[QUOTE=KatanaBlade;2801919]My three cents on AMP pricing / tipping. Not sure if any of my fellow mongers play poker, but when I'm at the poker table, I love playing with people who have more money than sense. These players have voluntarily donated so much money to me over the years that they've paid for vacations, car notes, credit card bills, anniversary gifts, just to name a few. Why? Because they have more money than sense. Anytime I can take $60 to a cash game and leave with $733, it's a good night. So what does this have to do with the current topic of AMP tipping?
Well, some of us here in the AMP game also have more money than sense. Now I'm on record on this very board for saying I will never criticize a monger for how he decides to spend HIS money. But I have two important questions to ask. 1. Who determined what a "standard" tip for HE, CBJ, and FS was at a AMP? 2. Why can't these figures be "re-determined"? That's not a word, but I'm trying to bring home a point.
You see, in the poker game, many of the players that have sense and know how to play stand to benefit a lot from those who don't. Sure, those players with more money than sense occasionally get lucky, but for the most part, we benefit. But here in the AMP game, no one benefits from the mongers with more money than sense. They actually hurt the game. When I share with my friends the amounts of some of the tipping happening here on this board and others, they all get the wide-eyed look, and they almost always start making comparisons to the monger game overseas.
I understand this is America, but my fellow mongers, if we only knew the real power we hold with our mario coins. If we worked together, we could literally drive down the insane price of Asian p*ssy in the city of Orlando. We hold the power, not them. Think about it. How do you think these tipping rates are set? It doesn't matter what your financial situation looks like, who wouldn't want to get the same quality service for a cheaper price? That's business 101. Sometimes as mongers we like to forget this is business, we like to forget that we are paying for services, we want to think that the providers are "really into us" and that we are "exclusive" in some way, but no, this is business, and will always be business.
If for 90 days we all banded together and laughed anytime an AMP provider said $140 for FS, and continued laughing before getting up, getting dressed, and walking out to go home and spank our monkeys to Rachel Starr instead of forking over that much coinage, guess what would happen? Either they would leave, or they would be forced to take what we offered, which is a more acceptable rate. I feel a FS tip at an AMP should never enter triple digits, especially not after dropping $50-$80 to the house, I don't care how stunning the provider.
Not one monger's wallet should be $200 lighter after 30 minutes of time with an AMP provider. Are you serious? Come on my eskimo brothers. THINK! The more sense we use, the more cents we save. I like that, I think I'm going to coin that. Oh shit, another pun. I joke, but I'm also so serious. We could do this, but only if we band together. I'm not naive, I know it's hard when they've been teasing the berries and they grab the twig on the flip during negotiations. But something must be done. I've been thinking about visiting CB or Lussis in the near future, but there's no way in hell I'm dropping anywhere close to two benjamins on one visit. So I guess that means I won't be visiting. Or, we can take a stand now.
Who's with me?[/QUOTE]Well said brother! This applies to both AMP's and escorts! I've been preaching this for a LONG time! The person with the money calls the shots!