Are there too many massage shops in Sydney?

[maguro]

The whole stretch of Burwood Road is full of them. And massage shops mushroom in the side roads too.

Every suburb I go to have two or three massage shops near the station.

Let's face it the cost of setting a massage shop is not prohibitive. If you can find the girls you only need a few rooms and massage beds and lots of towels and tissue papers.

There may be a big correction soon in the current over-saturated market.

A WL told me she had to go out far west to get clients. Another told me she had to travel to Canberra for a week for extra business. The shop gave her a room in the shop to stay.

[Fourbrows]

And without fail, despite the supply being more than the demand, prices will still go up 😂

[personaa]

Definitely a saturated market. Think it was Dave Hughes who claimed in an interview with Mark Boris that the only two businesses growing across Sydney are massage parlours and tobacco shops (Convenience Stores) in which both are heavily cash only transactions!

[Horatio]

Spot on. A ml once tried to get me to help her start a shop. I was never going to do it but I did do a fag packet business case on the shop we were in and at very best it was able to support one woman if reasonably patronised. Came to the conclusion then that it helped prop up the student visa market and potentially wash a lot of cash.

[GoldfishMan]

Definitely a saturated market. Think it was Dave Hughes who claimed in an interview with Mark Boris that the only two businesses growing across Sydney are massage parlours and tobacco shops (Convenience Stores) in which both are heavily cash only transactions!

Not anymore. Come to the CBD and you'll see more shuttered convenience stores than open ones. NSW gov have been cracking down hard on sale of contraband tobacco and vapes. Even shops that have been around for 30 years or more have been closed down now.

[fixatedperson]

There should be at least one in every suburb I reckon.

[andrewv]

Massage shop owners can make a lot of money only if their "occupancy" rate is above 80%. Just like hotels renting out rooms.
Less than 5% of massage shops and brothels achieve this. The bottom 50% could hardly make ends meet.
How do I know this?! Because three times over some 10 years I've been offered to buy a share in them, and when you examine the numbers in a diligent way, it is simply not a good investment. Shop owners in the main are simply earning a wage. Of course, you hear about the few mega-shops but as I wrote, they're in the top 5%.

[maguro]

Massage shop owners can make a lot of money only if their "occupancy" rate is above 80%. Just like hotels renting out rooms.
Less than 5% of massage shops and brothels achieve this. The bottom 50% could hardly make ends meet.
How do I know this?! Because three times over some 10 years I've been offered to buy a share in them, and when you examine the numbers in a diligent way, it is simply not a good investment. Shop owners in the main are simply earning a wage. Of course, you hear about the few mega-shops but as I wrote, they're in the top 5%.

Now we know why there is much a high turnover of the girls in massage shops. They just stopped turning up if all they did were spending the day waiting around and swiping phones.

One girl I meet once in Epping told me she worked in Burwood andn Rockdale too. In a matter of weeks she disappeared from the rosters of all three shops. I don't know where she has gone to. Not that I want to find out.

[KakeyA]

I went to my local Miss massage at 1:00 pm the other day and they are open from 10:00 am. I was their 1st customer for the day so they ain’t exactly raking it in but from the staff’s perspective the ML said she can get $20 an hour working as a waitress at a Thai restaurant or she can get paid to do massage and give blokes a HJ for $50 so she can work 2 days at miss massage and get what she makes is 5 at a restaurant.

However I can’t see how the store makes money unless they are keeping a high occupancy rate for the rooms