When ads say "Ask about my specials"

[puffin]

I cringe when I see an otherwise beautiful picture that seems real followed by the note "Ask about my $100 specials" -- or worse yet an even lower number. I realize there are guys here who would rave about about the woman who gives BBBJ in exchange for a sticky bun and coffee (5 sugars) from Tim Hortons at the Jamaica Station Air Train, but I want to see some indication that the woman has a certain level of self esteem.

Do girls realize that many guys are poring over their ads looking for any sign that they will regret setting up that appointment? Dirty socks, laundry visible behind the girl. After all that's all you have to go on -- or maybe the voice, which can sound like someone from that old show Cops.

Once, years ago, I set up an appointment with a girl who looked pretty in the photo, and I get there ... wow it's her but she's so strung out. My heart just goes out to this girl. She had the looks, but it's like Peaches Geldorf, she's all messed up. I give her money at about the time change my mind. I want no refunds, I understand there is nothing to say, I just need to leave that place. I take the bus home. I wished there was something I could do, so way to fix her without her spitting on me and hating me as a proxy for her own self loathing.

I am in denial thinking that the odds are more than even I will come across someone like my current favorite who has a job and does this on the side. It's not that I want to ditch her, I just know one day she won't be there, so I keep an eye open.

 

[naughtynicole]

there are probably many more gentlemen like you and as well as tons and tons who would go for specials. I can't tell any lady how to run her business but for me personally specials are just not something I would be comfortable offering.

 

[Waterclone]

Specials are a standard form of marketing. If a woman isn't getting as much business as she might want, then she needs to try different things, and while many are hesitant to lower their rates across the board, offering a special can be a valuable tool in increasing your client base. As a matter of fact, I saw someone recently who was offering a special. I might have eventually seen her, or I might not have, but because she offered the special, I decided to see her over someone else. And it was a wonderful time, and since then I have seen her again, at her normal rate, and I will continue to do so.

 

[Slinky Bender]

For me the big thing about "specials" is that they really need to be that - something special. What always pisses me off is when someone's alleged special is just their ordinary every day rate that someone can get anywhere any time but somehow its special because its her.

On the other hand, women should not be affraid to defend their specials. When they have a special price before noon because they never get any business before then and some guy comes in the middle of the afternoon and wants the discount they should not have any problems telling the guy he can come in when the discount applies if he wants it.

 

[genius]

.... but I want to see some indication that the woman has a certain level of self esteem.....

A woman who gives BJs and FS to strangers for money and having a certain level of self esteem is a rather tall order IMHO.

 

[Waterclone]

I think a woman that can get guys to pay her to fuck them deserves a lot more self esteem than the schmucks who have to pay for it.

 

[Monk]

Just a total shot in the dark here, but I'll bet "specials" are an often searched term on escort ad sites. So, the inclusion of it in the copy of the ad—and it's usually buried at towards the end—may simply be there to optimize their search hits.

 

[Slinky Bender]

I dont know if this is still the case but women always used to embed the numbers 80 and 100 in their posts to get guys who were searching for those numbers and then complain when guys called expecting the price to be one of those numbers, which is why they were searching for them in the first place.

 

[TheCauldronNYC]

I am in denial thinking that the odds are more than even I will come across someone like my current favorite who has a job and does this on the side. It's not that I want to ditch her, I just know one day she won't be there, so I keep an eye open.

Wow...what a great thing to say. I'm no one to judge, but always looked it as a means to an end. Pay for college, pay for everything you need to better yourself so you don't have to do it anymore. I've met women in their 50s and 60s still doing it---and maybe its because they love their work--but I have my doubts. This kind of work definitely has a shelf life, and its important to not let it become your whole world.

 

[lovelight]

I get the impression they mostly just copy each others ads.Not all but a good percentage of girls. When I see the words "ask about my specials" I automatically think this b is going to be lackluster ser vice by someone that can't even take the time to create a good ad.

Also I think it makes you discuss services over the phone which I don't do.My personal favorite is "I'm open minded" and you get there to here the list of rules or face the cock block hand in the way.Some of these chick's think "open minded" means quick missionary with a cover

 

[Monk]

LL, the practice of copying text from other provider's ads is more prevalent today than it was years ago. You see all sorts of awful cut and paste jobs on the boards.