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General Category => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Jadine on 18 September 2022, 09:55:26 pm
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Thought as it's been shit i do half prices today , tws with reports , undesirables, idiots texting ignoring me , I did crap , 1 guy ringing on 2 different numbers because I refused to see him as he was not my criteria and he also messaged me on aw saying I had a meltdown and im in the.wrong job lol all because I refused to see him he did me a favour as 1 of his fb shows he visits barebackers, told him about himself ,
not being cheaper really makes you busier in my case .
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Obviously everyone will charge what they are happy with but one of the reasons I don't automatically drop my rates when things slow down a bit is because I find it tends to attract the kind of clients I don't wish to see.
I am not at the high end of the scale by any means but I have found that lowering my rate has attracted the cheapskates who want to cram as much as possible into a relatively short booking and often try to go overtime.
August wasn't great for me but things have definitely picked up in the last cple of weeks, try and hold your nerve and ride out the quiet times if you can.
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I agree, lowering rates attracts the wrong types. September was awful for me last year and is equally the same this year. I'm just riding it out. At least I have a bit of savings to ride me over, not much, but I'm not lowering my rates. I'm pretty much bang in the middle rates wise, I don't offer 15 minute bookings though, toying with putting it back on, but I found most booking 15 needed 20 mins plus!
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I would always hold out on lowering prices as tempting as it is when it gets slow, I think once you figure out slower months it helps as well as I do believe it can be fairly consistent with most of us in regards to when it gets busier and slower. I would suggest maybe just doing a little more advertising and do a few new profile pics might help (I did that today as I have been getting so slow!). As for me, next September I will either take a little holiday or simply lessen my days working so I can get guys booking on a few of the same day rather than it be excessively spaced out over the week as its my worst nightmare :o
One thing I will add, is that if I did do discounts in the past I did it in conjunction with them having to place a booking though my profile to help me with my feedback so that even though I was giving a discount it would help toward the future not having to give a discount because of the extra feedback, even though its a bit of a farce with feedback I do believe it helps having personally :)
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Rather than permanently lower prices you could try a special offer week and specify that anybody who visits that week will always get the lower prices. Then during that week decide what to do.
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Considering doing a discount in October for when I'm not in tour only. As tour costs just so much now
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Rather than permanently lower prices you could try a special offer week and specify that anybody who visits that week will always get the lower prices. Then during that week decide what to do.
I have resorted to a temporary discount the past week or so and got some bookings from it.
But it is just getting slower and slower in my area which is NW - if I’m lucky I get a few a week. I got slower when I had to stop offering full service which was expected but now it’s getting ridiculous. It has got to the point I’m going to move. This isn’t the only reason, I have major landlord issues, but is is one of them.
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That's what I thought I try just once a week , but if it's not good like the last one I not bother again .
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I have gone down to £150 an hour and I'm doing very well, Clients are still nice and my Diary gets full and less waiting around for work. I book an apartment and I want to be booked up, Hit my target and then chill from 6 or 7pm. I know I'm worth more an hour but when it comes to making money then it's better to price fair and get the business in. But that works for me and everyone is different. When I lower my price I get regulars booking twice a month or more and so it works for me and I'd still get work at up to £200 but works out more wasted time waiting around and I don't wait for no man lol when I'm in work mode I want to be working because I'm a natural sloth and love to be lazy so need to keep busy and after 4 days of working I'm ready to have a lazy day or 2.
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I have gone down to £150 an hour and I'm doing very well, Clients are still nice and my Diary gets full and less waiting around for work. I book an apartment and I want to be booked up, Hit my target and then chill from 6 or 7pm. I know I'm worth more an hour but when it comes to making money then it's better to price fair and get the business in. But that works for me and everyone is different. When I lower my price I get regulars booking twice a month or more and so it works for me and I'd still get work at up to £200 but works out more wasted time waiting around and I don't wait for no man lol when I'm in work mode I want to be working because I'm a natural sloth and love to be lazy so need to keep busy and after 4 days of working I'm ready to have a lazy day or 2.
This. It's all very well (and makes sense in some ways) to refuse to reduce your prices, but principles don't pay the rent. Surely it's better to knock 10 or 20 quid off your hourly rate and be busy/busier, than keep them high and not get enough punters to cover your expenses?
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I have gone down to £150 an hour and I'm doing very well, Clients are still nice and my Diary gets full and less waiting around for work. I book an apartment and I want to be booked up, Hit my target and then chill from 6 or 7pm. I know I'm worth more an hour but when it comes to making money then it's better to price fair and get the business in.
Well no person is 'worth' or 'not worth' any monetary amount, because human beings aren't consumer durables. 'Can charge more' yes, but to be fair the thread is about low prices, not lower prices and £150ph isn't low no matter where you are, in the UK at least.
It's all very well (and makes sense in some ways) to refuse to reduce your prices, but principles don't pay the rent. Surely it's better to knock 10 or 20 quid off your hourly rate and be busy/busier, than keep them high and not get enough punters to cover your expenses?
