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    Default Features making $ off of house dancers??

    About a month ago we had the HUGE feature at my club. She's apparently one of the top star's in the adult industry.
    After each of her 2 sets, she would go to VIP and customers lined up to get pics with her autographs, cd's, etc.
    She chrged $20 for a photo/sig, $100 for a cd (yes, $100 for a 2 min dance) and then would give out a free dvd of her (to paying customers of course).
    So my 2 friends and I go up when the line calmed down to get a group picture with her and she charged us $20 each.
    I have never seen a feature do this.
    It's bad enough we don't make a lot of money when they come in cause customers spend it mainly on them, but to charge us for a polaroid photo on top of that is a bit much.
    Do they normally do that ???

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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    As far as I've seen, they also charge the dancers regular price. She knows you have money, why would she not be a good capitalist and comp you!

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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    There are features, and then there are features. Girls who have worked their way into featuring after working as house dancers first generally treat house girls entirely differently than girls who went directly into featuring as a result of a XXX film career, a Playboy/Penthouse modeling career etc. Not that this is true in every case, but there are a few "celebrity" features out there who have absolutely no idea what it's like to work in a club, and/or who consider themselves to be 'above' girls who do work in clubs, and/or who are in it strictly for the money.

    In regard to your point about features "costing house dancers money", this might be true in the very short term while a feature is performing. However, over the longer term, the whole idea behind features is to convince new guys to come to the club. Where the feature will be leaving at the end of the week, some of the new guys lured to your club for the first time by the feature's appearance will continue to return to the club in the future and spend money on house dancers which they otherwise would not have had the opportunity to earn.

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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    They look at it from a business stand-point... you still want the same thing as that guy who was in front of you: a polaroid. Hence.. $20 thank you. I understand it. I might not always approve of it but I do understand it.


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    Thanks girls.
    Melonie, you put it into a different prospective for me. Like I said, she is a huge porn star, I doubt she ever worked at a club and this was my first experience with someone of such "high celeb status". We had people fly 1/2 was across the country for her 3 day performace, so she definitely brought in new customers as well.
    All of the other features I have met have treated house dancers much more on their level. As you said, I guess it is because they started as dancers.
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    I am kinda with Gold Coast girl on this one. You wanted a photo same as anyone else - it costs money. She isnt here to spread cheer amongst the fellow dancer chances are she'll never see you again, its not 'personal' its business.

    I personally wouldnt bother but I am not impressed by porn stars in any way shape or form, no disrespect I just aint impressed.

    Anyway theres no club discount for anyone. I dont think there should be.

    It isnt about how hard anyone works as a floor gal or otherwise - its all about why you are all there in the first place....maybe you should have gave her a free lapdance then huh? Is there anyone you would give a free dance to? Thats kinda my meaning.


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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    I am with Liegh Landon whatever she says is true! Hell if she told me i could fly, i would be flapping my arms. A fee is a fee unless you have a discount card.
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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    At a club I worked at before my current club, we also had features come in. At first I felt similar to the way you did about feeling the feature "took" money away from the other dancers at the club. But when people come to see a feature, it often turns out that the customer also likes the club and its dancers and becomes a repeat customer on days when there is no feature there...

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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    Hey,
    Me and my fellow dancer/old roomate, would always get a pic with the feature (we had a board full of em back at our flat) i would always try to pay the feature for the pic but they would never take money from us.
    They would always seem pretty insulted that we would offer it. :D

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    I understand they are there to make money, not friends. My point was merely that I thought charging 3 dancers $60 for 1 photo with her was a bit much.
    I mean, it was only 1 picture but because there were 3 of us, it was $20 each.
    I don't get my photos taken with porn stars either. This one occasion, since she was so well known, my friend wanted the picture, or I wouldn't have done it myself.
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    Like it or not, girls can make money off the guys that features draw in.

    My favorite kind of feature is the "over the hill" feature...she hooks in guys who come in to buy dances, then some of the men see the more attractive house dancers and end up spending money on the house girls. (And sometimes its "housegirls revenge" on features...they end up leaving with more dance money than the feature did! XD )

    I'm not sure I would pay for a picture. But that is because I really have no desire to have a picture taken with a porn star. I MIGHT if I was in Reg's situation, where all of her friends wanted a group photo, but that would just to be nice to my friends, not because there was a porn star in my club.

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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    The club I used to work at had a feature every week (kind of unusual). Girls would always get a pic w/them of of them something like that. Never charged, not even for the occasional vhs/or dvd. I think you were just dealing with a farengi type... profit, profit, profit!
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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Jessica link=board=27;threadid=9429;start=msg113014#msg113 014 date=1085280486
    The club I used to work at had a feature every week (kind of unusual). Girls would always get a pic w/them of of them something like that. Never charged, not even for the occasional vhs/or dvd. I think you were just dealing with a farengi type... profit, profit, profit!
    hehe missjessica....a farengi in commerce, certainly, but hopefully not in looks! that would be one ickkyy feature :o

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    The point remains the same - you wanted her product - and you are upset you had to pay. What if she wanted you to give all her roadies lapdances, and was put off because you wouldnt give her a volume discount?

    Feature or no feature she blows into town to make her cake her way and is gone, dont begrudge that.

    No one made you get a photo - you all wanted it - so then; you pay like anyone else. Thats the long and short of it.

    Same idea about giving her roadies some lapdances - for a 'deal'. You could be dancing that same song for anyone else in the club for full rate but becasue its HER roadies you should give her a deal? I think you'd be a tad put off too huh?

    She doesnt owe you anything and you dont owe her either.

    Its business.

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    I never used to charge the girls for polaroids until it started to get nuts........some of the girls would get 3 or 4 and then when the customers wanted one I wouldnt have enough film and I would lose money. Now I charge a dollar a shot, which pays for the film and try to limit to one per girl. I charge them 5 for anything after the first one, and I tell them why, and they are usually really cool about it.
    The dancers will help me when I'm on stage by moving their customers up an bringing them back to buy merchandise, so the least I can do is give them a break, I sign 3x5's for them and wont take their money.
    If I was a huge name I would still do it that way......probably wouldnt charge them at all !
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    Default Re:Features making $ off of house dancers??

    I've met some features that hide in the dressing room or away from the dancers and act like they are far better than us, most of which charge full price. But I've also met features that are super cool, friendly and will also knock the price down to $5.


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