A few days ago Terri Redor from The Floating World posted the following on www.exoticdancer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=37713#post37713

Hi,I publish an online calendar for the feature dancing industry, in which I list the upcoming events for individual features and individual gentlemen’s clubs across the country.

I’d like to publish the calendar of every performer in the business, but
over the past few years several performers have asked me not to publish
their schedules. It seems that at least one agency in the feature booking
business makes a point of calling every club in some girls’ upcoming
schedules to badmouth or even slander them to the club owners and managers.
And the trick sometimes works: club owners who don’t know they’re being
conned end up cancelling their bookings with popular dancers and even
switching agencies.

I know it’s a tough business – but does it have to be one that even the
adult video industry laughs at? Agents in the porno industry have a bad
reputation, but agents in the club booking industry are actually looked down upon out here on The Coast – because of the way they chew up the careers of the girls caught between them.

In listing the upcoming schedules for performers and clubs around the
country, I’m trying to publicize and promote everyone’s business – that
clubs, performers and agencies alike. And my business is also being hindered by the practices of a few criminal agencies, who forget that slander is a crime.

I’m going to propose that the industry hold an open forum on agency tactics
at the upcoming Expo in August. I’m sure that club owners will want to take
part. I hope that performers won’t feel intimidated by their agents and will be able to take part as well. I think that club owners are the key to ending the more egregious fraud practiced by some feature agencies: club owners only become its victim when they don’t have other sources of information to turn to when they hear rumors or slander about features on the circuit.

I intend to work with other publishers and organizations in the business to
provide that information on a regular basis.

Gene sez: I get a follow-up call from “Stripper Chick”

Stripper Chick tells me: “There’s an agency out of Florida and what they’re doing is trying to steal all of the accounts- basically all of the strip club accounts from anybody else on the planet. The problem is with the way they’re doing things. They’re not only going to conventions but they’re going up to girls listed under other agencies and trying to steal them right from under their agents’ noses. They’re also undercutting the prices and calling the clubs saying, hey, we’ll give you two girls for the price of one. And then the strip club is going to go with them because they’re giving them lower prices.

“This has been going on for a long time. They’re also calling the clubs in the middle of a girl’s contract and saying slanderous things that aren’t true like she’s a fuck up, she’s fat, she’s old, she has a bad reputation, she’s a druggie or whatever; and things that are malicious in nature. This has been causing the girls in a lot of cases to get fired. It’s affecting girls livelihoods in the sense that these girls like to put up their schedules on sites like The Floating World and Exotic Dancer. They want to get their fans to come in and see them so they can make money. And the problem is, a lot of girls will not post their schedules because this agency sees where they’re going and calling the clubs and getting the girls fired. Sometimes before they’re even in there. And then they’re providing the replacements.

“They’re trying to get every account known to man and monopolize the strip club business. The problem is they’re stopping to a new low.”