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Most people scan the services list first and understand it last. It sits near the bottom of a profile as a short row of labels, it looks like a menu, and it invites the assumption that everything named is available on demand and everything else is...

The scenario is ordinary enough. A table for eight at a hotel restaurant on Thursday. Two colleagues from head office, a client and their partner, and you, arriving alone at an evening where nearly everyone else is not. Nobody will comment on it a...

VIP is a label, and labels attach themselves to things whether or not the thing is present. Anyone can write the word on a listing and raise a number to match it. The useful question is therefore not whether the premium tier is worth paying for in...

Two things decide whether a Dubai booking runs smoothly, and neither of them is money. The first is how much notice you give. The second is how honestly you have accounted for the distance between where you are and where you are going, at the hour...

Dubai runs on imperfect English. Roughly nine in ten residents were born somewhere else, and the working language of the city is a functional, accented, second-language English that almost everybody speaks and almost nobody speaks natively. That r...

A photo set is a curated document. That does not make it dishonest, but it does mean every frame in it was chosen, and the frames that were left out say as much as the ones that survived. Most disappointment in this market has nothing to do with f...

Two profiles in the same city, both offering two hours on a Wednesday evening, quoting figures that differ by a factor of three. To a first-time client this looks arbitrary, and the natural conclusion is that one of them is overcharging. Usually n...

There is no published price list for this market, and anyone presenting one is either guessing or selling something. What does exist is a set of reasonably stable bands — ranges that most standard bookings in Dubai fall inside, with recognisable r...

Almost every mistake a first-time client makes is procedural rather than moral. They message twelve profiles at once and lose track of who said what. They write three words and wonder why nobody answers. They agree to a time without agreeing to a ...

Most people approach a first booking worrying about the wrong risk. They worry about the meeting itself, and hand over a surprising amount of personal information on the way to it — a full name, a company, a hotel room number sent hours too early,...

Somebody asks you for money before you have met. The instinctive reaction is that this is a scam, and sometimes it is. But deposits are also an ordinary feature of a great many bookings, requested by people with entirely legitimate reasons for ask...

Fraudulent listings are not designed to survive scrutiny. They are designed to convert one impulsive message into one payment, quickly, before anyone thinks about it twice. That is the whole business model, and it explains every single one of thei...