In The Business of Hobbying
[QUOTE=Milfsalot;2445260]The honorable society of the white knights has struck again. UTR Christina now wants Vegas pro rates. Her skills deserve an up charge but thanks to somebody out there, she has miscalculated the market. Appreciate it. Thanks for messing up a good thing.[/QUOTE]Yeah, a dude goes and sees a girl at a nice rate. He has a great time. Then instead of tossing her a generous tip, he decides to "help her out" by telling her she charges too little and telling her to read BP and see the prices there. The fact that he probably won't see her every again is irrelevant, nor the fact that if he did wish to see her a second time, he certainly would NOT be willing to pay her the higher fare. After all he "helped her out"! LOL. Oh, and never mind no one pays "list" off of BP since most are asking for a "wish" price! Most BP'ers are over-priced anyway, IMHO.
Anyway, [B]no harm or offense intended in any of this post. [/B].
But experience suggests to me that if one really wants to help a girl out, being willing to share her info with the general public isn't the way to go about it. Once you share a number with another "unknown" monger you loose any control and you subject that girl to whomever ends up with her number. While still technically UTR (not openly advertising on CL, BP, Eros or elsewhere) she now becomes in effect "high circulation. ".
Now what I have learned from talking to girls who go this path: in the beginning it is like Christmas for them, guys calling right & left. But some percentage (40%-50%) are just tire kickers, guys who get a thrill out of talking to or contacting the girl but who don't have the gumption to follow through. Then there is a percentage (20%- 30%) who are dudes no girl wants to meet, or the ones that do make a date, but never show up or respond thereafter. So that leaves a small percentage of guys who might actually date her. But for the girl a whole BUNCH of aggravation in getting to those few fellows. Is the process of publicly sharing a girl's number really a help? Does she know what is coming? What to expect?
Now as to the ones that do show up, one runs the risk of one of them being a "white knight" - a dude who pulls the "you don't charge enough" game. But also, girls tell me very few guys actually turn into LT dates. Most apparently like the thrill of the hunt, the excitement of opening a new package on Christmas or just like variety. So is that helping the girl by lining her up with a bunch of one-offs?
But another observation is about girls. Not sure how so many wander into the hobby, but think it might have something to do with "hooking up" being "no big deal" these days. {thank Gloria Steinem, reliable birth control, AIDS awareness and Bill Clinton for this cultural shift, IMHO. } So if hooking up is no big deal, then all a girl needs is something to assuage her guilt. Me thinks couching things as "help" or some other euphemism is key to separating what one is doing from what a drug addict does on the street?
But I guess girls fall into this in some circuitous way and don't realize that once in the hobby, they are really operating a business! As such, pricing in a business is key. So supply and demand right? So if a girl's phone is blowing up, because someone passed around her number, she's gunna see the supply-demand curve from one perspective. Dudes on the other hand see the supply demand curve from the perspective of a HUGE number of girls on BP, Eros, Provider Guide, a plethora of AMPs and the ever changing drama of street. But once the initial excitement of a new girl, who gets posted on some thread, dies down then what does the girl do? Does she stick to her higher rate? Does she start offering "specials?" Does she do some marketing or advertising? Create a webpage?
So in the long run the girl needs to figure out some business things for herself. Not surprising that there might be some stumbles in the beginnings of a new business?
OK, off the soapbox now.