(not that it should matter but personally I just take quoted prices at face value.)
Originally Posted by artist3000
AHAH, but It DOES matter. YOU take the quoted prices at fair value. Personally, you do not haggle or attempt to negotiate. That puts you, personally, into one class of gents. (IMO, the good class) And the ladies ARE taking notes.
(But turning this into some kind of moral imperative or measure of gallantry is just a thin veneer of faux virtue)
Originally Posted by artist3000
Your false virtue comment comes across as judgement. I will take that, as I put myself out there for it. I take no offense. Nothing false about anything I have said in this thread. (I do, at times, poke fun and use sarcasm - so I can see where my prior posts may color my comments in this one).
Nothing false about my outrage that a fellow hobbyist pissed off a very nice lady by being an a$$ to her.
Nothing false about my sincere desire to find out what the ladies and gents here truly think. To have an open and sincere dialogue.
Every member has a reputation here.
I appreciate the comments all have made.
Here is a real world situation with names and locations changed.
A lady friend of mine (Let us call her Suzy) gets a PM from a gent she has never seen (Let us call him Richard - or just Dick), asking her to leave her incall, travel out of town to come and see him. Suzy lives and works between an hour and two hours away from Dick.
(Let us say the fuel cost is going to be $25-30, the travel time 3-4 hours, the outcall expense is higher there)
Lady friend says she will make a point of doing so and tells him her rate (it is only $25 higher than her very reasonable incall rate).
He says he will book with her, but only if she lowers her rate by $25.
Given that scenario...... What is y'all's point of view about DICK and this real scenario?
Ladies? Gents? Bueller?
Just sayin........