Incremental Revenue
jackslash
Detroit strip clubs
I don't like to haggle. I'm willing to pay the going price for goods and services, whether at the department store or the strip club. But occasionally I'll try to get a bargain.
Yesterday at the club I was getting a BJ from a dancer I know at the usual price. I knew FS would cost $100 more, so as an experiment I offerred $50. Maybe I would get a deal! But she flatly refused.
It seems to me that the stripper was being irrational. She passed up $50 of incremental revenue. It would have all been pure profit to her since she would not have any incremental costs associated with the revenue. And the job (so to speak) would not have taken any longer. It might even have been over sooner.
Why wouldn't the stripper grab the incremental revenue?
Yesterday at the club I was getting a BJ from a dancer I know at the usual price. I knew FS would cost $100 more, so as an experiment I offerred $50. Maybe I would get a deal! But she flatly refused.
It seems to me that the stripper was being irrational. She passed up $50 of incremental revenue. It would have all been pure profit to her since she would not have any incremental costs associated with the revenue. And the job (so to speak) would not have taken any longer. It might even have been over sooner.
Why wouldn't the stripper grab the incremental revenue?
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Like any service, a provider needs to hold the line on the minimum value of the service. Once you drop the price down for one person, the LCD effect starts to kick in and others start expecting it for the same price. Sure she might sell more if she gave it up for $50, but does she want to do 8 guys for $50 in a night or 4 guys for $100?
Only on tuscl. ;)
Yeah, it's worth $100! $100 is high priced. $50 is cheap.
I have a guess based on your membership here.
And so-called "one-offs" are often the first step to permanent devaluation. Not only can word indeed travel, but taking short $$$ erodes one's own discipline and can lead one to quickly grabbing the short cash even when the better money could be had. Net-net, it is a slippery slope once one starts accepting less for the same service.
+ some dancers may just do air or very little friction dances
+ some dancers allow a lot of two-way LDs but only go as far at that
+ some dancers will do Hiss and stop at that
+ some dancers will only go as far as CBJ
Etc.
Most dancers may have their limits of what they are willing to do or feel comfortable doing and will only go past their limits if there is a good payoff involved.
Just my 2 cents.
I think your dancer is an economics major in college.