Question for the more experienced SDs out there:

I'm sure some have that as a sincere fantasy and they will never end up hooking up with anyone.  I'm sure there is a large percentage of wannabe Pretty Woman who come and go on these sites and never follow through.
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For the rest, they might as well shoot for the moon.  But are more willing to take the $200.  
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The strategy on SA is to ping everyone and see what shakes out.  You have a limited amount of time, so you should put everyone on blast before your subscription runs out.  Don't over-think their asks.  

blue6314 has one point of view and it seems to work for him. But casting all POT SB's as "just hookers" is, IMO, a mistake. There are thousands and thousands of women using the site, and they each have their own past experiences and reasons for looking for an SD, including some pros and semi-pros.  If you treat them all like a hooker, all you will fuck is hookers.  There's NOTHING wrong with that if that's your goal.  
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But there are also non-pros there, who's ambitions are something other than banging as may dicks as possible for as much cash as possible. I believe these SB's are worth looking for...  
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Life is good.
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The Cat

As stated here and in other posts, there are many different reasons and wants from pots on any of the sites. Some: may want the dream or fantasy of a millionaire lifestyle, want advice and guidance, need help with bills, want to be with a different type or class of man (or woman), are pros or semi pros, want romance without or with minimal sex, want public and BCD fun, and so many more reasons.  

Lester is a good example of that mentality and it works for him which is fine by me.

So, then if you are meeting a SB for the first time, does protocol demand that she be compensated her for the meeting even if you don't have any nookie? 'Cause, if it does, then maybe I'm playing the wrong game.

I don't even treat hookers like hookers.  I treat them like independent business women.  The job specification is well defined and the price agreed to in advance.  No trickery.  No dishonesty.  No pressure.  Guess what, all but one insist on return engagements.  (The one hinted she thought I was too old for her.)

I'll buy them drinks for a first public meeting.  This differs from pros or semi-pros, that's a waste of time for them.  But for most SB's it is more akin to what they might expect.   I'd say 2/3rds I've met first and then made arrangements for later.  The other 1/3rd just wanted the bucks and were ready to go.

I never pay just "to meet" and neither does any other guy here with half a brain.

A "hooker in SB's clothing" means a woman who is for all practical purposes a hooker, pretending to be an SB so she can use the Sugar Sites as an advertising platform without getting kicked off the site for being a prostitute. All the Sugar Sites have rather strict "no prostitution" rules, or at least they pretend to so as to not get shut down by LE.  

If you are wanting to meet a real SB, then a first meeting to see if you have any chemistry and like each other
is always unpaid.  You meet for a coffee, drinks, lunch, etc  You always pay for whatever is consumed, maybe pay for
her to get there (gas money, uber, etc) or maybe as said before a babysitter, at most.  

I agree. I'm not going to pay just to meet a woman. If we're not a match, then she (or I) can just walk away and I end up spending about as much as I would on a disappointing-lousy-initial-online-dating meeting.

There is no "abuse" involved to an actual SB. You are a hooker, your time is worth money, of course you don't want it wasted, but actual SB's who are either college kids, single mothers, or just girls stuck in shit jobs who want an "upgrade" to their lives don't feel "abused" by having a guy by them a nice meal and drinks for which she has to do absolutely NOTHING except show up.

I’ve had plenty of POT SBs who after we met for coffee, ask me to get started right away.  One of my favs she felt a natural connection to me right of the bat.  Surprising to me because she is an athlete in college, hangs out and fucks athletes (boys) but tells me I’m a better fuck and made her have multiple Os the boys can’t accomplish.  I’m an old out of shape man, but glad I can please the girls.  

Just what part of his post proves YOUR point?

I should also point out that I am 67. No SB meeting me has romance on her agenda.  The basis of this is financial on her part.  There is no reason to pretend it is anything but.  I do have a low conversion rate of first contact to public meet.  But I have a high conversion rate of public meet to behind closed doors.  And a very high request from them to meet again (only one who thought I was too old for a second date.)  Those last two things, good conversion rate after meeting and good repeat request makes me think I am treating these ladies respectfully.  So if it is said I "treat them like hookers" maybe so, but I treat hookers respectfully too.  I'm sure because of the outcast nature of the work they are over represented by crazies.  But either by luck or due to my affable character, I haven't really encountered a single "nightmare" scenario yet in the pro or SB world.