I know there are a few threads (including a very recent one!) about what to do when dealing with someone who is undercharging (thus, undercutting) your business. I have a bit of an issue with the opposite.
At my club, there are a core group of girl who show up at the start of the night, show up most nights, charge what we are supposed to, and basically, take the job seriously.
Then there is a second group of girls who show up around midnight (often later - and the club closes at 2am!!), but still seem to make money...because, as I recently discovered, they are overcharging. By a LOT.
Where I work, it is $40 per dance, $100 for three. We don't do VIP rooms or charge by the hour. But dayum - we are hardly on the cheap end of the scale as it is. This is also standard for the city. One club charges $50-60 per dance, but that's a serious extras club, so fine. When you have two girls dancing, it's $40 each. If you have two guys, and they want to have the same VIP room and each get a dance, it's still $40 per girl. For couples, you are technically supposed to still be doing $40 - although most girls do $60.
I have discovered that the midnight crowd is charging $60 a dance, and $80 for couples, or two girls....
Found it out when I had two guys wanting side-by-side dances, quoted them $40 each, and then was hard pressed to find one of my "friends" to get in, so pulled a random girl from the midnight group. Not only was she RUDE, she then basically forced the guys to pay more than I had quoted. She then gave the most disinterested dance, ever. I was SO MAD. I knew that the guys were a band at a local venue, and courtesy of knowing the manager, I knew how much cash they were paid that night. We could have easily got $1-200 each, but instead, she ensured we got $60, then pissed them off so much, they left. FUMING.
It also has serious implications for the club - who is going to want to come to a club if the girls have a rep for being rude, demanding, and overpriced?!??! Thoughts?



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