Everyone who sessions with me has to pay a deposit on the first session. This has always been my policy. I'm not one who likes to open myself up for timewasting.

Subsequent sessions don't require one -- unless you're asking for something which involves my buying something or coordinating elements that will cause me (or someone else) a greater loss that I cannot recoup.

I have no issue with people paying them. Though I did recently have my first person cancel it after the session. As they say: one bad apple... Makes me want to change my policy so this can't happen.

As the wise George W. Bush said: