The Minneapolis area -- within the next week to 10 days -- is being graced by visits from two providers currently listed among the "Top 100 Providers" on this site.

Otherwise, you just stated the obvious.

I am attempting to develop a justification for a change in my hobby behavior (i.e., how I spend my available funds).

But if it's justification you need, let me just say...no you don't! You owe it to yourself to have all the  
Rich offerings life has, you probably feel that the higher reviewed will be a better service then some others you may have visited, that might be true, but your never going to know until you try.
If seeing one of these gals doesn't put you in a financial hardship then 4SURE go for it..... Please feel free to tell the local women you visit with that your taking such an adventure, because I'm sure most of them are like me & would encourage it.
              I hope you live your life to the fullest, and with as much carefree abandon as possible because none of us ever know how long our lives will be. So have fun & add your review to the list of others  
Smile big,
~Mindy

I tried that a couple times. Paid a bundle to see a really beautiful woman and had a really great time. Then a couple weeks later, after the warm glow had faded, I looked at what it had done to my hobby budget for the quarter and decided it was an experiment I wasn't going to repeat.  

Are they asking for you ID, real name, and work phone?  If they are you have to give them the scores they want/expect or you're screwed.  If not they very well may be worth the extra money but see the touring providers in the morning or you may not get their best.

The comments I am getting from them is that the population of hobbyists willing to pay their rate has declined with the continued bad economy.  That is why more and more of them are touring.  If they were getting sufficient business in their home market, they would not be hitting the road.  I am already seeing a willingness for some of the higher end ladies to arrange a meeting with pricing outside their usual parameters.  That is due more to the fact I have been a "regular" versus a new client.

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I don't know which providers the OP is referring to and I'm sure they are fine providers. But consumer ratings can be tricky. A few years back in consumer reports according to Prius owners the Prius was the best car on the road by a fair margin. And when the first gen iphone came out the people who owned one consistently gave their phones a perfect 10 out of 10 rating, while the writers that review phones for a living  all noted that the iphone was one of the worst phones in it's class for making phone calls. So while the iphone owners did a lot of complaining about their phones they still wanted to believe that they were the best phones on the market. Here in the hobby world we only have consumer ratings to go by and often times I leave an appointment wondering why the provider wasn't rated differently. sometimes I would give the provider a higher rating sometimes lower. So really you just have to do your homework and the roll the dice to see what what happens. Hopefully you will come out throwing a 7 on your first roll.  
Good luck.  

One of the problems with the rating system is that there is no weighting to recent reviews versus all reviews.  

Comparing providers from different areas can be difficult because you may not have any reviews done by reviewers who have also reviewed ladies you have seen.  So, are you comfortable with taking the chance the experience will not be as good as you think it should be?

wasn't there a thread from a few days back of the OP NCNS a bunch of girls?  These traveling girls will love him.
 And spending a grand on 2 girls that you will never see or hear from ever again. Sounds like a great time to me. But if they are willing to go to a city with a bunch of dudes willing to pay there prices that there home town won't even pay, I guess that is our problem.