External Link/Members OnlyI booked Brooke after not long after joining UKP and UKE where I was impressed by the quality of her reviews on UKP and posts / media on UKP. It was a helluva long wait (5 months) to August but decided to just put it in the diary and get on with life.
I’m in a job where I travel to see clients so I normally try to tie in a client meeting alongside a long trip and this was no exception and I managed to arrange a meeting in the area and there I’d spend a three hours with Brooke. She was fully aware that I was travelling up for the East Mids.
As usual I checked the booking a week before and after a couple of days she replied confirming all was on but could we reduce to 2hrs. The day before I receive another message saying that she had an infection and could we reschedule (the nature of said infection was of a personal nature, not just a cold, so thought it seemed genuine). She was extremely apologetic and polite about it and offered a new date a ‘mere’ 5 weeks away which I accepted. I bounced the client meeting to the new date (which I’m not fond of doing).
Come the day before the rearrange meeting, I receive another message saying that she had to rearrange flights (Brooke said she was on holiday) and would be too late back now to make the meeting. Contacted me the day after, again very apologetic and promising to make it up to me and what dates would I be free. I still had to make the trip to the North East as I was unwilling to bounce the client a second time.
I send half a dozen or dates to Brooke and ......
Radio silence.
Then I see ‘broken hand’ message on her AW profile. I messaged one last time and have had no response then see the “retirement’ announcement.
I add this review to the other negative as a caution to punters should Brooke come back out of retirement and also to hopefully shame those who have similarly been messed around and who could have posted a negative saving their fellow punters, like me, a lot of wasted time and effort.
So, in summary.
I can’t quite shake the feeling that I have been bounced for a regular or more lucrative booking. To offer restitution and then go radio silent the next day (email was unread) shows a really poor attitude towards clients. I’m wondering if other punters have experienced similar excuses or whether they were genuine reasons or if this lass is just extraordinarily unlucky. I know what I’m believing at the moment
