$30 is the new $20
Dan3635
Gulf Coast. I’m not your boss.
Basic front room lap dances at Rick’s Cabaret in Fort Worth are now $30 per song. Still $20 at two other clubs (Temptations and Bucks Cabaret). I know some dancers say they charge $25 or $30 even when the club is at $20. I’m not talking about the exception. I’m talking about the normal baseline dance.
Are you seeing $30 at your clubs?
Are you seeing $30 at your clubs?
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The prices have gone up some at my club, and thankfully, it helps take a little of the sting out from not being able to work all those months that we were closed (and subsequently taking a much lower paying job).
Gas, food, etc... all the essentials we've always had to buy are all going up. It's only right that we get a little bump toward being able to continue to afford them. 🤷🏼♀️
I'll repeat myself in saying, it truly is a luxury past time- not exactly a bargain shopper's dream.🤪💋🔆
I'm not going to complain a lot about a $5 to $10 increase over 25 years.
Let's go Brandon!
Girls are getting b ripped off though. How much did $20 buy 40 years ago vs now
IDK if one can necessarily equate lap-dance-prices to other things in the economy nor that everything necessarily goes up in price – doing a quick Google search the link below states not everything has gone up in price over the last 20 years but I didn’t look at their methodology too closely:
https://howmuch.net/articles/price-chang…
Faves I'll easily do double digits dances.
The solution is do bulk pricing discount. 1 song= $30, 2 songs= $50 3 songs= $60 and $20 each additional one or $25 a pop for the 1st 4 and $20 there after. From the girls' perspective the first one is the hardest to sell and from the customer's POV there's the point additional dances lose their ROI.
Shit adds up quickly if we're talking $30+ a pop from start to finish. No way I'm out.
But, getting back to reality, this is the US strip club industry, and your T&A is inevitably coming with a big, heaping, steamy side of stupid. You can only hope you'll have a club nearby where the stupid is not so bad it's intolerable.
Bucks Wild actually has specials. Sunday $10 topless. Monday 2 for 1. Super Tuesday, $5. If a girl asks for more those days, you can complain to management. I'd always ask before you get a dance though.
In general though, I feel like for low mileage, $20 is fair. $30 for high mileage, depending on the girl might be fair. Clubs are slow right now, so girls don't seem to be complaining about $20.
Dancers need think of things in terms of “how much do I make in a shift”, not “how much do I make in 3 minutes”. There is no cost of goods sold component to providing dances since the dancers time has the same value to her if she dances or sits doing nothing. When the dancer sells ALL her time at a given price per dance that is when she should raise the price per dance amount.
Would you recommend to the guy selling eggs at $10 a dozen; who complains he’s not making enough money; that he raise his price to make more?
Dancers are almost always contractors, and the standard advice is that a contractor needs to charge 2x the rate of an equivalent full time just to cover insurance and benefits.
So $100/hour from dancing is like a $50/hour “regular” job. At that point it’s easy to imagine a lot of girls get turned off. And that’s not bringing up the extortionate house fees.
Also I really doubt the average non-extras stripper is consistently pulling in $800 on an 8 hour shift. They’re probably counting on one or two “hot” shifts per week.
Not to white knight too much. Strippers being horrible with spending and finances is a whole nother topic.
As dances go up it may just be the guys for whom $$$ is not an issue and don't have to think about what things cost whom may be getting-them; and that is likely gonna bring down the #s of guys getting dances and multiple-dances.
Most of us on here are vets and spend pretty-well and many of us have spent a small-fortune in our clubbing-career - so it's not a question of spending or not spending; but more a question of ROI and if $30, $40, and $50, dances, are worth it just to touch some titties.
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I have always been a fan of Mons. It is not the place for extras or anything even close, but the women were always classy and the evening was honest. it was a place that you went more for the class of the women. Well, I guess I can't afford classy anymore.
Yes, the place has had an upgrade. The new dancefloor is attention getting. The curtains on the benches along the wall are rather useless, but I suppose are to make it look better. There is no private area, so basically it is the same place with a real fancy floor and red curtains around the benches along the wall.
To pay off the fancy floor, the dances are no longer, $35 a dance. Now the charge s $50 a dance. A 42% increase. It makes the national inflation rate seem rather small. It you figure the average dance is 3 minutes and 30 seconds that is $100 for 7 minutes. Just to put that in perspective, that is $14.28 a minute, or by the hour... a whopping $857 an hour. Wow! And in most cases you get an air-dance for that.
Now... let me be fair. The girls there are very nice and yes, I would love to have a dance with any (or every) one of them. The women are still the best in Tampa.
It was early, and I was one of about three or four customers. I waked in paid the $22 entry fee, and the $6.00 water. And a nice small young blonde came up and carried on a very nice conversation. She said she thought she knew me. I have heard that one before and since I had not been in Mons since September and it was two years before that. I shrugged it off. Later on in the conversation she insisted she knew me. She said you sat at that chair, and you gave me a shoulder massage. I remember you. Okay, I was impressed. I don't think of myself as that memorable, but she was correct. She did remember me. Okay, now the $857 an hour is getting a bit more understandable. It they actually remember you and make you feel that you matter. Okay... maybe.
It was then she wanted to take me for a dance, and luckily I asked how much. I was taken back by the $50 a dance. I was used to $35 a dance, and maybe you could talk them down to $30, but $50 was a surprise. She said they raised the dance prices. $45 during the day and $50 at night. I told her I just couldn't get myself to pay $50 for a Mons dance. I gave her the money I would have paid for two dances, and told her to tell the manager I left once I found out the price.
I like to visit Mons every once in a while. It is a good show. I just have to adjust to the fact the I would pay someone almost $500 an hour to dance in front of me, and don't even get a good drink or steak to go with it.
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^ I don't necessarily agree w/ his per minute breakdown angle but the point is that he was so turned off by the current dance prices that he just walked out even though he's a fan of the club.
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