[QUOTE=JohnGSmith;2097939]I've used this tactic quite a few times. But the offer isn't total BS, so I feel I don't lose any integrity points, LOL. I basically say we could occasionally go up on shopping trips out of town and other fun when schedules line-up nicely and etc. While the offer is sincere, the truth is 90% of the girls I talk to never last long enough to go on those type of trips or we simply don't have the personality chemistry to withstand a long car ride and hang out for hours. But for 70% of them it's a very nice carrot early on and makes them feel there's more to gain than just the cash allowance. With some of the short-term SBs / Booty calls, it helps to reduce them trying to squeeze every penny out of you in the initial negotiations.[/QUOTE]Yes, I should probably clarify that it's not a good idea to go around making big promises with early intentions of breaking them. It's just good to be able to dial in to whatever really motivates a girl (and for a lot of them it's to have a shopping daddy, for some of them its a travel daddy, etc) and use that to your advantage. I'm actually very straightforward about what I'm looking for and what's possible in my profile on SD sites. The times that I dangled the shopping carrot, it was usually to mitigate a situation where I had already spent some money wining and dining a civvy, yet saw things headed toward a no-payback situation. I've never told an SB I would take her shopping or traveling and then let her down.
If you're the type that actually does like going shopping with women, it's really an extra card you can play to your advantage. Yes sometimes lingerie peekaboo shows or sexy clothes with a *new* girl can be fun (key word being new), but the shopping should always be a reward *for something she's already done*, it should never be the dangling carrot to motivate her toward good sexual performance, because it is essentially giving her a bag of carrots and letting her eat half of them all at once -- she won't be as hungry for a while. What's more, her other boyfriends will also be enjoying her in the lingerie you paid for whether you realize it or not.
For me, actually going shopping with them is something I might do if I didn't already have a GF (thus didn't care about being spotted in places like malls), did it as a reward for past performance, and knew the girl was someone I really wanted to keep around. Just remember the act of going shopping with them alone is a gift. My current girlfriend loves it if I go to the mall with her (which I avoid like the plague), even though its her own credit card that comes out when its time to pay. She is just thrilled to have me present at all. It's almost like a status symbol for them to have a man willing to go in these stores with them and wait around.
The one thing I would say, if you are the type that likes to take them shopping, know your girl quite well before you do, because there is always the chance that she will try to go nuts with the spree (remember shopping is kind of like a gambling addiction for some of them, and they may not be able to control themselves). What you don't want is for her to come away from the shopping event feeling disappointed about her net bounty from the expedition, because if she does, the shopping has done more harm than good.