Ok...I think I might have been in the hobby too long (inflation-wise) when a provider asks for around $200 for a 30 minute session.
Originally Posted by doubleb96
While I personally agree, you will get a lot of white knights with statements like the one above telling you to basically get over it. Bottom line, do as I and many, many others do … just pass them by, take your time, find someone you like in your price range and hobby on. I respect a woman’s rates and realize she is free to charge what she feels she’s worth. At the same time, if and only if, I feel she is worth the rate being asked, will I pay it. In the end it is her business and your money, and with some, even for reasons beyond this conversation, never the two shall meet.