I was trying to barter a brand new genuine designer name item and I couldn't find any takers.
Providers' logic: they don't see $200-$300 cold hard cash in their hand, they think you are ripping them off.
They don't think in term of this way:
okay, I charge $250 (average) for a 1 hour session.
1 1/2 hours is $325.
This guy wants to give me a brand new genuine designer name item purchased less than 2 weeks ago at the Galleria,
with photos of the receipt, the price tag and the item itself to prove it does exists,
and the price of it with tax is equivalent to what I charge for a 1 1/2 hour session but he only wants 1 hour
and he is not even asking me to include upsell items in the 1 hour session like Greek, farm animals, handcuffs, sex toys, kitchenware, messy food sex, or whips and chain.
So I will definitely come out ahead.
By the time I go to the store and buy the same item myself including paying sales tax at the Galleria;
and figure in the time I would had spent to go there and back which can be spent on earning a paid 1 hour session with a customer, gasoline consumption, wear and tear on my car, etc, etc:
I will have paid more than the face value of the item I am receiving in exchange for a 1 hour session.
It's like when you have a 1 hour session with a Provider that charges $300 per hour and you give $500 to her landlord in the form of a money order to pay her rent, she thinks you just ripped her off on her session fee.