[fallen.angel]

Just finished a very long and tiring sexxion with my gal this morning.

She is asking for a “pay rise”, to increase every sexxion by $100, citing inflation. She told me Lido Palace has increase the tips for their gals in an attempt to keep them but LP is still losing them to its competition.

She also told me customers at LV are also paying more – gone are the times where we pay only the minimum $150/$200 for HH/SH. (Please guys, don’t spoil market ok? Otherwise poor people like me cannot enjoy liao, hehe) She told me a recent incident where a very rich boss rejected a gal’s price of $500 (ST) and $1,000 (LT). She said: so rich but so stingy. So I gave her marketing lesson 101 while dressing up for work.

I told her: price is what the customer pays but value is what he gets. He can throw thousands but he just doesn’t see value in it. I also told her there are two types of value – actual (benefits) and perceived.

On my way to work, talking to her on the phone while driving, she brought up the subject of upping the price so I just casually told her that she has all the right to up her price but as a consumer, I have choice. I must drill into her that I don’t see how a depreciating asset can command a higher price after 1 year? But I was really late for work and I’ve already reach office.

This thread has showed me that we are the paying consumer and we have consumer rights. We have choice. We must exercise control over our object of desire and not let it control us. Afterall, 庄子《在宥》said: 有大物者，不可以物。物而不物，故能物物