior. They will then ask me to contact them day before , or something along those lines. I may be in LA but looking to hire in London, similarly when I am in London I may be looking at guys in New York.   

 

[Rod Hagen]

1 hour ago, jetlow said:

The vast majority of my hires are when I travel. Providers should not discount this . I typically start contacting potential hires 1-2 weeks prior. They will then ask me to contact them day before , or something along those lines. I may be in LA but looking to hire in London, similarly when I am in London I may be looking at guys in New York.   

 

This is/was much better suited to the days of email; less "NOW" more "Let's talk".

[+ Tygerscent]

You raise some interesting points here. Actually, RM used to give incentives to lads who posted videos: one free advertising month. When the original owners changed hands to the current, the site basically took on the profit minded format of the old Rentboy where escorts pay to be escort if the day, pay for boosts, pay to be a sponsor, pay to be interview if the day, pay for basic or gold or platinum status, pay for two ads if an escort is based in both the states and abroad… There is a a common theme there~
 While I see that the site can fish for potential Client users who legitimately prefer to remain anonymous, and cautious  users by offering a Non registered users option, this also allows scammers, stalkers, competitive escorts who want to fill up your schedule with false appointments, an avenue to do what they do~ 

 What’s in my private section is images of me bottoming. They are there because that is rarely anything I ever do. There’s not really any interest there for others visiting my profile. I simply put them there so I can better access them as opposed to muddling thru the site’s cumbersome and ineffective instant messaging and email archive platforms. 
 While I do chat up non registered Client users who tap me to see what they are all about, I really don’t take many of those inquires very seriously. 
 I do the majority of my booking in advance with clients I am already familiar with.  By the time I get to any given city, my schedule is already complete. If there’s a schedule change, I’ve already communicated with serious inquiries that I will contact them to let them know that something has become available. Depending on my tour, I may or may not leave one or two days in my schedule open for new inquiries. So, while I may engage in some communication With non-registered users, the likelihood of me actually meeting one of those people is actually really slim. You are correct when you say that there is a little incentive to take somebody seriously who is offered absolutely no information about themselves but, are demanding all kinds of information including photos, location, instant responses from a service providers. Those are almost always red flags.

 I do some monitoring of those non-registered users because I have had the situation where a stalker, (also a registered user), would create profiles as a non registered user and then try to make contact with me or follow me. Sites generally have the capacity to trace these people’s IP addresses~ 

 Occasionally, a non registered user is legitimate… 

 So, to keep tabs on those who have the intent of mischief but also leave open the potential for somebody who is just trying to be anonymous but is sincere about meeting, I don’t completely dismiss non-registered users.

 I’ve also noticed something that seems to be occurring on some registered and non registered accounts, (as well as new accounts). Their location is listed as being in NYC, (Despite inquiring about immediate appointments in some city I might be in at the moment). They might have a real local number to substantiate they are not from NYC or may have a number with area code from a city they lived in previously or they may be using a traceable Google blind number. I Generally notify these people to let them know that their profile is listed as New York City as opposed to their actual local home base. Sometimes it’s people that I have known for years. What might be a resolution to some of this misunderstanding and mischief would be for Rentmen to add a “traveling to” Notification on the client side and require that all non-registered users put down a credit card number and real address, (not PO Box), to substantiate that they are a real person with good intention. That way they can allow peoples anonymity but limit a users of the site. 
 I think that it is important to advocate ourselves and communicate these matters to the current owners of that site so that they are aware of some of the inefficiencies and can address them. There is no incentive for them to change if we don’t let them know what’s going on from our end. 
 

[Jarrod_Uncut]

+1 @Tygerscent

And to add to that last sentence: one of the grating things I have mentioned on the site is the way travel cities update: often at 5 or 6 pm the day PRIOR to what I have set. Which means if I'm in Chicago from 11/12-11/17...but also in Boston 11/17-11/20, the ad will automatically move my ad and cancel out all nearby cities at 5 p.m. on 11/16 due to the way the time zone difference between the US and Amsterdam. So, I have to often set my travel dates longer than what's expected so I don't miss out on biz in my current area. 

