View Full Version : Yikes! Lap Dance Money Machines are being installed in my club!
Melonie
11-03-2006, 04:16 PM
another resurrected thread with a curious degree of coincidence !
Don't forget that lap dance ATM's create a paper trail ... that the customer spent X dollars at the club. This will either result in the club having to pay taxes on this money as income to the club, OR the club will have to issue 1099 forms to the dancers who sold the lap dances so that they can write off the lap dance 'percentage' money paid out to dancers as a business expense --- which of course gets automatically reported to the IRS and forces the dancer to pay taxes on this income.
Of course, the club isn't obligated to issue 1099's for 2006 dancer private dance 'percentage' payments until february of 2007. So any dancers who work in clubs with ATM lap dance machines might want to bring their estimated tax payments up to date rather than getting a nasty surprise (with penalties and interest) next April.
Sad Sally
11-04-2006, 01:00 PM
I work at a Deja Vu club like this. And I have to say that other than the fucked up 40% they take, it's great!
No more floor walkers marking me for too many dances or weirding out my custy my fliping my curtain open ever few seconds for fun. Plus In LA, men will scam girls for dances all the flipping time. In LA you damn sure better get your money before you give a dance. It doesn't matter how well dressed he is. Plus I don't have to carry around as much money and risk losing it sense I have no locker (none available). The customers actually like it too. Once they get used to it they just keep pulling out those twenties. If you go on the website Z-bone you'll see costomer reviews are positive about the machines.
But like Mel said we do get 1099 paperwork trails:-\
Bailey78
11-04-2006, 05:12 PM
Hey, I started this thread way back when! Actually, I have to second that it hasn't been as bad as I expected. It's nice not to have to worry about the possibility of being shorted. Also, if a customer is really unruly or tries something lewd after being warned about it, it's nice to have the freedom to walk away w/o having to worry about getting paid. The customers generally like it too b/c they don't have to worry about getting burned by creative stripper math.
Katherine
11-04-2006, 05:18 PM
Cool. Sounds like after all that it worked out well. Score for the banned biggreen... First one to say it wouldn't be bad... Crazy.
Sad Sally
11-04-2006, 06:45 PM
Hey Bailey78 do you work at the Deja Vu Ontaio? Or North Hollywood?
Sophia_DeVega
11-09-2006, 04:23 PM
We have money machines in my club. (Kit Kat Club in Sunnyvale, CA). Basically, the guy pays you up front $40 for a table dance of one song, or a couch dance of two songs for $60. You put your stage fee into the money machine and keep the rest. Couch fee is $10 and table fee is $5. You keep the rest including any extra tips. I haven't had a problem with it so far, but it sounds like some other clubs are using the machines to exploit more money from the dancers. :'(
KatGrrl
11-09-2006, 04:53 PM
The only customers I can see appreciating these machines so soon are the ones who are cynical because they have been ripped off (mis-counted) a few too many times. Hopefully that's a minority of customers.
Ah well, we really shouldn't be surprised by this 'evolution'. I am just sitting here thinking well i'm never gonna complain about my $20 house fee again, and i'll enjoy my time while i am still lapdance-machine-free! Now i'm extra-grateful to go to work tonight!
Gypsy14
11-10-2006, 07:11 AM
I've worked in clubs where they had machines (Deja Vu), and I have to say, it really wasn't ALL that bad. I always struggled because of guys trying to short me or whatever, and it was nice to have a machine do all of it for me, because you really can't argue with it! I will admit, it's a little intimidating at first because you're trying to give a sexy dance and a freakin' machine is blinking away, but once you get used to it, the customer gets used to it as well, and it's not such a big deal.
The whole "pay later" concept isn't even an option, though, which can be a good and bad thing...