Not all strippers are dumb when it comes pricing lap dances...

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• chitownlawyer

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  16 years ago

  OTC is the practice that best exemplifies a dancer's understanding of economics, in my opinion. The dancer gets all of it, no tip out, and the customer pays for the room. A thing of beauty.
• Book Guy

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  16 years ago

  Yup, the customer paying for the room is, in itself, a remarkable trick of overhead manipulation. I've never been to a CompUSA store where they charge me the rental price of putting the store into the shopping mall.
• Lou_Lou

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  16 years ago

  You think Comp USA takes there rental expenses out of their profit. Think again, it's already built into the pricing. You pay one way or the other. Besides I never mind paying for a room with a lovely sexy lady.
• jac10781

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  16 years ago

  In CompUSA the rental/cost to do business is added to the price of all the products. A stripper could pay for the room, but then she would choose the place and pass that cost to you for her service. I tend to spend more money when the dances are cheaper. I feel I'm getting more for my money. I think it makes sense just like Shadow Cat was saying. If a dancer charges $30 she will get less dances then at $15 and she will have to do a better job of selling them. She only keeps $15 or $20 from the $30. At $15 a dancer she will keep $10 and sell more in the long and short run. I get a lot of dances if it is priced at $15 and the service is good. For some strange reason the service is better at $15 in my experiences. I never understood that. Anyway it's easier to sell someone on $10 or $15 then it would be on $30 or $40. Then means the money will keep flowing at a more predictable pace.
• Shekitout

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  16 years ago

  To chinatown lawyer: It's even better when the dancer provides her mother's place for the OTC at no charge!
• chandler

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  16 years ago

  The point that customers fail to appreciate every single time this subject comes up is that lap dances are something a stripper would rather NOT DO. Sure, if dances were priced at $10, she might make more money than if they were priced at $25, but she would have to do MORE LAP DANCES to make it. Ask a stripper if she would prefer doing 10 dances at $25 each or 26 dances at $10 each, and I bet most would choose the former.
• wondergrl5

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  16 years ago

  I prefer lap dances but Im not the norm. I know most girls dont.Look at the pink site
• FONDL

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  16 years ago

  I agree with Chandler to a point - most dancers probably don't much like doing LDs for most of their customers, especially total strangers. But I think the dynamics can change if you get to know the girl really well. Which is why Shadowcat's strategy works well for him. And why I used to prefer to have a regular. The other point to keep in mind is that in many clubs you have to pay a third party for dances so the dancer has no say in the price. Or the house keeps track of how many they do and takes a cut (often half) so again she can't cut prices and make anything. I think that sort of thing has become more common than it used to be.
• chandler

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  16 years ago

  I don't think getting to know their customers makes grinding away on a balding, paunchy old dude any more appealing, but it does make it less of a gamble and more predictably profitable. The point is that each dance they do, like any other debilitating work task, carries a cost to their body and soul. Your economic formulas can't just disregard the number of dances it takes to earn a given amount.
• Book Guy

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  16 years ago

  I personally do my best to NOT be a balding paunchy old dude. I get the latest haircut: though my scalp does have less hair than it used to, so, technically, I AM indeed "balding," I consider my hair to be "good looking" rather than "old and pathetic looking." (I might be wrong. But I do my best.) I lose weight rather than gain it. Often, in fact. :) And I wear clean, expensive, professional looking, classy looking business-casual clothes, not loser-T-shirts or programmer-Polo-logo-shirts, so that I'm part of the "classy party crows" of people who (were the setting different) a girl might actually consider as an option for a long-term boyfriend. I am well groomed and shaven, I spend liberally on tips to ancillary staff (how many of you have tipped the DJ in the last month?), I don't get overly drunk -- just a LITTLE tipsy, enough that she feels like she might be able to take advantage of me. :) All of this is deliberate. It's not that I think I'm going to get to be the boyfriend of one of the dancers. That's highly unlikely. But it IS, that I take pride in myself. I don't LET my belly become "paunchy." And if I'm in a grungy mood, or if work has interfered with my workout schedule for a few months, then I at least feel like I ought to do what I can to cosmetically hide my flaws and make the most of what I got. It's just human nature, for a hot little girlie to prefer grinding on someone whom she finds pleasant, rather than on someone whom she thinks of as a bloated and irresponsible behemoth attached to a wallet. She's making the same money off both of us.