Strip club price gouging.
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
I haven't been to a strip club since March 12 due to the COVIS-19 situation but I have kept up on club reviews. Especially the ones that are nearest me buy also ones that interest me.
From what I have been reading it appears to me that dancers and clubs are charging more than prior to the virus shutdowns.
I just read a review for $60 valet parking. I've seen increased door charges, drink prices, dance prices and extras prices.
I guess it is a sellers market right now. I'm not buying. First of all because I am in that vulnerable category but secondly there is a limit on how much I am willing to pay for these services. When I do start going again I will refuse to pay prices higher than I think they are worth.
I hope that when there is more competition, prices will go back to more normal but I realize that once a price has been established with a dancer, it is difficult to get them to lower prices.
Please try to avoid raising the price of pussy!
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I had extra cash from not going to clubs for months so I was extra generous tipping and getting more VIP's than I otherwise might have in the past.
In any event, it’s still always true that it only takes one special dancer to make any club visit an epic one.
Sorry to say it shadow, but market forces aren't under the control of a handful of random dudes on a strip club forum, lol. I think that price appreciation is inevitable, especially given what you've gotten away with paying for so long. 😉
Its a buyers market.
From what I'm seeing very few clubs are open and there are too many girls trying ti work. Not enough customers.
In fact at least one club (Blue Diamond in Louisville) has gone down in price. They had raised the price of their VIP rooms within the past year but when they reopened the prices were back to what they used to be before the increase.
These clubs have gone weeks or months without income. Utilities and rents have remained constant. Many consumables have increased in price due to relative scarcity. Operating costs have increased with the need for PPE and disinfectant. Margins have decreased due to customer capacity reductions and generally reduced traffic. Business owners need to recoup what costs they can. Until they can operate without onerous restrictions, increasing prices is the only option they have.
Hopefully, when the restrictions are completely removed, market choice and competition will push prices down to something closer to what we saw before the Chinese coronavirus ravaged what was the greatest eonomic boom in American history.
If you mandate lower prices, supplies will trickle in and shortages will remain.
Government bureaucrats think they can legislate an end to supply and demand.
Consider the following:
1. Every customer that has ever visited that club has just learned that they can survive several months away from the club.
2. I'll paraphrase a bit and say "No club is an island." There will be more than one club that reopens and all will be competing for that first $20 bill spent.
3. Safety rules will remain during and after reopening, so the customers will need to put up with even more crap rules in the club. Who wants to pay even more for that?
If I go back to my favorite club only to find dance prices doubled and VIP's doubled or tripled, I'll bail without looking back.
No, the winning clubs will realize that they MUST drive TRAFFIC (not profits) into the club to sustain their business. The more people that come to the club, the closer to "business as usual" they will get. Once traffic level has normalized, clubs can tweak pricing, just like they always did pre-pandemic.
To drive traffic they need to, at a minimum, keep prices at pre-COVID levels. But consider if a club actually lowered dance and drink prices? What if every day at a Deju Vu was like $10 Monday's or Two-Fer Tuesdays? Guys would line up at the door to get back in and buy laps. And I'll predict that those guys will spend MORE than they normally did before the lockdowns. After all, that cash has been accumulating in their pockets right next to their brightly glowing blue balls, which are just waiting for attention from a bevy of hotties in various states of nakedness.
"... I just read a review for $60 valet parking ..."
Yeah - if I recall correctly that was of a Club Platinum nightshift visit - there's only been one report of that so I'm holding out till there are more reports - it *is* possible; Follies dayshift parking was up to $20, can't remember nightshift but would not surprise me if it was more at night; given that Platinum seems to have an even smaller lot than Follies, could be they are charging up to $60 at night - IME some black clubs charge supa-high parking fees and Platinum was originally an AA club AFAIK and it's mostly an AA club at night.
During the start of Covid, there were reports of stores charging $25 to $30 for a small bottle of hand-sanitizer - they went to interview the store-manager and he said that was the price the distributor was charging him - they went to interview the distributor and they slammed the door in the reporter's face and would not say their side of the story (their actions speak volumes).
Other times, it’s frustrating when prices are lower, and you have to *wait* to be able to do a dance or time block because all the spaces are full. Meanwhile a customer may get frustrated and bounce out. And with capacity restriction rules in many areas, that’s probably more of an issue now than it used to be.
It can be a delicate scale for balancing things, I think. 😝
I was laid up for months before the appearance of the Chinese Flu and the stupid over reaction to it. During that time I planned for an over the top come back mongering tour which has been on hold now for seven long months. When the dam finally breaks, and I’m confident it will, then watch out baby because price will be no object. Champagne and Benjamins for all the naked ladies I encounter. Money sitting in the bank gathering dust ain’t doing me no good. There’s a lot of single moms out there that could make good use of some of it.
Many clubs will shut down
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Huh? Am I on planet Mars? Business owners would rather fail than offer a fair price? What?
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Sapphires in Vegas charges $14-16 for a well drink at night. It’s packed. Supply and demand. And yes there are some clubs that have some odd charges. But they have overhead to cover. 💁🏻♂️
The concept of price elasticity of demand applies to strip clubs too.
Yeah - but throwing pussy into any equation is bound to make that equation not hold (at least according to a recent MIT study)
Veblen goods would probably be more applicable to the price of dances.
I don't think that Giffen goods exist in the strip club market.