[Jarrod_Uncut]

On 10/31/2021 at 11:54 AM, Shawn Monroe said:

This is precisely why I just moved all my pics out of the private gallery on rentmen. Got so tired of random people asking me to unlock my gallery. They still ask on rentmasseur but most people there know you need a membership to look at galleries. 
 

other than that I also agree that the sites don’t do enough. I’ve been contemplating writing out my complaint on another post from a few months ago. 

Right on...what would be some of your complaint? By the way: I emailed Rentmen a link to this post, not to be a dick lol...but to give them opportunity to see multiple viewpoints on this subject. And to be transparent. I appreciate them having the platform and being more innovative than many escort sites have over the years, but the problem is: the innovation leans more towards clients getting free content before seeing us. 

I'm seeing it first hand: guys who frequent scruff and grindr who have client profiles and knowing good and well they have no intent to pay.

Edited November 4, 2021 by Jarrod_Uncut

[Jarrod_Uncut]

On 11/1/2021 at 9:16 AM, tenderloin said:

"What incentive do I have to unlock my pics for these people?"  
If you have enough business already, the answer is: none.  No incentive.  
But if you are looking to win business (the purpose of most ads) the answer is: lots

Speaking as a potential customer (and with all due respect), I find the idea of paying to see private pictures in an advertisement to be completely unacceptable. It is an AD.  You are putting it there to try to get business. I am looking at it because I am contemplating paying hundreds of dollars to get intimate with you.  Before I commit to a meeting, I want to see as much as possible so I know we are a match.  I think it is better for both the provider and the customer if I am better educated about you before we meet. 

And yes, a customer may be 500 miles away when we make the request.  Guess what? Customers travel. I always try to line things up before arriving, and that includes looking at the pics of potential hires.  A guy won't show me more pics?  Simple. I don't hire him. Next. 

Finally, the option to click “this user has requested to see your private pics” was added by the site to make things easier. I used to write lovely messages of interest, but they NEVER got any reply or acknowledgement, so now I just click the button.

I am in a client service business, too.  My customers are often demanding, unreasonable, and occasionally I fire them.  But at the end of the day, they are my customers, and I do what I can to accommodate them.   That's business

I get what you're saying from a customer service point of view. But even though the stuff I mentioned discussed clients, this is not about y'all. This is not simply about customer service or clients. This is strictly about advertising providers and how I feel the site needs to open the door to make the site more profitable and less work.

Yes, I understand clients want to see nudes and don't want to walk into something blindly. Nothing wrong with that. But like i said, even if it's not monetary directly from the client, the features they have should still work for us.

At this point, we don't have rates allowed to be listed. Which is not as big of a deal as I feared awhile ago...because it does eliminate the rat race of trying to be cheaper or more expensive than everyone else. 

Another thing that can be done: have clients pay a monthly membership like they already do, but let that money "revolve" like a credit card to pay for our ads each time our private pics are unlocked. The membership can be like a "slot machine" where say, $50 can unlock 10 galleries for a set period of time at $5 each. Each view can take off of our monthly membership. 

Even that's not the ideal plan, that's just an example of how it can be better. It can be even better then that though. Let those private gallery views go to our account and let us cash out. 

I know clients don't like the idea of "paying to look at private pics", but that's just 1 part of it. But in the meantime: I'm going to continue to not unlock my private pics unless the person has booked with a deposit. Been doing that for going on a month now and it's made no difference.

I'm tired of having my time and effort wasted by idiots who have no consideration or respect. You get to a point where you're sick and tired, of being sick and tired lol. At-least now, I feel better knowing that when they do waste my time, At-least they didn't get a free look at my XXX pics. Any XXX pics I do post are at my discretion.

