To be fair I have noticed escorts in other countries doing this too. Hiking up prices to ridiculous levels. Previous $400-600/hr to wat is now crazy levels of $1500-1900/hr. It seem counterintuitive to me at first when economy around the world is going to recession but I guess their strategy is to hope for that one rich dumb dude to cover the 3-4x normal income they get from previously.
Back to SB, i think some of them seem to be doing pretty well. A few at SD.com stopped conversing me after promising beginning. Looks like they had better offers. Perhaps not as desperate as we think.