Stripping must be paying well now.

It's considered a basic necessity now. However I only spent a little over 200 for my phone. I read average Americans live better than kings from 100 years ago. They had no air conditioning, no cars, no radios, no phones and probably no showers, just bath water and straw beds. I prefer everything I have now over what they had.

Spend $800 on a phone, ask a PL for money for the monthly payment after it gets shut off.

I'm not up to date on the latest and greatest but what phone costs 800-smacks?

Having the newest and latest cell phone is very, very low on my priority list, I still have the iPhone 5 (and I love it) and I won't stop using it until it stops working

Shadow....what phone was it?

I'm guessing an iphone 7 or a Samsung S8.

Perhaps that was the original price. I know most phone companies will give a huge price reduction if you sign up for a 2 year contract. I know my phone company keeps sending me emails stating I can upgrade and "lease" a new phone for so much money a month.

On the other hand, I know a dancer who works at...kind of a dive club here in the midwest...and she has told me multiple times she makes around $500 a night...and a little more on the weekends.

All the newest bestest phones cost around there. The $800 is amortized over 24 months, so not quite as bad as you think, just $33/month, if you're the type to think in terms of payments

The Samsung Galaxy S7 that I bought last summer cost $700, which I'm paying off at about $30 a month for 24 months. I think that's a pretty normal price for a smartphone these days.

shadowcat having a "get off my lawn" moment :)

'course, indymovieman thinks mobile phone companies still do 2 year contracts, so it might be catching :) :)

two months ago i bought an apple 'se' for $80 at walmart with 2 year agreement.

I agree with the latest and greatest being in that $500-$1,000 range.

For me I can wait. I usually stay a few years behind and buy the technology when it's more affordable like $100

My iPhone 7 cost $750. Strippers deserve the best. The fact that she's getting food stamps is one of the reasons she can afford a $800 phone. It also helps that she doesn't pay income tax. If she has kids, she gets a tax refund thru the earned income credit.

It's called the underground economy. Get paid in cash, pay your bills in cash and money orders, declare no income for taxes, file for welfare benefits. Life is grand.

do any of you really believe that her $800 phone was spent with 'extra money'? the reason most of them are in the club is that they have a messed up sense of priorities.

most would rather spend their money on a new phone, a new tattoo, an impractical over-priced car, a $2000/month high-rise apartment, an expensive present for their deadbeat boyfriend/baby daddy, or a $200 new outfit, rather than pay their bills, or save their money.

that phone will end up broken, lost, thrown in the toilet by her kid, or shut off within the next 45 days. it's the sad truth of world of dancers and especially the millennial generation.

To answer a couple of questions. It was an Iphone7. She is married and has 2 kids. Is going to cosmetology school. I know that to be true because I know another stripper at the same club that goes to school with her.

mamisan's comment on this thread = ace!

@shadow Ahh, my new school girl friend! I'm probably one of the investors in that new phone.

Maybe now she'll let me give her my number so I can find out when she's working, instead of playing "stripper roulette" and risk a wasted afternoon finding out no one good is at work that day.

Maybe when the two of them graduate, they can open a shop where you can get a haircut and a BJ on the same visit!

They have those barbershop/BJ shops in Vietnam. Haven't been there......yet.

@jackslash & @mark94 know the system.. These are way better than Obama phones....