One comment on your thoughts for "posted" price brothels. While the hourly rate is $300 the half-hour price is $200, at least at Inez's, so if one had a half-hour party they are paying a rate of $400/hour. Also longer parties, while costing more, result in a reduced rate. Therefore it's possible, even likely, to have accurate information and a rate of something other than $300/hour.
That makes sense.
That could also be misleading for negotiation brothels then. Let's say I only have $400. Lady wants $600 for the hour, $400 for the half hour. I pay the $400 because I really want to party. The one hour average is now $800, which is bad information for anyone using that info to try to negotiate a party. Or am I missing something?
Mitch,
No, you aren't missing anything and stated the scenario correctly. If you book $400 for 30min, you paid at an $800/hr rate.
I'll use Inez's as an example since they are a posted price house where one might think all rates should be the same...
Party times at Inez's for 2010-2012 varied from 0.5-2.5 hours. This is why we have a 1 hr rate table based on averages (of which most parties really are 1 hour) and a corresponding price & time table. This is also why the first 8 tables are limited to parties in the ladies room, with a single lady, which last <= 3 hours. Any parties over that amount of time are put in the Supplement Survey following the Main survey because beyond 3 hours, the rates can begin to seriously drop (I noticed this from studying the actual individual rate ranges from earlier years). It could be argued that a 2-hour cutoff would be better than a 3-hr cutoff (it was a toss up for me) but I had to choose something and figured I'd keep the "symmetry" the same (20min to 60min is a factor of 3 and so is 1hr to 3hr). The only way around the scenario you mention is to have additional rate tables--one for 20min, 30min, 40min, 45min, 1hr, 1.5hr, 2hr, 2.5 hr & 3hr (& possibly others) which would cut down on the # of submissions in each of those categories & produce poorer statistics.
Also, one can get a feel for how the hourly rate can vary due to these different rates based on party length by looking at the StdDev column--a low # there indicates that the hourly rates experienced didn't vary much from the calculated average rate in the table. For example, for Inez's with a total of 58 submissions from 9 different customers, the party time ranged from 0.5hr to 2.5 hrs and the price range from $200 to $600 and the hourly rate range was $240 to $400 with an average hourly rate of $292 and a StdDev of only $23--which means there's very little variation from that $292/hr average across that wide range of party times (0.5 to 2.5 hrs) among a decent # of customers (i.e. 9 submitters) with a large # of submissions (i.e. 58).
Bottom line--one should get a better rate when they book a 3hr party compared to a 1hr party and likewise be getting a better rate when they book a 1hr party compared to a 20min party. I certainly wouldn't accept a lady's 20min rate for booking a 3hr party with her.
The Hiking Guy
