I dont believe any industry has a policy where you pay before being able to look at what you will buy.

They may have guards outside who only let a certain number of people in to more prestigious shops, or if you look like a bum they wont let you in at all, but a fee before you can even look?

Unheard of.

I dont condone this practice at all, EVEN IF I do understand trying to control timewasters.

But realistically speaking, how is it "wasting time" to look at a lineup but honestly decide that no girl there is really your type? They might have the more average looking ladies on rotation and you might just not be into it. To get smacked for 20 just because nothing suits your personal taste is really an insult.

Besides, whos time is really being wasted? Are the girls solving quantum physics to allow space hyperflight in the back there, and getting interrupted to come out is such a hindrance that the annoyance gets transacted to the punters?

I dont get it. I also didnt get the logic that if he showed MORE girls its free. If he showed you less and you didnt pick its gonna cost you.

Huh?

Honestly the only time i have seen anything which was looking like time wasting was early punting days, I was at Kyoto 206 (i think), and a bunch of indian guys kept coming in, requesting a lineup, then leaving, then coming back and asking for a lineup again. In the end the papasan just didnt let them in. Now THAT I can see as time wasting. I swear they came in to get a mental picture then had a self spank somewhere and came back for more material.

I have always wanted to try Ginzas shops, because they seem highly reviewed, but this is putting a a few holes in my perception of them.