Originally Posted by
sharkskin
On amazon, you can post a review of any product for sale on the site.
If you buy something on amazon from a 3rd party merchant, you can rate them as a seller.
On ebay, buyers and sellers can rate each other when a deal has gone through.
Look at the number of product reviews posted on amazon and compare that to the number of merchant ratings or ebay buyer/seller ratings.
From personal experience, on ebay almost every single deal that I have done there has resulted in the buyer and seller posting ratings of each other.
On amazon, you will see individual merchants who have been active for less than 12 months and have tens of thousands of ratings from customers.
Compare that with product reviews on amazon, you will see things that must sell by the thousand but have just half a dozen reviews.
Rating an amazon merchant or a fellow ebayer is very easy and most folks will do it. Writing a review is a lot harder and fewer people will do this.
Perhaps E-I could try introducing a facility to allow a client to post a quick rating (1 to 5 stars) and see if that would get more clients to give feedback.
As for soliciting reviews from clients, I have two suggestions.
The easy one would be to add a line to your profile stating that you encourage feedback on this site.
I understand that asking a client face to face is harder - you don't want something that sounds as insincere as "thank you flying with us today and please take care when you open the overhead lockers" - but perhaps an escort could just take care to be prepared if the right moment occurs.
At the end of every session with an escort, as I stand at the door about to leave, I always say thank you to the escort for allowing me to visit and almost always I say that I have enjoyed my time. That would be the right moment for an escort to give me a peck on the cheek and say that she likes to see feedback on the website.
That would certainly make it more likely that I would post a review.
I do not think that a formal incentive scheme would be workable but how about sending a pm to a client to say thanks for a review? That would be a chance for you to say "come again" as well.