Escort Charges

[bigvalboy]

For me, it's a business transaction, nothing more. I have asked myself, would the escort call and just want to hang out without the exchange of money. Some do...most don't. At the end of the day, it's my money to spend how I see fit. My philosophy...don't fall in love. Someone has to bring more to the table than a backpack, a cute face, and a nice chest. The days of paying some guys rent, car payment, and someones travel expenses so that they can have a vacation on my dime, are long gone.

[+ glutes]

The days of paying some guys rent, car payment, and someones travel expenses so that they can have a vacation on my dime, are long gone.

 

Well it sounds like one particular escort isn't get that Private Jet ride, one-way or roundtrip...

[down_to_business]

I don't quite understand why you have stopped hiring so much. Going from 5000$ to 500$ is a huge gap - it doesn't really make sense to me that the $300 price point would be the cause of this drastic shift. With the normal $5000 you used to spend, couldn't you just hire less frequently at the higher rates?

 

I would like to understand.

 

I pmed you with the specs but for those interested in the general (and I will be the first to acknowledge most could care less), with no original first hire, there are no subsequent overnights and weekends when I (used to) meet an escort I really do click with. That's why the dramatic drop in spending materialized so quickly.

[bigvalboy]

Well it sounds like one particular escort isn't get that Private Jet ride, one-way or roundtrip...

 

Certainly not. The Cessna stays parked. One word....#Uber

[Flynn]

Benjamin Nicholas, welcome! Noah Driver has told me so much about you, glad you are here on this Forum. I am hoping you two reignite your tour this Spring , guess the Fall tour on petered out. During my numerous trysts with Noah, he kept referring to you as Big Ben, guess he can handle your mandingo too.

BTW, thanks for leading me to "ND". Your reviews of him are quite accurate, including the passion.

See you this Spring!

[+ José Soplanucas]

I pmed you with the specs but for those interested in the general (and I will be the first to acknowledge most could care less), with no original first hire, there are no subsequent overnights and weekends when I (used to) meet an escort I really do click with. That's why the dramatic drop in spending materialized so quickly.

 

I do not do overnights, but I think something similar would happen to my escorts budget and I would just stop hiring should I had not alternatives. For one simple reason, an hour of sex does not worth 300.

Fortunately we do have alternatives. It is easy to find excellent providers by 200, and not so hard by 140/150.

[TopTierTop]

Over the years, there have been many threads on escort prices. It always comes down to the same results: if you can not afford them, move on; if the escort can not generate business at the higher prices, he will lower them. It is a very pure market of "supply and demand."

It really is as simple as this.

 

I feel very comfortable that my rates reflect the value of the service provided, and the fact that I have not had to consider reducing them to attract enough business tells me that I am pricing correctly. I can't imagine anyone would suggest that I should voluntarily charge less than my clients are already happily paying.

[TopTierTop]

Or statements like As if there's some empirical amount that a session with any given escort is worth. Again, if you can't pay it or if he's not to your taste, move on. It's one thing to say "he's not my cup of tea" but to say that "he's barely worth 200" is crude and presumptuous.

 

Kevin Slater

Amen!

[TopTierTop]

That probably supplements his social security check.

Hahaha!

[TopTierTop]

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http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/375927143/the-secret-history-of-thoughts

 

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What is the deal with this podcast? I have never given it a second thought when I see it pop up somewhere, now this is twice in one day that someone has insisted that it is a must-listen. I guess I need to find out what the fuss is about.

[Beancounter]

And, of course, there are the escorts who adjust their prices based on which city they are in. I understand some cities are more expensive than others but it's frustrating when the onus is on me to keep track of your travel city rate structures. When I view the view the escort's ad and it says $250 that's the price that sticks in my mind. How am I to know he's in San Antonio and it's a $250 city but when he motors on up I-35 250 miles, viola! Dallas becomes a $300 city. Most times the escort won't change his price until he's actually in the city but by then I've most likely scheduled his time when he was in the cheaper city and I have no need to revisit his ad.

 

And then there are a couple of my longtime hires who email me that they'll be in town and ask if I'd like to meet. Most often I say yes and schedule time. I seldom, if ever, look at their ads because we've met many, many times before. One longtime hire sprung his rate increase on me after the fact which pissed me off because I then had to go to an ATM and return with the difference. Had he mentioned it before hand there wouldn't have been a problem. I should mention he's now a former longtime hire. Problem solved.

 

Both of these problems have been discussed before but they're still pet peeves of mine.

[TopTierTop]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I frankly believe that you are nothing more or less than a commodity. Yes, I enjoy some escorts more than others but you are all in this as a business and money maker. You are selling something which in this case is your body and I view this as a merchandise.

I'm sorry, but if all you have gotten out of experiences with escorts is a rented body, you have been meeting the wrong ones. Not to worry, though. There are plenty of us who are much more then a body for sale and would be happy to prove it!

[MikeyGMin]

One longtime hire sprung his rate increase on me after the fact which pissed me off because I then had to go to an ATM and return with the difference

I think that's a reasonable reaction. I would have been ticked me off too. It's bad enough not having the rate grandfathered, but to not even mention it ahead of time is pretty sloppy on his part.

