SD, I know you have given me a reference for a client and I would certainly do this for any of the ladies...but I have called at least 3 ladies for references who haven't replied to emails or voicemails - some clients have only been able to provide one reference - so, if the lady isn't willing or able to return a call/email...unless that client is willing to use other means for verification, unfortunately I am unable to book him...do you have any other suggestions?
Bitches are bitches. Nothing you can do about that. Asking for simple exchange or a phone call isn't anything more than the time we waste on potential dudes. C'mon ladies,

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If people can't put their petty jealousies/insecurities/ etc for the "greater good" that will come back on them. It'll just cost you in the meantime, sorry to say. It will cost them their rent if they want to be stupid about it. You have to remember that some ladies get very pissy about "their" clients.
In particular, I mentioned to an SP friend of mine ( no longer) once that I was seeing "her" client. Well, the look on her face and subsequent behavior afterwards told me there was an attachment and jealousy. She was a friend, not just a casual acquaintance. So I could imagine dialogging with an unknown SP would be difficult. You might not know what her mental problem might be :

I've never been all that big about playing psycho with psycho unless I'm being paid to, or anything else for that matter.
Kerry of Winnipeg is very cooperative, BTW

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I also have personal issues with some women here, but I wouldn't resort to that or to slam them in someone else's company or fuck with their business. Why? I don't want that to happen to me. Totally selfish reasons, but I really only care about me.
I refuse to hunt down a lady for a reference, the potential can contact them to get a hold of me. Odds are they lead busy lives like the rest of us, and cannot be reached at the time it's needed.
Which is why potential pooners should get a "wish list" together and help us out by pre-meeting ladies for future appointments. I'm sure that all women would get why you're doing it. Besides, if the guy phones his regular SP, odds are that they will have to. He would know if she didn't, right? That's where the rent part comes in, they could also loose their business permanently for shenanigans.
You can always post a thread of uncooperative women that we can all add to. Then we don't cooperate with them.
The bright side of this all, I've been running into a few people I haven't seen in a while.
Guys will eventually get tired of having the door slammed on their face and get with the program. I personally slammed about 10 doors on people this weekend. Sorry, guys.
SD