Stage Tipping Etiquette/Protocol
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I am hoping to learn what TUSCL contributors consider to be proper stage tipping etiquette/protocol.
Even if I am not sitting at the stage, I feel obliged to periodically tip strippers at the stage a buck for their show. I don't tip all of them (probably 1 in 4) as I would be constantly going back and forth. Might as well sit at the rail. I feel that since I am at a strip club and not just some bar I should tip something. But I am starting to think that I should consider the stage dance as just the stripper marketing for private dances.
Reading comments on here leads me to believe that I should only tip at the stage of it is to get the strippers attention.
What are your thoughts? Also, are strippers appreciative of one dollar stage tips or do they consider a custie that tips 1 dollar to be cheap?
I've been SCing for 25 years and am rethinking my SOP ( standard operating procedure ).
Thanks.
Even if I am not sitting at the stage, I feel obliged to periodically tip strippers at the stage a buck for their show. I don't tip all of them (probably 1 in 4) as I would be constantly going back and forth. Might as well sit at the rail. I feel that since I am at a strip club and not just some bar I should tip something. But I am starting to think that I should consider the stage dance as just the stripper marketing for private dances.
Reading comments on here leads me to believe that I should only tip at the stage of it is to get the strippers attention.
What are your thoughts? Also, are strippers appreciative of one dollar stage tips or do they consider a custie that tips 1 dollar to be cheap?
I've been SCing for 25 years and am rethinking my SOP ( standard operating procedure ).
Thanks.
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Another question a buddy of mine keeps asking. After he has fingered a girl on stage he asks "are we allowed to do that"? :)
If $$$ was no issue for me; then I'd be more generous – but since I have a budget I need to stick to then I feel I gotta use my funds for what I like and not just spend $50 per visit tipping out of obligation.
Additionally – it may seem like the benevolent thing to do to tip every girl – but at the end of the day most dancers would not do shit for us unless we are paying them.
I'd say it's ok to stage-tip just to stage-tip and it's ok not to state-tip just to stage-tip – whatever makes a PL feel good.
If a dancer spends some time with you than you should tip but only if its your choice that she is hanging with you.
well you don't know enough about stripperweb then because they would want you to add a zero after that 5!!!! lol
That is about what I do and it is usually with the regulars that I see.
:)
If you're sitting anywhere else, tip however you'd like. You'd like to get a girl's attention on stage, or just express some appreciation, go over and give her a few dollars. Or not. If what you feel like doing is sit at the back bar buying beers and just watching the show for free, that's what you should do, there's nothing wrong with it, it is part of the business model. Some of the girls will hate you, but they're incredibly entitled anyway, and that's not your problem, just realize you could be a target for harassment.
I found myself trying to tip most of the stage dancers (3 out of 4) but that's a PITA to have to get up from your seat, tip, then return back, so largely I don't bother unless I'm really enjoying it. I find I stage tip $36-44 per visit all told. Now, I just plan to "tip however I like." Some dancers will hate it, but IDGAF at this point. I'm there to enjoy myself.
I find stage tipping, at least at my home club and geography (in Ohio) just confuses the dancers and makes them think I'm showing interest and want them at my table and/or want dances . . which I have no trouble declining. I'd rather save some of that stage tipping money to load up my CF and get her ready to go.
For me, the greatest $$ value in the SC visit is tipping for time and buying drinks at my table with a dancer. I get more mileage and latitude at the table than in the LD area, tbh.
In case you don't know lopaw is a chick and I think perhaps why the dancers thought she was just there to stage-tip b/c IME that's what a lot of fem custies do at the SC.
I tip a dollar if I'm at the rail. Otherwise I'm often too lazy. If there's a new dancer every 5 mintes, it's $12 an hour.
I do leave the rail for a drink or restroom or just check my phone when dogs are up.
Any girl I have seen more than once in a club will usually just stop over, without any tipping involved.
I rarely sit stage side, and would have no problem randomly tipping a few $1's here and there, but guess my only problem with randomly tipping girls you're not interesting in VIP with is them stopping by your table, then somehow politely trying to get the point across that I was just tipping to be nice, but am not really interested.
Actually did know that, but I DO appreciate you taking a moment to clarify - thank you. I caught many if her archive posts on SW, and saw that she had s pink ribbon there prior to me coming here (sadly incl. her goodbye posts as she seemed to stop feeling welcome there). It's just not custy friendly there, esp. for a female that I can see.
I do agree that tipping nearly every stage dancer (in my club) just to be nice does seem to confuse the dancers or at least set up the wrong expectation with them.
For me it makes each dancer feel that she thinks I want her to sit with me after her stage set. Which isn't what I want. If I do want that, I explicitly tell her while I'm tipping her or I'll make eye contact while she's walking the floor.
I don't mind declining the dances. But all it does is waste her time (really) and cockblocks/clamjams another dancer from sitting down that I DO want.
With all of that said: I DO shop for a girl on the tip rail often. I will tip her $20 in her stage and tell her I want her to sit with me. Then I aggressively guard my space and wait for her to finish her stage, freshen up, and find me. I get her a drink, get her buzz going, then the fun starts while we talk. ;-)
I think a lot depends on your reasons for even going to a club. One that is going to just kill some time and scope some naked women, likely won't tip the same as one trying to hook up OTC.
It also depends on the club. It is common in my area for a dancer to do the "tip walk" after her set. So you I much tip them all for their stage dance. No more than a buck or two. Now if I see my Asian hottie dancing on stage, I'll walk up and tip her $% or $10, making pretty sure she sees in wasn't a buck. When she tip walks, I tip more and ask her to come back and see my for the LD room. If she returns, she will make the bigger $'s. If not, there are others. So bottom line, I tip her for her stage dancing about the equivalent of a single private LD. :)
The ideal is to hit that happy medium sweet spot. Get her attention, yet not spend all your money.
And welcome to TUSCL!
I never sit at the tip rail.
But if I find a girl I'm interested in, I will walk up to the stage and give her a tip and ask her to come see me after her set.
Most of the girls in the clubs I go to consider $1 to be cheap. So I usually tip at least $5 or $10.
But, again, I'm only tipping the ones I might want to take to VIP.
Makes for entertaining reading and some pearls of wisdom when you recognize who to disregard due to their bloviating.
You picked the wrong person to mess with. I'm gonna troll your ass so hard.
LOL. You like guys' asses?
You assume I care what you think. You seem to be the one getting sore that I point out your obvious BS. A little insecure?
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