 

[+ Tygerscent]

45 minutes ago, Jarrod_Uncut said:

+1 @Tygerscent

And to add to that last sentence: one of the grating things I have mentioned on the site is the way travel cities update: often at 5 or 6 pm the day PRIOR to what I have set. Which means if I'm in Chicago from 11/12-11/17...but also in Boston 11/17-11/20, the ad will automatically move my ad and cancel out all nearby cities at 5 p.m. on 11/16 due to the way the time zone difference between the US and Amsterdam. So, I have to often set my travel dates longer than what's expected so I don't miss out on biz in my current area. 

 

45 minutes ago, Jarrod_Uncut said:

+1 @Tygerscent

And to add to that last sentence: one of the grating things I have mentioned on the site is the way travel cities update: often at 5 or 6 pm the day PRIOR to what I have set. Which means if I'm in Chicago from 11/12-11/17...but also in Boston 11/17-11/20, the ad will automatically move my ad and cancel out all nearby cities at 5 p.m. on 11/16 due to the way the time zone difference between the US and Amsterdam. So, I have to often set my travel dates longer than what's expected so I don't miss out on biz in my current area. 

The travel section also fails where you can’t listen to nearby cities at the same time on the same dates. If I’m in New York City and want to list for a particular date, I cannot overlap the dates that I am also available in New Jersey. I can’t list Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin for the same dates even though I can easily drive to either city within a matter of 45 minutes. I do that frequently… I can’t list in Chicago and Milwaukee at the same time for the same dates but I do commute to both cities while I’m working. It’s super inconvenient and inefficient. They’ve basically taken on the format of the old rentboy platform. It’s just abusive to escorts and it’s not very supportive.

[+ Tygerscent]

1 hour ago, Jarrod_Uncut said:

+1 @Tygerscent

And to add to that last sentence: one of the grating things I have mentioned on the site is the way travel cities update: often at 5 or 6 pm the day PRIOR to what I have set. Which means if I'm in Chicago from 11/12-11/17...but also in Boston 11/17-11/20, the ad will automatically move my ad and cancel out all nearby cities at 5 p.m. on 11/16 due to the way the time zone difference between the US and Amsterdam. So, I have to often set my travel dates longer than what's expected so I don't miss out on biz in my current area. 

I think we’re that is confusing for a client is that a provider appears to be in two cities at one time. So you’ve got a Client Looking at your profile and one city because it says you are there in a client in another city contacting you because it looks like you’re also in that city even though you’re only in one. And I the remedy would be to just let you overlap your dates. That way you can adjust for time zone changes that the site itself fails to do

[Jarrod_Uncut]

2 hours ago, Tygerscent said:

 

The travel section also fails where you can’t listen to nearby cities at the same time on the same dates. If I’m in New York City and want to list for a particular date, I cannot overlap the dates that I am also available in New Jersey. I can’t list Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin for the same dates even though I can easily drive to either city within a matter of 45 minutes. I do that frequently… I can’t list in Chicago and Milwaukee at the same time for the same dates but I do commute to both cities while I’m working. It’s super inconvenient and inefficient. They’ve basically taken on the format of the old rentboy platform. It’s just abusive to escorts and it’s not very supportive.

Well in a case like this, I would generally just include it in a “near travel” and don’t include any dates. I was actually recently in that area myself. Usually what I’ll do when I’m on tour: just move the whole ad and your home location, to that particular city. I don’t even bother advertising in my “home base city” when I’m traveling because you get the ones who are like, “are you still here right now???” 

This way you just list your “main” location (say you’re visiting Milwaukee but want to include Chicago at a nearby city, just keep your ad in Milwaukee and use Chicago as a “nearby travel city”). Sometimes it helps to include a note like, “open to visit XYZ but I’ll be based in ABC”

One thing I can give credit to RentMen: they are a lot more considerate than how Rentboy was. And like you say, RentMen initially gave out a lot of free advertising time especially in their entry to the game in 2009 (back then it was a quirky site that seemed to emulate Rentboy, but I still seen their potential, and here we are…they are #1). 
 

