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    this might seem like a weird question. ive been dancing for about 3 months now, and at the first club i worked at (scores in baltimore), the girls would go up to guys for tips whether they put a dollar on the stage or not. girls at my club now do the same thing im pretty sure. ive heard of some customers thinking that's tacky and "begging for money" though.. is it bad to go up to guys for a tip if they dont put it up on the stage first? its not like i just crawl around asking for tips, i dance for each guy while im on stage before i go to them for a tip. haha this might sound dumb, but thanks in advance!

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    Not sure, it's a tricky question I think. When guys come sit around the stage at the club I work at, they are right up close to us, eye level with us when we are doing ground work.
    I think if you are giong to sit at the stage, taking up the space there, that you should tip...especially if a dancer is giving you a show.

    I've had guys sit at the stage, smile at me and watch me, I crawl over to them and give them a little dance, and then......nothing, they sit there smiling....uhm...sweety, it's in your pocket, go get it!

    But on the flip side, does that mean a guy sitting at the stage should tip every single dancer that comes onto the stage? Guys have been known to "park" at the stage for a couple of hours....and maybe tip two or three dancers in that time. This bothers me. Tip the girl you like, then get out of the way so someone else can come up and tip if they want to. Either that or bring a buncha singles and stay a while.




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    yea stageside = tipping to me...especially if its just me on stage (we usually have 2 girls up at once..and sometimes a custy will want to tip one and not the other..grr.. WHATEVER though) otherwise it just seems rude. Usually a snap of the garter and a look will get the reluctant tippers but a few times i've whispered (sweetly of course) aww..you didn't like my show? of course i did! :: hand over the damn tip :: LOL
    Theres not much to be made in the stage shows at my club (well not for me anyway..:-( I usually work on getting tips from dances and stuff.
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    thanks guys.. thats what i thought. but ive only been doing it a few months like i said so i didnt want to look stupid.. ha and one guy referred to dancers as "the hired help" one night.. needless to say he didnt stay long after a few girls found out he said it but its guys like that that make me secondguess myself!

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    Quote Originally Posted by britt244
    thanks guys.. thats what i thought. but ive only been doing it a few months like i said so i didnt want to look stupid.. ha and one guy referred to dancers as "the hired help" one night.. needless to say he didnt stay long after a few girls found out he said it but its guys like that that make me secondguess myself!
    What the hell? Was he there to oogle the waitresses and those damn strippers kept getting in the way, or what?

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    It also depends on the club. There are some clubs where the dancer will come around after her stage set and collect tips from those who weren't sitting at the stage. I don't think this is a common practice anymore, though.

    As a customer I always believed that if you sat at the stage you tipped a minimum of $1 per song (this was in clubs where the dancer would come and dance for you as long as you tipped)...naturally more tips = more attention. But if I weren't sitting at the stage I wouldn't feel obligated to tip *every* dancer.
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    I'm a guy (customer), and I'm not sure what the club you dance in is like, so my opinion probably isn't worth much, but here goes. I probably wouldn't do it and I do see it as tacky. Personally, I don't sit stage side unless I'm going to tip (i.e. have free singles or smaller denominations in my pocket), but if a dancer did come up to me after a dance and insist on a tip...I'd give it to her, but there's no way I would buy a dance from her. It's my experience that the stage is better used as an advertising tool to sell dances, than to generate substantial income (obviously this doesn't apply to a club where the primary income is stage tips though).

    One of the odder (and nicer) experiences I ever had in a club was when I was sitting stage side, and I handed a dancer a couple bucks, and she handed it back to me and said she didn't take stage tips because she just liked to dance up there. Yeah I know it was a line, but it was a very nice line, and I ended up buying a bunch of dances from her after her stage set.

    Not advocating this tactic in general...but it might be good to use when things are a bit slower.

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    If a guy sits at the stage he should tip. Period. It won't kill u to give a chick a dollar even if the dancer is not his 'cup of tea'

    I personally don't like to 'make' guys tip, because it seems desperate, but I have before. I find it rude as hell to sit stageside and not tip. Also, even if the stage tips aren't the primary cash source at most clubs, which it isn't at my club either, it still adds up.
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    After each song, I go around the rack, make direct eye contact and say "Thank you!" with a big smile on my face to each of the guys who tips. Anyone who hasn't tipped looks like a total jerk, and is embarassed. Then, the offender either tips, or leaves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellob1976
    I'm a guy (customer), and I'm not sure what the club you dance in is like, so my opinion probably isn't worth much, but here goes. I probably wouldn't do it and I do see it as tacky. Personally, I don't sit stage side unless I'm going to tip (i.e. have free singles or smaller denominations in my pocket), but if a dancer did come up to me after a dance and insist on a tip...I'd give it to her, but there's no way I would buy a dance from her. It's my experience that the stage is better used as an advertising tool to sell dances, than to generate substantial income (obviously this doesn't apply to a club where the primary income is stage tips though).
    i didnt mean going around the club to ask for tips. i was only talking about the stage, and it seems like everybody agrees that if you sit there, you need to tip. but thanks for saying my club doesnt seem like it isnt worth much, since im sure ANY of what i said should give off that impression.

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