Travis #2

[farmdude]

I had to post this because 1) I rely on this site and 2) It makes me sad and frustrated when it is misused.

 

First, this escort has the nerve to post a "new" picture to his reviews, most of which say "he misled people about his appearance". The "new" picture of him is at least ten years old.

 

Second, another first time review of this escort is posted describing him as "younger than 25" and like an "A and F model" give me a fucking break!

 

No one should be fooled by this guy... We each have our own view of what constitutes attractive, but the descriptions in the latest review are simply lies. Yes, I am calling you a liar!

 

A few questions; When you hired your first escort, did you pick someone with mostly negative reviews? When you look at the "new" picture posted, would you say that the individual is "younger than 25"? Would you describe that individual as similar to an A&F model?

 

Hooboy, please add the graphic of the "Avoid this Escort" under his picture... you know, the one with the gun...

[HooBoy]

Who are you?

 

I am spending an inordinate amount of time learning who Travis is and I am going to great extents to see just who these first time reviewers are. If I was in New York, I would spend the money to hire him to put this issue to rest, from my viewpoint.

 

So if you want to step up to the plate with firm evidence backing your allegations, I am listening.

 

Thank you for your participation, but please read the credo of the site. Honest in our judgements and truthful in our reporting. That is the standard for which all members must adhere to.

 

If you want to submit a review and you have firm evidence to back the allegations you freely posted here, we would all appreciate it.

 

Meantime, I am sorry, your post does not hold water, should be deleted and I hope no one pays attention to it. If the moderators want to delete it, they may with my blessing. Otherwise, they can let it stand as an example of how destructive the Internet can be in the hands of people with no scruples.

 

IMHO

 

HooBoy

[woodlawn]

I remember a previous thread started by farmdude on this escort, so I am confused by HooBoy's response here. Contrary to Hooboy's remarks, farmdude did submit a review for this escort, and he has several other reviews on this site to his credit as well. Moreover, farmdude's review agrees very closely with Review #1 submitted by Silver Dollar, a reviewer with many previous reviews to his credit.

 

I admit I don't know what to make of the argument about this escort. As farmdude says, several of the reviews, including some from reviewers with other published reviews, do make the point that the escort's pictures are not accurate. Several other reviewers say the exact opposite. Is it possible that not all reviewers saw the same person?

[Skyyguy]

I think I hired this guy several years ago in NY, well actually I was stuck at the Newark airport. Flight got cancelled, so online I went. Anyhow, I didn't write a review even though everything sounds the same.

It was late, he came down in price, had a mucsular body, but:

 

Was much older then 20's. He had new dental implants or dentured or I dunno what, but they stuck out something fierce. They were really white, but he wasn't use to them yet, he kept slurping when he talked.

 

The hat thing is what reminded me of him before. His hair was long, and unwashed, he didn't remove the hat, even when I asked.

 

I had the same feeling of the other reviewers, he was ok, not as advertised, but after the whole process is started, you just try to make the best of it. I think he used a different screen name back then.

 

If he is so positive that his pics are current, let's see a pic with a current newspaper, like a hostage photo. LOL.

[+ bigjoey]

i am amazed at the "bad" escorts who people keep hiring even after reading multiple bad reviews! my only conclusion is that men (both gay and straight) often just think with their zippers. men seem to lose all rational thought when it comes to sexual pleasure. it's like that old joke that god gave man two gifts: a brain and a penis but unfortunately only enough blood for one to work at a time.

 

god bless this board and hooboy. i know it has saved me from hiring several escorts that would have been a terrible time. what i find amazing is why people even bother with the questionable ones when there are so many good ones in a city like new york.

[Skyyguy]

I should clarify, the info given to me by whatever he calls himself now didn't allow me to cross reference him on the site. The aol addy, and the phone didn't come up on search.

 

So, I figured he was a new kid. Boy was I wrong. LOL.

[KY_TOP]

Taking One for the Home Team

 

I, like many people, may make a decision to hire someone based upon published pictures of the Escort. I know many will not hire a guy that does not have a picture posted so I know how important that is to many when making their decision on whom to hire.

 

I had found Travis#2 pictures of a young toned fratboy to also be attractive and had followed the previous negative comments made about him. After noting again the controversy about Travis' appearance plus Hooboy's concern about fairness to Travis I decided to Take One for the Home Team. Finding myself in NYC with a free afternoon, I decided to contact him to meet for a session and had informed HB about the date I had set to meet Travis. Hooboy has been informed of the outcome of that visit and a review from me may follow.

 

Since this is not a place for Reviews and I don't want to seem mean let me just say here that Travis seems to be a nice guy.

 

BUT... Farmdude is right on the money about Travis' misrepresentation of his appearance and age. Travis needs to be honest about his appearance and his misrepresentation or quit the business. After meeting Travis I completely see why Farmdude wants to warn others about this guy. I was so taken back by his appearance that about all I did was talk with him for over an hour. Again I don't want to appear mean, but the negative comments made about Travis are very valid.

