Feeling defeated
I’m still really new to this business and honestly I’m sitting in my hotel room trying not to cry right now. A guy messaged me wanting to book for 3 hours and said he’d throw in extra because it was last minute. Of course I got excited because that’s a big booking for me, so I started rearranging things and pushing back a couple QVs to make it work. But the whole time he was rushing me, asking a ton of questions, repeatedly asking for my address so he could “go ahead and get on the road,” and I was scrambling trying to get ready. Then when I asked to video chat as part of my screening process, suddenly he slows down and says he’s going to “look up my reviews real quick.” After rushing me the entire time, now he’s apparently sitting there reading reviews about me.
Then he tells me never mind because I have bad reviews and starts listing off all these horrible things supposedly written about me. I asked for screenshots and he wouldn’t send them. The thing is, the day before, another guy got mad because he didn’t pass my screening process and told me to go kill myself and threatened to leave bad reviews on me. So now part of me feels like this “3 hour booking” was fake from the start and maybe it was just the same guy messing with me and getting my hopes up. And on top of that, now my QV is upset because I prioritized what I thought was going to be a booking worth over a grand instead of his $200 QV. I just feel overwhelmed and want to tell him to get the fuck over himself. Almost everyone I’ve seen has either come back or given me really good feedback, so hearing about these supposedly terrible reviews completely threw me off. I honestly can’t even bring myself to look because I’m scared of what I’ll see.
Maybe I’m being dramatic, but this is how I make my money and the thought of fake or hateful reviews hurting my bookings is really getting to really getting to me. Nobody knows what I do, and I just needed to get this off my chest.
Update: I asked a client of mine if he could look them up and said he didn’t find any that it was all bs