What made Rentboy inconvenient was that they actually charged to have a travel ad in a different city. Sometimes I’d pay $20 to run a 5 day “gold ad” in a city. Considering I’d sometimes go to multiple cities in a week, that was just pocket draining. I can say RentMen has proven to be a more functional site for the future (and their freeze function is very innovative, I currently have it frozen now because I needed to take a few days off from the biz after going from a shitty week of back to back flakes before getting a couple of decent clients finally). 
 

Also RentMen’s decision to rename escorts “pornstars” was brillant! It saved the site and protected our business after SESTA/FOSTA. I am grateful for them. However…..where they fell short is, where is the MONEY we are SUPPOSED to be making as pornstars??? Now that the game has been renamed, now they have to go to the next step to start letting our ads make money even if we are not actively taking a client. I shouldn’t have to shuffle thru tons of bullshit “so and so viewed my private pictures”, and then still not have made a dime by the end of the week because I hadn’t met anyone in person 🙎🏽‍♂️

Edited November 4, 2021 by Jarrod_Uncut

[jeezifonly]

[+ Tygerscent]

18 hours ago, Jarrod_Uncut said:

Well in a case like this, I would generally just include it in a “near travel” and don’t include any dates. I was actually recently in that area myself. Usually what I’ll do when I’m on tour: just move the whole ad and your home location, to that particular city. I don’t even bother advertising in my “home base city” when I’m traveling because you get the ones who are like, “are you still here right now???” 

This way you just list your “main” location (say you’re visiting Milwaukee but want to include Chicago at a nearby city, just keep your ad in Milwaukee and use Chicago as a “nearby travel city”). Sometimes it helps to include a note like, “open to visit XYZ but I’ll be based in ABC”

One thing I can give credit to RentMen: they are a lot more considerate than how Rentboy was. And like you say, RentMen initially gave out a lot of free advertising time especially in their entry to the game in 2009 (back then it was a quirky site that seemed to emulate Rentboy, but I still seen their potential, and here we are…they are #1). 
 

What made Rentboy inconvenient was that they actually charged to have a travel ad in a different city. Sometimes I’d pay $20 to run a 5 day “gold ad” in a city. Considering I’d sometimes go to multiple cities in a week, that was just pocket draining. I can say RentMen has proven to be a more functional site for the future (and their freeze function is very innovative, I currently have it frozen now because I needed to take a few days off from the biz after going from a shitty week of back to back flakes before getting a couple of decent clients finally). 
 

Also RentMen’s decision to rename escorts “pornstars” was brillant! It saved the site and protected our business after SESTA/FOSTA. I am grateful for them. However…..where they fell short is, where is the MONEY we are SUPPOSED to be making as pornstars??? Now that the game has been renamed, now they have to go to the next step to start letting our ads make money even if we are not actively taking a client. I shouldn’t have to shuffle thru tons of bullshit “so and so viewed my private pictures”, and then still not have made a dime by the end of the week because I hadn’t met anyone in person 🙎🏽‍♂️

What is stopping them from ever doing that is they can’t enforce 2257 compliance~ That requires Signatures, identification add files to be kept in a readily available file box in case the federal government or anybody else wants to check to make sure that everybody is legal age.

[+ Tygerscent]

1 minute ago, Tygerscent said:

What is stopping them from ever doing that is they can’t enforce 2257 compliance~ That requires Signatures, identification add files to be kept in a readily available file box in case the federal government or anybody else wants to check to make sure that everybody is legal age.

Moving my home base is exactly how I got trapped into paying for two profiles. Rentmen would not allow me to move my homebase back into the country if I moved it out. I tend to spend a lot of time abroad… A few years ago, Rentmen wouldn’t allow me to move my ad out of Croatia. It took almost a month to remedy and I had to pay for that while we were sorting it all out~ I know what you’re talking about as it applies to the states though. I’m really happy for your input here and for taking the time to think about these things in different ways. It’s thought-provoking and I think these are things that need to be addressed. There aren’t many other sites out there and I think it’s very easy for people to just sort of give up because there is no other venue. It doesn’t mean that the venue that’s available is right or can’t be improved

[+ Tygerscent]

5 minutes ago, Tygerscent said:

What is stopping them from ever doing that is they can’t enforce 2257 compliance~ That requires Signatures, identification add files to be kept in a readily available file box in case the federal government or anybody else wants to check to make sure that everybody is legal age.

