Blame it on Rio! (Who's Rio?)
[QUOTE=HumbleHal;6832543]If you don't appreciate my honest advice, then I suggest you go to Spring and ask for Grace and get ripped off also, pay for the full hour and only get a half, and get a lousy lay and no TUMA. Or else you can pay her $280 like she demanded of me. She said $100 was for the house (instead of $80 for the hour) and $180 was for full service with her, and when I refused she said you only get a half hour then.
You have been warned, now totally disregard my experience and advice. Blame me, another senior member, for creating some confusion. I am only trying to help others with an honest but poor experience.[/QUOTE]HHal, you're getting a lot of advice here, and some of it's a bit vague with short statements like "pay all at once", but since I'm not shy about offering an opinion of my own, I'll toss out my 2 cents (warning, I tend to be a bit wordy):
If I've interpreted your retelling of the story correctly, you DID attempt to pay the full price (or at least told that to Grace aloud) in the front lobby area. Then she shushed you and took you to a room where she (I'm guessing) asked for the house fee of 80, but you handed her a Benjamin. Then problems ensued as you've already described. If that's about right, I have the following thoughts and observations that might help you avoid similar pitfalls going forward.
>> The girls do NOT like open conversations in the lobby. Unless they know you well and even then they don't want to hear a dollar figure aloud. At most, you can tell them how long you want to stay, then get to the massage room.
>> If your attendant does ask you how long you want to stay while still in the lobby, and then asks for the house fee, I recommend just saying something like this: "[RED]I'll pay EVERYTHING in the room.[/RED]" They don't usually fight you on this, but if they DO, then assure you have correct change. Getting change BACK from a Chinese provider or mamasan goes against their nature. That would mean money going from [U]their[/U] hand to [U]yours[/U] and they just aren't built that way. I think they break out in hives, or something, if they try to let money go that "wrong" direction. LOL!
>> Never use the words "Full Service", or anything suggestive, with a girl you've not met before. The conventional euphemism, that most all of them understand, would be for you to say [B]exactly[/B] this: "[RED]I have 80 for the House Fee and 160 for [b]EVERYTHING[/b][/RED]" ... and that only gets said, in a quiet voice, in the privacy of the massage room. That word "everything" translates to "full service". When saying that, I recommend you hold the money (tightly) in front of them and don't let go until you get agreement. If your girl is shifty, she'll try to grab it. Don't let that happen. I would venture to say that most of the regular guys here don't encounter shifty girls at these places and most guys won't get any pushback with this approach.
Finally, I will say that if you choose to avoid Spring Massage altogether, and their associated sister-locations, I doubt few regular customers here will mind, as that will only make room for the guys that continue to go there and don't have problems as you've described.