This is only a single data point, but it argues towards the idea that dancers are not Veblen goods.
There is a club in Phoenix called the HiLiter. Several years ago they raised the price of VIP from $25 per song to $40 per song. They found that demand plummeted and the dancers demanded that they lower the price back to $25.
But as I mentioned in the post to Papi that I was typing when you replied to me, there is such a thing as Giffen goods and Veblen goods.
The examples that you mentioned are all Veblen goods.
A Veblen good is a type of luxury good that experiences an increase in demand as price increases.
They aren't common, but if you can create a Veblen good, you are in a good situation.
Its a buyers market. There are mor3 stripper hoes than customers at clubs. Clubs are just greedy and on a cash grab.
But suckers who justify and support that shit are what the clubs want
They will only get away with it as long as we let them get away with it.
For me costly is where you are charged a premium, but you get a premium experience/service (or at least close) - to me expensive is when they charge me a premium but I don't get a premium experience.
Per my definitions, most clubs IME fall under expensive - one "costly" club that I visited that I felt was was worth the cost was Flight Club in Detroit (visited back in 2014) - I didn't stay long b/c of the lack of thick-chocolate, but even though they charge for everything, I felt it was still a fair value given what the club offered and how it was ran, the level of talent w.r.t. looks, treatment, and level-of-service for what you pay.
See if it works your way🤷🏻♀️
Girls at chicas bonitas made the most during the last few hours of happy hour.
The cheapest crowds come after hours.
been to the closed clubs (under the circumstances) down south a number of times. good. but i wanna see OPEN clubs.
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Lol. Does this dude even live in Vegas? Gals weren’t making bank at Cheetahs, if they were it wouldn’t be shut down. The draw at Cheetahs was 2 for $7 beer or a bucket of 6 for $15. Guys would come in and nurse a bucket to death. It was the same crowd every day, sort of like Cheers. One or two girls a shift would pop some dough, and usually because they looked good compared to the rest of the shift. 75% of the afternoon shift couldn’t get jobs anywhere else and there were a few grandmas working. Most of the gals made 150-300 after tip out. Decent but hardly bank. Sometimes there would be a new fine girl, but she’d usually last a week or two before she was working at the Rhino or CH3 day shift. The one gal making decent money was Selena, a half Mexican half a Filipino that was early 40s with the body of a 25 yr old who would OTC with the right people. Lol girls making bank at Cheetahs. 🤦🏻 Maybe in the 2000s. Homeboy in his own universe sometimes.
Are you fucking retarded? Most people grow out of concrete thinking in early childhood. I didn't say every girl made bank.
And clubs closing isn't related to how much the stripper hoes make
And sure clubs closing is related to what gals make. You think the Rhino is going out of business anytime soon? Shit the OG had video poker, a license to mint money, and the last management ran it into the ground. Girls go where the money is, guys go where the girls are, money follows - fuck this is basic 101 shit. Of course socialist idealists like yourself that think being a philosophy or gender studies professor don’t live in the business world, so 💁🏼.
In Vegas strippers are a dime a dozen hence why clubs treat them like whit. Theyre disposable. Clubs care about making money off house fees and customers. They couldn't care less if the girls make money. You have seperate stripper hoe and club economies working side by side in a club.
Old white men will sit around nursing a bottle of water or some soda for an hour and waste girls time trying to get the most out of like 5 dollars 🤣🤣🤣
As far as dancers, I ran game in Vegas for 15 years, the girls I fucked with laughed at Cheetahs.
I used to start at Cheetahs cause I had a Cheetahs black card which was $5 any shelf any time drinks so yeah the ladies loved me because a Patron shot was $5 so they told me what’s up.
I think you just make shit up half the time, it’s like you sorta but not really know what you’re talking about. It’s obvious you don’t like white peeps tho.
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That’s crazy talk. The more money the girls make, the better for the club. If I owned a club I’d want a stable of bank-earning happy dancers. Just like the Rhino or CH2 in the day. These gals arent keeping the entire VIP charge, even you know that. Gtfo with that statement. Lmao🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know what girls make coz ive seen the money and they trust me. Big difference between you and me.
I can go into a club and have girls hook me up with drinks and spend real time with me.
Oh yeah they want your $5.00 in daily pay I get it now.
They have zero incentives to be honest with tricks
I know what girls make coz ive seen the money and they trust me. Big difference between you and me.
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That’s right, the big difference is I’m not an idiot nor am I on here trying to judge others on how they utilize the strip club. Sometimes I want to go in, be a trick and get out. Sometimes, I want to run game, I’ve dated plenty of Vegas strippers and by dating I don’t mean OTC. Even lived with one for 3 years. So yeah I’ve seen the dough. So get over what you think you know. You arent the king pimp of TUSCL even though you talk like it. And if you’re such a pimp, why not save your time and instead of posting here write a book since you’re such an expert. Btw picking up gals at Chicas Bonitas is hardly something to brag home about, that’s like single-A baseball. 😂😂😂😂😂
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This is Icey code for ‘I took them to Outback or an AYCE sushi place and to a movie, then slept with them and we became FWB for a few weeks.’
Wow, how impressive.
It's true, i heard of you, I heard of phatty the former men's room troll that was hired and fired from every club in Vegas for greasing customers while you picked their pockets for small change. 🤣
Youre the trick they call when they need $$ I'm the one they call when shes in her car outside the club crying coz she doesn't want to go in and deal with tricks like you.