I think that maybe some of the Flake issue could be resolved by not allowing as much access by non registered users to provider’s profiles, pictures and info~ 

 A small annual fee and a privately secured credit card number would decrease the number of malicious acts by stalkers, scammers and others~ 

[+ Tygerscent]

It would also decrease the financial burden that is already being placed on the service provider. You can accrue a lot of overhead by being a sponsor, a platinum boost, a gold member, escort of the day, interview of the day… All of those things they all cost money and can be very expensive especially if you’re traveling to multiple cities

[Jarrod_Uncut]

6 hours ago, Tygerscent said:

I think that maybe some of the Flake issue could be resolved by not allowing as much access by non registered users to provider’s profiles, pictures and info~ 

 A small annual fee and a privately secured credit card number would decrease the number of malicious acts by stalkers, scammers and others~ 

I can reckon that. But at the same time I know there's the "occasional" and "uber discreet" client that browses RentMen as well. It's a thin line trying to get those types to participate in things like memberships and even deposits. That's why I believe it'll be good to come up with a way to get payment, whether monetary or not, per our private gallery unlocks. Like, turn it into a strip club: you want a "private", there's an extra charge for that.

Fortunently RentMen has responded, and it looks fairly optimistic that the site is getting ready to have an overhaul. I'm excited, but long as it's not "too" different to where the whole platform and layout strays too far from what it is. I think so far the platform is great, perhaps they do need to fix the way the photos appear when searching thru cities (like the pics where you just see the top of someone's head or half of the penis because it's cropped to fit within the rectangle). I just advocate that we can be earning even when we aren't actively seeing clients. And non of that "flirt for free" or "webcam" stuff. I ain't got time for that either lol. I know RentMen and Men4rent used to have those functions, but my desire is to be able to spend LESS time on the site...that way when I'm traveling long distances or taking a break at home, I don't have to always feel pressured to correspond or meet a client right away. Each time my private gallery is unlocked, I want to be earning something. Even if it's $5 to $10 per view. 

I do like the auto reply feature on RentMen messenger. I just leave it up 24/7. I don't have to sit and be going back and forth with people. I send my info and my number, and it's up to them to text me to move to the next level. If they don't, then they are either just playing or not seeking a visit that day, therefore I don't need to expend time conversing with them that day. 

 

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by Jarrod_Uncut

[+ Tygerscent]

On 11/4/2021 at 11:59 PM, Jarrod_Uncut said:

I can reckon that. But at the same time I know there's the "occasional" and "uber discreet" client that browses RentMen as well. It's a thin line trying to get those types to participate in things like memberships and even deposits. That's why I believe it'll be good to come up with a way to get payment, whether monetary or not, per our private gallery unlocks. Like, turn it into a strip club: you want a "private", there's an extra charge for that.

Fortunently RentMen has responded, and it looks fairly optimistic that the site is getting ready to have an overhaul. I'm excited, but long as it's not "too" different to where the whole platform and layout strays too far from what it is. I think so far the platform is great, perhaps they do need to fix the way the photos appear when searching thru cities (like the pics where you just see the top of someone's head or half of the penis because it's cropped to fit within the rectangle). I just advocate that we can be earning even when we aren't actively seeing clients. And non of that "flirt for free" or "webcam" stuff. I ain't got time for that either lol. I know RentMen and Men4rent used to have those functions, but my desire is to be able to spend LESS time on the site...that way when I'm traveling long distances or taking a break at home, I don't have to always feel pressured to correspond or meet a client right away. Each time my private gallery is unlocked, I want to be earning something. Even if it's $5 to $10 per view. 

I do like the auto reply feature on RentMen messenger. I just leave it up 24/7. I don't have to sit and be going back and forth with people. I send my info and my number, and it's up to them to text me to move to the next level. If they don't, then they are either just playing or not seeking a visit that day, therefore I don't need to expend time conversing with them that day. 

