Confirming via AdultWork

[Swsnapper]

Spoken via text and by AW emails to a WG on tour in my locality. Comms have been pretty decent but when I have asked why booking has not been confirmed on the site, she has said she will "not do this until we meet"?

I'm not sure if that is common practice as new to all of this, but assumed that was the point of the booking system?  I wouldn't be travelling out of my way especially, but don't want to be pissed about either.

Is a booking normally "confirmed" prior to the event - I assume it is?

[d00fer]

For those that have asked me to submit a booking request only a small number have confirmed the booking request before the meet

[Blackpool Rock]

Yeah I would say 60% of the time when I've made an online booking they haven't confirmed it until after.
I think it's their way of getting a commitment from the punter to show he is genuine but won't allow him to leave bad feedback if the punt doesn't go well, basically getting an assurance but hedging their bets.
You need to look at their feedback (even though most AW feedback is a load of shit) and try to work out if they are genuine.
Any doubts then in my experience trust your gut instinct as it's normally right

[Swsnapper]

Feedback looks good in fairness (but could be skewed for the above reasons I guess)!  Bit like the old eBay feedback debacle.... You leave me good feedback or I'll neg you too..

Thing is I'm on a 0 feedback at moment and couple of WG I really want to see who won't accept 0 feedback. So whilst this potential booking ticks a good number of boxes I don't want a punt where I potentially don't get any reciprocated feedback.

[Trevor12]

It's very common. You can't categorise your feedback until they confirm. It stops you leaving negative feedback if they cancel or the booking goes badly. On the other hand, if they confirmed the booking before the meet, you could not show up yourself and still leave them negative feedback, so she could be being cautious.

[d00fer]

Agree with Trevor, plus have a search on here to see how reliable the girl might be in giving feedback since improving your AW feedback is so important to you 

[Silver Birch]

I have also had some where the booking request was changed to 'scheduled' until after the meeting. I guess this probably still means a punter cannot leave a pos or neg rating, but perhaps a wg can confirm that?

[bensonhedges20]

I have found that if it's not a regular and she has not confirmed then there is a bug chance of the booking being cancelled, or a no show, or you being stranded outside a hotel.

This is being ultra negative but it means she can cancel or sub you for a regular or longer meet till your time of booking.

Has happened to me before and it's easy to spot.

[Dani]

AW bookings have two options. Schedule and confirmed. Schedule is to say the booking has been agreed and will take place. Confirmed is for after the booking took place. If you read AWs T&Cs this is how AW expect it to be done. Some do confirm beforehand so they don't forget afterwards but if it has been scheduled then it means booking agreed and will be confirmed after you have arrived
At the time the booking is due to end prossies get sent an email from AW asking us to confirm if the booking took place and that's when we are supposed to confirm the booking

[d00fer]

AW bookings have two options. Schedule and confirmed. Schedule is to say the booking has been agreed and will take place. Confirmed is for after the booking took place. If you read AWs T&Cs this is how AW expect it to be done. Some do confirm beforehand so they don't forget afterwards but if it has been scheduled then it means booking agreed and will be confirmed after you have arrived
At the time the booking is due to end prossies get sent an email from AW asking us to confirm if the booking took place and that's when we are supposed to confirm the booking

Thanks for the info, but there's no way to change a scheduled booking to no booking and from a punters point of view a scheduled booking is the same as just submitting a booking request. There seems to be no positive validation for a punter that a booking request has been accepted by the SP unless confirmed, it automatically becomes a scheduled request.

[west8]

AW bookings have two options. Schedule and confirmed.

Virtually all the girls I have met to date have marked the booking as 'Confirmed' prior to my arrival.

They then need to change the status of the booking to 'Complete' after the appointment has finished before feedback can be left.

Only one girl has ever marked a booking as scheduled - Madlin Moon. I assumed that was due to the fact she was in Hungary at the time and could hardly therefore mark it as confirmed.

[Dani]

Virtually all the girls I have met to date have marked the booking as 'Confirmed' prior to my arrival.

They then need to change the status of the booking to 'Complete' after the appointment has finished before feedback can be left.

Only one girl has ever marked a booking as scheduled - Madlin Moon. I assumed that was due to the fact she was in Hungary at the time and could hardly therefore mark it as confirmed.

There is no way to mark a poking as complete. There is scheduled and confirmed. As I said before scheduled means booking has been agreed and confirmed means it has taken place. If marked as confirmed you can leave feedback and there is NO complete on AW it is confirmed or scheduled only

[akauya]

There is no way to mark a poking as complete.

