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MBOT_Messenger
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25-Jan-10, 12:39 PM (PST)
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"MBOT's New Prices"
 
   Starting today the MBOT is rolling out some price changes.

The dance chip is being reduced to $15.

The new lapdance menu is as follows:

Bikini dance: $15 chip + $15 tip = $30 total to customer
Topless dance: $15 chip + $30 tip = $45 total to customer
Nude dance: $15 chip + $45 tip = $60 total to customer

The private booths prices have been adjusted as follows:

Green Door Booths 10 minutes for $100
Lounge Area Booths 10 minutes for $80
Hallway Booths 5 minutes for $40 (NO MORE SHEER CURTAINS)

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1. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Steps in the right direction, sounds like.

I've heard that the Deja Vu clubs are cutting prices too - Champagne Room rates will be lower, lapdances at Centerfolds will be cheaper, etc.

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2. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Definitely a step in the right direction.
Now if they will lower the prices for the private rooms or at least increase the time . . .

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3. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Wow - first MBOT starts communicating and posting schedules, now MBOT lowers prices a bit. What's next? Hiring or rehiring some dancers?

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4. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   I haven't been to MBOT in quite a while.

What does "no more sheer curtains" mean? Something opaque, or just nothing at all?

Also, the booth pricing... I presume that is for the room only. I presume the dancer tip is whatever is negotiated between dancer and patron?

Last time I was at MBOT I swore I'd never go back. Perhaps this is the first sign of some sanity in the front office.

Sigh. Sure miss the days of $5 laps in the NY Live room...


-Guvna

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5. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Nice, they actually have me teetering on the brink of going back. The hall rooms seem like the ticket, they may be smaller, but you can negotiate in $40 time increments. Unfortunately, I've really come to enjoy the type of interaction with the girls that only goes on in the alcohol clubs, but I'm close to hitting up MBOT again

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6. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   That's a step in the right direction, but you really need to roll back prices a little more. Like pre housing and dot-com bubble days. $20 bikini dance and $20 hallway booth is about right. Don't try to squeeze every last drop out of the customer. You'll be rewarded with a lot more business in return. With the increase in foot traffic and potential to earn higher wages, you'll be able to attract higher caliber dancers which in turn will bring in more customers. Just swallow your pride and DO IT!!!

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25-Jan-10, 08:27 PM (PST)
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7. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   This is a great development, but I have to agree with TheMuffDiver's comments, the rollback is not enough. Especially in the lap dance domain, I think $30 is still too much. In terms relative to MBOT's recent price structure, it is great. But, given that any other club in town has $20 lapdances, it's still a stupid price. Yeah, there are great girls at the MBOT, but the talent has definitely leveled out substantially over the main clubs in recent years.

I think management still overlooks the "advertising" potential of lapdances. A good business devotes a significant amount of its operating budget to advertising, and MBOT management should realize this. Give up trying to make a profit from lapdances. Low priced dances 1) bring in customers and 2)can serve as a "gateway drug" that leads to the big-ticket sales. Entry level economics I would think.

BTW mr/ms mbot-messenger, you probably won't get shot for this news!

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8. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Great development but it might just be too late. Like the MSC, once you lose loyal customers it's hard to get them back. They don't have the same number of dancers that they had during the boom times and the daily customer count is much lower. WIth less revenue coming in, I wonder what other cost saving developments they've implemented to survive through the recession.

Peace

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9. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Are condoms free again?

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26-Jan-10, 00:01 AM (PST)
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10. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   So a dancer is, in effect, giving you a lap dance for $15 for her? That's less than MSC or Crazy Horse.

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11. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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It's still a $30.00 dance regardless of the split, still more than MSC or CH.

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12. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   They might want to consider letting the dancers keep the whole $20 for lap dances. This will encourage dancers to give lap dances instead of pushing for the $100+ dances right off the bat. This in turn may entice the customers to consider the pricier items on the menu.

I haven't been to the MBOT in over a year, but the last few times I was there it was as dead as the morgue. Usually no more than a dozen patrons. Let's face it the economy is shot and will get worse this year. Don't let the main stream media fool you that things are starting to turn around.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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13. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Yep, agreed again. MBOT should take the hit on the lapdances, let the girls keep the cash, and regard their (small) monetary loss as an advertising cost.

Employee relations 101.

Economics 101.

Mr/Ms MBOT_messenger - do you send as well as deliver? If you do, and do so effectively, maybe the MBOT will resurrect itself as the premiere adult entertainment venue that it once was.

Thanks.

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14. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   MBOT_messenger pass the message up to your bosses like Udaho suggested. He graduated from the Harvard School of Strip Club Business and Economics.