 

 

I don’t know… Right now some of their change includes tightening up what images you can post on your profile. On the public profile you can only post images that have the profile owner in it and what they are doing in those images is now being regulated. You can post images with other people in them in the private gallery but, there are also conditions evolving around what is acceptable there as well.
 The irony of all of that is, you can post videos of porn movies that you’ve been in that show all of the same stuff. The viewer can see that content by either being a premium member or by asking the profile owner for access.
 Where I see something problematic is, content that is seen in the videos is sometimes exactly what is not allowed to be shown as still photos even in the private galleries.
 There are plenty of paid sites, (even things like Apple Apps etc.), that require all members to provide a name, birthdate and credit card… It is held securely and not open to the public.
 They are not billed anything unless they purchase a specific service and so it doesn’t show up on their credit card statements. 

 Rentmen could do this with non-prescribers as well. It doesn’t mean that they are or have to purchase anything but, it’s effectively decreases the number of scammers, users making multiple profiles and others who are abusing the site and service providers on it.

 I often contemplate what the eventual result is if the site continues to fractionalize the various types of service provision into separate sites… again, it’s something I wonder about not something I have the answers to~
  ?Are service providers then going to have to register and pay for multiple ads in each area so that they are fairly represented in what they market as a service~? If a person is a masseur, a stripper, an escort and Porn Star… Will they now be charged for four areas~? 
 I definitely think you are onto something when you say that some of the financial burden on service providers on RM, can be offset by fairly and duely charging some sort of fee for accessing specific content… As long as some of that goes back to the service provider and not all of it to Rentmen.

 ?Does the site’s liability change if they are doing something to assist the service provider in earning income~? One part of me wonders if that would be a legal concern for them but, I don’t know.

 You could incorporate something like “onlyfans” into it but, I think they already have live camming and I’m not are about the “onlyfans” ran into legal issues recently whatever those were about. 
 
 Maybe, non registered users can get sneak previews of service providers public pix, “about me” and travel content but, must register at some basic discrete level to gain more access to other areas including “service provider off site communication info”~ They would still be able to communicate with service providers via RM email but, they would not have access to Chat or a service providers direct phone number or email address unless they became a registered basic user who has a secure credit card on file, name and address.  
 Users could then use that secure credit card they have put down to gain one time or multiple viewing levels of access to privileged service provider media content~

    I think overall, the situation needing address is safety for service providers and not “nickle and diming” service providers into additional extravagant operational costs to advertise with them~  RM could also utilize their nonservice provider advertising platform to a greater extent… let companies like Butt Brite, ox Balls. IML, Southern Decadence etc purchase more ad space from them~ Maybe have an ad and shop forum as per of their site or have an option/way for service providers to have their own e-commerce area on their profile where they can sell their underwear, leather, prime pix~ 
 Non registered users would see the site with ads and registered users would enjoy the benefits of the site without ads

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[Alex93108]

I am fine with these suggestions as long as RM has some form of data protection/ anonymity for its audience who may be located in places where auditioning pornstars maybe problematic. It would not surprise me that this place may also be a large market. 

[jeezifonly]

Booking apps for salons and other small business might be the solution for those who want to update exact times and locations. Some providers in massage already use them but I don’t see why maybe “availability for auditions” can’t be created and then updated as bookings and/or location get confirmed - link to it via RM? Or paste link into response to serious inquiry via text? I sorta see why it might require expense on the part of the platform to stay in real time.

[+ Tygerscent]

Are serious inquiry appointments secured by a non refundable deposit like women’s salons tend to do~?

 

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[+ Tygerscent]

On 11/15/2021 at 5:44 PM, Tygerscent said:

Are serious inquiry appointments secured by a non refundable deposit like women’s salons tend to do~?

 

I know… it’s humorous but, female courtesans agencies generally have this in m place as a protection for their courtesans and to reduce the number of stalkers and flakey Client requests~ It puts some accountability in place on the part of the Client~