Nice one 

[Dani]

Nice one 

Oops bloody auto correct. Serves me right for browsing on my phone

[StevenS]

Freudian slit

[trailblazer]

Listen to Dani. She knows what she's talking about and is 100% correct.

I usually find the booking marked 'Scheduled' until after the meeting, when the provider changes it to 'Confirmed', although I've seen it confirmed before the meeting too. On one occasion when the meeting wasn't completed the provider changed it after the 'meeting' so that it was neither 'Scheduled' nor 'Confirmed'. I was able to leave feedback, but not a rating.

[trailblazer]

Listen to Dani. She knows what she's talking about and is 100% correct.

I usually find the booking marked 'Scheduled' until after the meeting, when the provider changes it to 'Confirmed', although I've seen it confirmed before the meeting too. On one occasion when the meeting wasn't completed the provider changed it after the 'meeting' so that it was neither 'Scheduled' nor 'Confirmed'. I was able to leave feedback, but not a rating.

[akauya]

Listen to Dani. She knows what she's talking about and is 100% correct.

I usually find the booking marked 'Scheduled' until after the meeting, when the provider changes it to 'Confirmed', although I've seen it confirmed before the meeting too. On one occasion when the meeting wasn't completed the provider changed it after the 'meeting' so that it was neither 'Scheduled' nor 'Confirmed'. I was able to leave feedback, but not a rating.

You can say that again 

[west8]

There is no way to mark a poking as complete. There is scheduled and confirmed. As I said before scheduled means booking has been agreed and confirmed means it has taken place. If marked as confirmed you can leave feedback and there is NO complete on AW it is confirmed or scheduled only

Just wondering what this is for then:

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[d00fer]

Listen to Dani. She knows what she's talking about and is 100% correct.

I usually find the booking marked 'Scheduled' until after the meeting, when the provider changes it to 'Confirmed', although I've seen it confirmed before the meeting too. On one occasion when the meeting wasn't completed the provider changed it after the 'meeting' so that it was neither 'Scheduled' nor 'Confirmed'. I was able to leave feedback, but not a rating.

But any submitted booking request is 'Scheduled' by default. There's no confirmation that it's been accepted, hence the OP's question.

A 'Confirmed' booking request becomes completed by default when the booking has passed it's start time.

[west8]

A 'Confirmed' booking request becomes completed by default when the booking has passed it's start time.

No, it doesn't. Hence my post above asking how an escort marks a booking as 'Complete'.

[Dani]

Just wondering what this is for then:

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That was at the very beginning of AW. It used to be scheduled and completed but changed to confirmed a a good few years back.
We get an email at the time the booking ends to ask if the booking happened and to confirm the bioking if it did

[Silver Birch]

What language is your auto correct Dani - just askin 

[d00fer]

No, it doesn't. Hence my post above asking how an escort marks a booking as 'Complete'.

I'm about to go to a 'Confirmed' booking. Will see what happens after the punt, not during obviously.

Plus I have every combination of Scheduled/Confirmed and Complete/Not Complete in there

[west8]

That was at the very beginning of AW. It used to be scheduled and completed but changed to confirmed a a good few years back.
We get an email at the time the booking ends to ask if the booking happened and to confirm the bioking if it did

'Completed' is current. This is my feedback page today:

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So how exactly do girls 'mark as complete'?

[d00fer]

'Completed' is current. This is my feedback page today:

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So how exactly do girls 'mark as complete'?

I think by 'Confirming' and the copy is now inaccurate.

[Neal69]

AW bookings have two options. Schedule and confirmed. Schedule is to say the booking has been agreed and will take place. Confirmed is for after the booking took place. If you read AWs T&Cs this is how AW expect it to be done. Some do confirm beforehand so they don't forget afterwards but if it has been scheduled then it means booking agreed and will be confirmed after you have arrived
At the time the booking is due to end prossies get sent an email from AW asking us to confirm if the booking took place and that's when we are supposed to confirm the booking

Thanks for that Dani.

I was not aware of that as I have only seen the "confirmed" on my bookings.

I have always assumed that the idea was that the WG confirmed that the booking was about to take place. When this has happened I have felt confidant that all was well with the booking.

Have never seen the "scheduled" but will look out for it now.

[Dani]

This is what we get options to do. Nowhere does it say complete. It may be different on a punters end but ours has two options. Schedule the booking to take place then confirm it has taken place

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[d00fer]

Thanks Dani, just getting back to the OP's original issue, when you receive a booking request do you have to do anything for it to have a scheduled status?

