Before PERB

shaunbal

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Before I used PERB I would just see a sp l I thought might be good ,maybe talk on the phone to feel her out , and 7/10 times I would get a really nice sp, some of the best I had were before perb , anyone have any similar stories ? I think most people in general are pretty good people
 
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Way back before Perb there was Georgia Straight, Buy n Sell, Courier to name a few advertising options. Left more to the imagination, and required a more TOFTT spirit. I do like the review section perb brought about though. Transparency.
 
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I agree Punt but.....always hoping reviews ARE written by real reviewer clients and not by the " handler/competition/ affiliation etc.

Way back before Perb there was Georgia Straight, Buy n Sell, Courier to name a few advertising options. Left more to the imagination, and required a more TOFTT spirit. I do like the review section perb brought about though. Transparency.
 

shaunbal

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The reviews are wonderful , most of the time they are very accurate , sometimes I still see sps without seeing reviews and feel them out thru text, got lucky a couple of times
 

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Before I used PERB I would just see a sp l I thought might be good ,maybe talk on the phone to feel her out , and 7/10 times I would get a really nice sp, some of the best I had were before perb , anyone have any similar stories ? I think most people in general are pretty good people

Sure glad we don't have to bring about a true 'study' of such things... because there is nothing that beats the power of nostalgia for how it was long ago.

I can remember many dozens of true stunners who were usually dressed to the nines standing out on Richards and Helmcken and Seymour and Nelson... where just one walk around that block would (make you want to keep circling). (if you were really fortunate, you'd get hungry and decide to dine at the diner on the corner of Richards and Helmcken, right across the street from Madam Cleo's) (The views there were incredible, and sometimes the atmosphere would move inside)


Beyond that, though, the whole online review board tends to work quite efficiently since it greatly reduces surprises which were so often the norm for those who merely phoned escort services whose only advertisements were dark silhouetted female outlines against The Yellow Pages.

Today, a random pooner might read some long-ago mention by today's working girl of some shared interest... and decide there and then that he's interested in meeting her just for that possible commonality. And typically such inspired encounters are bound to go better than might the semi-fearful John pulling up to the curb along side some random female form who has been purposefully hiding in the shadows who is then already in the car when it becomes abundantly clear that she is a drug addict.

You are very on-target when perceiving most people (connected with this business IN this format) to be pretty good people... and authentic in presenting themselves as they are. PERB affords the chance to even better match likely prospects to hit it off with one another (in the pay-for-play arena, I mean)... so it is only those who won't do any research, or who are too drunk to do any research, who are disappointed.

BUT, be that as it may, there are still moments when I wax nostalgic for street scenery in front of the Hotel Georgia decades ago.
 

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Georgia high track was better than the Richards one. Richards and Seymour had more obnoxious upsellers.
Gary Taylor’s and the Penthouse or Dino’s in Calgary were the best. You could at least talk for a bit. Safer for both too.
No fake pic issues when dealing in person!
 

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This day and age I am glad Perb and the other review boards are out there with all the fakes these days. I will admit, in my younger days, I was a lot more adventurous and prefer playing it safer in my bronze years. That being said, in the days of yore before review boards, it seems to me that there was a lot less fakes advertising. Even when craiglist was around, I seldom got burned as long as I used my big head. These days I don't trust anyone without a reputation.
 

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I remember the days we only had adds on the back of the straight newspaper. It was always hit and miss
 
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