Shouldn't we make sure our holidays are profitable for ourselves?

Why discount appointments? Discuss...

The Christmas time is busy for many clients and so opportunities to get away dwindle. Now if a provider has a lot of time available and gets one appointment at her rate May quite easily double that with a fifty or 100 dollar discount.  
Using your TER rate instead of $350 would make $500 or six hundred. The downside of this is that it might be a client you would have had at full rate or worse yet mayn have established a lower rate with clients waiting for the next special . in the hobby the things that drive the market
Attractive —plus
Increased menu —plus
Younger Age— plus
Lower rate —-plus
Sensuality and Marketing— plus
Positive Reviews —plus

If that is the case, you might want to think about lowering your everyday rates.  Most economists and CEO’s are predicting a rough 2023 with continued rate increases and massive corporate layoffs.  Might be smart for ladies to get ahead of the ball and build a loyal client base that will be there for rough economic times.

-- Modified on 12/22/2022 9:41:10 PM

To get enough business. That surely is the only reason.
There are 3 wonderful women who I would see once a week had they not raised prices to a minimum of $600/hr.
I have seen each of them about 10 times and I miss them.
They could have had the $2,000 a month or more I spend since I stopped seeing them 4 months ago.
But they are lusting after the big bag, even when it's relatively rare, though basic math will tell you that regularity beats periodic windfalls every time.
So there's a subordinate but similar reason to discount -- to keep regulars.
The business failure of providers to give incentives to regulars they don't have to worry about or screen, and would like to keep, amazes me.  
How about this:
Either, "My rate for regulars is $xxx. If we haven't met before, there is an additional cost of $xxx to cover time spent in admin and screening."
Or, "Over the Christmas season I'm offering $xxx discount to select friends, in particular those I don't have to screen."
If there are people on that list who you don't want to see, I'm sure you can avoid them.
God I wish I had lady parts. I'd make a fortune.

Discounts are a marketing approach to improve sales. Nobody offers discounts if sales are good enough.

People passively aggressively telling you how to run your business.
Discuss.

Prices are too high, your customers are going broke between the current stock market and inflation. Personally, I am doing sugar dating and amps mostly, escorts are too expensive.  But thanks for posting this, we should all discuss the topic.

Two comparable reviewed providers in looks and menu and one is $$$ and one is $$$$.
Guess who gets the date request and many others if she has the available time to take on others.
Let a provider who is better looking with a better menu set a rate of$$$$$$ and she has eliminated the majority of the client pool.

I would think a more likely explanation is to increase income at this time (which doesn't have to be tied to the holidays) even if each individual appointment is not as profitable.

Well said!

It's the "legit" part of your statement that answers your own question. Would any of those service people you mention consent to do their services in the nude for more money? Why not? Or pop a cock in their mouth for a few minutes? What's the big deal? Because it IS a big deal. Those service people would be laughed out of town.

In our society, us providers can tell NOBODY what we do for a living and NOTHING that goes on in the job for fear of:

Reprisals - from pissed women, calling us names, trying to shame us, maybe physically hurting us. From men, same but also trying to rape us (she must love sex, she does it for a living)  

Getting kicked out of where we live and/or work because of angry neighbors.  

And jail time and definitely court time, penalties, a criminal record making regular work impossible.  

And getting kicked out of families, losing friends, living a pretty isolated existence.  

So yeah, we charge a lot. The only professionals that charges similarly are doctors and lawyers.  

And we do both, we listen closely to your woes and wails, give advice (sometimes good - I gave a client the name of an invention he created which he markets it under now) and we give you sexual healing.

Please think about that this holiday season.  
(end of rant)

That's it exactly 💯

It went from being passive aggressive about others discounts cutting into her profits to think about the SWers. It's like a C-Level exec going, "won't someone care about the shareholders."
Like I think it's ridiculous to ask for empathy during the holiday season, whilst one compares their job to a doctor/lawyer when there are people in far far far worse situations. Like people who HAVE TO work during this polar vortex. People have empathy towards the delivery drivers who have to drive these roads, gas station employees who worked on Xmas, nurses (and doctors) who are on rotation and forced to work to actually heal people. It's not like people don't have empathy. We actually thought about it, and decided to give our empathy to others. People aren't a forever well of empathy.

We can split the charge rates discussion into two different categories.  The first would be the market value, and that is determined by supply and demand. Complaining about that is like complaining about the weather.
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The second is about emotional reaction to rates.  It's hard to be too sympathetic to hourly rates most of us can only dream of (irrespective of booking  rate.)  It's like Mr. Potter the banker in the movie It's a Wonderful Life.  He had the cash to buy other's debt at a discount during a panic, but everyone hated him for it.  But he was only getting what the market would bear.