Very strong analogy, davidfree. The generalities of pussy to donuts have many parallels. An expensive donut seller would try to sell you, the buyer, on why you should overpay for his/her donuts.
"Oh, yeah. I make them with real sugar, not the artificial sweetener stuff. I use the finest flour, imported from Italy, enriched with honeydew from Jamaican bees, the finest in the world. Topped with glaze from Rome, boiled by lava, for the perfect taste. Once I combine these perfect ingredients, I fry each donut, in individual frying units, at exactly 437 degrees, the perfect temperature for the cooking oil, which comes from the mountains of Siberia, to preserve the crystalline flavor cells, to ensure each one has its own unique flavor (other donut makers fry them all at once). This is why I charge 5 times the going rate for donuts. I'm going to raise the price of my donuts next month, but if you buy 3 dozen in the next 2 days, I'll grandfather you in."
Meanwhile, there's valuable beachfront property in Nebraska, lined with silver sand, that I'm trying to get rid of.
Originally Posted by Rambro Creed
Well, I was trying to keep it simple without going through all that! And, unlike comparing donuts to providers because of the holes, like some of you are anal about implying, it is an analogy about having the exact same item for two different prices, nothing more should be read into that!
But to put it in hobby terms, it is up to the provider to prove why she should be paid more for the exact same service, and it all has the same ending, it is the journey during that time from when communication starts to that ending that is the ultimate determining quality that decides how much she should have her donation at per the hobbyist. I hope that makes sense!
Providers will charge what they maybe feel is fair to guys for her services and to their monetary needs at the time. If they are on the high end of the donation spectrum, say $350/hr, then it eliminates many hobbyists that cannot or refuse to pay that high of a donation, but there are the ones that do not mind paying that rate for her.
Sure, she does not have to work as hard (seeing fewer guys for the same money in a month's time that a $200/hr provider) but the question is, does she see enough to cover those expenses or not. If so, great, if not, then she needs to rethink her business model, run specials through ads/lower her rate permanently and/or find another way to make a living/extra money.
