The goal is NOT to win the argument, the goal is to come up with something that you can live with, while at the same time not trampling on her sense of "worth" even if said "sense of worth" is grossly inflated.

 
Case in point, she asks for $1,000 a date, you  respond "No woman is worth $1,000 a date", she gets her back up and thinks to herself "I am "worth" twice that, fuck that guy" She doesn't budge, you tell her to fuck off and both of you lose.

 
Now sometimes there is simply no getting around this, especially with girl with GPS, but sometimes you can get them to see reason.  I do agree If she want's a grand and you are thinking more like $300, the chances of either of you ending up happy are kind of slim.  

 
But back to the $2,000 month SB, My usual response to that kind of ask is "yes, I could see giving you that much, as long as we were seeing each other often enough"  I then do my own math process for her, which of course NEVER has me giving her a lump sum each month, but breaking down her monthly ask into a number of visits that I am happy with. My numbers are probably much lower than most of you due to the much lower cost of living here than either coast. I'd have to see a girl at least 10 times a month to even consider giving her $2K a month, but I am sure everyone here can do their own math. I usually create a scenario where they can make MORE than their original ask, but of course it would mean them seeing me 3-4 times a week which of course almost never happens, but that's not my fault of course.

 
Sweetman and I also agree on one thing to keep in mind about negotiating. I NEVER tell a POT SB that she is BSC and block her no matter how unreasonable her ask might be, Some of these girls are fed a lot of bullshit by their friends and need a dose of reality before they start reconsidering their "allowance" if I reach an impasse with a girl that I am otherwise interested in expect for the rate, I always try to leave the door open, after a couple of dozen jerks tell them to "fuck off" over their GPS, that "nice guy" she talked to a month ago sometimes starts looking a lot better to her. I have had a few POT SB's circle back to me after being shot down a couple of dozen times by guys who are far from nice about it.

Of course she worked for me as a legit employee 30-40 hours a week AND we fucked at least 10 times a week. So I do have to concede I got a LOT of value for my money. lol

 
But even with this girl I had to structure it properly to for it to work out to my satisfaction. When we first started our deal was that she would work for me full time AND provide as much sex as I wanted for the grand a week I gave her, THAT deal was a total bust, she was always tired and hardly ever in the mood for sex, plus she wasn't the greatest employee either, I was really getting the worst of both worlds so I changed the deal.

 
I was really close to just cutting her loose when I came up with an idea, I told her she would have to get REALLY good at one of her two "Jobs" with me. Either she could become a fantastic employee and I would pay her accordingly or she could start fucking my brains out and I would also reward her accordingly. Here is the deal I made her, I paid her $10 hr for the forty hours a week she put in in the office, and then I gave her a "bonus" of $50 every time we had sex and since much of the time we would have sex were during normal office hours she would be "double dipping" by getting paid her "bonus" and her regular pay as well. It worked wonders, all of a sudden she wanted to fuck two or three times EVERY day.  

 
Our relationship has evolved over the years, I met her when she was 18 and she is now 30, and I haven't paid her for sex in years, we are more FWB's now, but we still often call having sex "having a bonus" all these years later. lol

used to set up rich guys and celebs with a limo full of girls for a weekend trip to Vegas.  Four or five smoking hot Asian girls at $5000 each for the weekend.  I knew some of the girls, and they say they mostly just hang around as eye candy so the guy gets noticed.  They said usually the guy doesn't get around to fucking them all, so some of the girls made $5000 and didn't do any work.  They got all they can drink, great food, and had friends along to talk to while the guy was gambling.  On top the $5000 fee, they would also get a tip of at least a grand or two apiece.  I don't now how much the booker tacked on for the limo and setting it all up, maybe another three or four thousand?  With the tip, this is twice as much as these girls usually net working 10-12 hours on a weekend fucking 8 customers.  No wonder they loved it.  

 
These situations do exist, but they are outliers and a fraction of the market.  However, once a girl has experienced this some get GPS and raise their expectations for regular guys like us.  Overpaying ruins the market, but a reasonable tip for extraordinary service does not.  Fortunately for all of us here, there aren't enough of these unicorns to spoil ALL of the girls out there.  Even the ones you get temporary GPS fall back to earth when day-to-day reality sets in.