Sydney Mens Gallery Clubs
Hey Girls,
Just wondering how the financial side is worked out in the US and how fairly.
I have just found out that in Mens Gallery in Sydney the guys have to pay for private shows at the front desk - so all $$$ for the girls goes through the computer system (tipping dollars too; they are play-money which has to be handed in). A 15-min show costs the guy $85, of which the club takes $35 and the girl $50. Then at the end of the night the club takes $2 per hour worked as an "admin" fee, another few dollars as insurance, and then on top of all that, a whopping 15% of everything the girl has made. So if the girl has done say 5 shows, then from the $425 paid for shows, the club has taken $155 PLUS 15% of 5 x $50 ($250) which is $37.50 - a total of $187.50 which is actually only about $10 less than what the girl will eventually take home - in other words, the club is taking almost 50% of her earnings back from her at the end of the night! I can't believe this can happen - plus, in Australia, the tax system is being tightly enforced so that all girls must now declare their full earnings.
I'm wondering if there's anywhere else that so much money is ripped off from the girls? It hardly makes such a difficult job worth it in the end.
But then there are always new and young and naive girls who are just starting, don't know any different and will put up with this thinking it's normal...
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Most of the clubs in sydney are like that..................Grrrr!
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More clubs than I am pleased to admit are "percentage" clubs compared to "stage fee" clubs. The club I'm working within here in Darwin is 60% to dancer (40% to club). Granted, dancer keeps all tips. Most of the Brisbane clubs are percentage and, at least, one club on Gold Coast is percentage as well.
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victoria is one of the only places left that don't charge percentage and i hope they never do, a lot of interstate girls travel down and find cheap accomodation or share with each other while travelling coz the most you'll ever pay in a melbourne club is a $40 house fee, all earnings are yours and it's up to you what you "declare", most clubs now require an ABN these days but if you're just travelling they usually aren't too fussy about it. even though you may pay for accommodation, it works out cheaper, after paying your $40 house fee, if you make $800- you go home with $800- no questions asked, no tip-outs, nothing. it's well worth it.
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Every year it seems they take more and more. I can still remember when all we paid was $20, that's it, and they fed us. We used to complain about that.
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Minx in Brisbane takes 50% (including tips) after GST is taken out....how tragic is that!....and touching is allowed.
....and yep, all the girls are pretty much under the age of 22. That's how they get away with it. It sux.
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Yes, all the girls with any decent experience or "hustle" ability realises the futility of working in any club where the club will take 50% or more of the earnings. The reason alot of the clubs in S.E.Qld can get away with it (and they are touching clubs) is because alot of the girls don't have any other options or aren't willing to entertain any other options.
Plus you will find that there is a "receptionist" as such (male or female) in re: any of the clubs where they take a percentage (or split the money in some form/way) so the majority of the time the dancers do not have to carry around the money on themselves. They only carry around stage tips or flash-cash (as I call it.. their own money that they put on their garter to make them seem popular/desirable).
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Sydney's problem also lies in the fact that the only 3 clubs worth dancing at are owned by the same person-so they can do what they want-the dancers have no choice. Most of the other clubs are pretty much brothels. Porkys actually does a live sex show. on a member of the audience. seriously.
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What about Showgirls? I know for a fact it's not a brothel, and i made good moneyy there......and 'Baba Bing'...i know it used to have a brothel upstairs when it was Playbirds, but from what i've heard they don't anymore.......and isn't there a new club called Minx in the city?
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oops, forgot about showgirls.. sorry :-[
heard that minx is quite good actually-for some reason i thought it was in qld... going crazy in my old age
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^^^^
Yep...there is one there too!
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Porkys is also now just a table dancing club and theres also a club out at Sefton.
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^^^^^^
I heard something about that ( Porkys )....A friend told me though i wasn't sure i heard right, i thought she may have been talking about Playbirds :) She said it's become the saddest tabletop club ever.....I can only imagine. I was on the 'circuit' for the better part of 10 years. I'd love to go laugh at it! ;D
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Shit Sydney is getting more and more expensive. They are all a bunch of mean mangers down there. The thing they have going is the fact that Sydney is a beautiful place to live. i would try to do the circuit, but even that was corrupt when I did it.
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^^^Last I heard about the circuit was that the amount of shows for each girl had been reduced quite a bit. Im not sure if thats changed again though.
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Sydney is only really lucrative as a private party dancer (and if you are willing to do xxx shows even better for you). The days of the strip clubs being lucrative in Sydney (or consistently lucrative) is gone from what I have been hearing.
Granted, there are plenty of girls happy with the earnings they make in the strip clubs... it is the private party dancers who are making the killing down there esp. those who do the xxx shows.