But that is just my take from own personal experience

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> why would you tip someone who owns her own business?

> If you believe that personal ownership somehow should determine the appropriateness of tipping I don't know what planet your living on.

> Keep telling yourself that your view of this is correct. Your entitled to have your own opinion but it is just an opinion which means it is based on your personal beliefs and doesn't have one iota of fact to back it up.

> A distinction needs to be made between a FS provider and a storefront MP.

Based on the comments of some of the previous posters, It appears that people are not familiar with past etiquette practices on tipping. Etiquette is a learned thing that is not fact based. A lot of old etiquette practices have been lost or ignored overtime, i.e., the proper way to walk with a lady on a sidewalk, proper way to give a wedding gift, a man never wearing a hat or cap indoors, and certainly not while seated at the dinner table in a public restaurant.

It may have been more of an East Coast thing, but if you were served in a restaurant by the owner, than tipping was not done. I remember as a child the “server” refused to take the tip - almost insulted - explaining that he was the owner.

So the people who claim that you shouldn’t tip and independent provider operating as a business owner, are no more wrong than people who claim you should remove your hat in a public restaurant.

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I have also occasionally bought a VS gift card for a provider I am revisiting who made a particularly good impression. $50 seems right as it will generally buy a nice but not extravagant lingerie set. I have found that the personal touch of having gone to the trouble of getting a physical gift card is often appreciated.

Having said the above, I also agree with the view that when a fee is agreed upon, it implies that the lady will do her best to provide satisfaction within whatever service boundaries she sets. The idea of having to pay extra for better service is unacceptable, and if a provider were to ask for a tip up front, I would promptly cancel the session and leave.

Finally, I think that the most important tip one can offer a provider is to be polite, considerate, respectful and clean. I have no doubt that it makes the time spent with a client a much more positive experience form the provider's viewpoint, and the fee earned more enjoyable.

handing her another $160. to $200. for an hour of her time.