Ok so my mongering tour of duty is being stifled somewhat by my inability to speak Mandarin. There must be people out there willing to set appointments up on my behalf for a price, but I'm having a lot of difficulty locating said people. If the English speaking agents had a walkin office, would be easy as pie, go in, chip them some money and done. As it stands I only have the phone contacts for English speaking agents, so while they're suitable for the job, I don't know how I would go about paying them for their services.
So does anyone know of a walkup girl who has a decent level of English? I'm figuring a walkup girl would be more than happy to take five minutes to ring some numbers if you paid her accordingly (I think this would be an ideal option). Anybody aware of any other options that might be open to me? I should just ask, but do the foreign guys trying to sell you watches and crap speak Mandarin? If so they may well be willing to book an appointment for a fee.
I think I could get the papasan at 8MK to do some bookings for me, but he has his own operation, so if I was there to see one of his girls sure I'd ask, but wouldn't feel right going in there for the express purpose of getting him to organise a booking with a competitor..
What do people think a fair compensation would be for organising an appointment? I'd probably pay $50, perhaps too much but I'd be happy to have finally found someone who could help me out.
The other consideration is the Mandarin only phone appointment girls may well not want to see Western (non Mandarin speaking) clients. I don't know how common this would be, but would still need some Mandarin speaking agent to establish this.
I've sent a few SMS messages using google translate, but no responses. I'm not sure if the girls are hesitant to accept bookings via SMS in general, or if my translation is a bit off, so they can tell I'm a gweilo

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In the meantime I'm going to search for some English speaking girls in the DB, problem is they might list English, but still have a very poor level of English..