My sources are not credible

AFAIK, you have to assume every dancer has different rules/pricing and that can vary from customer to customer from night to night. What else are you going to do but ask her what HER current rules/prices are?

You should go in knowing the price point. Or failing to know it, have your own price point set.

I only ask dancer her lap price if I’m in a club where I know it varies by girl.

Most of the prices and info you put in your reviews does seem accurate, but some will be incorrect because you do quick in-and-out strip club stops. When you hit up multiple strip clubs in one night, you're not going to get everything right, and people who read your reviews know that. It's good overall info, though.

Always suspected from reading your reviews that you were a literature professor IRL, but the Potemkin village reference seals it. And yes, trust no one. Dior girl says cover is $20, give her 10 and walk on past. Bartender asks $14 for a vodka tonic, she gets 8. And don’t get me started with the dancers

That's why I sometimes ask drink girls or security about LD prices to verify. And when I'm in some tourist trap club, I ask every dancer I talk to about pricing to check for consistency.

I almost always ask a dancer new to me. Even at the famous Follies I had a dancer try to scam me into $20 dances and when I called her bluff she said she was only kidding. She didn't get the dance.

I always ask. What are your prices and rules. If I don't like what I hear, I say I don't think I'm interested. That usually gives me an reduced price offer.

My main clubbing region only has one club where per song dance prices and rooms aren't nominally set by the club. However, I encountered dancers trying to set their own prices one Monday evening at a club with fixed prices. It was quite odd: there were a lot of solo customers that were clearly there to buy dances, but they also seemed quite synced up in our refusal to pay above the posted $30/song. FWIW, this particular club has a local monopoly on two way contact dances within a 1 hour drive on Monday nights. I was actually impressed by how few dances the set-their-own-price girls were selling (1 between three of them in the 2 hours I was there). It's the sort of thing that we might joke about happening here, but customers were really holding the line.

I'm dubious that what I observed was anything more than an outlier. However, management should hold the line on this as it impacts customer experience.

^That's just an impotent cuck version of pating more than the listed price, with the added benefit of a pathetic lie.