How do I stop low-cost exam offers from wasting my time on tire-kickers? Put a prepaid exam fee on the table. Treat it exactly like a hotel reservation. The room is held with a card, you are not charged unless you fail to cancel within the window, and then you are billed when you show up. That structure does the filtering for you. The people who were only ever going to graze on a free visit quietly disqualify themselves, and the ones who book have already committed something real. Your free and low-cost blocks were never meant to be a buffet [...]