[LovesYng]

RE: Taking One for the Home Team

 

Thank You KY I myself was going to be in NYC in the next couple of weeks and was thinking of seeing him just because of his pic and to see what all the BS was about. THANKS AGAIN you saved me the time & effort :9

 

When in doubt I whip it out :+

[Chuck50]

RE: Taking One for the Home Team

 

KY Nice to see you back in the Saddle again I missed ya. How was the TDay Parade? HUGS Chuck

[KY_TOP]

RE: Taking One for the Home Team

 

>KY Nice to see you back in the Saddle again I missed ya.

 

Thanks trying to start back where I left off. But I wouldn't quite associate my meeting Travis as being in the saddle again. I didn't even get on the horse with him.

 

>How was the TDay Parade?

 

Parade was cool, I enjoyed it but the huge and many times rude crowd sucked.

[BuckyXTC]

RE: Taking One for the Home Team

 

KY:

 

Thank you for lending your trusted voice to this matter. It's folks like you that really make this site worthwhile. You took the bull by the horns and probably saved some participants here the money and aggravation of hiring someone who has obviously misrepresented his wares. I've been very fortunate in only getting stung in such a way once, when I decided to try the "other" agency in Philly (a hint, NOT Premier) and had the agency owner totally mislead me on a question I posed about an escort. I hired the escort, he was precisely what I did not want, we spent the hour talking, and then, in the presence of the escort, the owner asked me "how everything went". Not wanting to hurt the escort's feelings, I also lied and said "OK". I've never used that agency again, nor will I, because if the owner will misrepresent things one time, he'll obviously do it again.

[+ glutes]

RE: Taking One for the Home Team

 

>I've never used that agency again,

>nor will I, because if the owner will misrepresent things one

>time, he'll obviously do it again.

 

Credibility is like virginity. Once lost, you can never get it back...

[Guest SilverDollar]

Having posted the first review of Travis over a year ago (and been trashed by him in his "response"), I was delighted to see him finally and definitely exposed.

 

He may be a nice guy but he is dishonest in his profile, his online photos and in his own obviously forged reviews.

 

Beware, he has resurfaced with a new AOL screen name "CROMBIE FRAT BOY" and a new pic, in the same clothes as his old one.

[+ glutes]

Mr. $ilver, you aren't alone in being trashed here. Just post your findings and let the 'chips fall where they may' is what I've learned.

Welcome aboard, and hope to see you more on the MC!

[woodlawn]

I think we are all used to the idea that clients who dare to criticize escorts in reviews or in this forum will often get trashed by the escorts. What I can't get used to is seeing those clients get trashed by Hooboy.

[HotdadENYC]

>I think we are all used to the idea that clients who dare to

>criticize escorts in reviews or in this forum will often get

>trashed by the escorts. What I can't get used to is seeing

>those clients get trashed by Hooboy.

 

I couldn't agree more. I just read through Travis' reviews, and while I can't say one way or the other if the positive ones were fabricated or self-authored, it is pretty clear to me that there is enough negative stuff to make my worry-counter hit the danger zone. Travis' responses did nothing credible, in my opinion, to counter the negative postings.

 

While HooBoy is certainly entitled to his opinion, I believe it was VERY inappropriate to chime in on this thread and to insinuate that the initial author might have no scruples, etc.

 

If HooBoy has to make an effort to personally verify the validity of negative reviews (or even positive ones), then I'm not sure what the purpose of the review site is. It all seemed pretty straightforward to me: client posts a review, escort replies (if he wants or needs to); end of story. And I already thought a verification process was in place.

 

I don't mean to suggest that escorts are the only ones who post less than truthful descriptions (or responses to negative reviews), but in this case, the chances of several clients having ulterior motives seems pretty slim, at best.

 

I don't recall seeing any of this backlash about Anthony Holloway (who I think is the west coast equivalent of our east coast Travis). Is there something special about Travis that I missed?

 

hd NYC

[tazmanian5230]

I also met this Travis guy a couple of years ago, he clamined he was 24 back than also....

 

I think he was wearing a WIG, he seemed to have some sort of rubber band at the base of his hairline...Not sure what it was, he also had on a baseball cap and would not take it off.

 

He is from Northern New Jersey and drove a corvette which he claims was leased for him by a client...

 

I just saw his pic listed on AOL under screen name "CROMBIEFRATBOY"

 

This is def. the same guy listed under TRAVIS 2....

 

Didnt seem like a bad guy but hes trying to hide something with the hair and baseball cap (AGE?) and hes been 24 for well over 2 years, he also appeared much older than 24 in person 2 years ago....

 

A true CON MAN !! BEWARE !!

