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I have seen prices drop with quite a few providers.I've seen some adverstise they are naking their outcall rates,even while traveling,the same as their incall rates.I've seen some offer "winter specials" and half hour specials that were very reasonable.And I have personally been offered some very nice deals in an effort to get my business.So at least around me,things are slow enough to cause some ladies to negotiate.I think this is smart.I learned long ago in business that I would rather have 10 customers at $ than 2 cutomers at $$.

However,I am talking about escorts in the $200 - $350 an hour range.The high end ladies at $500 and up have not dropped their prices at all nor do I think they ever will for various reasons.

It's best to see if some of providers offer discounts to members on the boards.  Mention that to a provider and see. Otherwise, it's tough times and if a provider doesn't have another job it is highly unlikely there will be a drop. Our bills don't get any lower then the next persons. Good Luck.

Rose

It's because the market for services is an inefficient one. In Europe, where it's mostly legal, girls work a lot harder to make $40-$50K a year (Spain or Germany), unless they are truly high end or super high volume (like in Amsterdam's RLD).

I once ran a discussion board on Delphi. I asked the group if $300 was a fair price for sex. Not one escort answered the question. It wasn't meant to be a trap, just an honest question. But therein lies the rub.  

The market is inefficient for a couple of reasons. First, bad economy or not, there is still a great amount of wealth in Los Angeles. Second, a lot of women treat the gig as more an adventure and not a job (or a business). The truly successful ones, and the more familiar female handles for the most part here are fairly successful...FF, LL, Ashley, Nicole, Jacqueline, et al understand this concept well, although some would not think of themselves as businesswomen. They are secure enough in themselves to understand that they are providing a service which is not strictly limited to equipment rental. Finally, we're pretty sexually repressed people. Remeber just a couple years ago when the GOP impeached and tried to remove prehaps the best President of the previous century because he lied about getting a blowjob from an intern (something which has surely never happened before in DC)? If the rest of the country wasn't so f**ked up sexually, the Republicans not only wouldn't have gotten the impeachment on, they would have ceased to exist after the next round of Congressional elections.

Decent service is available at $120 and quality service starts at around $150 in this town, you just have to know where to look. Many escorts asking $300 will negotiate their rate to $200 or $250 if you ask with courtesy and respect.

It could be worse, you could spend part of the year in Vegas like I do, and look at an average of $100 more per date for less service. I don't even play there for that reason alone.

The only reason any provider will ever drop her rates, realistically speaking, is if the phone isn't ringing. Theoretically anyways, since I don't give out my phone number If a providers rates are not changing, or are going up, you can assume quite simply that that is because she has enough business that she is living comfortably.  The basic truth is.. whatever price the market will bear!  Even in times of depression, sex always sells... the porn industry has never been the one to flop or fail.  

I will add for myself... when I see grocery prices dropping... when my mortgage drops... when gas prices drop... when my basic living expenses drop, maybe I'll change my rates. I have yet to see these things happening.  Our EXPENSES are staying the same, so is it such a shock that our prices would?

Hugs*
Nicole