If this is the case in whichever area somebody's in then fine, but I suspect it makes less difference than people think provided we're still in the realms of normal pricing; ten or twenty quid makes no odds where I am and likewise, I don't think a punter who thinks I'm completely unappealing and doesn't fancy me at all is going to suddenly want to shag me because I've gone £10 cheaper than Flossie up the road who he really wants to shag. He'll just not bother and wait until he has the £10.
What you will get at very low prices (as in significantly lower than everybody else around you) are the punters who literally don't give a damn what they stick it in as long as it's cheap, and while I definitely agree that money is money and it keeps the bills paid, I don't want to be dealing with those punters day in and day out.
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I've tried lowering my prices for a couple of weeks to see if it makes a difference at all but in my case, it made pretty much no difference like the only thing it did was giving my regulars a chance to see me at a discounted price (they always know very well when you've lowered you prices but always act surprised when you tell them you raised them lol, cheapskates :-\), it only brought me a couple of extra bookings from new clients for the whole trial period so to my opinion, definitely not worth decreasing my prices permanently so I ended up raising them again back to normal.
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I have never done really cheaper prices as it's not something i am comfortable with and means i have to see more to make my target which stresses me more and my accomodation less discreet.
I have however dropped prices by 10 to 20 to test it out and cannot say i noticed much difference really. I think lowering rates probably work better for more traffic if someone is just chsrging 100 to say 120 an hour and if you offer a lot for that i would expect if photos look good you would get more work by having those prices.
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I’d rather cut my flaps off than reduce prices. Fuck that even if your not busy give the illusion that you are x
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Lowering prices only puts you in competition with everyone else and lowers the price floor clients come to expect. Unless you stand out like a sore thumb and there's an obvious discrepancy between what you expect and reality I don't see any reason to lower prices or put up with the emotional labour and hassle of attracting the bottom end of the market.
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Lowering prices only puts you in competition with everyone else and lowers the price floor clients come to expect. Unless you stand out like a sore thumb and there's an obvious discrepancy between what you expect and reality I don't see any reason to lower prices or put up with the emotional labour and hassle of attracting the bottom end of the market.
But what if the alternative is no bookings, and thus no income?
Plenty of decent punters are those who don't have much spare cash.
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But what if the alternative is no bookings, and thus no income?
Plenty of decent punters are those who don't have much spare cash.
You have to see it from a market rate point of view. If you get yourself into a Dutch auction that puts pressure on everyone else to lower prices which lowers the market rate. All things being equal clients will go for the cheapest.
In other industries people decide how much they want to earn annually and set their rates accordingly. Others will set a margin. I don't see how sex work is different. As for fielding client calls there's no difference between sex work and any other industry. You're always going to get dud clients and tyre kickers and hagglers trying it on for a discount, and others shopping around based on price not quality. If you want to shag half the planet no questions asked for no margin you'll have a queue around the block. That's not sustainable or healthy. I've checked some locations and the going rate is half what I charge because of oversupply and other sex workers chasing customers.
I don't like the ethics of companies like Apple or Canon but in a recession there are some companies like them who actually raise their prices not cut them. Yes, that's partly because of captured markets and marketing but it's also because they want to maintain margins which retains quality staff and pays for product investment so they are ahead of the next business cycle. Other companies might maintain a margin during the good times and savings so when margins are squeezed by a downturn in business they can weather the storm and still be on their feet when the good times return.
I'm mentioning this as food for thought. I'm not taking a religious view on prices and don't know everything.
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All things being equal clients will go for the cheapest.
That only applies in the sale of products, not services. All things can't be equal because people are all individuals and individual sex workers are not responsible for what any other sex workers charge, market themselves or offer their services. Five different supermarkets selling the exact same tins of beans at different prices, then yes. People are not beans.
I'm not taking a religious view on prices and don't know everything.
Yep, you got that right.
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I cut my prices and I haven't experienced types of clients that are worse than when I was £20 or £30 more. I would personally rather do 5 bookings, Be busy and finish early instead of waiting from morning til late for 3 bookings that would equal the 5 in earnings because for me my spare time is worth more so I'm happy. I just can't sit around waiting for work or i get distracted or bored so being busy is what motivates me and being a bit liwer in price means i get bookings in advance more. I know from experience that charging more will still get work in but its a waiting game and majority of those that charge £200+, At least in the Essex area end up with the guy's at night who want to party and blown their brains and will just blow their money but for me I'd rather blow my brains out than put up with them but there's all kinds of escorts to cater to all sorts and I think in the end it works out best to have different price ranges or we would all be in competition if all the same.
Every price from low to high will get work but it's up to the individual to decide and there's plenty of factors to deciding on price. Good service and attitude will keep clients coming back even if prices go up or down.
At the moment people will be worried about money but some won't and again loads of different factors like being older and mortgage free or just having the spate money for hobbies and treats, But I've been very busy and found that Thursdays are crazy busy that I wish I had another me to work bit then Wednesdays can be slow and this that suddenly have to go to a work meeting lol