All I can see from this industry is:
1. Decline in quality of service
2. Decline in quality of MLs
3. Increase in price of extras
4. Increase in age of the MLs
And the worse thing is nowdays I choose where to punt just to avoid disappointments rather to have fun, that's not how it suppose to be when you are the one spending $200 on each visit...
All Southside shops, all within 10-12 minutes of the M1.
None of them are crickets…..I can guarantee you that….lol.
105 Wellington Rd is $80.
Smile is $80.
I think Time is $80? There was a stuff up with the room, so got my money back and walked. Pretty certain I handed over $80?
There’s a new shop in the City, on Mary St, I think? They wanted $90!!!
Hi 4 Floors, I'm trying to understand the logic here. If you were happy to spend $50 on the massage in the early 2000s, why the concern over spending $70 now? Given the change in purchasing power of the $ over the past 20 years, $70 or $80 for that matter, is actually cheaper than $50 back then. I think your real, and legitimate gripe is not really the cost of the massage, but rather the quality of the extras.
I've come across the girls who ask "how much am I willing to pay" and my response is "as little as possible". I follow up with "how much do you think your service is worth and what you are willing to do to earn it". What unfolds then is often interesting and at times entertaining, but as they commenced the negotiation process, I feel obliged to negotiate!
I wonder what effect the legalisation of the shops will have on pricing? There is obviously a lot of collusion on pricing. I’ve never seen an industry with so much competition and fixed pricing. There must be a lot of crook backs out there to support what seems to be a shop ( or two) in every suburb.
legalization will not change the quality of what is on offer in Brisbane.
if you are looking at the situation from the girl's point of view, QLD is still considered backwards or rural, and as such, the population would not be able to afford the services offered. this is the main reason why SYD or MLB have more international WL/ML
if they go to SYD or MLB where the population is greater, the customers-per-day there compared to what they can get in QLD is much much more. and since there is more competition there, the prices there appear to be lower than QLD
Just got a quote to do some electrical work. One day, one person, $500 material costs. All up $5,500 and I don't even get a happy ending. And some people call ML's greedy. They probably laugh with friends about lazy greedy Aussies.
I hasten to add that I didn't go with this quote and am still looking at other options including doing the work myself (please don't rant about "nothing is more important than saafeettyy").
Just pointing out how we complain about an attractive ML, providing good service for $150 + shop fee an hour, yet may happily pay a sparkie $500 an hour.
Well good for you.
I couldn’t think of anything worse…..talk about a mood killer?
If I wanted to haggle, I’d go to the fish market….not a massage shop.
Negotiating with someone who’s second language is broken English?
Entertainment…using your words!!!
Whatever floats your boat….and boosts your ego?
Each to their own, I guess….but it’s not for me.