[Kevin Slater]

And, of course, there are the escorts who adjust their prices based on which city they are in. I understand some cities are more expensive than others but it's frustrating when the onus is on me to keep track of your travel city rate structures. When I view the view the escort's ad and it says $250 that's the price that sticks in my mind. How am I to know he's in San Antonio and it's a $250 city but when he motors on up I-35 250 miles, viola! Dallas becomes a $300 city. Most times the escort won't change his price until he's actually in the city but by then I've most likely scheduled his time when he was in the cheaper city and I have no need to revisit his ad.

 

Which is one thing I loved about rentboy; you placed a different ad for every city. Other escorts bitched about that, but for this and many other reasons it made sense.

 

Kevin Slater

[TopTierTop]

And, of course, there are the escorts who adjust their prices based on which city they are in. I understand some cities are more expensive than others but it's frustrating when the onus is on me to keep track of your travel city rate structures. When I view the view the escort's ad and it says $250 that's the price that sticks in my mind. How am I to know he's in San Antonio and it's a $250 city but when he motors on up I-35 250 miles, viola! Dallas becomes a $300 city. Most times the escort won't change his price until he's actually in the city but by then I've most likely scheduled his time when he was in the cheaper city and I have no need to revisit his ad.

 

And then there are a couple of my longtime hires who email me that they'll be in town and ask if I'd like to meet. Most often I say yes and schedule time. I seldom, if ever, look at their ads because we've met many, many times before. One longtime hire sprung his rate increase on me after the fact which pissed me off because I then had to go to an ATM and return with the difference. Had he mentioned it before hand there wouldn't have been a problem. I should mention he's now a former longtime hire. Problem solved.

 

Both of these problems have been discussed before but they're still pet peeves of mine.

Interesting. I have never even counted the money handed to me by a client until I am already back home or wherever I am staying. My assumption has always been that they will happily pay my normal rate, and so far that is exactly how it has worked out. Besides, I like those little surprises when I get home and it is MORE than I was expecting.

[AdamSmith]

I mean rentmen is a great site, but its kind of like your paying for the name much like a rolls royce or an apple product. You can find escorts on other sites for half the price. It's just you'll have to dig a little harder to find those gems. Rentmen is great however that you can find whatever "look" you want on that site as they are so many escorts and you can filter it to your specific needs. And you'll be shocked sometimes that 150/200 dollar escort can give you the same BANG for your buck as a 250/300 one

Also: escorts I hire off backpage here in RDU, NC tell me they get ten+ times more volume business off BP than RM.

 

They are the same quality providers no matter which source I find them.

 

The industry is changing. In ways that are only positive in the opinion of escorts I see and know.

[Kevin Slater]

Also: escorts I hire off backpage here in RDU, NC tell me they get ten+ times more volume business off BP than RM.

 

Wait, wasn't BP just shut down or something?

 

Kevin Slater

[MiamiLooker]

Yeah I think they shut it down, but they have a new "dating section" where people now advertise there lol

The BP dating section is not new. I've always seen a few adult ads hidden among the others there. Now, there are a lot more adult ads there.

[MiamiLooker]

And vice versa there are some clients who can virtually afford any price possible.

Yes, there are some clients that can “afford any price possible” but they still might expect the service to match the price. Just because a client can afford any price doesn’t necessarily mean the client is going to blindly pay $300 when the client knows the same service is available elsewhere at a much lower cost.

[+ Keith30309]

I've seen a noticeable increase in RM profiles and noted some as being formerly on BP. I suspect that the BP change was a windfall for RM.

[pubic_assistance]

As was mentioned above. Prices vary on many other services, from massage, to floral arranging, to making you a hamburger. How much any service provider charges, is his own business decision, that is raised or lowered according to how broad of an audience he wishes to market to. In NYC for example, there are plenty of wealthy individuals, who can pay high prices to get what they want, so if you're particularly attractive or talented, you can pretty much pick your price. I would point out that I have occasionally hired someone who was particularly attractive to me, at a rate higher than I prefer to pay. If, I enjoyed the encounter, and I get a message from the young man to see if I'd like to book another session, I have responded, that although I did enjoy his company, the price is a bit out of my range for a regular thing. At that point, there's a split between, "ok, thanks, I understand", and "ok, no worries, I'd rather have a regular customer who I like, rather than the extra $100."......so in MY experience, if you treat a service provider well, and maintain a friendly relationship, they may back into your budget as an easy booking, over that next new rich stranger.

[corndog]

Pricing is a very complicated issue.

 

I suspect that a lot of the guys who charge $500/hr are doing it as a side gig and have another main source of income. They're happy if the get 1 or 2 clients a week.

 

On the other hand, a guy with pricing at the low end of their market, say $150/hr, might be able to do 3 or 4 appointments a day, and take home $3000/week.

 

All of this also depends entirely on how the escort's looks/personality/services fit into their individual market.

[+ glutes]

Benjamin Nicholas, welcome! Noah Driver has told me so much about you, glad you are here on this Forum. I am hoping you two reignite your tour this Spring , guess the Fall tour on petered out. During my numerous trysts with Noah, he kept referring to you as Big Ben, guess he can handle your mandingo too.

BTW, thanks for leading me to "ND". Your reviews of him are quite accurate, including the passion.

See you this Spring!

 

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[+ VictorPowers]

Supply/Demand. Those providers clearly charging too much will see their demand drop. It's simple economics. If they are too unrealistic with their market and pricing, I bet they will disappear sooner rather than later.