[QUOTE=DarkRoomDaddy;6355570]Dentistry is legal in the US, but an implant might cost 10 times what it costs in Mexico, Spain, Turkey or Poland. Apartments are legal in the US, but an apartment in an EU city might be $600 while its $1800 here.
I think the thing is that we have a classic supply-and-demand situation. We are the demanders and the local girls are the suppliers. Some shops realize they make more money by keeping their prices low ($40) but make it up in volume, whereas other shops charge $50-60, but they sit around checking their social media many more hours per day.
In the same way with the services provided by the girls, they have upped their prices. By themselves for no other reason than they wanted more money. They talk about inflation and other bullshit, but they don't experience inflation. They are working 6 days a week and sending their money to China. They are not paying rent, buying cars, going on vacations, etc.
So (as has been discussed here several previous times), we need to do the same thing, and work collectively to lower prices. I do it all the time. When they tell me high prices, I get "sticker shock" and turn things down. I am willing to not book in a shop charging too much. I tell girls and PPS's I would be here every week but since your prices went up, now I come once a month. This is an effort to provide a feedback loop to let them know they need to do a course correction, otherwise they can sit around with no customers more often, and their bottom line will suffer.[/QUOTE]Pricing theory is a subject by itself. People have masters degrees in that stuff. One basic principle applies to everything though, and that is "pricing is whatever the market will bear. " As a small business owner, I can tell you that I'm going to charge as much as I can before it starts causing customers to stop coming. If I raise prices and don't lose any business, I'm going to raise prices again. For that matter, I can raise my prices and lose 10-15% of my business, but still make more money by serving less customers because the price increase more than offsets the lost customers. And most of the lost customers will come back eventually because the prices of everything else went up too. I'm sure mongering places are the same. If the girls can make just as much money or more by seeing only 9 customers a day instead of 11 or 12, they'd be all over it.
How do we combat that? We don't really. We can talk about not giving in to demands of higher tips, but the reality is we on this board represent a small slice of their customer base. Whatever we do here will have fairly minimal effect. It might delay the inevitable just a bit though.
