Originally Posted by
SpencerTracy
Realistic expectations of what to expect at what price point does come out in the reviews, because it is also a trend. There are providers that advertise PSE with all the bells and whistles at low price points and actually provide at that level. They are unusual, but they do exist and I've been with several over the years. Now I don't expect that every time, and frankly I don't want "all the bells and whistles" in every session, nor do I want PSE every session. As much as some providers don't love them, review trends help set my expectations of that provider at their chosen price point and help me decide with whom I might have chemistry. It's not an exact science, for sure. But I know the alternative of having nothing to go by but the provider's own self-serving advertisements would take me completely out of the hobby, and I don't think I'm alone.
Certainly some providers can survive just by posting pictures and finding guys who don't do research, I'm sure. But I also know providers who have had business expansion because I wrote about our encounter. To each their own on that front.