It’s the first and last time I use this agency.
This agency is not trust worthy do not use
I'm sorry to learn about your treatment, but, having had a look at their website, I can't say that it's so surprising. Here's why:
Doubtless you'll have seen several agency websites before you elected to call this one. Presumably you're also familiar with AW - the dominant escort aggregator in the UK. Although there's some variation and debate about what the average hourly rate is in London, it's probably something like £90 - £150 for the majority. Many agencies are, by definition, more expensive than independent escorts, and so you'll regularly see reviews on UKP for agency girls in the £150-£250 range.
The line-up on the Playful site, even allowing for universally extensive photoshop work (itself a warning sign), appears to exclusively contain pretty, mostly young women in very good condition - none of entrants to
The Worst Escort Picture Challenge there. Yet the prices are mostly £110, topping out at £150 for their 'elite' squad - considerably below that of many fairly average independents, in spite of necessarily higher overheads.
The accounts that I've heard over a few decades of listening to women talk about it, is that agency commission is typically between 30-60% of the girls' rate. The mode figure seems to be 40%. Even if we don't know the precise arrangement between this agency and its hookers, common-sense tells us that it will probably be a fair whack. So to look at this site without assimilating all the separate information that we have observed as punters, will lead us into problems.
A good looking, slim and fit girl, based in, or working out of central London, is unlikely to be operating much below the general market rate for long. After all, why would she consciously choose to either earn less or have to work harder than her peers? There may be exceptions to that (say in individual cases of urgency or desperation), but for a whole agency marketing nearly 50 women(?) -
that's just improbable. And that's only considering the headline advertised rate that customers pay, not the girls' actual take from their work. When we factor in the agency commission, even at an uncommonly low rate of 25% - we would have to suppose that, in this case with your Christina, she was being made available for all your depraved needs for just £80 hr (for a possible minimum 1 hr including prep and travel time both ways).
I'm guessing that you're not a UK native (forgive me if that's wrong, and perhaps you're just new here) so you couldn't be expected to know this. But these are some of the reasons that many on this site tend to seek out contact with their ladies directly. It's my experience and apparently that of others too, that agencies don't provide their customers with any useful degree of protection or redress in the event that something goes wrong. Probably the best that can be said for them is that they do provide and publicize useful marketplaces, particularly attractive for the time-poor buyers - and, perhaps to some degree,
they probably also weed-out some of the craziest of the crazies, but this comes at a very steep premium and doesn't offer a noticeable or easily measurable improvement in the customers' experience. For that reason: I'm out of agencies.
But also, thank you for bringing this to our attention. Many biases will have been rightly confirmed. DYOR.
