$1250, plus a $50 tip (beatings, video, CIM, gagging, bruises - the usual).
$300 for the hour twice and both were my least favorite experiences. All my 9 ratings were $225 to $250 for the hour. before I left a tip. I have been to a local agency that charges $175 hour and had session with one the most attractive and sweet girls I met since I been hobbying. So you don't get what you pay for.
Are you talking total bucks for one get together, or amount per hour or just what? And does that include gifts above and beyond the requested fee? How about dinner and wine?
For me it was a few days in Monterey at the car weekend including the Concourso Italiano, races at Laguan Seca, and the Concours D'Elagance at Pebble Beach,a designer bustier from a boutique in Carmel then a perfectly fabulous gold and topaz pendant from a jewelery shop in Pebble Beach along with the room and more than a few dinners in Carmel along with wines and other cocktails.... But it started with the drive up from LA in my classic sports car, after a night at the Century Plazza with a dinner in the Chefs room at Patina.... Oh, now I have a headache. Just a minute I'm thinking...Must have been a $30,000 week if it was a cent. Isn't that just disgusting? And to think I still love her.
Because this is all true, I must use this alias. I just couldn't face you all in the morning after this confession. Thanks for asking.
If I spent $30k on something for the weekend at Pebble it better have 4 wheels and give me one hell of a ride. Next time save your money for the Auctions and get a local provider to service your needs. I am sure there are no shortages of providers
during Pebble and you might have taken home more then a broken heart if you were lucky enough to be a high bidder. Next time stash the love crap in the glove box and spend your money on someting that you can enjoy and won't run out on you when payday is over.
$30,000.00?????
It's your world man. We just live in it....
Man. Why don't you just throw your money in the ocean because that's what you're doing. The only time I'd spend $30,000 is on a girlfriend where I know it will go somewhere.
.....and you got away cheap for a Monterey/Carmel weekend.(well, maybe not) Your lucky you didn't have to pop for a classic car! A great area to play...where else can you patio dine under the trees, shop at great stores, and stroll a block to the beach to watch a west coast sunset? A quick story about a Carmel man I know, he paid over $135,000 for a lady for 6 months time, bought a house for her to live in while he was seeing her, after the time was up, he sold the house for $180,000 capital gain! Granted, he could've just bought the house and profited more, but what a concept!!! He also had her on payroll with his company as a personal assistant, so I'm not even sure who really footed the bill or what the total expenses paid out were.
looked quite foolish in hindsight. Don't feel too bad about it.
I am sure there are many here who had spent a lot more.
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Without all the "extra's" you've listed, my "most spent" for a single "close encounter" was $10K...that was for 72 hours.
And you certainly spent ALOT MORE than the market rate for even that level of hedonism. I don't think I could find a lady who actually knows me who wouldn't do that trip for $10K max including the "gifts". And I still have a hard time seeing how the food and lodging for 3-4 days could exceed $5K unless you were ordering Cristal or Dom from room service and filling her bath with it.
I also have a hard time imagining spending several $K extra beyond the fee on jewelry for a pro, unless you were planning on asking her to quit the business and marry you. And if that IS the scenario, well, it's just not the question that was being asked.
I am somewhat curious, but how much did you spend just for the lady's time and companionship? I am not familiar with day or multiple day rates, as I don't really have the time or inclination to spend much more than a hour or two with a commercial companion.
We have done the Concours twice, the last time 3 or 4 years ago for their big 50th anniversary show. If you add up all the expenses for both times combined I don't think it cost us 1/4 what you paid for that one trip. Even if you add in the 3 or 4 times that we have been to the Monterey Jazz Festival on top of all that we still wouldn't reach your half way mark. Seriously, between hotel,food, tickets and a few miscellaneous items, the 4 days or so wasn't much more than $3000, ooops, I forgot gas so I guess you could add another $6-700 bucks. We did pretty much the same as you except we didn't stay at the Century Plaza, but that couldn't have been much more than another $4 or 500. I don't even think 3 weeks in Europe cost us $30,000.
Should you like to spend several days in SanDiego I will give you one hell of a deal. I'll set you up with first class accommodations on the bay, seating at your top restaurants and a couple of gifts for the little lady, all for the bargain price of only $20,000.
If that is not to your liking, I may have some choice property in the Everglades you may be interested in.
This generated a lot more interest in the accounting than I ever imagined.
First off let me set some things straight. I'm not at all shook up over this. That was just a little attempt at some self depricating humor.
For those interested in the line items, I don't think that I can recall every dime spent, but it was one hell of a week:
The Century Plazza was $2500 for one night in the presidential suite (I might add that night was the best sex I have ever experienced..ever, could have been the view?)
Dinner at Patina was $775 including tip in the Chefs Room (here the chef spoke with us asking what kind of food we liked and made something special off menu, very nice...3 wines and a shot of 125 year old Grand Marnier)
5 days in Pacific Grove at The Seven Gables I can't remember, but I think it was about $3000. (Car events start on Wed and I didn't want to drive the car back on Sun night.)