[Dani]

All we have to do is click the box next to the booking to schedule it.  This means the booking has been agreed and should go ahead as planned.

Sorry the pic was so big I was at work and did it on my phone as didn't have the laptop with me

[d00fer]

All we have to do is click the box next to the booking to schedule it.  This means the booking has been agreed and should go ahead as planned.

Sorry the pic was so big I was at work and did it on my phone as didn't have the laptop with me

Thanks again Dani. I think that this is where the problem might be.

I believe that as soon a punter submits a booking request it appears in the 'Your feedback'. This is immediate and automatic. If an SP then 'Schedules' it there is no notification or messaging to the punter that this has happened.

It's obvious when a booking request has been 'Confirmed' as the rating radio buttons appear. A minority of SP's 'Confirm' before the meeting, more after and some never for all the reasons stated previously.

If this is correct, and I'm sure others will let me know if I'm not, then a punter doesn't know if an SP has agreed a booking request, unless it's been 'Confirmed'

[Steely Dan]

if you look on your "all correspondence" page, you can see if your booking has been read or not.  Then, if read, you might see the word "scheduled" or the word "confirmed".

[d00fer]

if you look on your "all correspondence" page, you can see if your booking has been read or not.  Then, if read, you might see the word "scheduled" or the word "confirmed".

Perfect, thank you

[Butter]

I struggle for clients to fill in the booking form, majority refuse to correspond by email also. Despite my advising on my profile also that I wont give out a number until I have some idea of their being genuine.

[Swsnapper]

Well she didn't respond to my messages this morning as promised and had an apologetic text four hours after the scheduled time.

[anyfucker]

replying to west8 above
i only recently noticed that some bookings were not marked as confirmed just scheduled and was a bit suspicous the booking might fall through, fortunately it did not.
have since paid more attention and noticed this often happens, saw both HTF + Mel (not together!) and neither changed the status afterwards despite it being a good meeting.
So i guess if busy and they have lots of positive feedback they're not so concerned to change the status.

Geeky stuff - the word "completed" is in a string of text and could just as easily be e.g. finished/fulfilled ... whereas the status of the booking is one of two codes
within the database, it might well be a simple letter or number  0 = requested, 1 = scheduled, 2 = complete.
HTH

[west8]

I just went to leave the first ever Negative feedback on Adultwork, but as above the booking has not been marked as 'Complete':

You cannot rate this member as the booking has
not been marked as completed by you or _SweetMONIQUE_

 

[mrhappypants]

I just went to leave the first ever Negative feedback on Adultwork, but as above the booking has not been marked as 'Complete':

 

Yep.  As far as I can figure out the AW system allows the girls so much control over the system that the only way they get negative feedback is if they (a) are not fully conversent with how to manage (manipulate) the opportunity to leave a review, or (b) misjudge a punter who they think will leave a positive. I have been punting for about 2 years (50 punts) now and I have only had one occasion where I had wanted to and could have left negative feedback.  This was because the girl didn't realise how disappointed I was with the punt (deluded) and was keen to get a review.

Dave

[punterstanding]

This is what we get options to do. Nowhere does it say complete. It may be different on a punters end but ours has two options. Schedule the booking to take place then confirm it has taken place

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I think Dani that you can confirm the booking at any time before or after it. Once the booking time is up, as long as you have confirmed it, the punter can leave proper feedback.

After a few poor experiences, I won't go ahead with a booking unless it's confirmed beforehand

[Swsnapper]

This does all seem heavily weighted in the girls favour...

[SUMO61]

Except that we can leave a review here on UK punting, which seems to be very well read, judging by the numbers using this forum.

I'm a default reader of UKP reviews now, trust that more than AW reviews..

[trailblazer]

As I understand it, if you make a booking through the system you have full control over whether it is deleted or not. Even if it's not confirmed, you can leave feedback, just can't give it a rating. Don't see why you can't say something like 'See UKP for review' on the feedback.

The WG can't delete the booking from your 'all correspondence' list, and as long as you don't delete it yourself you can leave feedback (up to one month after, of course).

[Marmalade]

A lot of WGs don't bother confirming on AW and many don't even know scheduling exists.

If I was a prossie and had a booking from from a keyboard psycho no way would I be hitting confirm to give him greater license to spout pish. I always expect confirmation by phone or text or email. The AW 'confirm' is just to facilitate feedback and for facebook junkies who prefer minimum human interaction.

It can, however, at least indicate that there is a human being on the other end of the profile. May or may not be the prossie.