[+ deej]

>If HooBoy has to make an effort to personally verify the

>validity of negative reviews (or even positive ones), then I'm

>not sure what the purpose of the review site is. It all

>seemed pretty straightforward to me: client posts a review,

>escort replies (if he wants or needs to); end of story. And I

>already thought a verification process was in place.

 

HooBoy has always validated first time reviewers and bad reviews. It's to prevent the childish and nefarious from stuffing the ballot box. A few will slip through the cracks, for sure, but nothing like the number that goes in the bit bucket.

 

When you make judgements based on what's published here, please remember that you don't have benefit of the years of history that never got published that Hooboy has waded through.

 

>I don't recall seeing any of this backlash about Anthony

>Holloway (who I think is the west coast equivalent of our east

>coast Travis).

 

Actually, Holloway is from Boston and has moved back there. He was just on loan to the West coast for a while.

 

>Is there something special about Travis that I missed?

 

Dunno. Nobody's seen the history but Hooboy. In Holloway's case, we've all been waiting for years for a "credible" reviewer to hire him and clear the air one way or the other. With Travis, we finally have that. (Thanks KY!)

[HotdadENYC]

>When you make judgements based on what's published here,

>please remember that you don't have benefit of the years of

>history that never got published that Hooboy has waded

>through.

>

>

>Dunno. Nobody's seen the history but Hooboy. In Holloway's

>case, we've all been waiting for years for a "credible"

>reviewer to hire him and clear the air one way or the other.

>With Travis, we finally have that. (Thanks KY!)

 

Good point, deej, and I'll keep it in mind. But now that you mention it and since we have to rely only on whats actually published, do you have any suggestions for us for determining the "credibility" of a review?

 

For example, I noticed that Holloway has 30 reviews. Are not a single one of them (good or bad) credible, or not enough of them? What might be the characteristic of this as of yet unpublished reviewer whose credibility is going to clear the air one way or the other?

 

Thanks,

hd NYC

[+ deej]

>Good point, deej, and I'll keep it in mind. But now that you

>mention it and since we have to rely only on whats actually

>published, do you have any suggestions for us for determining

>the "credibility" of a review?

 

What gives ANY review, such as a movie review, credibilty?

 

Familiarity with the reviewer. You've read enough of their reviews, and seen the same movies yourself, to know whether you generally agree with them or not.

 

Apply the same principle to reviews here.

 

When you see someone write a review on an escort that interests you, see his other reviews. Hooboy does us a HUGE favor providing links to previous reviews.

 

I mentioned KY_TOP. He has an IMPRESSIVE string of reviews, and there are many escorts on his list that also appear on my list. I know from reading his reviews that his experiences with the same guys pretty much match what I'd expect. I've come to trust him through similar experiences and can extrapolate from that the likelihood that we'd agree in unfamiliar territory.

 

With some reviewers, you'll find that they write the same thing about every guy they review. What does that tell you? Would Ebert & Roeper say the same thing about every movie?

 

There are plenty of internet sites like amazon.com that provide product reviews written by customers. They are generally unhelpful. They may sway a purchase decision if I've already read credible reviews at Consumer Reports, but that's about it.

 

First time reviews are often discredited around here. Often unfairly, I'll admit, but realistically you can't expected to be a trusted reviewer until you've got a track record people can read. (So get cracking! ;-)) You need to establish your own credibility.

 

Fortunately, and unlike buying refrigerators, the act of building a track record around here can be a LOT of fun. :7

[marc anthony]

>

>Dunno. Nobody's seen the history but Hooboy. In Holloway's

>case, we've all been waiting for years for a "credible"

>reviewer to hire him and clear the air one way or the other.

>With Travis, we finally have that. (Thanks KY!)

 

 

The Holloway case is a little different than Travis. In the case of Travis, the issue is whether or not the escort really looks like his pics. One credible reviewer to pass judgement can go a long way to solve that mystery.

 

In the case of Holloway, no one disputes what he looks like. The question with him is whether he lives up to his promises, or even will show up for given appointments.

 

Even a positive review by a credible viewer would have a hard time adding any real added information to the mix in that case, as it is a reliability issue. And as we have seen time and time again in the case of this escort, even a profoundly negative review by a credible reviewer would not stop some from hiring him anyway, feeling that it will be different this time.

 

:-(

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

> In Holloway's

>case, we've all been waiting for years for a "credible"

>reviewer to hire him and clear the air one way or the other.

>With Travis, we finally have that. (Thanks KY!)

 

Guess you missed it deej. Not exactly an archived review but Boston Guy, IMO a credible reviewer although he really doesn't WRITE reviews, has gone on record in a post about hiring Holloway and having a satisifactory experience insofar as Holloway performed as desired. That doesn't mean that would necessarily always be the case as numerous anecdotes indicate. I agree with Marc that escort performance is behavioral , thus intrinsically variable, while escort appearance vs 'current' pics is nearly immutable within bounds of grooming, dress, etc.