Regardless of what side you fall on the negotiation issue, people need to stop comparing it to hotel rooms and light fixtures.
It is NOT the same thing. It is a personal service, not an item sitting on a showroom floor or an empty room. Someone is spending their personal time performing physical and/or emotional labour and in this particular field, potentially risking their safety. It makes sense that it is valued and rated on a different scale.
Originally Posted by Liliana Vess
It is absolutely different. It's an extremely personal service, very intimate, sometimes dangerous.
But it's also a business. And businesses have to consider revenue.
If you're a provider who wants to do one session a day, when that day goes by without a booking, you can never get that lost revenue back. Each provider has to determine for herself whether she's OK with this, or whether she'd rather get something less than her preferred rate rather than nothing.
There is no right or wrong answer. It's a very personal decision.