I can't remember all, but there was the limo into Pebble Beach on Sunday (my car was on the green at the concorso on Fri and developed a starter problem shortly after out on 17 mile drive and had to be towed to a repair facility where they worked on it on Sun). The Hunt Breakfast at the DEl Monte Lodge prior to the events. And the big ticket item was the little bobble for the ladies neck from the jewelry store in Pebble Beach...upwards of $17000. It is beautiful. I'm not too versed on stones, but I think it was a topaz about the size of a postage stamp set in gold with surrounding diamonds.
Then the dinners in Carmel and in the Highlands with some very nice wines. The bustier was about $800 as I recall. I also counted the car expenses (not the starter repair however) which included a $500 detailing after the drive up from LA. (This doesn't come close to the fee a club member paid to fly his car into LA from Dallas for the drive up to Monterey).
To tell the truth, I winged it at $30,000, but it was way up there. Guys, I don't do this every day or even every year. But you must realize that you only go around once and it was fun as hell to treat myself. With an cute escort that I really connected with (from previous trips) on my arm at the Concours D'Elegance and The Concorso Italiano and on the streets of Carmel I felt like a King. I was one hell of an ego trip.
As Thomas Crown said..."think I'll do it again..."
Frankly, that's the only part that I truly can't fathom - A $17K piece of jewelry for a pro, who wasn't then, nor ever going to be your significant other, is simply mind boggling to me. I can actually see the rest of it, as it was splurging on fun for both of you - Although I have never spent 4 digits on any hotel suite for one night, I at least realize that there are some folks do.
But I never heard of buying a $17K piece of jewelry for someone who was not at least an actual mistress, if not the S.O.
I bought it. I didn't really make any plans to do that. We were just doing the shoping thing and I saw this beautiful thing. I encouraged her to try it on and it looked great hanging down into the clevage. She is by no means a presumptious girl and we continued "just looking" and as we left the area I gave the owner a little look that told him I was thinking.
A little later I excused myself from the champagne and caviar as we watched the antique cars roll across the stage to go to the restroom. I went back to the store and walked right up to the owner with as polite an interruption as posssible with my credit card in hand. He excused himself while I appologized to the couple I had interrupted and told them about the surprize I had in mind. He came right back with it having all ready been wrapped (in that funny way they do so the box can be opened without untying the bow) showed it to me and I signed the slip.
She started crying.
I see her often but she is now retired.
I have a place in my heart for her and vise versa. It will not happen again, ever. And I guess the improtant thing to say is that I can afford this and I know not everyone can. So in a very real way, it's all relative.
Unless I was trying to get her to quit and take up with me. To me, I'd rather put that kind of cash into somthing that I personally would get more out of, like a luxury vacation or a toy for me, or something that benefits society, like fighting to get Bush defeated this election.
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There had been no 911 atack and life with GW was just getting started. Now you know why I have this alias...lol. I'm in recovery now and working toward the same Bush goal you are.
seriously, she is still very much in my life and I really do love that gal like she was my own. I wouldn't do this for anyone else other than my wife and my daughter. It comes from the heart in her case, like no other.
And also paid for probably $1500-$1800 for her travel expenses as well as the $5K fee.
The most I've spent for a single day or shorter is $1K, the most I've spent for an hour is $350
My max is probably about $350-400. My all time total (not that I remember everyone including the chick in college that gave it up for a honey bun and a coke from the machine) has to be over $40K, perhaps as much as 2x that. And you spent damn near that for a single time...wow!
Man, I could have had a new sports car.
-- Modified on 2/3/2004 7:03:30 PM
i feel bad asking for $200.00 a hour. i might not look like a model, heck if i had the kind of money you guys have spent on girls-hell-i could look like anything anyone wants.lol. but heck i can do the same thing they do or better. hope i run into you guys that pay that much.
wish me luck ... be-good-i-try-to- sassy
What needed to be added to this post was where you hobby ... 200 in your location maybe just right ... Where 200 in NYNY would probably get someone laughed at. Every market will have a different rate. I know some incredible ladies at 200 .. but it would cost me 300 in airfare to get to them.
That would be my ex and I am still paying mucho $$$ out of my a*s for her. I got screwed royally on that one!
I think Los Angeles has higher prices than almost every other city...though I haven't checked New York's. But, for $30,000 you could have had several Plyaboy playmates, plus dinner and cocktails. I've dropped $4,000 plus but that's over a 3 week period and for several providers.
And to sasssyinfunlady, $200 may be a good rate in your area...you didn't mention what city you were from, so don't feel too bad. No one drops the kind of money these guys are talking about on a regular basis unless they're crazy.
I paid about $3.5 million, plus $10,00 per month.
This is what I had to pay my ex through the divorce proceedings.
In the final analysis, she is the most I have ever paid for a provider.