This is my first trip to the SF and I am looking forward to meeting some new friends!!!I will be house sitting in a classy condo near downtown and be very lonely......Anyone want to keep me company???

Hi Katlyn, I'm not trying to flame you, but I'm curious how you can justify a $200.00/hr increase from your Seattle rate, especially since you will be house sitting and won't have to pay for a hotel room.  YNH.

Seattle is very repressed in this business which is why lowered my rates there and spend time traveling.....We have top girls at $200 or less an hour. I would have to see way to many clients to do that...It is not the way I work.  
Also, are much more expenses that go into traveling then hotel costs. I have actually just recently raised my travel rate after many suggestions to do so by hobbyists as well as fellow providers. I think my reviews reflect the level of service that I provide. Honestly, I feel a bit uncomfortable discussing it on such a public forum.
I have looked at the rates for girls in your area and think that it is reasonable and appropriate to what your market can bear. I do also encourage a minimun two hour visit with me...which is a better rate per hour if you are going to think of it that way~
I keep my visits to a minimum per day and can assure you that an experience with me will leave you thinking of that alone.....I am not a "take a number at the door" type of girl. In this business you have two types of providers~high volume and high quality. If you are concerned about money alone...I am probably not your girl.
I take time to create atsophere....candles,wine, cheese and fruit platter, strawberries.....whatever, I think is appropriate to set the mood for the particular friend I am seeing. I have even been known to bring a gift. I give 100% to every enounter I have and am comfortable knowing that everyone leaves me happy.  
I am a little insulted and do feel like placing the tread is a little bit in the flaming mood~if you had a question I wish you would have PMed me or  did a little research to see what type of person I am........or better yet take a risk and come see for yourself...

love and light,
Katlyn in Seattle

Yournamehere: May I give you a lessson in what I'll call provider economics.

First the economics. Don't know your politics, but this is a recession. Times are hard in most places. So providers often make up for local shortfalls by traveling. When a provider travels she has expenses -including airfares, etc. In addition, most providers have to make more in the other city, to subsidize lost income in their own city. In Seattle specifically, most providers have lowered their rates by $100 to reflect the threshold that city can handle.

Second, and this is about Katlyn specifically, she is NOT your average provider. She is not a high volume type, and those who have seen her know she is a multiple hour experience -her rates reflect that tendency too.

I watched in LA as she prepped for an evening with an all-night client -and she spent $600 of her own to get the exact right outfits and took close to six hours to pull it all together so the final package was the perfection she insists on. And when she was done, she was, pardon my meat reference here, GRADE A PRIME.

Bottom line: If you are balking at her fee,don't go see her. If she has overpriced herself,she'll find that out quickly enough. But she is truly an exception and (read her reviews or talk to anyone of us who have seen her), absolutely worth a multiple hour visit.
Rick2
 

Gee rick, thanks for the lesson.  I wasn't balking at her fee, I wasn't criticizing, I was just asking why there was a 200.00 an hour increase.  That is a much larger increase than most top quality providers charge when traveling.  I am well aware of the added expenses and have seen more than my share of traveling providers in the 20 plus years I've been hobbying.  Being from out of state, you probably aren't aware that the guys here in SF tend to be very "frugal" with their money and not many will pop for $900.00 for a 2 hour session.  As I said in my original post, I wasn't trying to flame her.  I wasn't trying to infer that she was "your average provider".  So please get out of your armor, take your white horse back to the stable and go have a beer.  LOL.  YNH.

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YNH:
Actually my two hour rates posted are not correct.....My webmaster is changing it as we speak. Here are my correct travel rates for new clients:
$500/hr
$700/two
$1100/4hr dinner date
$2000/overnight

I didnt notice the mistake until your post....so I guess thanksLOL

I am actually $350 for incall in Seattle that would be $150 increase......but who is counting

Katlyn, I honestly meant no offense by my quiery.  My apologies if my post was inappropriate or harsh in any way.

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Personally, I usually raise my rates when touring not only because of travel expenses, but also to maintain the market integrity of other Providers in the area.  I feel that it is not good business practice to undercut other Providers.  JMHO

Jaclyn

I agree with the first poster - hard to justify the drastic increase.  But I guess if you get one to two suckers per day that is all you need.  To each his own, but I will pass.  The economy is shitty down here too!