The only way I will pay everything up front is with someone I am well established with. Originally Posted by OwjI get that, but more often, even if it is a storefront Amp with a house fee, if you are well established they don't ask for anything up front. So you pay on the way out. The only girl I ever paid everything up front to was racetrack Cindy, because I knew blow by blow exactly what I was going to get.