The Glorious Atomicflea wrote:
Allegory wrote:
TirithRR the Eccentric wrote:
Allegory is a female?
For 500 dollars an hour, honey, I'm whatever you want me to be.
You'd be ridiculously overpriced, 's what you'd be.
Actually, that sounds about right, if the authors of
SuperFreakonomics are to be believed:
Quote:
She [initially] set her fee at $300 an hour — that’s what most other women of her caliber seemed to be charging — with a few discount options: $500 for two hours or $2,400 for a twelve-hour sleepover. … Eventually she raised her fee to $350 an hour. She expected demand to fall, but it didn’t. So a few months later, she raised it to $400. Again, there was no discernible drop- off in demand. Allie was a bit peeved with herself. Plainly she had been charging too little the whole time.
But at least she was able to strategically exploit her fee change by engaging in a little price discrimination. She grandfathered in her favorite clients at the old rate but told her less- favorite clients that an hour now cost $400 — and if they balked, she had a handy excuse to cut them loose. There were always more where they came from.
It wasn’t long before she raised her fee again, to $450 an hour, and a few months later to $500. In the space of a couple of years, Allie had increased her price by 67 percent, and yet she saw practically no decrease in demand. Her price hikes revealed another surprise: the more she charged, the less actual sex she was having. At $300 an hour, she had a string of one-hour appointments with each man wanting to get in as much action as he could. But charging $500 an hour, she was often wined and dined — “a four-hour dinner date that ends with a twenty-minute sexual encounter,†she says, “even though I was the same girl, dressed the same, and had the same conversations as when I charged $300.â€
