{"id":1,"date":"2016-03-15T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-06-22T18:43:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:43:14","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"A word on advance payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very rare these days that anyone questions the need to make a deposit for booking a session with me. It&#8217;s pretty much become the norm when visiting a Dominatrix, at least in the UK. But recently, a prospective visitor asked me &#8220;what if you disappear with my money?&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10\" src=\"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hazmoneyzz.jpg\" alt=\"hazmoneyzz\" width=\"459\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hazmoneyzz.jpg 901w, https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hazmoneyzz-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hazmoneyzz-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hazmoneyzz-769x1024.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 85vw, 459px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Give me all your money!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Firstly, let&#8217;s look at why I ask for a booking payment&#8230;<br \/>\nWay back in about the year 2000 when I set out on my path as a pro Domme, I didn&#8217;t take deposits on session bookings. This practice lasted all of about 2 weeks, when I found that only around 30% of the people in my diary actually showed up for their sessions. At that time I was hiring premises by the hour and I had to pay for them whether or not my sub showed up. Added to that, the closest place I used was an hour&#8217;s drive away, so it became pretty disheartening pretty quickly and I started to question my decision to go pro.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One day after yet another no-show, one of the people whose place I hired made a novel suggestion: why not ask for a deposit? It would cover both the room hire and my petrol. I scoffed at the idea: who would pay \u00a350 in advance to a total stranger?! But it was that or quit almost before I&#8217;d begun, so I began asking for a deposit. To my joy and surprise, most guys were willing to pay it, and my no-show rate went through the floor! Intermingled with those happy subs though, were a small minority who protested at sending a deposit; they either brought my integrity into question or had interesting and diverse reasons for not being able to get to a bank\/use paypal\/mail an envelope containing a postal order (Postal Orders! Wow, I&#8217;ve not seen one of those in years!)<\/p>\n<p>So, being a somewhat naive 21 year old, I accepted quite a few tales of woe as to why it was IMPOSSIBLE or OUTRAGEOUS for somebody to give a deposit to me, and booked them in on the basis of their assurances that they&#8217;d definitely, 100%, swear-on-their-life turn up for their sessions. After we&#8217;d chatted about them in very great detail of course. And guess what? To the man, they didn&#8217;t show up. A pattern was forming. Now, I&#8217;m sure the odd person out there has a valid reason for not being able to make a booking payment in advance (they live on Jupiter, perhaps!) but by and large I found that those who didn&#8217;t pay a deposit didn&#8217;t show, and those who did, did. Or, at the very least, had covered all my costs and not left me out of pocket.<\/p>\n<p>These days, the second anybody can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t pay my requested booking fee, all discussion is over; they won&#8217;t be somebody I will consider meeting. Even after paying it, the odd sub here and there still doesn&#8217;t show up. For the most part, there are good reasons for this (even if the reason is that he stopped in a layby down the road and was &#8220;overcome&#8221; with excitement about his imminent trampling, or was just unable to get out of the house that morning due to the thought of finally fulfilling his long-held fantasy of being used as human furniture) and even if there aren&#8217;t, and he just didn&#8217;t feel like it and hasn&#8217;t informed me, I don&#8217;t mind because I&#8217;ve been paid for the minor inconvenience. Hey, I even have a few guys who book repeatedly and never show up, and that&#8217;s cool too (by the way, after the first no-show, you pay me the full session fee in full, and you can fail to show up as many times in a row as you like! Please feel free to book in every week if this is your bag!)<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s look at the likelihood of me disappearing with your money&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Word would have gotten around pretty quickly if I was that type of person. We&#8217;ve all heard tales of ladies who do it, but I&#8217;ve personally never met one. It&#8217;s bad for business. It&#8217;s clear to see just from the number of hair styles I&#8217;ve had and the retro outfits in some of my older clips that I&#8217;ve been around a while, even if you&#8217;ve only recently heard of me. Plus, anyway, why would I bother nicking \u00a350 off you when I stand to get 4 times that if I see you for your 1 hour session? I earn far more by being legitimate than I could ever hope to make by being shady, if I was that way inclined. But, quite apart from the moral factors, it seems like a hard and short-lived way to make a buck to me!<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s look at the logic from your perspective, which I actually think is the most important point of all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve just contacted a Dominatrix, a person you have never met before, and you fully intend to show up at a session where she is going to:<\/p>\n<p>kick you full force in the nuts, or&#8230;<br \/>\nfuck you in the arse for the first time, or&#8230;<br \/>\ntrample you whilst wearing razor-sharp heels, or&#8230;<br \/>\npierce your nipples with needles, or&#8230;<br \/>\nperform some other potentially harmful act upon your body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Yet you don&#8217;t trust her not to run off with your \u00a350?! I think, if that&#8217;s the case, you probably have your priorities wrong. A lot more than \u00a350 is at stake when you organise a session with a Dominatrix, and you should do your research and make an informed decision to request a session only with somebody you feel you can trust with both your money and your life.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very rare these days that anyone questions the need to make a deposit for booking a session with me. It&#8217;s pretty much become the norm when visiting a Dominatrix, at least in the UK. But recently, a prospective visitor asked me &#8220;what if you disappear with my money?&#8221; Firstly, let&#8217;s look at why I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/?p=1\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A word on advance payments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sessions","category-slave-etiquette"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwhiplash.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}