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26-Jan-10, 01:37 PM (PST)
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20. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   >He graduated from the Harvard School of Strip Club Business and
Economics.

haha, how did you know? Probably the most expensive tuition I've ever paid!

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15. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   LAST EDITED ON 26-Jan-10 AT 08:57 AM (PST)
 
> let the girls keep the cash,

Never thought would have to jump in on the MBOT management side, but .... be for real. At no other club in the city do the dancers keep 100% of every LD dollar. At almost no club anywhere else do they keep 100% of the LD money either. Advocating that the club get a 0% cut is delusional. If the dancers do a decent number of LDs and PSs then the stage tips are 100% free of direct management skim ( DJs , matrons, bouncers, etc. not included. ). Going to where 2 out of 3 revenue source are not available to the management will just force them to jack the 3rd ( PS ) up higher into sky high levels. You folks want higher PS? They failed econ 101?? Doesn't seem to be a shortage of slept through econ 101 around here at all.

If the MBOT dancers start doing dozens of LDs then perhaps a sliding scale on management cut. ( $15 out of the first 10 and then some kind of volume kickback reward after that. Or something along those lines** ). However, they first need to get customers to actually show up before they get to that stage. They have run off all the LDs customers, that can be fixed once they get them back.

Their LD prices are just high now... not crackhead stupid high. The "Grey Poupon" crowd will still be happy they are paying higher than market rates.

LDs aren't "ads. They are a service. Nobody wants some pussy made out of gold LD where the whole session is spent pitching where the "real money" service is. If the management only makes money if they get the customers into a PS booth that is all the dancer is going to care about. Management is likely to threaten to fire them unless they hit their PS quota (since only source of income) so their view is going to get warped.


** if the dancer is making $15/hrs. then perhaps an inflection point at $120 which is 8 LDs. At that point her "min" wages are paid for and just need some PSs to cover the benefits/overhead. The LDs over that get some cashback or "slow day, get out of jail free" credits. The latter you don't give them crap on slow days if they build up enough of them. Give them a LD tax free day if build up too many (exteremely doubtful these days).


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17. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Agree w/ 95% of lst's analysis. If MBOT were to look at further price restructuring, I'd prefer they reduce their cut somewhat on the PS to make 15 minutes PSes affordable, and/or possibly an intermediate option like the old cabanas. Don't know if that makes sense business-wise, but customer-wise, that'd help lure me back.

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18. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   >Agree w/ 95% of lst's analysis. If MBOT were to look at further price restructuring, I'd prefer they reduce their cut somewhat on the PS to make 15 minutes >PSes affordable, and/or possibly an intermediate option like the old cabanas. Don't know if that makes sense business-wise, but customer-wise, that'd help >lure me back.<

Agree, bringing back the Cabana would do it for me. They used to be a great quickie alternative. They could make it more like a LD where you book a Cabana for $15 as well. Even $20 would be worth it. I think I've fingered more girls in the Cabanas than anywhere else. Also add a little time to the premium GD booths to make it more worth while. The girls won't like that but they have to give a little as well.

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21. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Yeah, I've done up to BJs in the cabanas. But aside from being cheaper for extras, it was a nice intermediate step between lappers and PSes. In fact, I mostly stopped doing lap dances the last few years, because for the extra $10 it cost me, most girls were way way hotter in the cabanas

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22. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   If they're taking votes, I want the cabanas back too! I loved those damn things.

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23. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Those last few years, I'm not sure I saw anyone but me use those cabanas! Looks like we're part of the 1%er cabana club

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19. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Whatever, $20 is still too much in today's climate, they can figure out a way to make it work, certainly the other clubs have.

$30 dances were actually being offered frequently over the last year or so (mostly day), but the couches were still usually empty.

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24. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   Screw the management! It is their greed and ignorance of the economy that brought them to their knees. They jacked the fees sky high that you need to be a millionaire to be comfortable paying those prices. The quality of the girls have been down from the good ole days. I won't pay filet mignon prices for ground chuck.

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16. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   OK, So here is a question. . .Are the $15 dance chips new chips? Are they different from the old ones?. Can you tell the different?
I still have a couple of old one that I didnt use and they cost me $30.
Are they now only worth $15 each? I am sure I not the only with old chips still. This would be another reason for not going there anymore.

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25. "RE: MBOT's New Prices"
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   >OK, So here is a question. . .Are the $15 dance chips new
>chips? Are they different from the old ones?. Can you tell
>the different?
>I still have a couple of old one that I didnt use and they
>cost me $30.
>Are they now only worth $15 each? I am sure I not the only
>with old chips still. This would be another reason for not
>going there anymore.


You're outta luck. You just lost half the value on those chips. You definitely should not have been hanging on to those chips.

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