How booking works

Nobody takes your money until somebody has said yes.

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You ask

Pick a name, give the date, the place and roughly what you had in mind. You can ask as many people as you like about the same night.

costs£0· no card · no commitment

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We check the diary is really free

Not “probably”. The date is held against their actual diary, so two people cannot be sold the same Saturday.

typically about 0 hours

03

A person names the figure

The whole cost, itemised — fee, travel, anything else — with what is included and how long the offer stands.

04

You pay, and that holds it

Paying is what makes it a booking. Cancel and what the terms say is yours is returned to the account you paid from — a person sends it, so allow a few working days.

The four things we will not do

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Charge you to ask, however many people you ask.

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Show a name as free when the diary says otherwise.

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Give you a range and call it a price.

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Keep a penny of a cancelled booking that the refund terms say is yours.

Common questions

It is where that person starts, never the whole bill. The final figure depends on the date, the place, the length and what you are asking for — a person itemises it, and you see it in full before anything is charged.

It means their diary is full up to the date on their card. Ask about a date after it, or ask anyway and say the date is flexible — a person reads every request, and runs of dates do open up.

As far ahead as you can. Each occasion page says how far out people book that kind of night; popular Saturdays go a year out. A short-notice ask is still worth sending — say so in the first line and it is read that way.

Yes. Send a request for each — every one is priced on its own, because every one is its own conversation with a different diary. Asking costs nothing, however many you ask.

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