Theres no point trying to compete on price-I just did a search on aw out of curiosity and the cheapest is a lady doing 15 minute quickies for ?10...

I would have thought that's more a streetwalkers price.

I would say review your advertising and self-presentation before touching your rates. As has been said, there's always someone cheaper out there, and it's not a matter of competing on price as long as you're not charging excessively.

I think having a good website with a lot of personality and nice pictures is really important, as is making sure you keep your AW profile bumped and getting yourself onto relevant directories.

Theres no point trying to compete on price-I just did a search on aw out of curiosity and the cheapest is a lady doing 15 minute quickies for ?10...

Hmm. If she gets them out in ten minutes and works ten hours she makes six hundred quid. Is a fanny capable of that though?

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Theres no point trying to compete on price-I just did a search on aw out of curiosity and the cheapest is a lady doing 15 minute quickies for ?10...

There's an ugly  lady in the Chinese herbal store on my neighbourhood who gives a 15 min shoulder massage on a chair for double the price. She doesn't even take her clothes off.

I know!
The girl who is charging a tenner,is disrespecting all escorts from every walk of life,where is her limit..
Do you know,i bet infact im sure some men will even try and get a deal on the tenner."can you do it for 5?""not got my giro yet"
Where does it end..i bet she gets treated terrible..and shes almost asking for it..

Quote from: sadie x on 11 May 2012, 05:25:23 pm

I know!
The girl who is charging a tenner,is disrespecting all escorts from every walk of life,where is her limit..
Do you know,i bet infact im sure some men will even try and get a deal on the tenner."can you do it for 5?""not got my giro yet"
Where does it end..i bet she gets treated terrible..and shes almost asking for it..

I would say the only person she?s disrespecting is herself. If anything I would think she makes the girls who charge more, look better. I certainly don?t feel offended. On the other hand if she?s thinks ?10 is a fair price for a fuck and it doesn?t affect her self esteem, then good for her. Who knows, maybe it?s a formula that works for her and unbeknown to us, she has millions piled up in some off shore account!

Exactly. Judging other people on what they decide to charge is not what we do here - I may remind members that ?10 for 15 minutes is still ?40 per hour pro rata, which is well over six times the National Minimum Wage and I've certainly never had a civvy job that paid anything like that amount.

Maybe the woman concerned likes to be busy and prefers quickies to longer appointments (and if she doesn't enjoy or isn't particularly good at engaging with punters for longer than that then it's by far the best way for her to work). It's a free market and anybody can charge whatever rates they like - everybody will get hagglers and boundary pushers now and again whether they charge ?10 or ?1000.

What she most certainly is NOT doing is 'asking' to be treated badly. Men are not wild animals with no control over themselves, and if a punter treats a prostitute badly it is because he's an arsehole, not because she 'asked for it' by charging X fee any more than wearing a short dress is 'asking' to be raped or attacked.

Charging more [or less] does not make you any less a target for guys who wish to treat you badly, rob or attack you. In fact some would argue it can make it more likely since as we know from the assumptions thread, some guys think if you charge ?150 per hour you are earning that every hour of the day, cramming client after client in - or if you have nicer premises that you are therefore more likely to be 'loaded'(not so if you have higher bills to pay).

Very good point Strawberry. This is one of the reasons I?ve said on my profile I only see a very limited number of customers a day. I don?t want anyone to look at my profile and think to themselves ?oh she must be popular/busy, let?s go and rob her?. I never leave any cash in the premises (with back to back bookings I have a system to get the cash out after each appointment but probably best not to rave about that on an open forum) so worst case scenario if I was the target of an attempted robbery, all the guy would get back is his own fee. I read on another thread that some ladies have money for change waiting for customers. I don?t and if they ask why, I?ll explain "sorry for safety reasons flat is completely clear of any money". No one?s yet quibbled about having to pay an extra tenner and again it reinforces the impression (I want them to have) that I?m a crap target for a robbery.

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Charging more [or less] does not make you any less a target for guys who wish to treat you badly, rob or attack you. In fact some would argue it can make it more likely since as we know from the assumptions thread, some guys think if you charge ?150 per hour you are earning that every hour of the day, cramming client after client in - or if you have nicer premises that you are therefore more likely to be 'loaded'(not so if you have higher bills to pay).

Very good point Strawberry. This is one of the reasons I?ve said on my profile I only see a very limited number of customers a day. I don?t want anyone to look at my profile and think to themselves ?oh she must be popular/busy, let?s go and rob her?. I never leave any cash in the premises (with back to back bookings I have a system to get the cash out after each appointment but probably best not to rave about that on an open forum) so worst case scenario if I was the target of an attempted robbery, all the guy would get back is his own fee. I read on another thread that some ladies have money for change waiting for customers. I don?t and if they ask why, I?ll explain "sorry for safety reasons flat is completely clear of any money". No one?s yet quibbled about having to pay an extra tenner and again it reinforces the impression (I want them to have) that I?m a crap target for a robbery.

Unfortunately this doesn't put everyone off, some guys don't read websites fully, others assume you are lying to try and create an image.