As a druid, I personally don't advertise that I'm porting. I spend a lot of time in EC when my leveling partner isn't on, and I just wait for people to /auc or /ooc looking for port or sow, or to send me a tell. Depending on what times I'm in EC, I can make 1k pp + in a days time. I don't mind doing it for free, especially if you're up front about it and say hey, I can't afford it. Also, if someone is on a corpse run, and they say hey if you follow me to my corpse I'll give you a donation, I'll tell them not to worry about it. I also don't mind taking donations in gp, especially if you're trying to dump weight while going from zone to zone. My bind point is in front of a bank, so if I get too over weight, I can just gate and change it, no biggie to me. Unfortunately, I don't know my way around most zones, so if you ask me to pick you up from some where other then the druid rings and I don't know the zone, I'll be up front with you about it. If it's going to take you 5 minutes to get to the rings, that's cool with me, I'll be there waiting for you. If someone else asks me for a port during the wait time, I'll check with you to see how close you are, if you are close enough that you'll be waiting on me if I do the port, I'll gladly ask the second person if they don't mind waiting until I can get the first port done. I quite frequently will let people know that anytime they need a port, as long as I'm not anon/role (I only do this when my leveling partner is on) I'll be glad to port them anytime.
The thing that actually gets to me is the person who yells wtb port or the person who has seen someone else saying wtb port then yells same, then doesn't actually "buy" it. You answer them, port them, they just say thanks and take off. Yes, most of the time just saying thanks is fine, but don't say or imply that you are willing to pay for the port if you aren't.
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